The British Library: other MSS

Arundel MS 152

A folio volume of documents relating principally to John Fisher (c.1469-1535), Bishop of Rochester, Catholic saint, 313 leaves, imperfect. Mid-16th century.

ff. 293r-v, 300r

MrT 17: Sir Thomas More, Assertio quod omne perjurium sit mortale peccatum ('')

Copy.

Cited in Yale, Vol. 6, Part II.

A Latin meditation on the meaning of perjury, written while in the Tower (April 1534-July 1535), and relating to A Dialogue concerning Heresies, Book III, Chapter 7. Yale, Vol. 6, Part II, pp. 764-7, ed. R.S. Sylvester, with an English translation.

f. 313r

MrT 16: Sir Thomas More, Assertio quod omne perjurium sit mortale peccatum ('')

Copy.

passim

CvG 23: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey ('')

Various extracts, incorporated in materials for a life of Fisher.

Sylvester, No. 14a.

First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

Arundel MS 285

A Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose. c.1530s.

ff. 1r-4v

DuW 159: William Dunbar, The Tabill of Confession ('To The, O mercifull Salviour, Jesus')

Copy.

Edied from this MS in Bennett, pp. 1-6. Partly edited from this MS in Mackenzie.

Mackenzie, No. 83, pp. 163-7. Murdoch, II, 43-8. Ritchie, II, 42-7. Bawcutt, I, 267-73.

ff. 161r-2v

DuW 75: William Dunbar, The Maner of Passing to Confessioun ('O synfull man, thir ar the fourty dayis')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Bennett; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 84, pp. 167-9. Bennett, pp. 257-9. Bawcutt, I, 136-8.

ff. 168r-v, 171r, 169r, 170r

DuW 130: William Dunbar, Of the Passioun of Christ ('Amang thir freiris, within ane cloister')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Bennett, pp. 266-9. Collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 80, pp. 155-9. Craigie, I, 229-34. Bawcitt, pp. 34-8, as Ane Ballat of the passioun.

Arundel MS 300

Autograph devotional formulary of Psalms and Latin prayers, neatly written by Howard on 90 octavo leaves of vellum, untitled. c.1589.

Inscribed later in the 17th century A formularie of Psalmes & Prayers made by Henry Earle of Northampton and writ w^th his own hand. The first leaf is stamped Soc. Reg. Lond ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis.

*HoH 89: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Formulary of Psalms and Prayers

Unpublished.

Ashley MS B. 3165

Composite volume of papers of Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937). c.1700.

ff. 183-4

DrJ 133: John Dryden, Prologue [to The Pilgrim] ('How wretched is the Fate of those who write!')

Copy on the first three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

First published in The Pilgrim (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1758-9. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 593-7.

f. 184r-v

DrJ 38: John Dryden, Epilogue [to The Pilgrim] ('Perhaps the Parson stretch'd a point too far')

Copy on the last two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

First published in The Pilgrim (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1759-61. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 597-9.

Burney MS 126

A predominantly autograph notebook by Thomas Traherne, in Latin prose throughout, inscribed by him (f. 1v) Ex libris Tho Traherne, 59 quarto leaves (plus a few blanks).

Containing (f. 3r) a title-page (Platonis Philosophi Speculationes practicæ. A Marsilio Ficino breviter digestæ) and table of contents (f. 4r), notes from Marsilio Ficino's life of Plato (ff. 5r-9v), epitomes of Plato and Pseudo-Plato (ff. 10r-45r), an anonymous life of Socrates (ff. 46r-57v), Ficino's Argumentum to his translation of Hermes Trismegistus (f. 58r-v) and notes on eleven chapters of an anonymous Stoicismus Christianus (f. 59r); with notes from Theophilus Gale's Court of the Gentiles, Part II (1670) added (ff. 57v, 59v) in the miniscule hand of an amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 5).

Late 17th century.

The name Elinor scribbled several times on f. 1v. Later owned by Dr Charles Burney (1757-1817), schoolmaster and book collector.

Recorded in Bell, p. xxx (who, however, thought the MS belonged not to the poet but to his nephew Thomas Traherne). Discussed in Carol Marks Sicherman, Traherne's Ficino Notebook, PBSA, 63 (1969), 73-81 (where the MS is questionably dated c.late 1660s). The extract from Gale's work (Book IV, chapter 1) also occurs, under the heading Aristotle's Philosophy, in TrT Δ 5. The MS cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as TrT Δ 6.

*TrT 233.5: Thomas Traherne, The Ficino Notebook

Unpublished.

Burney MS 362

A quarto composite volume of MSS collected by the classical scholar Meric Casaubon (1599-1671), 140 leaves, in modern binding.

ff. 96r-114v

HkR 38: Richard Hooker, Hooker's Answer to Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council ('')

Copy, in Casaubon's hand, inscribed Given mee by M^r. Jervis, 26 Feb. 1640 sn.

c.1585-1600s.

This MS collated in Folger edition, Volume V.

First published, with Travers's Supplication, in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 570-96. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 225-57.

Burney MS 363

A folio composite volume of letters sent to Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614), French classical scholar, in various hands, 288 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

ff. 26r-7v

*AndL 66: Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter in Latin, signed (Eliensis), to Isaac Casaubon, [1612].

1612.

