Magdalen College, Oxford

MS 281, No. 25

Strode's autograph licence for the publication of John Donne's sermons, written and signed in Latin, listing twenty-two sermons by Donne and certifying that he finds nothing in them repugnant to the Catholic Faith or to the Church of England. The licence accompanies an autograph letter signed by John Donne the Younger, dated 26 September 1638, requesting the licence. 1638.
*StW 1501: William Strode, Document(s)

MS 324

A volume of papers of John Goodyer (c.1592-1664), botanist.
f. 2r
RaW 75: Sir Walter Ralegh, Euen such is tyme which takes in trust

Copy, in the hand of John Goodyer, on the back of a draft letter dated from his lodgings at the Red Lyon in Fleet Street, London, 7 November 1618.

Edited from this MS in R.T. Gunther, Early British Botanists and their Gardens (Oxford, 1922), p. 32. Recorded in Latham, p. 156.

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).

MS 343

A partly autograph quarto volume of poems by Jane Barker, entitled Poems on several occasions. in three parts, 136 leaves (plus seven stubs), in brown calf gilt.

Comprising (f. 1) a prose dedication to the Reader, (f. 2) a title-page, (ff. 3r-5r) a prose dedication To his Royal Highnes the Prince of Wales, (ff. 5v-6r) another prose dedication To the reader, (ff. 7r-38r) part the first Poems Refering to the times Occasionly writ according to the different circumstance of time and place; (ff. 39r-84r) part the second, the greatest part of which were writ since the author was in France; and (ff. 85r-133r) These following poems, are taken out of a book of Miscellany poems, and writ by the same author as the former, But without her consent, were printed in the year i688: now corrected by her own hand, which makes the third part of this Collection; with (ff. 134r-6v) a table of contents; Part One in the hand of Barker's cousin Colonel William Connock, with autograph corrections and revisions by Barker; Parts Two and Three entirely in Barker's hand, with frequent revisions.

c.1700-4.

Later owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 10 July 1871 (Corser sale, 7th portion), lot 204, to Ellis. Subsequently owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector; then in 1884 by the bookdealer Salkeld, and in February 1886 by W.D. Macray, Bodleian Librarian, who donated it to Magdalen College.

Known in a Barker context as the Magdalen MS, selectively edited and described, with a list of contents and facsimile examples (including the general title-page on f. 2r), in King, Poems, where also the first dedication appears in facsimile (p. 6) and the second and third dedications are edited (pp. 35-7). Facsimiles of the first dedication and general title-page also in King, Barker, Exile, Figs 3 and 4, after p. 112. Also described in the online Perdita Project.

ff. 8r-9r
*BarJ 15: Jane Barker, Fidelia alone lamenting her parents lately dead, and her relations gone into the west against Monmoth ('How my poor heart's with grief and fear oppres'd')

Copy, with autograph revisions.

Edited from this MS in King, Poems.

King, Poems, pp. 28-30.

f. 9v
*BarJ 59.5: Jane Barker, On the Victory at Sedgemore ('This night they say a battell has been fought')

Copy, with autograph revisions.

f. 10r
*BarJ 9: Jane Barker, England's good Genius ('What mighty joy this victory has given')

Copy, with autograph revisions.

ff. 10v-11r
*BarJ 51: Jane Barker, On Sedge-more victory by Lucifer and his Fiends ('Oh! what a loss, have we this night sustained')

Copy, with autograph revisions.

ff. 11v-13r
*BarJ 23: Jane Barker, Fidelia arguing with her self on the difficulty of finding the true Religion ('Oh wretched World, but wretched above all')

Copy, with autograph revisions.

Edited from this MS in Kissing the Rod.

First published, in a 37-line version headed On the Difficulties of Religion, in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 163-5]. Full 79-line version in Kissing the Rod, pp. 355-7.

ff. 13v-14r
*BarJ 25: Jane Barker, Fidelia having seen the Convent at St: James's ('If there be a terrestial Paradice')

Copy, with autograph revisions.

ff. 14v-17r
*BarJ 5.5: Jane Barker, A discourse between Englands ill Genius and his companion ('O miserable wretch! what shall I do,?')

Copy, with extensive autograph deletions and revisions, including ten lines of substitute text at the end in Barker's hand.

