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Copies of various letters by Bacon.

Copies of letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr (1608), to James I (2), and to Lady Ralegh.

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Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

Copy. c.1620s-30s.

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.

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First published, attributed to Greville, in London, 1643. Almost certainly apocryphal.

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First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, X, 218-34.

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This MS recorded in Spedding, X, 218.

First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, X, 218-34.

Copy, in a small predominantly italic hand, unascribed, with a sidenote ex MS. Bib. Bod. Archive.

Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads..., dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

Copy, in a mixed hand, the tract dated 1634.

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

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In a small mixed hand, headed S^r Robert Cottons opinion concerning the Diminution of Coyne. 1627.

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, among other papers relating to the Essex rebellion.

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

Copy, on three folio leaves.

Spedding, VI, 444-52. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XV, 89-99.

Copy, in a small professional predominantly secretary hand, headed A Shorte view of Henrie y^e Third and his Raigne, docketed in a later hand By S^r Robert Cotton.

Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

Copy of six speeches, of the Squire (2), Hermit (2), Souldier, and Secretary, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, headed The Earle of Essex device on the Queene day before he was to runne at Tilt. 17 of Novem: 39 of Eliza., with a side-note near the end saying This is imperfect.

First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Queenes Speech at Whitehall to the speaker of the Lower house the 30^th: of November 1602.

This MS cited in Hartley.

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 letter by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke.

Copy of four letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Lady Ralegh, and to Winwood.

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Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

Copy, subscribed Tooke by M^r. Alsb^r: sec^tie: to y^e L^d. Ad^ll, among other papers relating to Ralegh.

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, headed Write by S^r. walter Rawleygh when he was in the Gatehouse, among other papers relating to Ralegh.

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).

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Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

Copy of six speeches, headed The Earle of Essex device on the Queene day before he was to runne at Tilt. 17 of Novem: 39 of Eliza., with a side-note near the end saying this is not perfect.

First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.

Copy of the dialogue between Place and Time, headed The Entertainment of the late Queen at the Lord Keepers.

The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.

Copy, headed The Queenes Speech at Whitehall to the speaker of the Lower house the 30^th of Nouember 1602.

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 five letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, to James I (2), to Lady Ralegh, and to Winwood.

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618.

Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

Copy, subscribed Tooke by M^r. Alsb^r: sec^tie: to the L: Ad^ll, among other papers relating to Ralegh.

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, headed Write by S^r. Wa: Rawleygh whe he was in the Gathouse, among other papers relating to Ralegh

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

Copy, headed A true terrible, troublesome, tragical relation of a duel fought at Wisbeach, 17 June 1637.

(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

Grants of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

Copy, the work dated 1635, indexed (No. 51) as My Lord Herberts paper about y^e Kings Supremacy showed to y^e Arch B^p. of Canterbury by y^e Kings Comand.

The text corrected from this MS in Hutcheson. Recorded in Rossi, II, 493, and III, 542.

First published in Edward Herbert, De religione laici, ed. Harold R. Hutcheson (New Haven, 1944), pp. 183-6.

Copy, headed at the side S^r. Beniamin Rudyere 28^o April 1628.

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, untitled.

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, in a professional italic hand, subscribed Rob: Cotton, and docketed 8 Febr. 1623.

Tract beginning To search so high as the Norman Conquest.... First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.

Copy, headed A Speach deliu^red in Parlament by S^r Beniamin Ridie^rs Aprill 1640.

Speech beginning There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good.... Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

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This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

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This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

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This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

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This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

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This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

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This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

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This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

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

Copy, headed Diræ.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

Autograph fair copy of an epistolary tract, with some added marginal notes and revisions, untitled, a title-page added in the hand of Thomas Barlow, A Tract. To proue that to bow towards the Altar, is not onely permissu, and soe licitu, but p^rceptu, and soe necessariu./D^r. J. Taylor (in male memini) was the Author of it; written on 38 quarto leaves (almost entirely on rectos only).

Edited from this MS in Barrow and in Eden. Facsimile of f. 115 in Barrow, at end. For a facsimile of f. 104, see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XV. Formerly cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as TaJ 2.

First published, edited by the Rev. John Barrow (Oxford & London, 1848). Eden, V, 315-38.

Copy, in the professional roman hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's autograph corrections and revisions.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, III, 587-620.

First published in Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, ed. I. Gruter (Amsterdam, 1653). Spedding, III, 587-620.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, with inserted leaves of corrections by Thomas Barlow.

This MS collated in Keble (see I, xliv-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 three hands, with annotations in the hand of Thomas Barlow.

A tract beginning The word Heresie is Greek, and signifies a taking of any thing.... First published in London, 1680. Molesworth, English, IV, 385-408.

Copy in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed A: Breiffe: Discours: proveinge that the Howse of Comons, hath equall power w^th the peeres, in poynte of Judicature, docketed by Barlow This was printed (but falsely) in 1640, but noe authors name to it.

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.

Extracts, headed Notes out of S^r. Walter Raleigh / 1738, on rectos only.

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