Edited in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. xlii-xliv.

ff. 28r-9v

*AndL 68: Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter in Latin, signed (Eliensis), to Isaac Casaubon, 8 September 1612.

1612.

Edited in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. xliv-xlv.

Burney MS 368

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers and Latin verse, including papers of Meric Casaubon (1599-1671), 142 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

f. 23r

DnJ 1627.3: John Donne, Ignatij Loyolae Apotheosis ('Qui sacer ante fuit, sanctus nunc incipit esse')

Autograph copy by Raphael Thorius, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1620s-30s.

This MS cited in Beal & Kelliher.

First published in P.G. Stanwood, A Donne Discovery, TLS (19 October 1967), p. 984. Reprinted in John Donne, Ignatius his Conclave, ed. T. S. Healy, S.J. (Oxford, 1969), pp. 174-5, and in Shawcross, pp. 505-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 253, as Dubium.

This Latin poem is not by Donne but by the physician and poet Raphael Thorius (d.1625): see Peter Beal and Hilton Kelliher, John Donne, TLS (12 February 1982), p. 162.

f. 141r-v

CoR 769: Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of S^t Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634 ('')

Copy, closely written in a small predominantly italic hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

c.1634.

Sermon, beginning My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission..., first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.

Burney MS 390

A quarto verse miscellany probably associated with Oxford. Late 17th century.

ff. 2r-6r

CoA 164: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist ('So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne')

Copy, here ascribed to Cowley.

This MS collated in Waller, II, 490, and in Sparrow.

First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.

ff. 6r-7r

RoJ 308: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')

Copy of lines 1-173, headed a Satyr against Man, & Reason.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

f. 7r

MaA 284: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children ('Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post')

Copy, headed On Clarendons Grand Children.

This MS recorded in Margoliouth.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

ff. 9r-10r

DrJ 195: John Dryden, To His Sacred Majesty, A Panegyrick On His Coronation ('In that wild Deluge where the World was drownd')

Copy.

First published in London, 1661. Kinsley, I, 24-8. California, I, 32-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 55-61.

ff. 11v-12v

DrJ 200: John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-years-day ('While flattering crouds officiously appear')

Copy.

First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 28-32. California, I, 38-42. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 63-9.

ff. 12v-13r

DrJ 217: John Dryden, To the Lady Castlemain, Upon Her incouraging his first Play ('As Sea-men shipwrackt on some happy shore')

Copy, headed Jo Dryden: To the Lady Castlemain for procuring a Play of his to be Printed.

This MS collated in Hammond.

First published in A New Collection of Poems and Songs…Collected by John Bulteel (London, 1674). Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, I, 154-6. California, I, 45-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 81-3. Also in Paul Hammond, Dryden's Revision of To the Lady Castlemain, PBSA, 78 (1984), 81-90.

f. 14r

MaA 163.8: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')

Copy.

A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of y^e Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

ff. 17v-19v

DrJ 43.762: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

ff. 19v-22r

MaA 29: Andrew Marvell, The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C. ('Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze')

Copy, headed Anniuersary on the Government of the L^d Protecter An: D: 1655 and here ascribed to M^r Waller.

This MS recorded in Margoliouth.

First published in London, 1655. Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla except one in the British Library. Margoliouth, I, 108-19. Lord, pp. 93-104. Smith, pp. 287-98.

ff. 22r-3v

WaE 385: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation ('While with a strong and yet a gentle hand')

Copy.

This MS recorded in Deas, p. 317.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

ff. 30v-1r

KiH 155: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')

Copy, headed A Definition of Man.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

Burney MS 392

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674].

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

pp. 1-2

TrT 205: Thomas Traherne, The Salutation ('These little Limmes')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning These little Limbs.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 5, 7.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 1-3. Bell, pp. 1-2. Margoliouth, II, 4, 6. Ridler, pp. 5-6.

pp. 3-4

TrT 100: Thomas Traherne, The Author to the Critical Peruser ('The naked Truth in many faces shewn')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), sig. B3-B4r. Margoliouth, II, 2-3. Ridler, pp. 3-4.

pp. 3-5

TrT 229: Thomas Traherne, Wonder ('How like an Angel came I down!')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 7, 9, 11.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 4-7. Bell, pp. 3-5. Margoliouth, II, 6, 8, 10. Ridler, pp. 6-8.

pp. 5-7

TrT 135: Thomas Traherne, Eden ('A learned and a Happy Ignorance')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 13, 15.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 8-10. Margoliouth, II, 12, 14. Ridler, pp. 8-10.

pp. 7-10

TrT 167: Thomas Traherne, Innocence ('But that which most I Wonder at, which most')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 15, 17, 19.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 11-13. Bell, pp. 7-10. Margoliouth, II, 14, 16, 18. Ridler, pp. 10-11.

pp. 10-12

TrT 163: Thomas Traherne, An Infant-Ey ('A simple Light from all Contagion free')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 10-12. Margoliouth, II, 86-7. Ridler, pp. 77-8.

pp. 12-13

TrT 199: Thomas Traherne, The Return ('To Infancy, O Lord, again I com')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 12-13. Margoliouth, II, 87-8. Ridler, p. 79.