Facsimiles of f. 17r in King, Poems, p. 10, and in King, Barker, Exile, Fig. 5, after p. 112.

ff. 17v-19r
*BarJ 19: Jane Barker, Fidelia and her friend on her becoming a Catholick first dialogue ('met how cou'd you thus leave in distres')

Copy, with autograph revisions.

ff. 19v-21r
*BarJ 65: Jane Barker, Second Dialogue ('Well have you thought on the advice I gave')

Copy, with autograph revisions.

ff. 21v-2v
*BarJ 21: Jane Barker, Fidelia and her friend the third dialogue ('Well met Fidelia let me hear you rail')

Copy, with autograph revisions.

f. 23r-v
*BarJ 36: Jane Barker, Fidelia weeping for the Kings departure at the Revolution ('Unhappy I, to live to see this day')

Copy, with autograph corrections.

Edited from this MS in King, Poems.

King, Poems, p. 31.

ff. 24r-5r
*BarJ 6.5: Jane Barker, A discourse between England's ill Genius and his Companion on the jubelee in Hell ('This night we have a jubile in Hell')

Copy, with copious autograph deletions and revisions.

ff. 25v-7r
BarJ 17: Jane Barker, Fidelia and her friend ('Well met Fidelia, how have you done of late')

Copy.

ff. 27v-8v
*BarJ 29: Jane Barker, Fidelia in France meets one of Portsmoth officers ('How little did I think to meet you here')

Copy, with autograph deletions and revisions.

f. 29r
BarJ 32: Jane Barker, Fidelia meets her neighbour reading a letter ('Why are you sad, what news have you receiv'd')

Copy.

f. 29v
*BarJ 27: Jane Barker, Fidelia in a Convent garden the Abess comes to her ('I from my cell behelld you thoughtfull set')

Copy, with autograph revisions.

ff. 32v-4r
*BarJ 13: Jane Barker, Englands ill Genius and his companion after the Battell of the Boyn ('Sure, sure, th' Almighty Tyrant of the skys')

Copy, with an autograph deletion.

ff. 34v-5v
BarJ 11: Jane Barker, Englands good Genius and Philanthrophel his companion ('If I had in my nature any dross')

Copy.

f. 36r-v
*BarJ 34: Jane Barker, Fidelia walking the Lady Abess comes to her ('The news is come, that Irland is quite lost')

Copy, with autograph revisions including eight autograph lines of substitute text and a note by Barker about these athestical lines which were not given to the Prince on a slip of paper sewn in.

Facsimile of f. 36r in King, Poems, and in King, Barker, Exile, Fig. 6, after p. 112.

ff. 37r-8r
BarJ 40: Jane Barker, Hells Regret, for the peace & unity like to ensue the Duke of Anjou's accession to the Crown of Spain. spoken as by Lucifer ('What shall we do? we'r ruin'd lost undone')

Copy.

ff. 40r-1v
*BarJ 73: Jane Barker, To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on His birth day i689: or 99: The author having presented him a Calvary set in a vinyard ('Forgive me sr that on this happy day')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, pp. 292-4.

f. 42r-v
*BarJ 58: Jane Barker, On The kings birth-day, writ at st Germains. i694: ('Methinks Britania [writes?] with tears')

Autograph, with deletions.

ff. 43r-4v
*BarJ 70: Jane Barker, To Her Majesty the Queen, on the Kings going to Callis this carnival i696: ('Madame / It was not want of zeal, but want of sight')

Autograph, with a deletion.

Edited from this MS in Wilson and in King, Poems.

Wilson, pp. 295-7. King, Poems, pp. 32-3.

f. 45r-v
*BarJ 74: Jane Barker, To Madam Fitz James, on the day of her profession, at Pontoise, she taking the name of St Ignace ('When Madam you were at the altar lay'd')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, pp. 297-8.

f. 46r-v
*BarJ 69: Jane Barker, To Dame - - - Augustin nun on her curious gum-work ('Oft have I strove t'asscend that lofty ground')

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, pp. 298-300.

ff. 47r-8r
*BarJ 83: Jane Barker, To My dear cosen Coll -- at his return out of Irland into france ('Since Irlands loss, has brought you on our coast')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, pp. 300-2.

ff. 49r-50v
*BarJ 82: Jane Barker, To my dear Clarinthia, at her arival out of England and staying in Flanders ('Forgive me dear Clarinthia, forgive')

Autograph.

ff. 51r-4v
*BarJ 46: Jane Barker, The Miseries of St Germains, writ at the time of the pestilence and famin, which reign'd in the years, 1694 et 95 ('Preachers no more, you need your people tell')

Autograph, with a deletion.

