Untraced, miscellaneous

Inscribed A.A. June. 15. 1649. 8^sh. Philips, 10 November 1994, lot 388.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 1310.

This MS allegedly found by Collier among the Alleyn Papers in Dulwich College: see Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn (1841), p. 54. Its authenticity cannot be verified.

This MS allegedly found by Collier among the Alleyn Papers in Dulwich College: see Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn (1841), p. 54. Its authenticity cannot be verified.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

Owned c.1845 by J.L. Anderdon. Sotheby's, 17 May 1879, lot 53, to F. Naylor. Sotheby's, 27 July 1885, lot 262. Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 30 October 1950 (Oliver R. Barrett sale), lot 273.

This MS recorded in Parks, p. 31. Despite the discrepancy of length, it is possibly to be identified with the serious verses by Cotton writ with his own hand, and...never...in print from which Anderdon edited his text. Four lines (corresponding, with variants, to lines 31-4 of Anderdon's printed text) are quoted in the 1950 sale catalogue.

This MS recorded in Parks, p. 31. Despite the discrepancy of length, it is possibly to be identified with the serious verses by Cotton writ with his own hand, and...never...in print from which Anderdon edited his text. Four lines (corresponding, with variants, to lines 31-4 of Anderdon's printed text) are quoted in the 1950 sale catalogue.

First published (in a 74-line version) in John L. Anderdon, The River Dove (London, 1845), pp. 194-6. Edited from the 2nd edition (London, 1847), pp. 238-41, and attributed to Cotton, in Buxton, pp. 247-9 (and see p. 280).

Possibly in the hand of Mr More [? William Moore (1590-1659), of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University Librarian], from whom the volume was purchased by John Covel (1638-1722), diplomat and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge.

Bonham's, 27 June 2006, lot 382, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

First published in William Nicholls, A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer (London, 1710). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 141-58.

Formerly among the MSS of the Earl of Westmoreland, Apethorpe, Northamptonshire (dispersed in 1892).

Recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), p. 21.

Later owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Baker & Leigh (Sotheby's), 28 April 1773, lot 4744.

The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the Old Arcadia) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.

Thomas Thorpe's Catalogue of manuscripts upon papyrus, vellum and paper, 1843, item 582, and in his subsequent sale catalogues until 1850.

The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the Old Arcadia) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.

Formerly in the Royal Library.

Formerly owned by Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935), Boston banker and book collector.

Recorded in De Ricci, I (1935), 949.

Recorded in De Ricci, I (1935), 949.

Inscribed on the title-page Do Panton. Later owned by Bertram, fifth Earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913). Sotheby's, 6 December 1897 (Ashburnham sale, Part 3), lot 2174, to Quaritch.

From the papers of the Cartwright family of Aynho. Formerly an unnumbered MS in C(A) Box 56, in the Northamptonshire Record Office.

Bookplate of John Richards Jr, D.S.A. Sotheby's, 27 April 1870 (John Bruce sale), to Edward Hailstone (1818-90), antiquary, botanist and book collector, of Walton Hall, Wakefield. Bookplate of John Richards Jr, FSA. Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 314, to Quaritch, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Inscriptions including Thomas machon his Booke 1667, Henrique Gudrique, and John Sparke His Book Anno Dom 1699. Sotheby's, 11 December 1997, lot 65, to Rick Adams.

Facsimiles of the boar crest and cover in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Facsimiles of the boar crest and cover in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Inscribed name of H[arriet] Crofts. Bookplate of Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh Baronet, MP (1767-1846), of Beechwood, Hertfordshire. Phillips, 11 November 1993, lot 603.

Illustrated in the Phillips sale catalogue and in Peter Dawkins, Dedication to the Light (The Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal, Ser. I, vol. 3, 1984), p. 146.

Illustrated in the Phillips sale catalogue and in Peter Dawkins, Dedication to the Light (The Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal, Ser. I, vol. 3, 1984), p. 146.

