National Archives of Scotland

GD1/371/3

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state letters and papers, in generally professional secretary hands, with (ff. iir-iiir) a list of contents, v + 529 leaves, in modern cloth.

Among the Warrender Papers, formerly classified as Vol. B.

f. 52v
ElQ 209: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585 ('')

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Q [of England added in red ink] matie speache in the parliament house 1585 Martij 29, on one side of a folio leaf.

Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Scottish History Society (1931), 174-6. Cited in Hartley.

Beginning My lords and you of the Lower House: My silence must not injure the owner.... Hartley, II, 31-3. Collected Works, Speech 16, pp. 181-3.

GD3/5/610

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Hugh, seventh Earl of Eglintoun, from Portmore, 7 December 1663. 1663.

Edited in William Fraser, Memorials of the Montgomeries, Earls of Eglinton, 2 vols (Edinburgh, 1859), I, 313-14, with a facsimile of the signature.

*TaJ 97: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Edited in William Fraser, Memorials of the Montgomeries, Earls of Eglinton, 2 vols (Edinburgh, 1859), I, 313-14, with a facsimile of the signature.

GD18/4312

Autograph fair copy of two poems, on one side of a single folio leaf, signed by Jonson and dated January 19th 1619 [i.e. 1618/19], presented to William Drummond of Hawthornden.

The MS is accompanied by an 18th-century transcript on a single leaf endorsed Copy of Ben Johnsone's verses of which I have the oreginal in the Charter house.

1619.

Among papers of the Clerk family of Penicuik.

Edited from this MS in The Works of William Drummond (Edinburgh, 1711), p. 155 (see Herford & Simpson, I, 177-8): and cited (he sent to me this Madrigal / on a lovers dust, made sand for ane Houre Glasse...) in Drummond's Conversations with Jonson (see Herford & Simpson, I, 150, and DrW 303). Facsimile in IELM, I.ii, Facsimile XXII. A facsimile of the MS is also among papers relating to Jonson given by Dr Percy Simpson to the Bodleian in 1952 (now MS facs. c/e 25, f. 4).

f. [1r]
*JnB 270: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')

Autograph fair copy, headed To the honoring respect / borne / to the Freindship contracted wth / the right vertuous, and learned / Mr. William Drummond: / And the perpetuating the same by all offices of Loue / herafter, / I Beniamin Jonson, / Whome he bath honord wth the leaue to be calld his, / haue, wth mine owne hand, to satisfie his request, / written this imperfect song, / On a Louers dust, made sand for an Howerglasse.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

f. [1r]
*JnB 352: Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland ('I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind')

Autograph fair copy, headed Yet, that Loue when it is at full, may admit heaping, / Receiue another; and this a picture of my self.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.

GD18/4508

Autograph calligraphic MS, almost entirely on rectos only, 53 leaves (95 x 135 mm.), in green velvet.

A presentation MS to Ludovick Stuart (1574-1624), second Duke of Lennox and Duke of Richmond, with a dedication to him, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures and a coloured self portrait.

1607.

Owned in 1865 by Sir George Clerk, Bt., of Penicuik.

*InE 18: Esther Inglis, [Octonaires de la Roche Chandieu] Cinquante Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez, a tresillustre et puissant seigneur Lodowic Duc de Lenox &c: pour ses estrennes Escrit et illumine par Esther Inglis 1607

The French text and facing English translation of verse Octonaires by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), the original French first published in Paris, 1586.

GD24, [unspecified item]

Autograph letter signed, to John Drummond, from London, 15 January 1700/1. 1701.

Hodges, No. 67. McKenzie, III, 149-50 (Letter 14).

*CgW 83: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Hodges, No. 67. McKenzie, III, 149-50 (Letter 14).

GD24, [unspecified item]

Autograph letter signed, to John Drummond, from London, 10 April 1701. 1701.

Hodges, No. 68. McKenzie, III, 153 (Letter 17).

*CgW 84: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Hodges, No. 68. McKenzie, III, 153 (Letter 17).

GD26/13/267

A letter by Urquhart, to Alexander, Earl of Leven, the text in the hand of an amanuensis and signed and subscribed by Urquhart, from Middelburg, 10/20 September 1655. 1655.

Edited in Jack & Lyall, p. 46.

*UrT 11: Thomas Urquhart, Letter(s)

Edited in Jack & Lyall, p. 46.

GD29/1963/1-19

A series of letters and documents, in a guardbook of miscellaneous papers, in half blue morocco.

Comprising:

(i) Eight letters by Anne, Lady Halkett, all autograph and signed but for one in the hand of an amanuensis and then signed by her, each a folio or quarto pair of conjugate leaves with an address panel and traces of black wax seals; seven of them to James Kennoway on business affairs, one unaddressed concerning the unjustly imprisoned John McCawo, 3 June 1673 to 31 October 1692.

(ii) Ten receipts for payments by Kennoway to her, and related accounts, partly in her hand, 1668-80.

(iii) A list of debts of her husband, Sir James Halkett, at his death, 1670.

1668-92.
HaA 24: Anne, Lady Halkett, Letter(s)

GD30/2249

Copy, headed A Neve adveis to a panter &c, on six pages of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Among papers of the Shairp family of Houstoun.

MaA 494: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

GD34/996/1

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning from a Jipsye in the morning, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1620s.

Among papers of the Hay family of Haystoun.