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, pp. 302-7.

f. 55r-v
*BarJ 54: Jane Barker, on the Ascention venite ('Come let us sing the praises of this day')

Autograph.

f. 56r-v
*BarJ 79: Jane Barker, To mr Mosier, who sent me my young kinsmans picture, of his own painting: having promised it long before ('That gallants keep their word, and reck'nings clear')

Autograph, with a revision.

f. 57r-v
BarJ 88: Jane Barker, To my friends who prais'd my Poems, and at the begining of the little printed book placed this motto ('I doubt not to come safe to glories port')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson and in King, Poems.

Wilson, pp. 307-8. King, Poems, p. 34.

f. 58r-v
*BarJ 56: Jane Barker, On the death of the Right honourable the Earl of Exiter. 1700 ('What Alien is there, ha'n't a pious tear')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, pp. 309-10.

ff. 59r-60v
BarJ 2: Jane Barker, At the sight of the body of Our late gracious sovereign Lord King James 2d As it lys at the English Monks ('Hic jacet, oft hic jacet poets sing')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, pp. 310-13.

f. 61r
*BarJ 38: Jane Barker, A French song tranclated, allez berger &c. ('Go shepherd go, bid me adue')

Autograph.

ff. 62r-3v
*BarJ 72: Jane Barker, To Her Royal Highness the Princess Lewis Marya, Princess of Bavaria Abess of the Royal monestery of Maubison ('Illustrious Princess, venerable dame')

Autograph.

ff. 64r-7v
*BarJ 4: Jane Barker, A dialogue between Fidelia and her little nephew, Martius, as they walk in Luxembourg. disguis'd as a shepherdess or country maid ('Why weeps my child, why weeps my dearest boy')

Autograph, with a deletion and an ink thumb-print, presumably Barker's.

Edited from this MS in Wilson and in King, Poems. Facsimile of f. 65r (and enlarged thumb-print) in the latter, pp. 4-5, and in King, Barker, Exile, Figs 1 and 2, after p. 112.

Lines 40-1 first published in Love Intrigues (1713) and then in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 8, 122]. Full text in Wilson, pp. 313-19, and in King, Poems, pp. 35-8.

f. 68r-v
BarJ 30: Jane Barker, Fidælia in st Germains garden, lamenting her misfortunes ('Under what constellation was I born')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in King, Poems.

Lines 18-28 First published in Love Intrigues (1713) [Wilson, p. 32]. Full text in King, Poems, p. 39.

f. 69r-v
*BarJ 48: Jane Barker, Of Charity, In perticuler of forgiving injuries ('This vertue does above all others climb')

Autograph.

First published in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 157-8].

f. 70r-v
*BarJ 57: Jane Barker, On the great cares, And small injoyments of parents ('How short and transient joys of parents are')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, p. 319.

f. 71r-v
*BarJ 61: Jane Barker, Reflection on dreams ('A dream to me seems a misterious thing')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson (p. 320).

First published, in a version headed On Dreams, in Patch-work Screen (1723) [Wilson, p. 162]. Wilson, p. 320.

ff. 72r-3v
*BarJ 7: Jane Barker, A dream, Of the cattacumens Elesium ('Methought I pass'd through that Elesium plain')

Autograph.

A version, headed The Childrens, or Cathechumen's Elysium, in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 160-1].

ff. 74r-5v
*BarJ 44: Jane Barker, The lovers Elesium, Or foolls Paradice: a dream ('Sleeping byth' river Glen, methought I found')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, pp. 320-3.

ff. 76r-7v
*BarJ 3: Jane Barker, The contract with the muses writ on the bark of a shady ash-tree ('Methinks these shades, strange thoughts suggest')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson and in King, Poems.

A version of lines 85-102 and 104-29 first published in Love Intrigues (1713) [Wilson, pp. 14, 25-6]. Full text in Wilson, pp. 324-5, and in King, Poems, pp. 40-1.

ff. 78r-80v
*BarJ 97: Jane Barker, The Virgins paradise a dream ('As I upon a bank of lillys lay')

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, pp. 326-9.

f. 81r-v
*BarJ 62: Jane Barker, Reflections on mr Cowleys words, The Muses fleece lys dry ('Tis that unluckey sentance which has lost')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson.

Wilson, pp. 329-30.

f. 82r-v
*BarJ 45: Jane Barker, A marriage Roundelay made on my friend mr, and mrs - - - ('With a mery Roundelay')

Autograph.

f. 83r
*BarJ 37: Jane Barker, A french song english'd Pour un seul baiser ec: ('For one kis alone my lovly Phillis')

Autograph.

f. 84r
BarJ 67: Jane Barker, A song ('When poor Galæcia aged grew')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Wilson and in King, Poems.

Wilson, p. 330. King, Poems, p. 42.

f. 86r-7v
*BarJ 43: Jane Barker, An invitation to my learned friends at Cambridge: to my country solitude ('If friends, you wou'd but now this place accost')

Autograph, with a deletion.

