The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Daniels History.

First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

Extracts, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Collections out of D^r Dunns funerall Sermon for the Lady Dauers.

First published in London, 1627. Potter & Simpson, VIII, 61-93.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Collections out of S^r Walter Raleghs discourse of War.

A tract beginning The ordinary theme and argument of history is war.... First published (in part), as The Misery of Invasive Warre, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

Extracts, headed Dunss Satire.

Extracts, headed Dunns sermon and Notes out of Doc Duns sermon at court.

Extracts from Jonson's poems on women, headed Johnsons verses.

Extracts, headed D Dunn / John: 11. 38.

Extracts, headed Duns....

Extracts from a sermon, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Dean of Poels dunn Mathew 19 ve 16.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Corbet at court / 2 Corin. 4: 8 and indexed in the table of headings as by D^r Corbett.

Unpublished.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Dunns verses vpon marqiss Hamletoun.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Lo S^t Albanse.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Lo. S^t Albans reformation of the church of Ingland.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Considerations touching a warr with Spayn, indexed in the Earl's hand in the table of headings as by Lo S^t Albons.

A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Docter Corbet at Oxford Parlement.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed S^r John Haritons addishons to Goodwins works about Bishops.

First published, as A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England, edited by John Chetwind (London, 1653). Edited by R.H. Miller (Potomac, 1979).

Extracts from a sermon, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Doctor Hall Salm 68: 19.

Extracts from sermons, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Andres at S^t Martins and again Andres (both indexed by a scribe in the table of headings as by D^r Andrewes).

First published in London, 1609.

Extracts (from sermons?), in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Docter dunn.

Extracts (from a sermon?), in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Docter Corbet and beginning That Creture which hase last made service....

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed S^r Arthur Gorges of the Iland Viage.

First published, as A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage (but without any dedicatory epistle), in Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition of Purchas, XX (1907), 34-129. According to Purchas the work was written in 1607 and dedicated to Prince Henry.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed My Lo: S^t Albans of a digest to be made of the laws of england.

Spedding, XIV, 358-64.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed D^r. Dunns Sermuns uppon the deth of K. Jeamse.

Copy of a version, in a professional secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed A speech by S^r. Robert Cotton, before y^e lords of the Councill 1626 2^o Caroli Regis, followed (pp. 13-17) by the answere of the Committees.

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 of Version 1, in a neat secretary hand, with a correction in the fourth Earl of Bedford's hand, headed The effect of S^r Beniamine Ruddiers three speeches in Parliament 4o Carol 1628 / 1. speech.

Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....

Extracts, in a neat secretary hand, as 3 Speech under the heading The effect of S^r Beniamine Ruddiers three speeches in Parliament 4o Carol 1628

Speech beginning I hold the same ground still that I brought with me....

Extracts from a poem, in a secretary hand, headed Verses out of my ould lord Brooke, here beginning Man dreame noe more of Curious misteries.

Extracts, in a predominantly italic hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed The Bishop of Exeters opinion touchinge mariage w^th a sisters daughter.

Extracts from a letter, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Ben Johnsons to S^r Kenelme Digby on the Lord Digbies opinion concerning Barcleys Euphonnio, here beginning If as that great examiner, and iudge of benefitts hath decreed..., followed (p. 69) by Notes out of my Lord Digbies Reply.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Considerations touchinge a warre with Spaine by the ho^ble: Lo: Verulam Vicount S^t Alban.

A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed An advertisement touchinge a holy warre written Anno 1622: by: ffr: S^t Albans.

First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VII, 1-36. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 183-206.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed Of a digest to be made of the lawes of England.

Spedding, XIV, 358-64.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford.

First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed S^r Walter Rawleighs Skepticke.

A tract beginning The Scepticke doth neither affirm nor deny any position.... First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 548-56. William M. Hamlin, A Lost Translation Found? An Edition of The Sceptick (c.1590), ELR, 31/1 (Winter 2001), 34-51 (pp. 42-51).

A translation of extracts from the Hypotyposes of Sextus Empiricus. See S.E. Sprott, Ralegh's Sceptic and the Elizabethan Translation of Sextus Empiricus, PQ, 42 (1963), 166-75, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 66-7.

Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, as by S^r Arthur Gorge.

A tract beginning The loue and amitie betweene the realme of England and the vnited Provinces....

Copy, possibly incomplete, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford Written by Sir Ar Gorg to my Lo: D of Buckingam.