JnB 668: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song

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

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

GD34/996/3

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The 5 sense, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.
DrW 117.41: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge

Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

GD40/15/39/17

Copy of the Chorus Sacerdotum on one side of a single quarto leaf, endorsed Ex Very Mediocres. Early 18th century.

Among archives of the Carr family, Marquesses of Lothian.

GrF 31.5: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, Chorus Sacerdotum

Wilkes, I, 297.

GD45/26/99/58

Copy, untitled, on a single leaf, addressed on the verso To the Right Honourable The Countess of Panmure and folded as a letter. c.1720s.

Among papers of the Earl of Dalhousie.

CgW 20: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret

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.

GD45/26/99/65

Copy, untitled, with other verses, on one side of a folio leaf, addressed on the verso to The Right Honabl The Earle of Panmure, folded as a letter, with a black wax seal. c.1720s.

Among papers of the Earl of Dalhousie.

CgW 21: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret

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.

GD406/1/3107

A valedictory letter by Rochester virtually on his death-bed, to Lady Southesk's cousin, James Hamilton (1658-1712), Lord Arran, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Rochester, 8 June 1680. 1680.

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

*RoJ 659: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter(s)

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

GD406/1/9797

Autograph note of assignation signed by Rochester, to an unnamed Lady [possibly Lady Southesk (d.1698), daughter of William, second Duke of Hamilton], evidently folded so small as to be capable of being confidentially palmed to her, undated. Late 17th century.

Among the muniments of the Hamilton family, Dukes of Hamilton, formerly at Lennoxlove. These muniments were acquired in 1982.

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

*RoJ 655: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter(s)

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

GD406/1/9798

Autograph note of assignation signed by Rochester, to an unnamed Lady [possibly Lady Southesk (d.1698), daughter of William, second Duke of Hamilton], evidently folded so small as to be capable of being confidentially palmed to her, undated. Late 17th century.

Among the muniments of the Hamilton family, Dukes of Hamilton, formerly at Lennoxlove. These muniments were acquired in 1982.

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

*RoJ 656: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter(s)

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

PC5/2

A large folio register of the Scottish Privy Council, in various professional secretary hands, 76 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in later blind-stamped calf. Late 16th century.
ff. 12r-14v
ElQ 125: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Conversations with the Scottish Ambassador, William Maitland, Laird of Lethington, September and October 1561 ('')

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

Collected Works, Speech 4, pp. 60-70.

RH9/2/258

Autograph letter signed by Urquhart, to John Macronald, Advocate, from London, 9 December 1653. 1653.

Edited (from photostats at Yale) in Jack & Lyall, p. 44-5.

*UrT 9: Thomas Urquhart, Letter(s)

Edited (from photostats at Yale) in Jack & Lyall, p. 44-5.

RH9/2/259

Autograph letter signed by Urquhart, to John Macronald, Advocate, from London, 14 January 1653/4. 1654.

Edited (from photostats at Yale) in Jack & Lyall, p. 45.

*UrT 10: Thomas Urquhart, Letter(s)

Edited (from photostats at Yale) in Jack & Lyall, p. 45.

RH13/40

A folio guardbook of state and miscellaneous papers, in prose and verse, in various hands and paper sizes, unnumbered.
[unnumbered item]
HaG 59: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Character of Dr. Burnet ('')

Copy, headed A Picture of the Author when Chapline of the Rolls [i.e. between 1675 and 1684], By the Most Noble George Marquis of Hallifax, endorsed N:B: The Title of this Papers was not in the Origenal (by ye Marquis of Hallifax) but was put to it by John Macknay at ye copieing of it into his Book, on both sides of a single folio leaf, together with an undated covering letter, on a quarto leaf, by Elizabeth Macknay to Thomas Burnet (...I have sent the copey you writ for. Mr Macknay sends his kindest servis to you...), incorporated in a quarto booklet of papers relating to Bishop Burnet in morocco boards.

Early 18th century.

Edited from this MS in Brown.

First published at the end of Thomas Burnet's Life of his father appended to Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time, 2 vols (London, 1724-34), II, 725-6. Foxcroft, II, 529-31. Brown, II, 450-2.

RH13/46

Copy, in the hand of Robert Veitch, who describes himself as a skipper in Leith, as by Gulielmo Drummond de Hauthorden, on eleven pages of three unbound pairs of conjugate quarto leaves. 1731.

Among the muniments of the Earl of Haddington.

DrW 18: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam

First published [in Edinburgh?, 1645?]. Kastner, II, 321-6, in Poems of Doubtful Authenticity. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 120.

RH13/78

Autograph, on vellum, 89 leaves, in elaborately embroidered binding. 1543.

Edited from this MS in Translations, with a facsimile of the embroidered binding as frontispiece. Facsimiles of the dedication to Katherine Parr and of the last page in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (pp. 263-4). The French dedicatory epistle only edited in Autograph Compositions, pp. 9-12.

*ElQ 59: Queen Elizabeth I, John Calvin's Institution de la Religion Chrestienne

Edited from this MS in Translations, with a facsimile of the embroidered binding as frontispiece. Facsimiles of the dedication to Katherine Parr and of the last page in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (pp. 263-4). The French dedicatory epistle only edited in Autograph Compositions, pp. 9-12.

An English translation by the young Princess Elizabeth of Chapter 1 of Calvin's Institution (Geneva, 1541). Translations, pp. 212-87, in both original and modern spelling versions, with a translation of the French dedicatory letter to Katherine Parr.