Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Sir Thomas Wyatt

1503–1542

Introduction

Principal Manuscript Collections

There are five important manuscript collections of poems by Wyatt, or miscellanies with substantial numbers of his poems, one of which is of special significance since it was compiled by the poet himself. They are:

  • (1) British Library, Egerton MS 2711. The Egerton MS of autograph poems by Wyatt.
  • (2) British Library, Add. MS 17492. The Devonshire MS. (3) Trinity College, Dublin, MS 160. The Blage MS.(4) The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. The Arundel Harington MS. (5) British Library, Add. MS 36529. Another Harington MS.

These manuscript collections, together with a few early printed texts — notably Richard Tottel's Miscellany, Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557) — are the materials with which Wyatt's modern editors have attempted to establish both canon and text. There is, however, considerable disagreement among scholars over editorial procedures and the interpretation of manuscript sources, as well as over the identification of hands. For contributions to the scholarly debate, in addition to the works cited in the list of abbreviations above, see particularly Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444; Raymond Southall, The Nature and Significance of Rhythm in the Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt, with transcripts of two principal manuscripts (the Devonshire and Egerton MSS) (unpub. Ph.D. diss., 3 vols, University of Birmingham, 1961); Raymond Southall, The Courtly Maker (Oxford, 1964); Richard Harrier's review of the Muir-Thomson edition, Renaissance Quarterly, 23 (1970), 471-4; H.A. Mason, Editing Wyatt: An Examination of Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt together with suggestions for an improved edition (Cambridge, 1972); Joost Daalder's review of Mason's book, Essays in Criticism, 23 (1973), 399-413; Sir Thomas Wyatt, Collected Poems, ed. Joost Daalder (London, 1975); H.A. Mason's review of Daalder's edition and Harrier's book (1975), Sewanee Review, 84.ii (1976), 675-83; Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Complete Poems, ed. R.A. Rebholz (Penguin Books, 1978); and reviewers' correspondence in American Notes & Queries, NS 1/4 (October 1988), 146-52. It should be noted that H.A. Mason (1972), besides discussing certain texts in detail, offers a considerable number of corrections to the texts printed in Muir & Thomson (these corrections are not recorded in CELM for each individual poem).

The Canon

The Wyatt canon is an especially debatable subject. For instance, Muir & Thomson admit into the canon, on stylistic grounds, a considerable number of poems found only in the Blage MS, whereas Harrier and Daalder are reluctant to accept as Wyatt's any poem not found in the Egerton MS or clearly ascribed to him in other sixteenth-century texts. For present purposes the canon established in Muir & Thomson is accepted, as also the titles and first lines given in that edition. Nevertheless, it is recognized that the canon is far from certain.

Letters

The other notable manuscripts associated with Wyatt are his letters, which, besides all else, provide the evidence for the identification of his handwriting in the Egerton MS. Thirty-five letters of Wyatt (not given entries in CELM) are edited in Kenneth Muir, Life and Letters of Sir Thomas Wyatt (Liverpool, 1963). Most of the letters, preserved in the National Archives, Kew, and in the British Library (Harley MSS 78 and 282; Cotton MSS Vespasian C. VII and F. XIII), are autograph. A facsimile of one of the Cotton letters appears in Foxwell (I, after p. 134), and one of the Harley letters is reproduced in Muir (facing p. 101). Contemporary transcripts of certain of Wyatt's letters are preserved in the British Library (Add. MS 5498).

The only letters of Wyatt that were subject to a degree of circulation in manuscript are the two letters to his son from Spain in 1537 (WyT 423-440). They were copied by Thomas Wyatt the younger himself in the Egerton MS (WyT 423, WyT 432).

Miscellaneous Documents

A number of sixteenth and seventeenth-century papers of the Wyatt family, and formerly owned by the Earl of Romney, are now in the British Library, Add. MSS 62135-62138. Apart from an exemplum of an 1869 edition of Wyatt's Poetical Works (Add. MS 62138 C), the only documents which appear to relate to Sir Thomas Wyatt himself are some verses concerning him, an account of his embassy with Sir John Russell, and two contemporary copies (one incomplete) of an anonymous answer unto 2 most lewde and false allegations, the one against Sr Tho: Wiat th' elder, the other against Sr Tho: ye yonger, his sonne, published in a certen slaunderous and seditious Booke, written against the state by [Nicholas] Saunder ye Papist (Add. MS 62135, ff. 82r-4r, 148r-99r, 70r-9v, 275r-6r). The complete text of the last item is edited in The Papers of George Wyatt Esquire of Boxley Abbey in the County of Kent, Son and Heir of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger, ed. D.M. Loades, Camden Society, 4th Ser. 5 (1968), pp. 181-205.

A few other miscellaneous documents relating to Wyatt are recorded here (WyT 441-446), including a document signed by him and his eloquent defence after his indictment in 1541.

An additional untraced item is a printed exemplum of Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557) (now lost) which contained musical notation written against certain of the poems in a contemporary hand. One of the poems annotated in this way was Wyatt's If euer man might him auaunt (Muir & Thomson, pp. 246-7). The volume was once owned by Sir W.W. Wynne, but may have been destroyed with much of the Wynnstay Library in 1858. The musical notation was transcribed in George F. Nott's edition of Songs and Sonnets (1814?), but that edition too was almost totally destroyed by fire and the only extant exemplum known to contain the music is owned by the Duke of Norfolk, Arundel castle (ref. 13C). For this edition, and other exempla of Songes and Sonettes with editors' annotations, see the Introduction to the Earl of Surrey above.

Abbreviations

Foxwell
The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat, ed. A. K. Foxwell, 2 vols (London, 1913).
Harrier
Richard Harrier, The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poetry (Cambridge, Mass., 1975).
Hughey
Ruth Hughey, The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, 2 vols (Columbus, Ohio, 1960).
Muir
Kenneth Muir, Life and Letters of Sir Thomas Wyatt (Liverpool, 1963).
Muir & Thomson
Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt ed. Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson (Liverpool, 1969).
Nott
The Works of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, ed. George Frederick Nott, 2 vols (London, 1815-16).

Verse: Poems attributed to Wyatt

'A face that shuld content me wonders well'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 132-3.

WyT 1

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

WyT 2

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked).

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Mid-late 16th century

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

'A Ladye gave me a gyfte she had not'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 238-9.

WyT 3

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Hughey, I, No. 97, p. 145.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 60v)
WyT 4

Copy, headed A ridle of a gifte giuen by a ladie.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 126.

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.

'A! my harte, A! what aleth the!'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 129.

WyT 5

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 6

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'A Robyn'

Not published (in this form) in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 41-2.

WyT 7

Copy of lines 1-16, 21-8, including speech-prefixes.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 9), and in Harrier, pp. 147-8.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 37v)
WyT 8

Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 9

Copy (not in the same hand as WyT 8), untitled.

This MS collated (and lines 17-20 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 10

Copy of lines 1-12, in a musical setting by William Cornish, untitled and here beginning A robyn gentyl robyn.

Edited from this MS in J.E. Stevens, Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court (London, 1961), p. 405, and in Muir & Thomson, p. 309. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Ivy L. Mumford, Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22. Edited and discussed in R.G. Siemens, New Evidence on Wyatt's A Robyn in British Library Additional MS 31,922, N&Q, 244 (June 1999), 189-91. Facsimile also in Foxwell, I, after p. 62. This text possibly the popular song which was the basis for Wyatt's version.

A folio volume of vocal and instrumental music, in a single formal secretary hand, with colour decorations of initial letters, 130 leaves, in contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco.

Early-mid-16th century

Inscribed (ff. 129v-30r), among other scribbling, Vynsent Wydderden, Syr John Lede, and Dauey Jonys, all of Benenden, Kent, and Jane Reve of Mownfyld (i.e. Mountfield, Sussex). Bookplates of Thomas Fuller M.D. (inscribed Stephen Fuller of Hart Street Bloomsbury 1762) and of Archibald Montgomery, MP (1726-96), eleventh Earl of Eglinton, soldier. Purchased from Quaritch, 22 April 1882.

WyT 11

Copy of thie incipit only (here Joly Robyn), in a musical setting.

This MS discussed in Mumford, op. cit., p. 316, and in Mumford, Sir Thomas Wyatt's Songs: A Trio of Problems in Manuscript Sources, M&L, 39 (1958), 262-4. See WyT 10.

