The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle

WrM 35: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s) ('')

An autograph letter signed by Sir George Manners, to Lady Mary Wroth, asking to read her manuscript of [Part two of] Urania, 31 May 1640.

1640.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Part IV, Rutland, Vol. I (1888), p. 520. Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 244-5.

*CoH 165: Henry Constable, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, 16 January 1583[/4].

1584.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), pp. 158-9.

*CoH 166: Henry Constable, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Constable, to his father, Sir Robert Constable, 12 September 1584.

1584.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 168.

*CoH 168: Henry Constable, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, from Paris, 13 March 1585[/6].

1603.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 173.

EsR 246: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1 ('')

Copy.

Early 17th century.

Recorded in HMC 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), pp. 370-3.

*CoH 172.5: Henry Constable, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, from Paris, 11 ?June 1603.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 391.

*TaJ 63: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [the Countess of Rutland], from Annesley, 21 June 1658.

1658.

Edited in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix 5, Rutland II (1889), pp. 5-6.

HrJ 237.5: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches ('Six of the weakest sex and purest sect')

Copy, in the secretary hand of George Faulcon, receiver or secretary to Roger Manners (1576-1612), fifth Earl of Rutland, and to George Manners (1580-1641), seventh Earl of Rutland, headed Six holie Sisters, here beginning Six holie sisters of the Purest sect, with another epigram on a single quarto leaf.

Early 17th century.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

HoJ 268: John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')

Copy.

Early 17th century.

Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.

DrJ 250.4: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song ('Wherever I am, and whatever I doe')

Copy of the song.

Late 17th century.

California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 239-40.

SiP 108: Sir Philip Sidney, The New Arcadia ('')

Verse and prose extracts, including lines from poems No. 2, 4, 6, 14, 19 and 51, transcribed for writing practice by Lady Katherine Manners (1603?-49), who became wife of the first Duke of Buckingham, in a small booklet, the name William Ellis inscribed (f. 45v).

Early 17th century.

This MS discussed in Josephine A. Roberts, Extracts from Arcadia in the Manuscript Notebook of Lady Katherine Manners, N&Q, 226 (1981), 35-6.

The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).

RaW 410.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ICUR, good Mounser Carr

Copy, here beginning I.C.V.R. brave monser Car.

c.1615.

First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

RoJ 57: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')

Copy, headed The Debauch disabled, on a single leaf.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

*CoH 178: Henry Constable, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Constable, to [? the Earl of Rutland], 1608?.

1608.

Recorded in HMC, Rutland IV (1905), p. 211.