Given to Middelton on 20 April 1622 by Francis Burgoyne (d.1633), Prebendary of Durham. 19th-century bookplates or labels M. F. Middelton and Ex libris Charles Hervey Hoare. Sold in the 1980s by Joseph & Sawyer, booksellers

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

The crest on this volume illustrated in Peter Dawkins, Dedication to the Light (The Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal, Ser. I, vol. 3, 1984), p. 145.

Later owned by William Bromley-Davenport, of Baginton Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 8 May 1903, lot 339, to Ridler.

First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 1-85.

Later owned by W. Bromley-Davenport, of Baginton Hall, Warwickshire. Not apparently among other recorded collections or sale catalogues of Bromley-Davenport MSS, it may have perished in a fire at Baginton in 1884.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 78, and in Folger edition, Volume V.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 78, and in Folger edition, Volume V.

First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica (1844), item 1284. Puttick & Simpson, 4 February 1863 (Dering sale), lot 899, to Willis. Willis & Sotheran's sale catalogue No. 191 (25 February 1863), item 565. Puttick & Simpson's, 31 October 1864, lot 811, to Cole.

First published in London, 1660. Second (revis'd and augmented) edition published in London 1660, and reprinted in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, 3 vols (Amsterdam [London], 1698). Columbia, VI, 107-49. Yale, VII, 340-463.

Sotheby's, 10 July 2001, lot 22 (unsold).

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.

Formerly in the Barham Library belonging to the Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

This MS described in Brightman, p. xviii.

This MS described in Brightman, p. xviii.

First published in an English translation as The Private Devotions, ed. Humphrey Moseley (London, 1647). Selections of the original Greek and Latin version published in Verus Christianus, ed. David Stokes (Oxford, 1668). A more comprehensive version published as Preces privatae, Graece et Latine, ed. John Lamphire (London, 1675). Translated by F.E. Brightman as The Preces Privatae of Lancelot Andrewes (London, 1903).

Owned in 1697 by one Isaiah Bartlett. From the family papers of John Loveday (1711-89), of Caversham, Oxfordshire, and formerly at Williamscote House, near Banbury.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

Inscribed Thomas Beesly his booke, Richard Dewe, and Stephen Philips his booke, and possibly associated with the University of Oxford. Sotheby's, 17 July 2008, lot 133, to Anonymous, with facsimiles of pp. 20-1 in the sale catalogue.

A set of photocopies is in the British Library, RP 9362.

Auction sale by F. O. Beggi, 17 March 1864, lot 357.

Stern, p. 206.

Stern, p. 206.

Owned in April 1904 by the Rev. Walter Begley, 24 Greencroft Gardens, Hampstead.

Moore Smith, p. 81. Stern, p. 205.

Moore Smith, p. 81. Stern, p. 205.

Sotheby's, 13 December 1990, lot 294, to T. D'Arch Smith, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Formerly among Tonson papers belonging to W.R. Baker, at Bayfordbury, Hertfordshire. Christie's, 17 December 1907, lot 152, to Sotheran. Sotheby's, 17 March 1930, lot 183, to Maggs.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 70. Edited in Gentleman's Magazine, NS 5 (May 1836), 481-2, and (from a transcript made by Edmond Malone and owned by G. Thorn-Drury) in Summers, I, xlv-xlvi.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 70. Edited in Gentleman's Magazine, NS 5 (May 1836), 481-2, and (from a transcript made by Edmond Malone and owned by G. Thorn-Drury) in Summers, I, xlv-xlvi.

Frank B. Benger, Leatherhead, Surrey, sale catalogue 10 (1940s?), item 1. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale, Part II), lot 441, to Clarke, with a facsimile of the first page in the sale catalogue as Plate 40, facing p. 116.