An oblong folio volume of musical works, the lyrics almost entirely in a single neat italic hand, with (ff. 1r-2r, 99r-v) a table of contents, 99 leaves, in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt Edwardvs Paston.

c.1611

Sotheby's, 28 November 1882.

'A spending hand that alway powreth owte'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 95-7.

WyT 12

Copy, the second page heavily written over.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 183-5.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 56r-7v)
WyT 13

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 141, p. 170-2. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. ff. 99bisr -100r)
'Absence, alas'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 127-8.

WyT 14

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Absens absenting causithe me to complaine'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 231.

WyT 15

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Accusyd thoo I be without desert'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 132.

WyT 16

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimile in Baron, p. 92.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'After great stormes the cawme retornis'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 61-2.

WyT 17

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier. pp. 182-3.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 55v)
WyT 18

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 138, p. 164-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 97r-v)
'Agaynste the Rock I clyme both hy and hard'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 132.

WyT 19

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Alas! dere herte, what happe had I'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 126.

WyT 20

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

WyT 21

Copy, untitled, immediately following on from lines 1-8 of Mornyng my hart dothe sore opres (WyT 189).

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto composite volume of MS and printed verse and prose tracts and miscellaneous material, in various hands over a lengthy period from the late 14th to mid-16th century, the verse on ff. 84r-92v in probably five 16th-century cursive secretary hands, 216 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Mid-16th century

Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.

Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).

'Alas, fortune, what alith the'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 128-9.

WyT 22

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Alas madame for stelyng of a kysse'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 33-4.

*WyT 23
Autograph

Copy, with autograph revisions and with alterations in another hand.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 138. Facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 44.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 31r)
WyT 24

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 103, p. 147. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 63v)
'Alas! my Dere, the word thow spakest'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 133-4.

WyT 25

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Alas, poor man, what hap have I'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 195-6.

WyT 26

Copy, untiitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Alas the greiff, and dedly wofull smert'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 3-4.

WyT 27

Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 102-3.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 5v-6r)
WyT 28

Copy of lines 13-30, untitled and here beginning O cruell causer of vndeserrved chaunge.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 29

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'All hevy myndes'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 62-4.

WyT 30

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 185-8.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 58r-v)
'All yn thi sight my lif doth hole depende'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 214.

WyT 31

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Alle ye that knowe of care and heuynes'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 131.

WyT 32

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Alone musyng'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 127.

WyT 33

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'And if an Iye may save or sleye'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 73-4.

WyT 34

Copy of a 42-line version, in the hand of John Brereton.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 199-200. Facsimiles of f. 65r in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 273.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 65r)
WyT 35

Copy of a 28-line version (not in the same hand as WyT 34), later deleted.

Edited from this MS in Harrier, pp. 194-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 62v)
'An wylt thow leve me thus?'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 196-7.

WyT 36

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys qd Wiat.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 272.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Th' Argument ('Somtyme the pryde of mye assured trothe')

See WyT 283.

'As power and wytt wyll me Assyst'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 198-9.

WyT 37

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 38

Copy of lines 3-37, untitled and here beginning Evyn as yo lyst my wyll ys bent.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto composite volume of MS and printed verse and prose tracts and miscellaneous material, in various hands over a lengthy period from the late 14th to mid-16th century, the verse on ff. 84r-92v in probably five 16th-century cursive secretary hands, 216 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Mid-16th century

Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.

Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).

'At last withdraw youre crueltye'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 129-30.

WyT 39

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 40

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'At moost myschief'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 36-7.

*WyT 41
Autograph

Copy of lines 1-41, with autograph corrections (line 30 inserted).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 142-3.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 34r-v)
WyT 42

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffynys qd Wyatt.

This MS collated (and lines 42-8 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 43

Copy.

This MS collated (and lines 42-8 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

The Aunswere ('Your ffolyshe fayned hast')

See WyT 420.

'Auysing the bright bemes of these fayer Iyes'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 22.

WyT 44

Copy, written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 125.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 22r)
WyT 45

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 113, p. 153. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 67r)
'Because I have thee still kept from lies and blame'

See WyT 49-50.

'Behold, love, thy power how she dispiseth!'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 1.

WyT 46

Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 97. Facsimiles in Foxwell, I, after p. 2, and in Powell, p. 18.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 4r)
WyT 47

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Beyng as noone ys I doo complayne'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 134-5.

WyT 48

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Bicause I have the still kept fro lyes and blame'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 20.

WyT 49

Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 123.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 20)
WyT 50

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 110, p. 152. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 66r-v)
'Blame not my lute, for he must sownd'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 212-13.

WyT 51

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 52

Copy of the incipit in a musical setting for the lute.

Edited from this MS and discussed in Ivy L. Mumford, Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22, and in John H. Long, Blame not Wyatt's Lute, RN, 7 (1954), 127-30 (and see also Vol. 8 (1955), 12-14).

An oblong octavo miscellany of chiefly music and verse, in several secretary hands, 136 leaves (including blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

c.1559-1610

Scribbled name (f. 22r) Sarah Scalther[?]. Sotheby's, 14 July 1887, lot 481. Formerly Folger MS 448.16.

WyT 53

Copy of the incipit in a musical setting.

An octavo book of cittern music and miscellaneous entries and recipes, in more than one hand, written from both ends, 166 leaves, in contemporary brown calf.

Owned and probably compiled by John Ridout (1608-post 1665).

Mid-17th century

Phillipps MS, [unnumbered?]. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971. Gift of John M. Ward, 1985.

Described in John Ward, Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: Notes on the Cittern, Gittern and Guitar in 16th- and 17th-Century England, Lute Society Journal, 21 (1979-81), 183-95. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 678.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Mus 182 Item 9)
'But sethens you it asaye to kyll'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 4.

WyT 54

Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald; imperfect, lacking the beginning; c. 1537-8.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 103-4.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 7r)
'By belstred wordes I am borne in hand'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 134.

WyT 55

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Caesar, when that the traytour of Egipt'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 2.

WyT 56

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 99-100.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 4v-5r)
WyT 57

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Comeforthe at hand, pluck vp thy harte!'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 136.

WyT 58

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Comfort thy self my wofull hert'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 56-7.

WyT 59

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 166.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 48v)
WyT 60

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Complaynyng, alas, withour redres'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 135-6.

WyT 61

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Deem as ye list upon good cause'

See WyT 63.

'Defamed gyltynes by sylens vnkept'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 139.

WyT 62

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Deme as ye list vpon goode cause'

First published in The Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (London, 1578). Muir & Thomson, pp. 235-6.

WyT 63

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Desire, alas, my master and my foo'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 57.

*WyT 64
Autograph

Autograph fair copy, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 173.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 50r)
WyT 65

Copy of an early version, untitled, here beginning Cruell desire my mr & my foo.

& my foo.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Desyre to Sorow doth me constrayne'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 138-9.

WyT 66

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Dido am I, the founder first of Carthage'

See WyT 73.

'Disdain me not without desert'

See WyT 74.

'Disdain not, madam, on him to look'

See WyT 75.

'Divers doth use as I have heard and know'

See WyT 76.

'Do way, do way, ye lytyll wyly prat!'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 138.

WyT 67

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Dobell, dyuerse, soleyn and straunge'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 141.

WyT 68

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Dryuyn to Desyre, a drad also to Dare'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 140-1.

WyT 69

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Dryven to Desire I dyd this Dede'

Lines 1-7 first published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1575). Muir & Thomson, pp. 139-40.

WyT 70

Copy of lines 1-7, untitled, here beginning Dryven bye desire I dede this dede.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 71

Copy (31 lines).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Durese of paynes and grevus Smarte'

First published in The Court of Venus [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, p. 137.

WyT 72

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Dydo am I, the fownder first of Cartage'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 141.

WyT 73

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Dysdaine me not without desert'

First published in The Court of Venus, [? c.1538] (no perfect exemplum known. It is in the later edition of c.1563). Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 257-8. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Recovering the Text of Wyatt's Disdain Me Not Without Desert, Studia Neophilologica, 58 (1986), 59-66.

WyT 74

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. Edited in Daalder, p. 62.