A letter to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning And what in ballancing of the scales....

Copy, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford including the ascription Written by S^r Arthur Gorg to Lo Du of Buckingam, the tract dated 1 March: 1618.

The fuller title: Observations & Overtures for a Seafight vppon our owne Coasts, and what kynd of order and disciplyne is fittest to be vsed...against the præparations of such Spanish Armadas...as shall at anie tyme come to invade vs. Unpublished.

Copy of Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's orders, in a mixed hand, headed A forme of Orders and directions to be given by an Admiral....

Orders, beginning First, because no action or enterprise can prosper (be it by sea or land) without the favour and assistance of Almighty God.... First published in Newes of Sir Walter Rauleigh (London, 1618). Works (1829), VIII, 682-8. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 121-6.

Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, as S^r Arthur Gorge his observations....

Unpublished tract beginning Soe again we doe find....

Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed A dialouge discourse betweene the marchant venturer and a Sea Captaine, of the Sea fight betweene the Navies of England and Spaine on the Narrowe Seas in the yeare: 1588 -- written by S^r Arthur Gorge Knight.

Unpublished tract.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Notes out of a Sermon preacht at Court the 28 of ffebruary 1629 by Jos: Exon, called the hipocrite / The text: 2 Tim: 5: 3.

Unpublished?

Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Notes out of a dedication of the ould Lo: Brookes to S^r Phillip Sidney.

Generally entitled A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney. First published in London, 1652. Grosart, IV, 1-224. Edited by Nowell Smith (Oxford, 1907). Gouw, pp. 3-135.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Notes out of a Letter written to an hono^ble Ladie.

First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 233-99. Gouws, pp. 137-76.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Notes out of my ould lord Brookes tragidye of Mustapha.

An early version first published in London, 1609. A later version first published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, II, 63-137. Wilkes, I, 210-97.

Copy, in a neat mixed hand, headed To Benn Johnson uppo occation of his Ode of defiance to the Age, inscribed by the fourth Earl of Bedford by Cary the poet.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

Copy, in a neat mixed hand, headed by the fourth Earl of Bedford Wallers verses.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed S^r Jo. Sucklins Play, here beginning Ther if prettier knots about you then this we see....

Copy, in a mixed hands, headed S^r John Sucklins letter to Tom: Cary the Poet.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 155-6.

Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand, headed The Character of Robert Late Earle of Salisbury, unascribed.

A character, beginning He came of a parent, that counselled the state into piety, honour and power..., and dedicated to Lady Theodosia Cecil. First published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton (Oxford, 1907), II, 487-9. Nicoll, pp. 259-63.

Extracts, subscribed W. Cartwright.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, subscribed Jasper Mayne.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, as by S^r John Suckling.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.

Extracts, headed Dunn of justifying faith.

Copy of seventeen Problems and Paradoxes, headed dunnse problems.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

Copy, headed By S^r wal: Rawly the night befoer his heading and here beginning Euen shuch is tiem that holds in trust.

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, headed The Erle of Essex letter to the Erle of Rutland.

The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state....

First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

Copy in a 39-line abridgement, untitled.

First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

Extracts, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

Extracts, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

Extracts, ungtitled.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

Extracts.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

Extracts, headed epitaph La: Markam.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

Copy in a slight abridgement, untitled.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

Extracts, headed A leter to the La Cary at Esex Rich:.

First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

Extracts, headed Elegy.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

Copy, headed Elegy.

First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

Copy, headed elegy.

First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

Extracts, headed Elegy.

First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

Extracts, headed Satier.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

Extracts.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

Extracts, relating to the Trinity, angels, patriarchs, and prophets.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

Extracts, headed M^r Ed Harbert of the prince and beginning at line 3 (here My Soule Layd up in you).

First published among Sundry Funeral Elegies appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.

Extracts from work by Bacon.

Extracts from a sermon at Whitehall in Lent 1621.

Copy or extracts, headed Whithall D: Corbet:: 1621, here beginning Sorow is the elder brother to prayer....

Unpublished.

Extracts, headed Bish Exeter Can / Whithall April 1622.

Unpublished.

Extracts, headed Docter Hall dedication.

Extracts, headed My Lo: S^t Albans / Historia....

Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves once folded as a letter or packet.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.

Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a small folio leaf once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed by the fourth Earl of Bedford Johnsons verses.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Daniels cronicall.