pp. 13-15

TrT 193: Thomas Traherne, The Preparative ('My Body being Dead, my Lims unknown')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed The Praeparative and here beginning My Body being dead, my Limbs unknown.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 21, 23, 25.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 14-17. Bell, pp. 13-15. Margoliouth, II, 20, 22, 24. Ridler, pp. 12-14.

pp. 15-16

TrT 171: Thomas Traherne, The Instruction ('Spue out thy filth, thy flesh abjure')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning Spew out thy Filth, thy Flesh abjure.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 25.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 18-19. Bell, pp. 15-16. Margoliouth, II, 24. Ridler, pp. 14-15.

pp. 16-18

TrT 226: Thomas Traherne, The Vision ('Flight is but the Preparative: The Sight')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning Flight is but the Praeparative: the Sight.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 27, 29.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 20-2. Bell, pp. 16-18. Margoliouth, II, 26, 28. Ridler, pp. 15-17.

p. 19

TrT 195: Thomas Traherne, The Rapture ('Sweet Infancy!')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 31.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 23-4. Bell, p. 19. Margoliouth, II, 30. Ridler, p. 17.

pp. 20-1

TrT 180: Thomas Traherne, News ('News from a forein Country came')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 20-1. Margoliouth, II, 88-9. Ridler, pp. 79-81.

p. 22

TrT 145: Thomas Traherne, Felicity ('Prompted to seek my Bliss abov the Skies')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), p. 22. Margoliouth, II, 90. Ridler, p. 81.

pp. 23-4

TrT 22: Thomas Traherne, Adam ('God made Man upright at the first')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherene, heading altered from Misapprehension to Adam's Fall.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published, as Adam's Fall, in Bell (1910), pp. 23-4. Margoliouth, II, 91-2. Ridler, pp. 82-3.

p. 24

TrT 62: Thomas Traherne, The Apostacy ('One Star')

Copy of the first stanza in the hand of Philip Traherne, deleted.

See TrT 63.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 29-31. Margoliouth, II, 95-7. Ridler, pp. 86-8.

pp. 29-31

TrT 63: Thomas Traherne, The Apostacy ('One Star')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 29-31. Margoliouth, II, 95-7. Ridler, pp. 86-8.

pp. 25-8

TrT 231: Thomas Traherne, The World ('When Adam first did from his Dust arise')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 25-8. Margoliouth, II, 92-5. Ridler, pp. 83-6.

pp. 32-6

TrT 212: Thomas Traherne, Solitude ('How desolate!')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 32-6. Margoliouth, II, 98-101. Ridler, pp. 88-91.

pp. 37-8

TrT 191: Thomas Traherne, Poverty ('As in the House I sate')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 37-8. Margoliouth, II, 101-3. Ridler, pp. 92-3.

pp. 39-42

TrT 127: Thomas Traherne, Dissatisfaction ('In Cloaths confin'd, my weary Mind')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 39-42. Margoliouth, II, 103-6. Ridler, pp. 93-6.

p. 43

TrT 111: Thomas Traherne, The Bible ('That! That! There I was told')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), p. 43. Margoliouth, II, 106. Ridler, p. 96.

pp. 43-52

TrT 113: Thomas Traherne, Christendom ('When first mine Infant-Ear')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 43-7. Margoliouth, II, 106-10. Ridler, pp. 97-100.

pp. 48-52

TrT 185: Thomas Traherne, On Christmas-Day ('Shall Dumpish Melancholy spoil my Joys')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 48-52. Margoliouth, II, 110-13. Ridler, pp. 100-3.

pp. 52-5

TrT 110: Thomas Traherne, Bells ('Hark!, hark, my Soul! the Bells do ring')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 52-5. Margoliouth, II, 113-16. Ridler, pp. 103-5. First published as two poems, Bells I (Hark! hark, my Soul! the Bells do ring) and Bells II (From Clay, & Mire, & Dirt, my Soul).

p. 56

TrT 114: Thomas Traherne, Churches I ('Those stately Structures which on Earth I view')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), p. 56. Margoliouth, II, 116. Ridler, pp. 105-6.

pp. 57-8

TrT 115: Thomas Traherne, Churches II ('Were there but one alone')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 57-8. Margoliouth, II, 116-18. Ridler, pp. 106-7.

pp. 59-61

TrT 174: Thomas Traherne, Misapprehension ('Men are not wise in their Tru Interest')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece, in Bell.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 59-61. Margoliouth, II, 118-20. Ridler, pp. 107-9.

pp. 61-4

TrT 159: Thomas Traherne, The improvment (''Tis more to recollect, then make. The one')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning Tis more to recollect than make; the one.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 31, 33, 35, 37.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 25-9. Bell, pp. 61-4. Margoliouth, II, 30, 32, 34, 36. Ridler, pp. 18-20.

pp. 64-7

TrT 184: Thomas Traherne, The Odour ('These Hands are Jewels to the Ey')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 64-7. Margoliouth, II, 120-2. Ridler, pp. 109-11.

pp. 67-9

TrT 25: Thomas Traherne, Admiration ('Can Human Shape so taking be')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherene.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 67-9. Margoliouth, II, 122-3. Ridler, pp. 111-12.

pp. 69-70

TrT 75: Thomas Traherne, The Approach ('That Childish Thoughts such Joys inspire')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 37, 39, 41.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 30-2. Margoliouth, II, 36, 38, 40. Ridler, pp. 21-2.

pp. 71-3

TrT 179: Thomas Traherne, Nature ('That custom is a Second Nature, we')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning That Custom is a Second Nature, we.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 61, 63, 65.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 49-52. Bell, pp. 71-3. Margoliouth, II, 60, 62, 64. Ridler, pp. 32-4.

pp. 74-5

TrT 133: Thomas Traherne, Ease ('How easily doth Nature teach the Soul')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed Eas and here beginning How easily doth Nature teach the Soul!