Edited from this MS in King, Poems.

First published, in a version headed An Invitation to my Friends at Cambridge, in Poetical Recreations. (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I. pp. 1-4. Another version in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 93-5]. King, Poems, pp. 43-5.

ff. 88r-9v
*BarJ 78: Jane Barker, To mr Hill on his verses to the Duchess of York when she was at Cambridge ('What fitter subject cou'd be for thy wit')

Autograph.

First published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 4-6.

ff. 90r-1v
*BarJ 84: Jane Barker, To my friend and kinsman mr F- on his excellent painting ('Shu'd I strive in my tunless lines t'express')

Autograph, with a deletion and a revision.

First published, headed To my Cousin Mr. E. F. on his Excellent Painting, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 6-8.

f. 92r-v
*BarJ 77: Jane Barker, To Mr G P my adopted brother, on the nigh approach of his nuptials ('Thy marry'ng humour I dare scarce upbraid')

Autograph.

First published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 11-12.

f. 93r-v
*BarJ 96: Jane Barker, A Virgin life ('Since gracious Heven, you have bestow'd on me')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Kissing the Rod.

A version, beginning Since, o ye Pow'rs, ye have bestow'd on me, first published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 12-13. Another in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 139-40]. Kissing the Rod, pp. 360-1.

f. 94r
*BarJ 1: Jane Barker, The Anchorite in Scipina ('Ah happy are we anchorites that know')

Autograph.

First published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, p. 91.

f. 95r-v
*BarJ 42: Jane Barker, In commendation of the female sex, spoke by the same Anchorite, in Scipina ('Ah beautious sex, to you we'r bound to give')

Autograph.

First published, as In Commendation of the Female Sex Out of Scipina, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 44-5.

ff. 96r-7v
*BarJ 89: Jane Barker, To my Reverend friend mr H -- -- on his presenting me the Reasonableness of christianity: and the History of king Charles the ist ('Good sir if I my sentiments cou'd shew')

Autograph.

First published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 8-10.

ff. 98r-9v
*BarJ 55: Jane Barker, On the Death of my dear friend and play-fellow, mrs E D, having dream'd the night before, that I lost a pearl ('I dream'd I lost a pearl, and so it prov'd')

Autograph.

First published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 18-19.

f. 100r-v
*BarJ 91: Jane Barker, To my unkle Colonel C -- -- -- after his return into the Low countrys ('Dear sr the joy which rang through all yr troops')

Autograph.

First published, headed To my Honourable Vnkle Colonel C --- after his Return into the Low-Countries, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 29-30.

ff. 101r-2v
*BarJ 53: Jane Barker, On the Apothecarys filing my bills amongst the Doctors ('I hope I sha'n't be blam'd if I am proud')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in King, Poems.

A version first published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 31-4. Another in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 116-19]. King, Poems, pp. 46-8.

ff. 103r-4v
*BarJ 90: Jane Barker, To my unkind Strephon ('When last I saw thee, thou didst seem so kind')

Autograph.

First published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 34-6.

f. 105r-v
*BarJ 52: Jane Barker, On Strephon's pretending business to be the cause of his long absence ('Full well I knew it wou'd be said')

Autograph.

f. 106r-v
*BarJ 86: Jane Barker, To my friend mr -- -- on my calling him Little tom king ('Fear not dear friend, the less'ning of thy fame')

Autograph.

First published, headed To My Friend Mr. S. L. on his Receiving the Name of Little Tom King, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, p. 37.

ff. 107r-9v
*BarJ 60: Jane Barker, The prospect of a landskip begining with a grove ('Well might the ancients, deem a grove to be')

Autograph, with revisions.

A version first published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 20-3. Then, headed The Grove, in A Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 76-9].

f. 110r-v
*BarJ 63: Jane Barker, A Rivulet ('Ah lovly stream, how fitly mayst thou be')

Autograph, with a revision.

A version, headed Sitting by a Rivulet, first published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 24-7. Then in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 80-2].

f. 111r
*BarJ 41: Jane Barker, A Hill ('Oh that I cou'd verses write')

Autograph.

First published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, p. 27.

f. 111v
*BarJ 94: Jane Barker, To ovids Heroins, in his Epistles ('Bright shee's what glorys had your names acquir'd')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in King, Poems.

A version first published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 28-9. King, Poems, p. 49.

ff. 112r-13v
*BarJ 47: Jane Barker, Necessity of fate, in consideration of my writing verses as it were against my will ('In vain in vain it is I find')

Autograph.