A quarto composite volume of MS and printed verse and prose tracts and miscellaneous material, in various hands over a lengthy period from the late 14th to mid-16th century, the verse on ff. 84r-92v in probably five 16th-century cursive secretary hands, 216 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Mid-16th century

Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.

Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).

'Dysdayne not, madam, on hym to louke'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 142.

WyT 75

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Dyvers doth vse as I have hard and kno'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 222-3.

WyT 76

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 11.

WyT 77

Copy, written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 112.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 11v)
WyT 78

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 79

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 102, p. 147. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 63v)
'Even when you lust ye may refrain'

See WyT 82.

'Ever myn happe is slack and slo in commyng'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 23.

WyT 80

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 126.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 22v)
WyT 81

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 114, pp. 153-4. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 67r)
'Evyn when you lust ye may refrayne'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 146-7.

WyT 82

Copy, headed The answere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'ffarewell all my wellfare'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 192-3.

WyT 83

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Ffarewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 12-13.

WyT 84

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 114.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 13r)
WyT 85

Copy, untitled, here beginning Nowe farewell love and thye lawes forever.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 86

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 106, p. 150. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 65v)
'ffarewell, the rayn of crueltie!'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 11-12.

WyT 87

Copy, written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 113.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 12r)
'ffor to love her for her lokes lovely'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 14.

WyT 88

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 115-16.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 14r)
WyT 89

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'fforget not yet the tryde entent'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 211-12.

WyT 90

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'ffortune dothe frowne'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 225.

WyT 91

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'ffortune what ayleth the'

First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 173-4.

WyT 92

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'fful well yt maye be sene'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 207-8.

WyT 93

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

*WyT 94
Autograph

Autograph copy, with extensive revisions.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 203-4. Facsimile of f. 66r in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 46.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 66r)
WyT 95

Copy, here beginning As from theys hilles that a spryng doth fall.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'From thowght to thowgt from hill to hill love doth me lede'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 84.

*WyT 96
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 213.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 70r)
'Full well it may be seen'

See WyT 93.

'Give place all ye that doth rejoyce'

See WyT 101.

'Goo burnyng sighes Vnto the frosen hert!'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 16-17.

WyT 97

Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 119.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 16v)
WyT 98

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Greting to you bothe yn hertye wyse'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 225-6.

WyT 99

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Grudge on who list, this ys my lott'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 224-5. Authorship discussed in Richard Leighton Greene, A Carol of Anne Boleyn by Wyatt, RES, NS 25 (1974), 437-9.

WyT 100

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Gyve place all ye that doth reioise'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 221-2.

WyT 101

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Had I wiste that now I wott'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 142.

WyT 102

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Happe happith ofte vnloked for'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 144.

WyT 103

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Hart oppressyd with desp'rat thought'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 237.

WyT 104

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 105

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson and in Hughey, I, No. 312, p. 356.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 217r)
'Hate whome ye lyste, I care not'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 145.

WyT 106

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 107

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'He is not ded that somtyme hath a fall'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 45.

*WyT 108
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 152.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 40r)
WyT 109

Copy, untitled, here beginning I am not ded altho I had a fall (agreeing with the uncorrected state of the poem in WyT 108).

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 110

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled, here beginning I am not dead although I had a fall.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked).

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Mid-late 16th century

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

'Heart oppressed with desperate thought'

See WyT 104-105.

'Heaven and earth and all that hear me plain'

See WyT 112-114.

'Helpe me to seke for I lost it there'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 15.

WyT 111

Copy, heavily written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 117.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 15r)
'Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 55-6.

WyT 112

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 165.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 47v-8r)
WyT 113

Copy of lines 25-35, untitled and beginning Yf I had suffered this to you vnware, subscribed ffynys qd Wyatt.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 114

Copy of lines 1-4 in a musical setting.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in Ivy L. Mumford, Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, M&L (1956), 315-22.

An oblong quarto volume of madrigals and other musical works, the lyrics in two or more secretary hands, 60 leaves, in half-morocco, stamped in gilt on both covers 1757.

Early 16th century
The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Royal MS App. 58 ff. 52r, 55v)
'Horrybell of hew, hidyus to behold'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 143.

WyT 115

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'How oft have I, my dere and cruell foo'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 24.

WyT 116

Copy, heavily written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 127.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 23v)
WyT 117

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 116, p. 154. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 67v)
'How shulde I'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 205-7.

WyT 118

Copy of lines 1-34, 47-52, 59-62, in double columns, in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 119).

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 119

Copy of lines 1-22, 29-62, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 118).

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'I abide and abide and better abide'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 231.

WyT 120

Copy of lines 1-7, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'I am as I am and so wil I be'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 148-50.

WyT 121

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated and lines 1-18 edited in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 122

Copy of lines 9-40, here beginning I doo not rejoyse nor yet complayne.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 121).

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

WyT 123

Copy of a shortened version in the form of a carol, written on a front flyleaf of a 15th-century MS bolume of sermons by John Felton, Vicar of St Mary Magdalene, Oxford.

Early 16th century

Edited from this MS in Richard Leighton Greene, Wyatt's I am as I am in Carol-Form, RES, NS 15 (1964), 175-80; reprinted in Muir & Thomson, pp. 399-400.

University of Pennsylvania (MS Latin 35, f. [iii])
WyT 124

Copy of an untitled version.

Edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), III, 731-2; in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, STS NS 26 (Edinburgh & London, 1930), pp. 2-3; and in H.A. Mason I am as I am, RES, NS 23 (1972), 304-8.

A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to Mr William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. II, f. 250r-v (pp. 555-6))
'I am redy and euer wyll be'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 147-8.

WyT 125

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'I fynde no peace and all my warr is done'

First published in Songes and Sonnettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 20-1.

WyT 126

Copy, headed Petrarke in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 123-4.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 20v)
WyT 127

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 128

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, headed Pace non trovo.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked).

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Mid-late 16th century

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

WyT 129

Copy of the incipit possibly of a version of this poem (here No peace I find and foes I cannot face), in a musical setting.

This MS discussed in Ivy L. Mumford, Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22 (p. 321), and in Mumford, Sir Thomas Wyatt's Songs: A Trio of Problems in Manuscript Sources, M&L, 39 (1958), 262-4 (where it was argued that this song may not be the same as Wyatt's poem). Recorded in Muir & Thomson.

An oblong folio volume of musical works, the lyrics almost entirely in a single neat italic hand, with (ff. 1r-2r, 99r-v) a table of contents, 99 leaves, in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt Edwardvs Paston.

c.1611

Sotheby's, 28 November 1882.

'I have benne a lover'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 155-7.

WyT 130

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'I have sought long with stedfastnes'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 51-2.

WyT 131

Copy, with an alteration in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 160-1.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 45v)
WyT 132

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'I knowe not where my heuy syghys to hyd'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 154-5.

WyT 133

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'I lede a liff vnpleasant, nothing glad'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 70.

WyT 134

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 194. Edited and discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's I Lead a Life Unpleasant: Text and Interpretation, N&Q, 233 (March 1988), 29-33.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 62r)
'I love lovyd and so doithe she'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 191.

WyT 135

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'I muste go walke the woodes so wyld'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 150-2.

WyT 136

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, with a facsimile facing p. 196.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

WyT 137

Copy, added to the MS in a court hand.

Edited from this MS in Rossell Hope Robbins, Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford, 1952), p. 14. Recorded in Muir & Thomson, p. 400.

A small folio volume of legal works, predominantly in a single professional secretary hand, with sidenotes and other additions in at least two other contemporary hands, 132 leaves.

Early 16th century
WyT 138

A rough version, written along the margins.

This MS collated in Robbins, p. 14.

A small folio volume of legal works, predominantly in a single professional secretary hand, with sidenotes and other additions in at least two other contemporary hands, 132 leaves.

Early 16th century
The Huntington Library, shelfmarks A through E (EL 1160 ff. 108v, 107v, 109r)
'I se the change ffrom that that was'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 204-5.

WyT 139

Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'I see my plaint with open eares'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 242.

WyT 140

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 242.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked).

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Mid-late 16th century

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

'I see the change from that that was'

See WyT 139.

'I wyll allthow I may not'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 153-4.

WyT 141

Copy of lines 1-8, 13-24.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 142).

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

WyT 142

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed A balad of witt.