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 65, 67.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 53-4. Margoliouth, II, 64, 66. Ridler, pp. 35-6.

pp. 75-7

TrT 131: Thomas Traherne, Dumnesse ('Sure Man was born to Meditat on Things')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed Dumness and here beginning Sure Man was born to meditat on things.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 41, 43, 45.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 33-6. Margoliouth, II, 40, 42, 44. Ridler, pp. 22-4.

pp. 78-82

TrT 177: Thomas Traherne, My Spirit ('My Naked Simple Life was I')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning My naked simple Life was I.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 51, 53, 55, 57.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 41-5. Bell (1910), pp. 78-82. Margoliouth, II, 50, 52, 54, 56. Ridler, pp. 27-30.

pp. 82-5

TrT 210: Thomas Traherne, Silence ('A quiet Silent Person may possess')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning A quiet silent Person may possess.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 45, 47, 49, 51.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 37-40. Bell, pp. 82-5. Margoliouth, II, 44, 46, 48, 50. Ridler, pp. 25-7.

pp. 85-8

TrT 202: Thomas Traherne, Right Apprehension ('Giv but to things their tru Esteem')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 85-8. Margoliouth, II, 123-6. Ridler, pp. 112-14.

p. 88

TrT 71: Thomas Traherne, The Apprehension ('If this I did not evry moment see')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, following Right Apprehension (TrT 202) and headed II.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 57.

First published in Dobell (1903), p. 46. Bell, p. 88, as Right Apprehension II. Margoliouth, II, 56. Ridler, p. 31 (as Evidently a fragment of a discarded longer poem, which T[raherne] placed here as a kind of postscript to My Spirit [TrT 176-7]).

pp. 89-90

TrT 147: Thomas Traherne, Fullnesse ('That Light, that Sight, that Thought')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed Fulness.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 59, 61.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 47-8. Margoliouth, II, 58, 60. Ridler, pp. 31-2.

pp. 90-1

TrT 214: Thomas Traherne, Speed ('The Liquid Pearl in Springs')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning The liquid Pearl in Springs.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 69, 71.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 55-6. Bell, pp. 90-1. Margoliouth, II, 68, 70. Ridler, pp. 36-7.

pp. 92-4

TrT 123: Thomas Traherne, The Designe ('When first Eternity Stooped down to Nought')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed The Choice and here beginning When first eternity stoopt down to Nought.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 71-4.

First published, as The Choice, in Dobell (1903), pp. 57-9. Margoliouth, II, 70-1. Ridler, pp. 37-9.

pp. 94-6

TrT 190: Thomas Traherne, The Person ('Ye Sacred Lims')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning Ye sacred Limbs.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 75, 77, 79.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 60-2. Bell (1910), pp. 94-6. Margoliouth, II, 74, 76, 78. Ridler, pp. 40-1.

p. 96

TrT 157: Thomas Traherne, The Image ('If I be like my God, my King')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, deleted.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), p. 146. Margoliouth, II, 126. Ridler, p. 115.

pp. 97-8

TrT 141: Thomas Traherne, The Estate ('But shall my Soul to Wealth possess')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning But shall my Soul no Wealth possess?.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 79, 81, 83.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 63-6. Bell, pp. 97-8. Margoliouth, II, 78, 80, 82. Ridler, pp. 42-3.

pp. 99-100

TrT 143: Thomas Traherne, The Evidence ('His Word confirms the Sale')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 99-100. Margoliouth, II, 126-7. Ridler, pp. 115-16.

pp. 100-1

TrT 137: Thomas Traherne, The Enquirie ('Men may delighted be with Springs')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed The Enquiry.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 83, 85.

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 67-9. Margoliouth, II, 82, 84. Ridler, pp. 44-5.

pp. 101-4

TrT 207: Thomas Traherne, Shadows in the Water ('In unexperienc'd Infancy')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 101-4. Margoliouth, II, 127-30. Ridler, pp. 116-18.

pp. 104-7

TrT 186: Thomas Traherne, On Leaping over the Moon ('I saw new Worlds beneath the Water ly')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 104-7. Margoliouth, II, 130-2. Ridler, pp. 118-20.

pp. 107-8

TrT 223: Thomas Traherne, To the same purpos. he not long before!

