Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Copy, as read out by the Lord Keeper.

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

Beginning Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words.... Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

Copy, headed A Speech deliu^red by her ma^tie. vnto the Lo: keep S^r Nichas Bacon in presence of the vpper house of Parliam^t. in An^o. Elizabeth

This MS cited in Hartley.

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

Beginning Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words.... Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

Copy, introduced by Then the Queene standing sayd: and here beginning My L^s and others the comons of this assembly, Although the Lord keep hath according to order very well answered in my name....

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 113-17.

Version I. Beginning I love so evil counterfeiting and hate so much dissimulation that I may not suffer you depart.... Hartley, I, 174-5 (Separate version). Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 105-6 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 6, pp. 47-51.

Version II. Beginning My lords and others, the Commons of this Assembly, although the lord keeper hath, according to order, very well answered in my name.... Hartley, I, 172-3. Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 107-8 (Version 2).

Copy, incomplete.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Brief speech beginning My right loving lords and you all, our right faithful and obedient subjects, we in the name of God..... First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), p. 137. Hartley, I, 195. Collected Works, Speech 11, pp. 108-9.

Copy.

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, with some alterations and a line deleted, headed in another hand Earle of Essex his Complaint.

This MS recorded in May, Poems, p. 111, n. 64.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

Copy, in a professional hand, described as ...a speech in Parliam^t made in answer to S^r Edwin Sandys and subscribed Robertus Cotton Bruceum.

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

Copy, in a professional hand, headed To my worthy freind and Brother S^r Edward Mountague knight and subscribed R. C. B.

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.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, docketed in another hand of Sir Benjamin Rudyard.

Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

Copies of four letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Sir Robert Carr, and to Ralegh's wife (two copies of one letter).

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sir Walter Rawleighs Apologie.

Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed S^r Walter Rawleighes Apologie.

A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Articles, subscribed S W. R.

Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley.... First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

Copy, headed Doctor Corbett Bishop of Norwich his speeche...Anno: 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.

Copy, in a non-professional cursive hand, on a single folio leaf of Verses by Dr W. Alabaster.

This MS collated in Sutton.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, pp. 38-9 (No. XXVIII), with translation (by J.J. Smith).

Copy, in a non-professional cursive hand, on a single folio leaf of Verses by Dr W. Alabaster.

This MS collated in Sutton.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

Copy, in a non-professional cursive hand, subscribed D^r Alabaster, on a single folio leaf of Verses by Dr W. Alabaster.

Edited from this MS in Smith. ed? Sutton.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, pp. 38-41 (No. XXIX), with translation (by J.J. Smith).

Copy, in a non-professional cursive hand, subscribed Idem [i.e. D^r Alabaster], on a single folio leaf of Verses by Dr W. Alabaster.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, pp. 20-3 (No. XXII), with translation (by J.J. Smith).

Copy, headed Verses vpon the Duke of Buckinghams returne from y^e Isle of Rees.

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, preceded by Three sonnetts in the Comendacon of this pamphlett.

First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.

Copy.

This MS collated in Keble (see I, xlv) and in Houk.

First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's complete edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.

Copy, in double columns, headed Joseph Hall concerneinge the observation of Christmasse day.

First published as A letter concerning Christmasse (London, 1659). Wynter, IX, 128-37.

Copy, in double columns, the discourse dated 2 September 1626 and described as since by him reduced into writeinge, followed (pp. 377-9) by the Council's Answers, in A Collection of diverse small Treatises written by S^r Robert Cotton K^t: & Baronet...1626.

Speech beginning My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626 and Questions to be proposed, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.

Copy, in double columns, the discourse dated 1621, in A Collection of diverse small Treatises written by S^r Robert Cotton K^t: & Baronet...1626.

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.

Copy, in double columns, in A Collection of diverse small Treatises written by S^r Robert Cotton K^t: & Baronet...1626.

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

Copy, in double columns. A Collection of diverse small Treatises written by S^r Robert Cotton K^t: & Baronet...1626.

Tract beginning Most excellent Majesty, Wee your Lords Spirituall and Temporal, and the Commons of your Realm assembled.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [91]-107.

Extracts, headed S^r Walter Rawley / Of y^e name, & meaning of y^e words Law, & Right, beginning The word Lex, or Law, is not always taken alike, but is diversly & in an indifferent sense vsed....

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, the Latin version headed (p. 1) The Conseruation of Jesus Chapell neer Southampton by the R^t Reverend father in God Lancelot Lo: Bp of Winchester, the English and Latin version headed (p. 5) Consecratio et Dedicatio Capelle Jesu cum cæmeterio eiusdem in vasto solo dicto Ridgeway Heath iuxta Southtampton [sic].

First published in London, 1659. LACT, Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine (1846), pp. 307-33.

Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand.

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

Copy.

Copy, headed The true copy in substance of the late Earle of Essex, his behauiour, speach and prayer, at the time of his execution.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

Grants of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, headed Camden's guifts, possibly ? partly in his hand.

Autograph letter signed, concerning Harington's pedigree, to Sir William Dethick, [14/24 June 1597].

McClure, No. 6, pp. 66-7. The postscript in this letter is edited in Craig, p. 48.