First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1622, in a professional secretary hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as letters or packets, the first bifolium endorsed by the fourth Earl of Bedford for my lo: Russell. Lo. Chancers Letter to the London parlement.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

Extracts, in a secretary hand, in double columns, headed Notes out of the lord verulams Historie of Henrie. 7.

First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Out of Hall.

Extracts.

First published, with preliminary material including a dedication to Chares I, in London, 1628. Spenser Society, Nos 28-29 (1980; reprinted in New York, 1967).

Copy of portions of the work, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, subscribed in another hand Here wee left 19 Aprilis 1630.

First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Doctor Halles via media.

First published 1619. Wynter, IX, 488-519.

Copy, with a formal title-page subscribed written in the yeare: 1630: Peytons booke, including (pp. 271-3) the meditation of Job, the rear cover of the volume inscribed Leicesters Common Wealth.

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.

Copy, the full title-page dated Anno: 1598.

First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

Copy of Version I, on several pages.

First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate.... Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me.... Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent.... Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved.... Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

Copy of a series of letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, James I, Burghley, Essex, Robert Cecil, Northampton, Buckhurst, Edward Coke, Sir John Davies, Toby Mathews and others, with a title-page A true Copie of the Lord Chancellor Bacons Letters of State from the time of his being Sollicitor till his Death.

Copy.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

Copy of a series of charges by Bacon, including those touching Duells...agains^t Preist and Wright, in the Star Chamber, against William Talbot, in the case of Lady Shrewsbury, against Whitlock, against the Countess and Earl of Somerset, against Owen, and in the Irish Parliament.

Copy of a series of speeches by Bacon, including those when he received the seal of Lord Chancellor (1617), in the Star Chamber (1617), to Sir William Jones, Sir John Denham and Sergeant Hatton, and on the first day of Parliament 17 March 1618/19.

Copy, headed Beniamin Rudyeard.

Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....

Copy, untitled.

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.

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as by S^r R. Cotton K^t and Bar^t, and dated 1625.

Speech beginning Mr. Speaker, Although the constant Wisdome of this House of Commons.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [271]-281.

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as Written by S^r R. Cotton K^t. and Baronett.

Tract beginning Since at these Assemblies few Diaries, or exact Iournall Books are remaining.... First published as A Treatise, shewing that the Soveraignes Person is Required in the great Councells or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the conclusions, London, 1641. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [41]-57.

Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, a title-page in italic, as Written by S^r Walter Raleigh K^t.

This MS recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4.

An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself.... First published, as Upon the first Invention of Shipping, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.

Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, the title in italic, unascribed.

A tract beginning The ordinary theme and argument of history is war.... First published (in part), as The Misery of Invasive Warre, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

Copy, in a secretary hand, as Written by S^r Wa: Raleigh.

A tract dedicated to Prince Henry and beginning Having formerly, most excellent prince, discoursed of a maritimal voyage, and the passages and incidents therein.... First published in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 335-50. These notes probably written by Ralegh but usually appended to Sir Arthur Gorges, A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage, printed in Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition, XX (1907), 34-129. See Helen Estabrook Sandison, Manuscripts of the Islands Voyage and Notes on the Royal Navy, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown (New York, London & Oxford, 1940), 242-52, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 53, 58-9.

Copy, in a secretary hand.

This MS recorded in Latham & Youings.

A letter to Prince Henry, written from the Tower, c.November 1607, beginning If the ship your highness intends to build be bigger than the Victory.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650), pp. 8-15. Works (1829), VIII, 627-9. Youings, No. 194, pp. 301-4.

Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, under the general title in another hand Sir Walter Raleiges large Apologie for his last voyage to Guiana with certaine letters of his written to the King, his wife and others.

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 of six letters by Ralegh, to his wife (2), to James I (2), to Ralph Winwood (both parts), and to Sir Robert Carr, in at least two secretary hands, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford.

Copy of 33 maxims, headed Maxims of State or Obsevations on Government by the late Marq^s. of H--x: 1694. The text followed (on pp. 81-4) by fourteen supplementary maxims by Charles Montagu.

This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.

First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor… [&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.

Copy of 47 maxims, headed Certain Maxims or Moral Reflections. By the late S^r Cha: Sidley. 1700, beginning A man that knows how to Mingle business and pleasure, is never taken up intirely with either of them....

Unpublished.

Extensive extracts, in secretary hands, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Dr. Halls book on meditations & vows.

First published in London, 1605. Wynter, VII, 439-521.

Extracts.

First published, in four volumes, in London, 1612-18. Wynter, I and II, 1-290.