This MS collated (and lines 9-12 edited) in Muir & Thomson.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century
'If armour's faith, an heart unfeigned'

See WyT 411-412.

'If chaunce assynd'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 50-1.

WyT 143

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 158-9.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 44v-5r)
WyT 144

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 145

Copy of lines 1-4.

This MS recorded in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'If fancy would favour'

First published in The Court of Venus [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 32-3.

WyT 146

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 136-7.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 30r-v)
WyT 147

Copy of lines 1-12, 17-26, 17-36, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 148

Copy of lines 9-36, here beginning ffansye dothe know how.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 130, p. 159. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 75r)
'If I might have at mine own will'

See WyT 413.

'If in the world there be more woe'

See WyT 414-415.

'If it be so that I forsake thee'

See WyT 416.

'If waker care if sodayne pale Coulour'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 78.

*WyT 149
Autograph

Copy, in the hand of John Brereton, with autograph corrections.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 204-5. Facsimile in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 179.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 66v)
WyT 150

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 124, p. 157. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 68r)
'If with complaint the pain might be expressed'

See WyT 417.

'In dowtfull brest, whilst moderly pitie'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 60.

*WyT 151
Autograph

Autograph fair copy, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 180-1.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 54v)
'In eternum I was ons determed'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 53-4.

WyT 152

Copy, imperfect, most of the leaf torn away.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 162-3.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 46v)
WyT 153

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'In faith I wot not well what to say'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 19.

WyT 154

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 121-2.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 19r)
'In mornyng wyse syns daylye I Increas'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 157-9.

WyT 155

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

In Spayne ('So feble is the threde that doth the burden stay')

See WyT 273-275.

'Is it possible'

See WyT 422.

'It may be good, like it who list'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 17-18.

WyT 156

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 119-20.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 17r)
WyT 157

Copy.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'It was my choyse, it was no chaunce'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 201-2.

WyT 158

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 159

Copy of lines 1-13 (not in the same hand as WyT 158), untitled.

This MS recorded (but not collated) in Muir & Thomson (p. 202).

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Jopas' Song ('When Dido festid first the wandryng Troian knyght')

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 84-7.

*WyT 160
Autograph

Autograph, with extensive revisions.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 250-2.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 100r-1r)
WyT 161

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 140, p. 168-70. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 99r-v)
'Lament my losse, my labor, and my payne'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 219-20.

WyT 162

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Lengre to muse'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 228-9.

WyT 163

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Leve thus to slaunder love'

See WyT 168-169.

'Like as the byrde in the cage enclosed'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 243-4.

WyT 164

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, pp. 243-4.

A volume of miscellaneous documents relating to Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely (1500-81).

16th century
'Like as the swant towards her death'

See WyT 177-179.

'Like as the wind with raging blast'

See WyT 180.

'Like to these vnmesurable montayns'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 24-5.

WyT 165

Copy, with geometrical diagrams drawn over it by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 128.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 24r)
WyT 166

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 117, pp. 154-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 67v-67bisr)
'Live thou gladly, if so thou may'

See WyT 181.

'Lo! how I seke and sew to haue'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 209-10.

WyT 167

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Lo what it is to love!'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 66-9.

*WyT 168
Autograph

Copy of a sequence of three poems, with an autograph alteration.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 190-4 (edited as separate poems).

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 60r-2r)
WyT 169

Copy, partly in Mantell's hand.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier. Facsimile of f. 118r in Baron, p. 97.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Longer to muse'

See WyT 163.

'Longer to troo ye'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 159-60.

WyT 170

Copy of stanzas 1-5.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 171).

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

WyT 171

Copy, here beginning Longer to prove ye, what may it availe me.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 244, p. 282. Collated (and stanzas 6-7 edited) in Muir & Thomson.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 168r-v)
'Love and fortune and my mynde, remembre'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 23-4.

WyT 172

Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 126-7.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 23r)
WyT 173

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 115, p. 154. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 67r-v)
'Love hathe agayne'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 161-2.

WyT 174

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 175

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Luckes, my fair falcon, and your fellowes all'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 241.

WyT 176

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 241.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked).

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Mid-late 16th century

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

'Lyke as the Swanne towardis her dethe'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 52-3.

WyT 177

Copy, imperfect, most of the leaf torn away.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 161-2.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 46r)
WyT 178

This MS collated (and edited in part) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 179

Copy.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Lyke as the wynde with raginge blaste'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 242-3.

WyT 180

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed T. Wyat of Loue.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century
'Lyue thowe gladly, yff so thowe may'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 162-3.

WyT 181

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Madame, I you requyere'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 163-4.

WyT 182

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Madame, withouten many wordes'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 25.

WyT 183

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 128-9. The text followed by a 12-line Aunswer in a later hand responsible for alterations to eleven other poems in this MS (this Aunswer edited in Muir & Thomson, p. 298, and in Harrier, p. 129). Facsimile in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119 (p. 105).

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 24v)
WyT 184

Copy, here beginning Mestres what nedis many wordis.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier. The text followed by a 12-line Aunswer in the same hand (see WyT 183).

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Marvaill no more, all tho'

First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 38-9.

WyT 185

Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 143-4.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 35r-v)
WyT 186

Copy, in double columns, untitled, subscribed ffynys qd Wyatt.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 186.5

Copy, headed Verses by Sir Thomas Wyatt.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae, [ed. Henry Harington], 2 vols (London, 1769), II, 250-1.

A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Harington MSS] [unnumbered item])
'Me list no more to sing'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 215-17.

WyT 187

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Might I as well within my song belay'

See WyT 211-212.

'Mine old dear enemy, my froward master'

See WyT 213-214.

'Mine own John Poins, since ye delight to know'

See WyT 215-220.

'Mornyng my hart dothe sore opres'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 163.

WyT 188

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

WyT 189

Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. See also WyT 21.

A quarto composite volume of MS and printed verse and prose tracts and miscellaneous material, in various hands over a lengthy period from the late 14th to mid-16th century, the verse on ff. 84r-92v in probably five 16th-century cursive secretary hands, 216 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Mid-16th century

Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.

Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).

WyT 190

Copy, here beginning Morenyng my hart doithe sore opress, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded (but not collated) in Muir & Thomson, p. 405.

A composite volume of papers of the Ramsden family.

c.1560-74
Huddersfield Central Library (DD/R5/30 f. 2r)
'Most wretchid hart most myserable'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 171-3.

WyT 191

Copy in two hands, including John Brereton.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 197-8. Facsimiles of f. 64r in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 272.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 63v-4v)
'Mourning my heart doth sore oppress'

See WyT 188-190.

'My galy charged with forgetfulnes'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 21-2.

WyT 192

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 125.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 21v)
WyT 193

Copy, with alterations in another hand.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 112, pp. 152-3. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 66v)
'My hert I gave the not to do it payn'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 13.

WyT 194

Copy, written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 115.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 13v)
WyT 195

Copy, begun by an amanuensis and corrected and completed by Margaret Douglas (omitting lines 10-11), untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 196

Copy, omitting line 10, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 196.5 Mid-16th century

Copy, in a secretary hand, with other verses, on a folio leaf of vellum (inverted), deleted and faded.

A folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, i +138 leaves, in half red morocco.

Owned and perhaps partly compiled by Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian, and including (ff. 131r-7r) forgeries by his son Robert.

Subsequently owned by Henry Hyde (1638-1709), second Earl of Clarendon, politician (constituting Clarendon MSS Vol. 55). Signature, dated 1746/7, and bookplate of Jeremiah Milles (1714-84), Dean of Exeter, antiquary (Milles Collection Vol. XLIV).

WyT 197

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 107, pp. 150-1. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 65v)
'My hope, Alas, hath me abused'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 45-6.

WyT 198

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 153-4.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 41r-v)
WyT 199

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 200

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 134, pp. 161-2. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 77r-v)
'My love took scorn my service to retain'

See WyT 210.

'My loue ys lyke vnto th'eternall fyre'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 210.

WyT 201

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'My lute, awake! perfourme the last'

First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 48-50.

WyT 202

Copy, with a correction in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 157-8.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 43v-4r)
WyT 203

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys qd Wyatt.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 204

Copy.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'My mothers maydes when they did sowe and spynne'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 91-5.