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published, as part of On Leaping over the Moon (TrT 186), in Bell (1910), pp. 107-8. Margoliouth, II, 132. Ridler, pp. 120-1.

pp. 108-10

TrT 208: Thomas Traherne, Sight ('Mine Infant-Ey')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 108-10. Margoliouth, II, 132-4. Ridler, pp. 121-3.

pp. 111-13

TrT 227: Thomas Traherne, Walking ('To walk abroad is, not with Eys')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 111-13. Margoliouth, II, 135-6. Ridler, pp. 123-4.

pp. 113-14

TrT 126: Thomas Traherne, The Dialogue ('Why dost thou tell me that the fields are mine?')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 113-14. Margoliouth, II, 136-7. Ridler, pp. 124-5.

pp. 114-16

TrT 128: Thomas Traherne, Dreams ('Tis strange! I saw the Skies')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 114-16. Margoliouth, II, 138-9. Ridler, pp. 126-7.

pp. 117-19

TrT 164: Thomas Traherne, The Inference I ('Well-guided Thoughts within possess')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 117-19. Margoliouth, II, 139-41. Ridler, pp. 127-9.

pp. 119-20

TrT 165: Thomas Traherne, The Inference II ('David a Temple in his Mind conceiv'd')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 119-20. Margoliouth, II, 141-2. Ridler, pp. 129-30.

pp. 121-4

TrT 117: Thomas Traherne, The City ('What Structures here among God's Works appear?')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 121-4. Margoliouth, II, 142-5. Ridler, pp. 130-2.

pp. 124-5

TrT 168: Thomas Traherne, Insatiableness I ('No Walls confine! Can nothing hold my Mind?')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 124-5. Margoliouth, II, 145-6. Ridler, p. 133.

pp. 125-6

TrT 169: Thomas Traherne, Insatiableness II ('This busy, vast, enquiring Soul!')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 125-6. Margoliouth, II, 146-7. Ridler, p. 134.

pp. 126-8

TrT 119: Thomas Traherne, Consummation ('The Thoughts of Men appear')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 126-8. Margoliouth, II, 147-8. Ridler, pp. 134-6.

pp. 129-31

TrT 152: Thomas Traherne, Hosanna ('No more shall Walls, no more shall Walls confine')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 129-31. Margoliouth, II, 149-51. Ridler, pp. 136-8.

pp. 131-2

TrT 200: Thomas Traherne, The Review I ('Did I grow, or did I stay?')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 131-2. Margoliouth, II, 151. Ridler, pp. 138-9.

p. 133

TrT 201: Thomas Traherne, The Review II ('My Child-hood is a Sphere')

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Bell (1910), p. 133. Margoliouth, II, 152. Ridler, p. 139.

Burney MS 523

A folio volume of miscellaneous papers in Latin and English, 125 leaves, with an index in the hand of Charles Burney.

f. 111r

StW 754.5: William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')

A four-line adaptation of the poem.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

ff. 115r, 116r

RnT 222.5: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')

Copy, headed The Downfall of the Mitre Tavern, Cambridge, or the sinking therof into the Cellar.

Mid-17th century.

First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.

Hargrave MS 47

A folio volume of legal and political tracts and papers, in professional secretary hands, written from both ends, 211 leaves.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. i^r F. Hargrave / A present to me from Dan. Jones of Fakenham Esq^r 29. Sept. 1789 F.H. and (on f. 1r-v) with a table of contents in Hargraves's hand.

ff. 191r-3r

CtR 117: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature ('')

Copy, headed A briefe discourse proveinge y^t. the house of Commons hath equall power w^th. y^e. Peeres.

Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by S^r Rob: Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague An^o Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can.... First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

Hargrave MS 89

A folio volume of law readings, in several secretary hands, in modern quarter-morocco. Early-mid-17th century.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum liber Edwardi Shurlande teste [?]Jo: Michell.

f. 3r-v

MrT 45.4: Sir Thomas More, Utopia ('')

Extracts, in a cursive secretary hand.

The Latin version first published in Louvain, 1516. Ralph Robynson's English translation published in 1551. Yale, Vol. 4.

Hargrave MS 168

A folio volume of ten state tracts, in a single professional hand, 437 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum. c.1620s-30s.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. i^v A present to me from my friend Charles Butler Esq^r. Fra: Hargrave 15 Jan. 1792. Inscribed on f. 1r in a different hand, Given me by M^r: S. Baker, Bookseller, Whit-. May 26. 74 in XII. f. 1. my way home from Woodf^d. Church, with another Fol. Ms. Half^d:.

ff. 307r-62v

RaW 1068.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Military Discourse ('')

Copy.

A treatise beginning Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse.... First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.

ff. 395r-403r

LeC 25: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth ('')

Extracts, headed Some Extracts out of the Earle of Leicesters Common wealth of which the whole booke is att M^r J. Lluyd of Ynisheere.

This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.

First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

ff. 414r-37r

WoH 269: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham ('')

Copy.

First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

Hargrave MS 173

Copy, lacking title-page, in two volumes, on 581 folio leaves.

In a single, predominantly secretary professional hand.

1st half 17th century.

Once in the library of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Later in the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal write and book collector.

WoH 296.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The State of Christendom

A lengthy treatise, beginning After that I had lived many years in voluntary exile and banishment.... First published in London, 1657. Wotton's authorship is not certain.

Hargrave MS 205

A folio volume, in a neat secretary hand, comprising a poem, an Inner Temple play (Tancred and Gismund), and a commonplace book cum lexical compilation, 178 leaves. c.1568.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer.

ff. 1r-8v

SuH 70: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Virgil's Aeneid. Book IV ('But now the wounded quene, with heavie care')

Copy, headed P Virgilij Muronis Æneidos Liber Quartus Britannico Sermoni Donatus per Comitem S, with sidenotes.