First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

Spenser's authorship of this View is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr, ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

Formerly in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in John Sparrow, Manuscript Corrections in the Two Issues of Donne's Biathanatos, BC, 21 (Spring 1972), 29-32. Also discussed in Ernest Sullivan, Authoritative Manuscript Corrections in Donne's Biathanatos, SB, 28 (1975), 268-76.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in John Sparrow, Manuscript Corrections in the Two Issues of Donne's Biathanatos, BC, 21 (Spring 1972), 29-32. Also discussed in Ernest Sullivan, Authoritative Manuscript Corrections in Donne's Biathanatos, SB, 28 (1975), 268-76.

First published in London, [1647]. Reprinted in facsimile, ed. J.W. Hebel (New York, 1930). Edited by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Bettin (New York, 1982) and by Ernest W. Sullivan II (Newark, NJ, 1984).

Formerly among the MSS of the Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.

Recorded in HMC, 8th Report (1881), Appendix, p. 25.

Recorded in HMC, 8th Report (1881), Appendix, p. 25.

A tract beginning The ordinary theme and argument of history is war.... First published (in part), as The Misery of Invasive Warre, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 5 July 1858 (Bliss sale). Puttick & Simpson, 14 December 1893, lot 349.

Moore Smith, p. 86. Stern, p. 217 (as wherabouts unknown).

Moore Smith, p. 86. Stern, p. 217 (as wherabouts unknown).

Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 21 June 2001, lot 20.

Compiled by Robert Bolles, second Baronet, of Scampton, and of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

T. Coxeter et al. sale catalogue, Osborne, 1748, item 15.

Christie's, 2 April 1982, lot 4, to Richard McNutt.

First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

Later owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly on temporary loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Bookplate of the Earl of Derby, Knowsley House, Merseyside. Christie's, 23 March 1954, lot 248, to Quaritch. Afterwards owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly on temporary loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Briefly described in Phyllis M. Giles, A Handlist of the Bradfer-Lawrence manuscripts deposited on loan at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 2 (1973), 86-99 (p. 96).

Sotheby's, New York, 30 April-1 May 1990 (H. Bradley Martin sale), lot 2749.

This volume, or else DeJ 55, possibly corresponds to the exemplum of Gondibert (1651) with 118 lines on the fly-leaf sold at Sotheby's, 19 November 1906 (sale of the Trentham Hall Library of the Duke of Sutherland), lot 461.

First published, as Vpon the Preface, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 3-4. Banks, p. 313.

Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1990 (H. Bradley Martin sale), lot 3053. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (December 1990), item 68.

First published, among Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King, in Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 76-83. Darbishire, II, 163-70. Carey & Fowler, pp. 232-54.

Later owned by Jerome Kern (1885-1945), musical theatre and film composer. Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1990 (H. Bradley Martin sale), lot 3042.

From the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter, Martha, married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.

A bound set of photocopies of this volume is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/51.

From the collections of John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments. Inscribed (p. 1) returned to D^r Browne of Twickenham and Thomas [?]Aisley.

A bound set of photocopies of this volume is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/79.

Formerly among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter Martha married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.

Recorded in HMC 15, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), p. 116.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 3 March 1845 (Bright sale), lot 3223.

Later owned by Eric Sexton, FSA, of Rockport, Maine. Christie's, 15 April 1981 (Sexton sale), lot 165, to Thorp.

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

Sotheby's, 27 April 1982, lot 313 (unsold).

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

Owned in 1963 by Cleanth Brooks (1906-94), American professor and literary critic.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

Owned before 1697 by Thomas Brotherton, of Hey, Lancashire.

Recorded in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

Recorded in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

Copy, apparently headed The Copy of a Letter written by Sir Philip Sidney to our late famous Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur.

Owned by Thomas Brotherton of Hey, Lancashire.

Recorded by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

Recorded by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

Sotheby's, 24 March 1976 (Carter sale), lots 18-20, variously to G.F. Sims and to Sanders of Oxford.

Formerly owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), Pickering, North Yorkshire.

A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

Owned in 1889 by the Duke of Buccleuch, Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire.

Edited from this MS in Bullen.

Edited from this MS in Bullen.

First published in The Works of Dr. Thomas Campion, ed. A. H. Bullen (London, 1889), p. 405. Davis, p. 481.