WyT 205

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 174-7.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 50v-2v)
WyT 206

Copy of lines 1-18, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 207

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 142, pp. 172-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. ff. 100r-1v)
'My pen, take payn a lytyll space'

First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 190-1.

WyT 208

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'My swet, alas, fforget me not'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 165-6.

WyT 209

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'My love toke skorne my servise to retaine'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 227.

WyT 210

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'MyghtI as well within my songe belaye'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 164-5.

WyT 211

Copy of lines 1-4 in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled, with a smudged copy of lines 1-2 in another hand on f. 66r.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 212

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Myne olde dere En'mye, my froward master'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 5-10.

WyT 213

Copy of lines 22-147, beginning O small hony, much aloes & gall, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald, heavily written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 214), and in Harrier, pp. 105-8.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 8r-10v)
WyT 214

Copy of lines 1-79; imperfect, lacking the ending.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 144, pp. 176-8. Collated and lines 1-21 edited in Muir & Thomson. Lines 22-79 collated in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 102r-v)
'Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 88-91.

WyT 215

Copy of lines 52-103, beginning Praise him for counceill that is droncke of ale; imperfect.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 216), and in Harrier, pp. 167-8.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 49r-v)
WyT 216

Copy of lines 1-27, 31-103, untitled.

This MS collated and lines 1-27, 31-52 edited in Muir & Thomson. Collated in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 217

Copy of lines 1-17, 20-8, 32-103, with corrections in another hand.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 104, p. 147-9. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. ff. 64r-5r)
WyT 218

Copy of lines 1-17, 20-8, 32-103, in an italic hand, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked).

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Mid-late 16th century

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

WyT 219

Copy.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A volume of miscellaneous documents relating to Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely (1500-81).

16th century
WyT 220

Copy, immediately following on from Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene (WyT 370), subscribed finis T Wyet.

This MS collated in F.D. Hoeniger, A Wyatt Manuscript, N&Q, 202 (March 1957), 103-4 and in Harrier; recorded in Muir & Thomson, p. 350.

A small quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, 142 leaves, in quarter-calf.

c.1580

Once owned by one W. Kytton.

'Nature, that gave the bee so feet a grace'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 51.

*WyT 221
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 160.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 45r)
WyT 222

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 223

Copy.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

WyT 224

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed Sr T. W.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century
'Now all of chaunge'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 230-1.

WyT 225

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 226

Copy of lines 1-36, 43-8, subscribed To Smithe of Camden.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 6, p. 82. Collated in Muir & Thomson.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 17v)
'Now must I lerne to lyue at rest'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 211.

WyT 227

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'O crewell hart, wher ys thy ffaythe?'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 168-9.

WyT 228

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'O goodely hand'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 65-6.

WyT 229

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 189-90.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 59v)
WyT 230

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, inscribed T. W.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century
'O myserable sorow withowten cure!'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 212.

WyT 231

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'O what vndeseruyd creweltye'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 166-7.

WyT 232

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Off Cartage he that worthie warrier'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 61.

*WyT 233
Autograph

Autograph, fair copy, with one revision.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 181.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 54v)
'Off purpos Love chase first for to be blynd'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 83.

*WyT 234
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 211. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 9, and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 351.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 69r)
'Ons as me thought fortune me kyst'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 47-8.

WyT 235

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 156.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 42v-3r)
WyT 236

Copy of lines 1-8.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 237

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 237.5

Copy, headed By Sir Thomas Wyatt.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae, [ed. Henry Harington], 2 vols (London, 1769), II, 254-5.

A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family.

Late 16th-early 17th century

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Harington MSS] [unnumbered item])
'Ons in your grace I knowe I was'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 167-8.

WyT 238

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Pacyence of all my smart'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 200-1. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

WyT 239

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Pain of all pain, the most grievous pain'

See WyT 250.

'Pas fourthe, my wountyd cries'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 171-2.

WyT 240

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Patience, for I have wrong'

See WyT 245.

'Patience for my device'

See WyT 246-249.

'Patience of all my smart'

See WyT 239.

'Patience, though I have not'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 29. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

WyT 241

Copy, with an alteration in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 133-4.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 28r)
WyT 242

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys qd Wyatt.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 243

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 131, p. 159-60. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 75v)
WyT 244

Copy, with the third stanza placed first and here beginning Patiens off all my blame.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Patiens, for I have wrong'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 232. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

WyT 245

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Patiens for my devise'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 29-30. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

WyT 246

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 134-5.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 28v)
WyT 247

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 248

Copy of lines 1-8; imperfect.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 132, p. 160. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 75v)
WyT 249

Copy, immediately following on from Patiens off all my blame (see WyT 244).

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Payne of all payne, the most grevous paine'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 218-19. Considered of doubtful authorship by H. A. Mason in Sewanee Review, 84. ii (1976), 679-80.

WyT 250

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Penitential Psalms ('Love to gyve law vnto his subiect hertes')

First published in Certayne psalmes (London, 1549). Muir & Thomson, pp. 98-125.

*WyT 251
Autograph

Autograph of Wyatt's seven Penitential Psalms and their prologues, with extensive revisions; imperfect, lacking lines 100-51 (lines 26-80 in Psalm 6).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, with a facsimile of one page facing p. 100, and in Harrier, pp. 214-49.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 86-98v)
WyT 252

Copy of the seven Penitential Psalms and their prologues.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, Nos 154-67, pp. 186-206. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. ff. 108r-18r)
WyT 253

A formal copy of the seven Penitential Psalms and their prologues, on vellum throughout, 37 quart-size leaves.

Mid-16th century

Inscrined name (f. 1v) of Marie Brograue.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson (with a facsimile of two pages facing p. 116), and in Harrier.

The British Library: Royal MSS (Royal MS 17 A. XXII)
'Perdy I sayd hytt nott'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 170-1.

WyT 254

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 255

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Playn ye, myn eyes, accompany my hart'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 241.

WyT 256

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 241.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked).

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Mid-late 16th century

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

'Processe of tyme worketh such wounder'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 61.

WyT 257

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 181-2.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 55r)
WyT 258

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 137, p. 164. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 97r)
'Prove wythr I do chainge, my dere'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 78.

*WyT 259
Autograph

Autograph unfinished draft, heavily written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 204. Facsimile of f. 66r in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 46.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 66r)
Psalm 37. Noli emulare in maligna ('Altho thow se th'owtragius clime aloft')

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 75-7.

*WyT 260
Autograph

Copy of lines 1-36, in the hand of John Brereton, with an autograph addition.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 261), and in Harrier, pp. 201-2. Facsimiles of f. 65v in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 274.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 65v)
WyT 261

Copy of lines 1-69, 72-112.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 168, pp. 206-8. Collated (and Edited in part) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier, pp. 202-3.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. ff. 118r-19v)
'Quondam was I in my Ladys gras'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 172-3.

WyT 262

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Resound my voyse, ye woodes that here me plain'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 18.

WyT 263

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 120-1.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 17v)
WyT 264

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Ryght true it is, and said full yore agoo'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 35-6.

WyT 265

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 141.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 33r)
WyT 266

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 119, pp. 155-6. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 67bisr)
'Sche that shuld most, percevythe lest'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 174.

WyT 267

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Shall she neuer out of my mynde'

First published (?) in A Boke of Balettes, [c.1548]. The Court of Venus, later edition [c.1563]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 255-6.

WyT 268

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson, pp. 255-6.

A quarto composite volume of MS and printed verse and prose tracts and miscellaneous material, in various hands over a lengthy period from the late 14th to mid-16th century, the verse on ff. 84r-92v in probably five 16th-century cursive secretary hands, 216 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Mid-16th century

Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.

Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).

'She sat and sowde that hath done me the wrong'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 40.

*WyT 269
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 146-7.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 37r)
WyT 270

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 271

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 127, p. 158. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 68v)
'She that should most, perceiveth least'

See WyT 267.

'Sighs are my food, drink are my tears'

See WyT 295.

'Since love is such that, as ye wot'

See WyT 296.

'Since so ye please to hear me plain'

See WyT 297.

'Since ye delight to know'

See WyT 298-300.

'Sins you will nedes that I shall sing'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 215.

WyT 272

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Sith I myself displease thee'

See WyT 301.

'Sith it is so that I am thus refused'

See WyT 294.