Printed from this MS (with the text of the 1557 edition on facing pages) in Padelford, No. 58, pp. 122-65. Collated in Ridley.

First published in London, [1554], ed. John Day. Edited by Richard Tottel (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 58, pp. 142-89. Edited by Florence H. Ridley (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1963). Jones, pp. 63-88.

Hargrave MS 216

A folio volume of legal and political tracts, in professional secretary hands, 194 leaves. c.1630.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer.

ff. 77r-80v

CtR 355: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ... [27 April 1624] ('')

Copy.

Tract, addressed to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

Hargrave MS 219

Extracts taken out of a Copy of a MS of S^r Robt Cotton relating to y^e Court of Chauncery compiled or framed in 2 parts, beginning The Chanceller hath no Commission by Letters Patents..., with numerous sub-headings, predominantly in a single neat hand, the title in a later hand, 144 folio leaves (plus blanks), in modern cloth. Late 17th-early 18th century.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer and book collector. Inscribed lent me by M^rGoldesborough y^e Deputy Reg^r of y^e Court of Chauncery & y^e original was lent to him by M^r Grimes y^e Late Usher of y^e Rolls, and including (ff. 115r-144v) material from A copy of papers in y^e hands of M^r Holforde...S^r Rob^t Cotton, headed De Magno Cancellario Angl et Cancellaria ac Cojudicibus ejus ey Authoritate eorundem.

CtR 139.5: Sir Robert Cotton, The Courte of Chauncerye

Tract, in two parts, the first beginning There is a Booke called the Myrror of Justices mentioned in Plowden's Commentaries..., the second beginning There be Two manner of Powers & Process....

Hargrave MS 223

A folio volume of legal and state tracts and papers, 165 leaves.

In a single professional secretary hand.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer and book collector. Also inscribed on f. 2r Tho Manby.

art. 14

CtR 473: Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611 ('')

Copy.

Tract beginning To search so high as the Norman Conquest.... First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.

Hargrave MS 225

A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts and letters, in various professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe, 336 leaves.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [i^v] F. Hargrave A gift made to me this day by my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.

Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 232 (No. 40).

ff. 36r-7r

LyJ 21: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth ('')

Copy.

This MS collated in Bond.

Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

ff. 37r-8v

LyJ 43.5: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth ('')

Copy.

This MS collated in Bond.

Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme.... Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

ff. 67r-90v

CtR 474: Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611 ('')

Copy, lacking title, imperfect, subscribed Robt. Cotton. Indexed in the table of contents (f. 336) as The relacon of S^r. Tho Cotton shewing y^t....

ff. 240r-8v

CtR 40: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men ('')

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, subscribed R: C: B.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 40.3 [not there identified] (p. 232).

Tract beginning What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.

Hargrave MS 226

A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and letters dating up to 1631, in various professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe, 313 leaves.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [i^v] F Hargrave A gift to me this day from my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 232-3 (No. 41).

ff. 2r-17v

BcF 337: Francis Bacon, Speech(es) ('')

Copy of Bacon's speech at the arraignment of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, 25 May 1616, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

ff. 18r-30v

CtR 85: Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King... ('')

Copy, as By S^r Robert Cotton, Kn^t.

Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire.... First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-79 [i.e. 89].

ff. 93r-100r

BcF 600: Francis Bacon, Letter(s) ('')

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to James I, concerning his Ma^ts Estate xij^o Januarij Anno 1610.

ff. 193r-207v

BcF 157: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith ('')

Copy, headed The Confession of ffaith written by the Late Lord Keeper S^r ffrancis Bacon.

First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

ff. 261r-9v

RaW 881.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s) ('')

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand.

ff. 270r-82v

SiP 193: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur ('')

Copy, partly in the hand of the Feathery Scribe (on ff. 270r, 273r-82v), partly in another professional secretary hand (on ff. 271r-2v, the same hand as SiP 202 and SiP 209), with a few marginal marks by a reader.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38.

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

Hargrave MS 227

A folio volume of treatises and papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in a professional predominantly italic hand, with a list of contents and some marginal annotations probably by Hargrave, 341 leaves, in late 19th-century morocco. Mid-late 17th century.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [1^v] F. Hargrave Bo^t. by me of M^r Lynch of Dublin with [?]^t manuscripts for which together I gave £60 F. H. and with his list of contents (f. 2r-v).

ff. 3r-72r

CtR 139: Sir Robert Cotton, The Courte of Chauncerye ('')

Copy, the first part (ff. 3r-40r) headed The Court of Chancery, the second part (ff. 41r-72r) A Learned Treatise concern^g the high and Honourable Court of Chancery written by the Famous S^r Rob^t Cotton Pars Secunda; subscribed in Francis Hargrave's hand (Note that in another Copy which I have of this Mss. bound separately, there is an addition of 14 or 15 pages to y^t. part where the mss. as concluded here.).

Tract, in two parts, the first beginning There is a Booke called the Myrror of Justices mentioned in Plowden's Commentaries..., the second beginning There be Two manner of Powers & Process....

ff. 306v-14v

BcF 337.5: Francis Bacon, Speech(es) ('')

Copy of Bacon's speech on taking his place in Chancery.