Once owned by the Rev. W.E. Buckley. Sotheby's, 16 April 1894, lot 306.

First published in London, 1701. Summers, III, 79-86. Dobrée, pp. 187-95. McKenzie, II, 227-35.

Recorded by William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer, in his annotated exemplum of his A Roll of Honour (1908), p. 161, in the British Library (Cup.410.g.343).

Later in the library of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, Appendix II (1897), pp. 3 and 18 (where the poems by Rochester at the reverse end are erroneously attributed to Lord Rosebery).

Inscribed I lent this MS to Mr Hearne who published it at Oxon in 8^o. Later owned, and inscribed 26 August 1921, by the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Sotheby's, 14 March 1944 (Burns sale, second portion), lot 250.

This MS used by Thomas Hearne (1676-1735), Oxford antiquary, for his Latin edition of Roper's Life of More (Oxford, 1716). Collated in Hitchcock, and briefly described (as MS J), pp. xv-xvi.

This MS used by Thomas Hearne (1676-1735), Oxford antiquary, for his Latin edition of Roper's Life of More (Oxford, 1716). Collated in Hitchcock, and briefly described (as MS J), pp. xv-xvi.

First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

Later owned by the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Sotheby's, 14 March 1944 (Burns sale, second portion), lot 249.

This MS collated in Hitchcock, and briefly described (as MS B) p. xvi.

This MS collated in Hitchcock, and briefly described (as MS B) p. xvi.

First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

Sotheby's, 15 November 1926, lot 422A. Owned in 1932 by the Rt. Hon. John Burns: i.e. John Elliott Burns (1856-1943), labour leader and politician. Sotheby's, 14 March 1944 (Burns sale, second portion), lot 217, to Quaritch.

Later owned by Roger Barrett, Chicago lawyer. Simon Finch, sale catalogue No. 35 (1998), item 20, with a facsimile example.

Owned in 1926 by C.W. Brodribb.

Hodgson's, 16 November 1904, to Pearson.

This volume recorded in Mark English, Lost Autographs of John Skelton, David Lyndsay, and Thomas More, N&Q, 248 (December 2003), 385.

This volume recorded in Mark English, Lost Autographs of John Skelton, David Lyndsay, and Thomas More, N&Q, 248 (December 2003), 385.

Christie's, 29 May 1986, lot 15, to Heraldry Today.

John Wilson's sale catalogue No. 63 (c.1990), item 36.

Later owned by Lieutenant-Colonel G.H.W. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372.

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

Formerly among the Carew family papers at Crowcombe Court, Taunton, Somerset. Sotheby's, 6 May 1903 (Crowcombe Court Library sale), lot 270, to Ridler.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 373-4.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 373-4.

An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's railing invective against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign …; the main text, in three books, beginning It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge …, and ending … Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.

Later owned by Lieutenant-Colonel G.H.W. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.

First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

Listed by Humfrey Wanley (in Bodleian, Gough Oxford 22) as a MS in E. Carlisle's Bib. Angliæ 643.33. - 4^to: i.e. presumably in the library of Charles Howard (1669-1738), third Earl of Carlisle, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmorland.

First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

The authenticity of the signature cannot be confirmed, but the volume's association with Spedding suggests its likelihood.

Formerly owned by James Spedding (1808-81), literary editor and biographer, and later by Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Afterwards at University College London (Ogden A 303), but now untraced.

Richard Hatchwell, Malmesbury book dealer, in 2003.

Edited from this MS by Collier in 1848.

Written in 1619. First published, in a garbled format, by John Payne Collier in Vol. 39 of the Publications of the Shakspeare Society (1848). Edited from Collier's text, in rearranged form, in Martin Butler, George Chapman's Masque of the Twelve Months (1619), ELR, 37/3 (Autumn 2007), 360-400.

Apparently once owned, or used, by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger (? acquired from the Bridgewater library). Possibly later owned in 1933 by Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935), Boston banker and book collector.