'So feble is the threde that doth the burden stay'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 79-82.

*WyT 273
Autograph

Autograph copy, with extensive revisions, headed In Spayne in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 205-9.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 67v-8v)
WyT 274

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 275

Copy, with numerous alterations.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 139, pp. 165-8. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. ff. 97v-8v)
'So vnwarely was never no man cawght'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 202-3.

WyT 276

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Som fowles there be that have so perfaict sight'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 19-20.

WyT 277

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 122.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 19v)
WyT 278

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 109, p. 151. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 66r)
'Some tyme I fled the fyre that me brent'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 44.

*WyT 279
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 151.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 40r)
WyT 280

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 281

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 128, p. 158. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 68v)
WyT 282

Copy of lines 1-4, in a neat secretary hand, inscribed Tho w.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century
'Some time I sigh, some time I sing'

See WyT 293.

'Somtyme the pryde of mye assured trothe'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 240.

WyT 283

Copy, headed Th' Argument.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 240 and in Hughey, I, No. 169, pp. 208-9.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 119v)
'Spight hath no powre to make me sadde'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 223-4.

WyT 284

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Spytt off the spytt whiche they in vayne'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 174-5.

WyT 285

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Stone who so list vpon the Slipper toppe'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 240.

WyT 286

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 240, and in Hughey, I, No. 311, p. 356.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 216v)
'Such happe as I ame happed in'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 26-7.

WyT 287

Copy, heavily written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 130-1.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 25v-6r)
'Suche vayn thought as wonted to myslede me'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 42.

*WyT 288
Autograph

Copy, with an autograph alteration.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 148-9.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 38r)
WyT 289

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 290

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 121, p. 156. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 67bisv)
'Suffryng in sorrowe in hope to Attayne'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 176-7.

WyT 291

Copy, untitled, subscribed Mary Shelton.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. Facsimiles of ff. 6v-7r in Powell, pp. 5-6.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 292

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Sum tyme I syghe, sumtyme I syng'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 199-200.

WyT 293

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Syethe yt ys so that I am thus refusyd'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 175-6.

WyT 294

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Syghes ar my foode, drynke are my teares'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 242.

WyT 295

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, inscribed Tho w. to Bryan.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 242.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century
'Synes loue ys suche that, as ye wott'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 208-9.

WyT 296

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Synes so ye please to here me playn'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 210.

WyT 297

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Syns ye delite to knowe'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 54-5.

WyT 298

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 163-4.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 47r-v)
WyT 299

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 300

Copy of lines 1-6, 15-35.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Sythe I my selffe dysplease the'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 177-8.

WyT 301

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Tagus, fare well, that westward with thy stremes'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 82.

*WyT 302
Autograph

Autograph, with minor revisions.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 211. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 9; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 19; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 10, p. 22; and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 351.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 69r)
WyT 302.5

Copy.

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
'Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 189.

WyT 303

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Tanglid I was yn loves snare'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 227-8.

WyT 304

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'That tyme that myrthe dyed stere my shypp'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 184-5.

WyT 305

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 306

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Th'answere that ye made to me, my dere'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 70-1.

WyT 307

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 196.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 63r-v)
'Th'enmy of liff, decayer of all kynde'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 47.

*WyT 308
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 155.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 42v)
'The flaming Sighes that boile within my brest'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 239.

WyT 309

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 239, and in Hughey, I, No. 310, p. 355.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 216v)
'The fructe of all the seruise that I serue'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 214.

WyT 310

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'The furyous gonne in his rajing yre'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 45.

*WyT 311
Autograph

Copy, with autograph revisions.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 152-3.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 40v)
WyT 312

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 129, p. 158. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 68v)
'The hart and servys to yow profferd'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 193.

WyT 313

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'The Joye so short, alas, the paine so nere'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 217-18.

WyT 314

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'The knott that furst my hart dyd strayn'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 183-4.

WyT 315

Copy, untitled, preceded (f. 22v) by a false-start version of lines 1-4 in the same hand.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 316

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 317

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'The lively sparks that issue from those eyes'

See WyT 321-323.

'The Longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 3. Harrier, p. 3.

WyT 318

Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 101.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 5r-v)
WyT 319

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 99, pp. 145-6. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 63r)
'The losse is small to lese such one'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 223.

WyT 320

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'The lyvely sperkes that issue from those Iyes'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 35.

WyT 321

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 140.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 32v)
WyT 322

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 323

See also WyT 393.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 118, p. 155. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 67bisr)
'The piller pearisht in whearto I Lent'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 238.

WyT 324

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Hughey, I, No. 96, pp. 144-5.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 60v)
'The restfull place, Revyver of my smarte'

First published (in a three 7-line stanza version) in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 197-8.

WyT 325

Copy of lines 1-7 in a variant version, including an extra line between lines 5 and 6, in the hand of Nicholas Grimald, headed To hiz bedde and here beginning O restfull place: reneewer of my smart.

Edited from this MS in Harrier, p. 105. Collated in Muir & Thomson. Facsimiles in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (after p. 414), and in Powell, p. 24.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 7v)
WyT 326

Copy of the three 7-line stanza version, untitled, subscribed ffynys qd Wyatt.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'The wandering gadlyng in the sommer tyde'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 34.

*WyT 327
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 139.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 32r)
WyT 328

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 329

Copy, in a formal secretary hand.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked).

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Mid-late 16th century

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

'There was never ffile half so well filed'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 14.

WyT 330

Copy, with alterations in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 116.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 14v)
WyT 331

Copy, headed To my and here beginning Was neuer yet fyle half so well fyled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 332

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 98, pp. 145. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 60v)
WyT 333

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 108, p. 151. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. ff. 65v-6r)
WyT 334

Copy.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'There was never nothing more me payned'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 28.

WyT 335

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 132-3.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 27r-v)
'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 27.

WyT 336

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (with a facsimile facing p. 68), and in Harrier, pp. 131-2. Facsimile also in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, Plate 1.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 26v)
WyT 337

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 42-3.

*WyT 338
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 149.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 38v)
WyT 339

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 340

Copy of lines 1-17; imperfect, lacking ending.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 136, pp. 163-4. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 78v)
'Tho of the sort ther be that ffayne'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 180-1.

WyT 341

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Tho some do grodge to se me joye'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 179-80.

WyT 342

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Thou hast no faith of him that hath none'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 16.

WyT 343

Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 118.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 16r)
WyT 344

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Thou slepest ffast. and I with wofull hart'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 179. Attributed to Wyatt in Annabel M. Endicott, A Note on Wyatt and Serafino D'Aquilano, RN, 17 (1964), 301-3.

WyT 345

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimile in Baron, p. 92.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Though I cannot your cruelty constrain'

See WyT 338-340.

'Though I my self be bridilled of my mynde'

Not published in the the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 21.

WyT 346

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 124.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 21r)
WyT 347

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 111, p. 152. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 66v)
'Though of the sort there be that feign'

See WyT 341.

'Though some do grudge to see my joy'

See WyT 342.

'Though this thy port and I thy seruaunt true'

Not published in the the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 59.

WyT 348

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 179.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 53v-4)
WyT 349

Copy.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Thy promese was to loue me best'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 203-4.

WyT 350

Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'To cause accord or to aggre'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 58.

WyT 351

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 178.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 53r)
WyT 352

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'To make an ende of all this strif'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 233-4.

WyT 353

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'To my myshap alas I fynd'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 181-3. Attributed to Sir Francis Bryan in A. Stuart Daley, The Uncertain Author of Poem 225, Tottel's Miscellany, SP, 47 (1950), 485-93.

WyT 354

Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 355

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

WyT 356

Copy, with the second stanza placed first, headed Tempore quo fodiebat and beginning Amydes my myrth and pleasantnes.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A small quarto miscellany of ballads, in several hands, 141 leaves.

Copy.

Mid-16th century

Inscribed Gabriell Penn 1640.

This MS discussed in Andrew Taylor, The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel: Richard Sheale of Tamworth (York: York Medieval Press, 2012), 82-116.

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 48 f. 1r-v)
'To Rayle or geste ye kno I vse it not'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 217.

WyT 357

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'To seke eche where, where man doth lyve'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 64-5.

WyT 358

Copy, with a revision in another hand.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 188-9.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 59r)
'To wette your yee withoutyn teare'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 181.