Hargrave MS 249

A folio volume of tracts and records relating to the Court of Chancery. c.1630.

ff. 188v-93v

BcF 338: Francis Bacon, Speech(es) ('')

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

Hargrave MS 255

A folio volume of two works, namely Henry Elsinge's Modus Tenendi Parliamentum and a tract by Cotton, in a single cursive mixed hand, 68 leaves. c.1630.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer.

ff. 66r-8v

CtR 118: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature ('')

Copy, headed That y^e house of Comons hath equall power with y^e Peers in poynt of Judicature by S^r: Robert Cotton.

Hargrave MS 278

A folio volume of state and legal tracts, in various professional hands, 498 leaves. c.1620-50.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Some scribbling under the table of contents on f. 1v refers to Le Neve Yorke [i.e. Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary].

ff. 408r-98r

DaJ 263: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions ('')

Copy, with a formal title-page, An Argument vppon The Question of Impositions, digested and divided into sundrie Chapters Written by S^r John Davis Kn^t one of his Ma^ties: Councell learned in Ireland, & by him dedicated to Kinge James.

A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely.... First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

Hargrave MS 280

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, 128 small folio leaves.

With (f. 2r-v) a dedicatory epistle To my very Honourable good Lord the Lord North Threasurer of her Maiesties royall Houshold and of her Priuie Counsell [i.e. Roger, second Baron North (1530/1-1600), Treasurer of the Queen's Household after 30 August 1596] (beginning My good Lord, it is more then many yeeres since I first became devoted vnto yo^r vertue...) and with (f. 4r) a title-page Obseruations Politicall and Civill.

c.1630.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him (f. 1r) 29. Sept^r. 1789. / A present to me from Dan. Jones of Fakenham in Norfolk Esq^r. F. Hargrave.

RaW 1046: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

A treatise beginning A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families.... First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface To the Reader, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include T.B., for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, A Note on the Ralegh Canon, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

Hargrave MS 284

Copy, on 42 folio leaves.

In a professional secretary hand, headed The Effecte Off the Charge giuen to the Grand Jury att yorcke by Sir John Dauis Knight. his Ma^tes first Se^riant att Lawe. being one of the Justices of Assize for the Northerne Circute.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer and book collector, inscribed probably by him To be half bound in Vellum / To be lettered.

DaJ 229.5: Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]

Charge beginning You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you.... First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.

Hargrave MS 311

A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various professional hands, with a table of contents (f. 1r-v), 247 leaves. c.1630.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer.

ff. 2r-61v

LeC 26: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth ('')

Copy in a single hand, with a title-page, Leicesters Common wealthe..., annotated by readers By some thought to haue been written by S^r. Walter Raughley, By some thought to bee written by ffather Parsons the Jesuite, and Rhoda kinge.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

ff. 62r-77r

CtR 289: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609. ('')

Copy, headed A Declaration how a Kinge of England haue from tyme to tyme supported and repaired their estates Collected out of the Records of the Tower by S^r Robt Cotton knight and Barronett Anno nono Jacobi.

Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates.... First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200 [i.e. 202].

King's MS 166

A fair copy, possibly the presentation copy to Queen Elizabeth, on 64 small folio leaves.

Complete with a formal title-page (f. 1r) and Dedication To the Quenes most Excellent Maiestie (ff. 2r-9r); the main text on ff. 10r-64r; written in the accomplished, predominantly secretary hand of Howard's principal amanuensis (the same as in British Library, Lansdowne MS 792); the dedication subscribed and signed by Howard (f. 9r) Y^r M^ties most affectionat, humble, and / loyall subiecte, till deathe / Henry Hwward; in calf with the arms of George III in gilt and the royal arms bookplate pasted on f. 1v.

c.1590s.

*HoH 39: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish

An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth … to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).

Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ …; the main text begins I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point …, and ends … to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.

Loan MS 76

Copy of the original acting version of the masque represented at Ludlow Castle the 29th of September 1634.

In an accomplished scribal hand, adopting a variant style for stage directions, on 37 quarto pages of text: entitled A Maske Represented before the right ho^ble: the Earle of Bridgewater Lord president of Wales and the right ho^ble: the Countesse of Bridgewater. At Ludlow Castle the 29^th of September 1634, the title subscribed in a variant form of the same hand with the names of the chiefe persons in the rep^rsentacon; the text annotated throughout in a lighter-coloured ink, probably in a different hand, with abbreviated names of speakers; the title-page later subscribed in the hand of Thomas Egerton, Lord Brackley (later second Earl of Bridgewater), Author Jo: Milton.

c.1634-7.

The MS evidently made for the Earl of Bridgewater (and retained among the Egerton family papers).

Edited from this MS in Henry Todd's edition of Comus (Canterbury, 1798), Appendix II, pp. 167-92; in Milton's Comus, being the Bridgewater Manuscript, with Notes and a short Family Memoir, ed. Lady Alix Egerton (London, 1910), with facsimile examples; in Visiak (1937); and, with detailed discussion, in Sprott (1972).