The inscription is printed in Tannenbaum, p. 145, from the facsimile which appears in John Payne Collier, A Catalogue, Bibliographical and Critical, of Early English Literature (London, 1837), p. 53. The facsimile reproduced in Cummings, p. 223.

The inscription is printed in Tannenbaum, p. 145, from the facsimile which appears in John Payne Collier, A Catalogue, Bibliographical and Critical, of Early English Literature (London, 1837), p. 53. The facsimile reproduced in Cummings, p. 223.

Inscribed in 1796 by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; by Robert Stayner Holford, MP (1808-92), of Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, art collector; by Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935), Boston banker; and by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's 13 June 1979 (Houghton. sale Part I), lot 110, to Fleming. Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 1989 (Garden sale), lot 89. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1165, item 15.

Facsimile of the inscription in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 16, and in Cummings, p. 227.

Facsimile of the inscription in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 16, and in Cummings, p. 227.

Sotheby's, 13 December 1993, lot 287; 19 May 1994, lot 682; and 25 October 1994, lot 678, to Bradin T. Cormack, Stanford, California.

An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth … to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).

Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ …; the main text begins I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point …, and ends … to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.

Owned in 1978 by A. G. Thomas, London bookseller.

First published in Poeticall Essayes (London, 1599). Grosart, I, 221-56 (p. 230). Sprague, pp. 65-98 (p. 73).

Sotheby's, 12 December 2002, lot 179, to Bauman Rare Books, New York.

First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's Æneid Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, by David F.C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 30, 25, 27, 28 (Edinburgh & London, 1957-64).

Formerly owned by G.F. Wilbraham, of Delamere House.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 416.

Formerly among the MSS of Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall, Shropshire.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 338.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 338.

Spedding, VII, 567-611.

Sotheby's, 25 March 1974, lot 252, to A.G. Thomas.

Inscribed on the verso of the last leaf W. Bowles.

Inscribed on the verso of the last leaf W. Bowles.

Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

Purchased in Pittsburgh, PA, in the 1850s. Later owned by David G. Waxman, of Estates of Mind Rare Books & Manuscripts, Great Neck, NY. Sotheby's, 19 July 1993, lot 205 (unsold), with a facsimile of the title-page in the sale catalogue.

When offered in the London Antiquarian Book Fair in June 1991 the MS was cited in TLS, 21 June 1991, p. 22.

When offered in the London Antiquarian Book Fair in June 1991 the MS was cited in TLS, 21 June 1991, p. 22.

First published in 3 vols, Oxford, 1759.

Bookplate of Stanley J. Keyes. Later owned by David G. Waxman, of Estates of Mind Rare Books & Manuscripts, Great Neck, NY. Sotheby's, 19 July 1993, lot 204 (unsold). Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 21 June 2001, lot 26 (unsold).

First published in 2 vols, Oxford, 1811.

Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 24 June 1993, lot 189.

Petition beginning I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain.... Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?], and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

Later owned by John Pinkerton (1758-1826), by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, and (in 1836) by J. Bohn.

Recorded in Hamer, IV, 12, and in Kinsley, p. 2.

Recorded in Hamer, IV, 12, and in Kinsley, p. 2.

First published [in Edinburgh, 1579-80?]. Hamer, I, 145-96. Edited by James Kinsley (London & Edinburgh, 1959).

Inscribed Tho: Clarkes Booke Sid[ney] Suss[ex]: Coll[ege, Cambridge] 1654.

Formerly in the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire.

Sotheby's, 19 March 1852, lot 14, to Waller.

A petition to Cromwell dated [February 1656]. Published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. ([London], 1658). Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 142-6.

Later owned by John Thane (1747?-1818), manuscript and print dealer.

Facsimile of the subscription in Joseph Netherclift, Autograph Letters, Characteristic Extracts, and Signatures, from the Correspondence of Illustrious and Distinguished Women of Great Britain (London, 1838).