Edited from this in King, Poems.

A version first published, as Necessity of Fate, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 38-40. Another in Patch-Work Screen [Wilson, pp. 141-3]. King, Poems, pp. 50-1.

f. 114r-v
*BarJ 81: Jane Barker, To my Brother whilst he was in France ('So far as you, in learnings steps advance')

Autograph.

First published, in a version beginning Dear Brother, So far as you advance, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 46-7. A version of lines 7-16 published in Love Intrigues (1713) [Wilson, p. 21].

f. 115r
*BarJ 92: Jane Barker, To my young lover ('Incautious youth, why do'st thou so misplace')

Autograph.

A version first published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, p. 61. Another in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, p. 96].

f. 116r-v
*BarJ 93: Jane Barker, To my young lover A song ('To praise sweet youth do thou forbear')

Autograph.

A version first published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, p. 64. Another in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, p. 97].

f. 117r-v
*BarJ 76: Jane Barker, To mr -- -- on his incomparable Singing ('The pleasure which our ears receive')

Autograph.

First published, in a version headed To Mr. C. B. On his Incomparable Singing and beginning The Honour that the Air receives, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 76-7.

f. 118r-v
*BarJ 68: Jane Barker, A Song in Sipina ('In vain do'es nature her free gifts bestow')

Autograph.

First published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, p. 79.

ff. 119r-20v
*BarJ 75: Jane Barker, To mr -- -- my indiffrent lover, who complain'd of my indiffrency ('You'd little reason to complain of me')

Autograph.

First published, in a version headed To Dr. R.S. my indifferent Lover, who complain'd of my Indifferency, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp 16-17. Another version in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 105-6].

f. 121r-v
*BarJ 49: Jane Barker, On Philena her playfellow her Absence for a time ('I dread this tedious time more than')

Autograph, with a revision.

First published, headed Absence for a Time, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 67-8.

f. 122r-v
*BarJ 80: Jane Barker, To my brother, on my frequent writing to him, a sort of borlesk ('Dear Brother you will think that now')

Autograph, with a deletion.

Edited from this MS in King, Poems.

First published, in a version headed To my Adopted Brother Mr. G. P. On my frequent Writing to Him, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 95-6. King, Poems, pp. 52-3.

f. 123r
*BarJ 95: Jane Barker, To sr F W, presenting him mr Cowleys first works ('When vacant howers, admit you to peruse')

Autograph.

First published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, p. 28.

ff. 124r-5v
*BarJ 87: Jane Barker, To my friends against Poetry ('Dear friends if you'll be rul'd by me')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in King, Poems.

A version first published in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 95-6. Another in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 127-8]. King, Poems, pp. 54-5.

f. 126r-v
*BarJ 71: Jane Barker, To her muse, who's kindness at first she seems to slight, afterwards accepts kindly ('Ah silly Muse thus to infest')

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in King, Poems.

First published, in a version headed To the Importunate Address of Poetry, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 97-8. In another version, headed To my Muse, in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 123-4]. King, Poems, pp. 56-7.

ff. 127r-30v
*BarJ 66: Jane Barker, She begining to study phisick, takes her leave of poetry, so falls into a long degression on anatomy ('Fare well fare well, kind poetry my friend')

Autograph, with revisions.

First published, in a version headed A Farewell to Poetry, With a Long Digression on Anatomy and beginning Farewell, my gentle Friend, kind Poetry, in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 99-104. A version in two sections, headed An Invocation of her Muse and Anatomy respectively, in Patch-Work Screen (1623) [Wilson, pp. 85-90].

ff. 131r-2v
*BarJ 85: Jane Barker, To my friend mr --- on his perswading me to poetry ('Oft has my muse and I fall'n out')

Autograph. The title only is repeated on f. 133r and deleted.

Edited from this MS in King, Poems.

First published, in a version headed A Second Epistle. To my Honoured Friend Mr. E. S., in Poetical Recreations (London, 1688 [i.e. 1687]), Part I, pp. 70-2. King, Poems, pp. 58-9.

MS 919

A deed of acquitance from Richard Trewe of Church Oakley, to William Trewe of Worthing, Hampshire, signed as a witness by George Wither, 8 June 1613. 1613.

Given by a Fellow of the College at Christmas 1884, and probably to be identified with the Letter of Attorney, 1 page folio signed by Wither as witness…June 8, 1613 sold at Puttick & Simpson's, 28 February 1851, lot 215.

*WiG 51: George Wither, Document(s)

[no shelfmark]

A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for John Fitzwilliam. c.1678.
*WtI 48: Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln (London, 1678)