Collated in The Poetical Works of Milton, ed. Henry Todd, 6 vols (London, 1801), V, 431-8; in Columbia, in Darbishire, and in Carey & Fowler. Complete facsimile (but not generally showing the additions in the lighter ink) in Illinois, I, 300-39, with transcript; the transcript reprinted in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), pp. 207-40. Complete photocopy in the Huntington (EL 34 B 14). Discussed also in David Harrison Stevens, The Bridgewater Manuscript of Comus, MP, 24 (1927), 315-20; in John T. Shawcross, Certain Relationships of the Manuscripts of Comus, PBSA, 54 (1960), 38-56; and in Barbara Breasted, Comus and the Castlehaven Scandal, Milton Studies, 3 (1971), 201-24.

MnJ 59: John Milton, Comus

First published, as A Maske presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634, in London, 1637. Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 85-123. Darbishire, II, 171-203. Carey & Fowler, pp. 168-229. John Milton, The Masque of Comus. The Poem, originally called A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c., ed. E.H. Visiak (Bloomsbury, 1937). John Milton, A Maske: The Earlier Versions, ed. S.E. Sprott (Toronto, 1973). Various texts also discussed in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), [see esp. pp. 251-75].

Loan MS 98

Rough working draft.

A rough working draft, or foul paper, of a scene in blank verse and prose between the Prince [Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence] and Lorenzo [Lorenzino de' Medici] which was later heavily adapted as Act I, scene ii of The Traitor; a fragment comprising some 144 lines of text drafted out, with numerous currente calamo revisions, in the mixed secretary and italic hand of its (probably professional) author on two conjugate folio leaves, each c.390 x 305 mm; from the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, or his family, and the muniments of the Marquess of Lothian at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire; the MS at some time folded and used as wrapping paper to enclose a bundle of letters (possibly in 1634 or 1640) when books and papers were sent by his sons respectively from Gray's Inn and from London to Melbourne); marked in pencil in the 1880s by William Dashwood Fane Packet 3 (which originally contained documents of 1601-30, including Sir Fulke Greville's household accounts of 1602-3).

c.1606-31.

This MS was discovered by Edward Saunders and identified by Felix Pryor at Melbourne Hall in 1985. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 20 June 1986, lot 222 (unsold).

This MS appeared in a separate sale catalogue by Felix Pryor for Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 20 June 1986, lot 222, and is discussed by him, with a facsimile page and transcript, in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, ed. J.M. Brook (Detroit, 1986), pp. 133-8. It was publicized elsewhere, with occasional reduced facsimile examples, notably in The Times (6 May 1986), pp. 1, 12, and (19 October 1989); Time (19 May 1986), p. 11; New York Times (24 May 1986); TLS (13 June 1986), p. 651; The Spectator (14 June 1986), pp. 34-5; and Maine Antique Digest (July 1986), pp. 36-37C.

Discussed, with reduced facsimiles, and the attribution to Webster supported, in Antony Hammond and Doreen DelVecchio, The Melbourne Manuscript and John Webster: A Reproduction and Transcript, SB, 41 (1988), 1-32, and in Alfred Marnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986) [where it is also translated into German as Il Moro, Herzog von Florenz. Ein Webster-Fragment]. Facsimiles also in Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Oxford, 1987), p. 8., and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), pp. 290-1.

Discussed, and the attribution to Webster rejected in favour of Shirley, by I.A. Shapiro in letters to the TLS (4 July 1986), pp. 735-6, and (8 August 1986), p. 865 (also in unpublished further articles), and in The Works of John Webster, Vol. III, ed. David Gunby, David Carnegie, and MacDonald P. Jackson (Cambridge, 2003), pp. xxx-xxxi. See also letters and articles by Richard Proudfoot and Felix Pryor in TLS (13 June 1986), p. 651; (18 July 1986), p. 787; (22 August 1986), pp. 913-14; and (29 August 1986), p. 939, and N.W. Bawcutt, The Assassination of Alessandro de' Medici in early Seventeenth-Century English Drama, RES, NS 56 (June 2005), 412-23.

ShJ 192: James Shirley, The Traitor

First published in London, 1635. Gifford & Dyce, II, 95-187. Edited by John Stewart Carter (London, 1965). The play was licensed on 4 May 1631 for performance at the Phoenix Theatre.

Loan MS 121C

A small folio volume of c.128 pages containing some 180 English and Latin poems dating from c.1649 to 1665.

Written throughout in the hand of Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland.

pp. 61-2

DaW 11.5: Sir William Davenant, An Epitaph Wrot by Sir William Davenant Long Since upon Jeffery Hudson the Queens Dwarf ('Let no rude hand remove this Ston')

Copy of a poem headed An Epitaph wrot by S^r William Dauenant Long since vpon Jefferey Hudson y^e Queens Dwarf, 16 lines beginning Let no rude hand remoue this Ston. c.1660s.

The text is followed by Jeffreides or Jeffery y^e Dwarfs answer to S^r william Dauenant in reuenge for the Epitaph he wrot long since on him (36 lines beginning I'm stil aliue as I suppose).

Both poems edited from this MS in Cain, who thinks that Hudson's answer may be a persona poem possibly by Mildmay Fane.

First published in The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland, ed. Tom Cain (Manchester, 2001), Appendix I, pp. 363-4.

p. 114

CwT 291.5: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')

Copy, headed A Flye y^t flew into his Mistresses Eye by Tom Cary -- pag -- 63.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).