The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall

BcF 490: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications ('')

Copy of two submissions by Bacon, here dated 24 and 26 April 1621.

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.

CtR 338: Sir Robert Cotton, Reasons to maintain the navigation of the English merchants with the East and West Indies ('')

Copy, as by R. Cotton, on nine pages.

Early 17th century.

Unpublished tract beginning I doubt not my honourable lord.... Ascribed to Cotton in MS.

FxJ 1.145: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments ('')

Extracts.

First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

ElQ 291: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601 ('')

Copy of a version.

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).

StW 1284.8: William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')

Copy, headed Verses to be reade two wayes.

First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

DrJ 232: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')

Copy, headed An Epitaph on Dundee 1689.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

DoC 295: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines')

Copy, headed An Excellent New Ballad Giving....

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

HaG 35: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor ('')

Copy of 33 maxims, headed The following Maxims were found by a Jew amongst the Papers of the Great Amanzor, and tho' they must loose a good deal of their Originall Spirit by the Translation, yet they seem to be so applicable to all tymes, that it is thought no disservice to make them publick, followed (pp. 149-50) 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.

DoC 179: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) ('Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes')

Copy, headed On the Countesse of Dorchester. 1694.

Edited from this MS in POAS. Collated in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

DoC 193: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) ('Proud with the spoils of royal cully')

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).

DoC 205: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')

Copy, headed On the Lady Dorchester. 1696.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

CgW 16: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')

Copy, the poem here dated 1697, with a note Lady Fitzhardys Daughter.

This MS recorded in Harris.

First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.

Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

DoC 167: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester ('Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair')

Copy, untitled and here beginning Courage dear Dol, and drive away despair.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

MaA 457: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')

Copy, headed Advice to A Painter, &c, subscribed Finis sinestea.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

WhA 26: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the 53 of Isaiah ('Who hath beleived on Earth what we report')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 14, pp. 169-71.

WhA 45: Anne Wharton, Thoughts occasion'd by her retirement into the Countrey ('All fly the vnhappy & all would fly')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

First published in A New Miscellany of Original Poems (London, 1701). Greer & Hastings, No. 13, pp. 166-8.

WhA 65: Anne Wharton, To the Lady Ann Cooke ('Nine times the Spring return'd & with it brought')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 12, p. 165.

WhA 3: Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by M^rs Wharton ('The use of Knowledge is to find it poor')

Copy of lines 1-33, headed On Knowledge.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.

WhA 11: Anne Wharton, Elegie on John Earle of Rochester ('Deep Waters silent roul, so greifs like mine')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). Greer & Hastings, No. 7, pp. 140-2.

WhA 8: Anne Wharton, Elegie on Charles Earle of Rochester ('Insatiate graue yeild back thy mighty Treasure')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 11, pp. 163-4.

WhA 21: Anne Wharton, On the Storm between Gravesend and Dieppe; Made at that Time ('When the Tempestuous Sea did foam and roar')

Copy.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 240-1. Greer & Hastings, No. 9, p. 144.

WhA 28: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the last speech of Dido in Virgil's Æneas ('Now Dido trembles with amaze and rage')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 6, pp. 138-9.

WhA 36: Anne Wharton, Mrs. Wharton's Paraphrase Upon the 103d Psalm ('Advance my Soul, and all thy Pow'rs incline')

Copy.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

First published in The Idea of Christian Love (London, 1688), pp. xix-xxiii. Greer & Hastings, No. 15, pp. 172-4.

WhA 38: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the 145 Psalme ('Thy Glory Lord I would for ever raise')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 16, pp. 175-6.

WhA 4: Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by M^rs Wharton ('The use of Knowledge is to find it poor')

Copy of all 55 lines, headed The Despare.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.

WaE 171: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')

Copy, headed A Divine Poesy. Two Cantons occationed on y^e sight of the :53: chapter of Isaiah Turn'd into Verse by M^rs: Whard.

First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

WhA 55: Anne Wharton, To Mr. Waller ('Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill')

Copy of a 58-line version.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.

CmW 190: William Camden, Document(s) ('')

Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.