WyT 359

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 360

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'To wisshe and want and not obtain'

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 43-4.

WyT 361

Copy, with two alterations in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183), written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 150-1.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 39r-v)
WyT 362

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 363

Copy of lines 11-36, here beginning Yf then I burne to playne me so; imperfect, lacking the first ten lines.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 133, pp. 160-1. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 77r)
'Vnstable dreme according to the place'

First pub in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 59-60.

WyT 364

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 180.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 54r)
WyT 365

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 122, p. 156. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 67bisv)
'Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene'

First pub in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 57-8.

*WyT 366
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 173.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 50r)
WyT 367

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 368

Copy, in a formal secretary hand.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked).

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Mid-late 16th century

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

WyT 369

Copy, in a neat secretary hand.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century
WyT 370

Copy, untitled and omitting line 4.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier. See also WyT 220.

A small quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, 142 leaves, in quarter-calf.

c.1580

Once owned by one W. Kytton.

'Venus, in sport, to please therwith her dere'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 188.

WyT 371

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Vnstable dreme according to the place'

See WyT 364-365.

'Vulcane bygat me. Mynerua me taught'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 84.

WyT 372

Copy, in an italic hand.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 213. Discussed in Wayne H. Siek, A Note on Some Handwriting in Wyatt's Holograph Poetic Manuscript, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 496-7, where it is argued that the poem is not in Wyatt's own hand.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 70r)
WyT 373

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed A Ridell. Tho. W., followed by the original Latin version headed sub Idem latine Pandulpho and beginning Vulcanus genuit peperit natura, Minerva.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century
'Was I never, yet, of your love greeved'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 10-11.

WyT 374

Copy, with subsequent alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald, later written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 111.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 11r)
WyT 375

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 101, p. 146. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 63r-v)
'Whan that I call vnto my mynde'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 232-3.

WyT 376

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'What deth is worse then this'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 46-7.

*WyT 377
Autograph

Copy, with autograph revisions, written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 154-5.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 42r)
WyT 378

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 379

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'What menythe thys when I lye alone?'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 193-4.

WyT 380

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys qd Wyatt.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'What nedeth these thretning wordes and wasted wynde?'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 35.

WyT 381

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 141.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 33v)
WyT 382

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 126, p. 158. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 68r-v)
'What no, perdy, ye may be sure!'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 34.

WyT 383

Copy, with a correction and line 15 written in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 138-9.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 31v)
WyT 384

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffynys qd Wyatt.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'What rage is this? What furour of what kynd?'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 83-4.

*WyT 385
Autograph

Autograph draft, with copious revisions.

Edited from this MS (with a facsimile) in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 212-13. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Helen V. Baron Wyatt's What rage, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (September 1976), 188-204. Facsimile also in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 47.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 69v)
'What shulde I saye'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 220-1.

WyT 386

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'What thing is that, that I both have and lack'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 237-8.

WyT 387

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, pp. 237-8, and in Hughey, I, No. 313, pp. 356-7.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 217r)
WyT 388

Copy of lines 1-7, headed A Ridle followed by an Answer.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century
'What vaileth trouth? or, by it, to take payn?'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 1-2.

WyT 389

Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 98. Facsimile in Powell, p. 18.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 4r)
WyT 390

Copy of the incipit (here What vaileth), in a musical setting by William Byrd.

This MS discussed in Ivy L. Mumford, Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22 (p. 321), and in Mumford, Sir Thomas Wyatt's Songs: A Trio of Problems in Manuscript Sources, M&L, 39 (1958), 262-4 (where it was argued that this song may not be the same as Wyatt's poem).

An oblong folio volume of musical works, the lyrics almost entirely in a single neat italic hand, with (ff. 1r-2r, 99r-v) a table of contents, 99 leaves, in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt Edwardvs Paston.

c.1611

Sotheby's, 28 November 1882.

'What wolde ye mor of me, your slav, Requyere'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 186-7.

WyT 391

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'What wourde is that that chaungeth not'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 36.

WyT 392

Copy, headed in a later hand Anna.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 141-2.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 33v)
WyT 393

Copy, immediately following on from Ryght true it is, and said full yore agoo (WyT 266).

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 120, p. 155. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 67bisr)
'When Dido festid first the wandryng Troian knyght'

See WyT 160-161.

'When first mine eyes did view, and marke'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 248-9.

WyT 393.5

Copy of the incipit only, untitled.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive secretary hand, 153 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

Late 16th century
National Library of Wales (Peniarth MS 346 A p. 19)
'When that I call unto my mind'

See WyT 376.

'Where shall I have at myn owne will'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 39-40.

WyT 394

Copy, with alterations in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 145-6. Facsimile of f. 36r in Powell, p. 19.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 36r-v)
WyT 395

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 135, pp. 162-3. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 78r-v)
'Who hath herd of suche crueltye before?'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 32.

*WyT 396
Autograph

Copy, with autograph corrections.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 136.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 29v)
WyT 397

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 398

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 125, p. 157. Collated in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 68r)
'Who lyst his welthe and eas Retayne'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 187-8.

WyT 399

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Who so list to hounte I know where is an hynde'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 5.

WyT 400

Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 104. Facsimiles in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (after p. 414), and in Powell, p. 24.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 7v)
WyT 401

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 100, p. 146. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 63r)
WyT 402

Copy.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

WyT 403

Copy, headed Sr Th. w.S. and here beginning Who list to hunt I knowe where is an hind.

A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum.

Early 17th century

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 D258/60/26a.

Derbyshire Record Office (D258/34/26/1 f. [37v])
'Who would haue euer thowght'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 201.

WyT 404

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Wyll ye se what wonders love hathe wrought?'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 234-5.

WyT 405

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Wythe seruyng styll'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 185-6.

WyT 406

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

WyT 407

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Ye know my herte, my ladye dere'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 30-1.

WyT 408

Copy of lines 24-39, beginning all to my harme, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183), imperfect, lacking the beginning of the poem.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 409), and in Harrier, p. 135.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 29r)
WyT 409

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated (and lines 1-23 edited) in Muir & Thomson. Lines 24-39 collated in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Ye old mule that thinck your self so fayre'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 25-6.

WyT 410

Copy, heavily written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 130.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 25r)
'Yf amours faith, an hert vnfayned'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 12.

WyT 411

Copy, written over by later hands.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 113-14.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 12v)
WyT 412

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 105, p. 150. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. f. 65r)
'Yf I myght hau at myne owne wyll'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 152-3.

WyT 413

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Yf in the world ther be more woo'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 70.

WyT 414

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 195.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 62v-3)
WyT 415

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'Yf it be so that I forsake the'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 15-16.

WyT 416

Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 117-18.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 15v)
'Yf with complaint the paine might be exprest'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 214.

WyT 417

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

'You that in love finde lucke and habundance'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 73.

WyT 418

Copy, in the hand of John Brereton, headed Sonet in another hand.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 199.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 f. 64v)
WyT 419

Copy, omitting line 6.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 123, pp. 156-7. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain.

Mid-late 16th century

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle (MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. ff. 67bisv- 68r)
'Your ffolyshe fayned hast'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 164.

WyT 420

Copy, headed The Aunswere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Your lokes so often cast'

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 145-6.

WyT 421

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

c.1532-41

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

'Ys yt possyble'

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 194-5.

WyT 422

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys qd Wyatt.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Letters

Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (15 April 1537)

Letter beginning In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding …, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 38-41.

WyT 423

Copy, in the hand of Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger (c.1521-54), headed ffrom him out of Spayne to his son then Xmo yeres old.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimiles of f. 71r in Powell, p. 26, and of f. 72r in Jason Powell, Line Omission in Prose Manuscripts, 1500-1700, PBSA, 104 (December 2010), 433-61 (p. 439).

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 71r-2r)
WyT 424

Copy.

A folio composite volume of political tracts, speeches and other papers, many relating to Spain and the Netherlands, v + 138 pages, in 19th-century reversed calf.

Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1564?-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary. Christie's, February 1820 (Macro sale, Part VI), lot 112. Subsequently owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), banker and antiquary, of Keswick Hall, Norfolk (Gurney MS XXX), Vol. 4, pp. 308-75). Sotheby's, 30 March 1936 (Gurney sale), lot 163.

HMC, 1891, Appendix, Pt IX, pp. 144-7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. MSS (MS Eng. hist. c. 272 pp. 1-2)
WyT 425

Copy, headed ffrom olde Sr Thoma wiate to his sonne out of Spayne.

A quarto volume of state letters, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 84 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Late 16th-early 17th century
WyT 426

Copy.

A folio volume of Speeches in Parliamt and other speeches with seuerall letters of Concernmt being of great Antiquitie...And some other speeches and Letters relateing to these late distracted tymes, iv + 165 leaves, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 of the Hopkinson MSS.

1660

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. 296-7.

Bradford Archives (32D86/18 f. 43r-v)
WyT 427

Copy, headed A letter of Sr Thomas Wyat vnto his sonne.

A quarto volume of state papers, principally letters and speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510-79), Lord Keeper, in several professional secretary hands, 81 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt, now within 19th-century half red morocco.

Apparently prepared by Tho: Mynatts for presentation to Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Lord Chancellor, with a dedicatory epistle to him (ff. 1r-2r) subscribed with Mynatts's italic signature, he describing himself as a poore clerke whoe have served in her Majestys Courte of Starr Chamber, his sources having come to his hands by ye guifte of one of his sonnes nowe in France: i.e. Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer.

c.1585

Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Sotheby's, 9 August 1884 (Collier sale), lot 996.

WyT 428

Copy, headed A lre of Thomas Wiat to his Sonne.

This MS collated in Albert McHarg Hayes, Wyatt's Letters to his Son, MLN, 49 (1934), 446-9.

A large double-folio formal volume of state papers of c.1545-80, arranged according to subject, in a single professional secretary hand, on 46 leaves of vellum, in half green morocco.

c.1590s

Bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Townely Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, dated 1702. Sotheby's, 27-28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 170, to Quaritch. Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22349. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835-1908), first Baron Amherst of Hackney, 13 April 1887.

WyT 430

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, the letters on pp. 877-1039 arranged under genre headings (Aduise, Aunsweares, Comendatory, etc.), 1039 pages, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

c.1595-1620s

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.

Meisei University (MR 0840 pp. 1000-3)
WyT 431

Copy, subscribed Thom: Wyatt.

A small narrow folio miscellany of verse and some prose, in several hands, 136 leaves, in vellum boards.

Compiled probably over a period by members of the Stringer family of Sharlston.

Early 18th century

Among archives of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.

Northamptonshire Record Office (W(A) Misc Vol 20 f. 60r-v)
Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (Autumn 1537)

Letter beginning I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you …, subscribed From Valedolide the xxiiith of June. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 41-4.

WyT 432

Copy, in the hand of Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger (c.1521-54), headed Again unto his Son out of Spayne about the same time.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

c.1530s

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 2711 ff. 72v-3r)
WyT 433

Copy.

A folio composite volume of political tracts, speeches and other papers, many relating to Spain and the Netherlands, v + 138 pages, in 19th-century reversed calf.

Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1564?-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary. Christie's, February 1820 (Macro sale, Part VI), lot 112. Subsequently owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), banker and antiquary, of Keswick Hall, Norfolk (Gurney MS XXX), Vol. 4, pp. 308-75). Sotheby's, 30 March 1936 (Gurney sale), lot 163.

HMC, 1891, Appendix, Pt IX, pp. 144-7.

Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. MSS (MS Eng. hist. c. 272 pp. 3-6)
WyT 435

Copy.

A folio volume of Speeches in Parliamt and other speeches with seuerall letters of Concernmt being of great Antiquitie...And some other speeches and Letters relateing to these late distracted tymes, iv + 165 leaves, in calf gilt.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 of the Hopkinson MSS.

1660

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. 296-7.

Bradford Archives (32D86/18 ff. 44v-6r)
WyT 436

Copy, headed A second letter of the saide Sr Thomas Wyat vnto his sonne.

A quarto volume of state papers, principally letters and speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510-79), Lord Keeper, in several professional secretary hands, 81 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt, now within 19th-century half red morocco.

Apparently prepared by Tho: Mynatts for presentation to Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Lord Chancellor, with a dedicatory epistle to him (ff. 1r-2r) subscribed with Mynatts's italic signature, he describing himself as a poore clerke whoe have served in her Majestys Courte of Starr Chamber, his sources having come to his hands by ye guifte of one of his sonnes nowe in France: i.e. Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer.

c.1585

Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Sotheby's, 9 August 1884 (Collier sale), lot 996.

WyT 437

Copy, headed A Seconde lre, Tho: Wyat.

in Albert McHarg Hayes, Wyatt's Letters to his Son, MLN, 49 (1934), 446-9.

A large double-folio formal volume of state papers of c.1545-80, arranged according to subject, in a single professional secretary hand, on 46 leaves of vellum, in half green morocco.

c.1590s

Bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Townely Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, dated 1702. Sotheby's, 27-28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 170, to Quaritch. Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22349. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835-1908), first Baron Amherst of Hackney, 13 April 1887.

WyT 439

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, the letters on pp. 877-1039 arranged under genre headings (Aduise, Aunsweares, Comendatory, etc.), 1039 pages, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

c.1595-1620s

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.

Meisei University (MR 0840 pp. 1003-7)
WyT 440

Copy, as a second letter, subscribed Tho: Wyatt.

A small narrow folio miscellany of verse and some prose, in several hands, 136 leaves, in vellum boards.

Compiled probably over a period by members of the Stringer family of Sharlston.

Early 18th century

Among archives of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.

Northamptonshire Record Office (W(A) Misc Vol 20 ff. 60v-1r)

Miscellaneous

Document(s)
WyT 441 c.1538

A formal tabling of Wyatt's financial accounts as ambassador to Spain, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sir Thomas Wyatts Rekonyng, from 12 March 1536/7 onwards, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a packet.

A folio composite collection of state letters and papers, in various hands, now divided into two volumes, the first (A-J) 336 leaves, the second (L-W) 332 leaves, both in modern half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Vespasian C. XIV Volume I, ff. 24r-5v)
*WyT 442
Autograph

A receipt signed by Wyatt (on the verso) and by Lord Vaux of Harrowden (author of the song sung by the gravedigger in Hamlet), relating to the manor of Newyngton Luces, Kent, on vellum, 10 March 1535/6.

1536

Sotheby's, 19 July 1960, lot 401, to Hollings. Afterwards owned by H. Bradley Martin (1906-88), American collector. Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1990 (Bradley Martin sale), lot 3337. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (December 1990), item 134. Phillips, 14 November 1991, lot 235, to Sawyer, with reduced facsimile of the recto in the sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Wyatt document])
Wyatt's Declaration of Innocence

Wyatt's declation to the Privy Council while in the Tower after his indictment in early 1541. First published by Horace Walpole in Miscellaneous Antiquities (1772), II, 21-54. Muir, pp. 178-84.

WyT 443 Mid-late 16th century

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A declaracon made by Sr Thomas Wiatt knight of his Innocencye beinge in the Tower vpon the accusacon of Doctor Bonarde Byshopp of London made vnto the Councell the yere of or Lorde, undated.

This MS collated in The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, ed. George F. Nott, 2 vols (London, 1815-16).

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, x + 363 leaves, in contemporary vellum with ties.

Late 16th century

Yelverton MS 21, among the papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council, descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 40.

WyT 444 Mid-16th century

Copy, in a professional formal secretary hand, headed A Declaration made by Sr Thomas Wiatt knight of his Innocence beinge [in the Tower] vppon the false accusation of Doctor Bonarde Bishope of London vnto the Councell the yeare of or lorde, undated.

Edited from this MS in Muir. Edited in Walpole from a transcript of this MS made by the poet Thomas Gray (1716-71).

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century
Wyatt's Defence

Wyatt's speech composed for his defence c.January-March 1540/1. Muir, pp. 187-209.

WyT 445 Mid-late 16th century

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed To the Judges after the Indictement and the evidence.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, x + 363 leaves, in contemporary vellum with ties.

Late 16th century

Yelverton MS 21, among the papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council, descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 40.

WyT 446 Mid-16th century

Copy, in a professional formal secretary hand, headed To the Judges after the Indictemente and the evidence.

Edited from this MS in Muir.

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Mid-late 16th century

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