Facsimile of the subscription in Joseph Netherclift, Autograph Letters, Characteristic Extracts, and Signatures, from the Correspondence of Illustrious and Distinguished Women of Great Britain (London, 1838).

Once among the papers of the Clifford family.

Edited from this MS in Williamson.

Edited from this MS in Williamson.

Edited in George C. Williamson, Lady Anne Clifford (Kendal, 1922), p. 206.

Sotheby's, 13 December 1993, lot 243, to Grisenthwaite.

Formerly owned by the Leveson-Gower family, of Bill Hill, Berkshire.

Recorded in Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of her parents summarized by herself, ed. J.P. Gilson (London, Roxburghe Club, 1916), pp. xi-xii.

Recorded in Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of her parents summarized by herself, ed. J.P. Gilson (London, Roxburghe Club, 1916), pp. xi-xii.

The printed text here beginning There are also in this Countrey several sorts of Mineral Waters, very good against divers Diseases... and ending ...the Well is inclosed with a high wall, having at the.

Inscribed by Thomas Raffles (1788-1863), 24 December 1837. Richard M. Ford, London bookseller, April 2002.

Owned before 1937 by the Clifton Shakspere Society.

Recorded in Herford & Simpson, V, 7, and collated.

Recorded in Herford & Simpson, V, 7, and collated.

First published in London, 1607. Herford & Simpson, V, 1-137.

Once owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger.

Edited from this MS in John Payne Collier, An Old Man's Diary (London, 1871-2), part ii, p. 13, whence collated in Herford & Simpson.

Edited from this MS in John Payne Collier, An Old Man's Diary (London, 1871-2), part ii, p. 13, whence collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 410-11.

Alleged by Collier to contain seventeen sonnets by William Alabaster, sermons by Donne, King, etc., and a collection of miscellaneous poems, chiefly upon sacred subjects, collected in the reign of James I. The sermons are possibly the Merton MS (Bodleian, MS Eng. th. c. 71). The Alabaster and other poems are not identified, but the MS may have been genuine.

Owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who claims to have lent the MS, to a clergyman, when, in transit, Alabaster's sonnets accidentally escaped. The clergyman, who received only the sermons, was John Hannah (1818-88), archdeacon, schoolmaster and man of letters.

This MS, or MSS, discussed by Collier in his History of English Dramatic Poetry, 3 vols (London, 1831), II, 431-3, and in his Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books, 2 vols (London, 1865), I, i*, and by Hannah in his edition of Henry King's Poems and Psalms (Oxford, 1843), p. xxx. See also Sonnets of William, Alabaster (1959), pp. xlvii-xlviii.

Sotheby's, 26 October 1916, Lot 105, to Tregaskis.

Recorded in the catalogue of the R.B. Adam Library (1929), III, 70. Subsequently in the collection of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles).

Sotheby's, 25 July 1978, lot 363, and 14 March 1979, lot 327. Maggs's sale catalogues No. 1021 (1981), item 43, and No. 1126 (August 1991), item 48.

Sotheby's, 11 March 1908, lot 343, to Scott.

Laid in a printed exemplum of Congreve's Works (3 vols, London, 1761), sold at Sotheby's, New York, 14 December 1988, lot 73.

Sotheby's, 29 October 1962, lot 227, to Hamilton.

Owned in 1964 by Samuel Loveman, Bodley Book Shop, New York.

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. x.

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. x.

Sotheby's, 23 April 1923, lot 188, to Manning.

Sotheby's, 20 November 1903, lot 279, to Barker. Possibly the same document sold at Sotheby's, 19 February 1930, lot 402, to Dobell.

Owned in December 1989 by Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, booksellers, Calne, Wiltshire.

Berkeley, pp. 355-7. Hodges, No. 30. McKenzie, III, 169-70 (Letter 40).

Berkeley, pp. 355-7. Hodges, No. 30. McKenzie, III, 169-70 (Letter 40).

Owned in December 1989 by Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, booksellers, Calne, Wiltshire.

Berkeley, pp. 371-2. Hodges, No. 39. McKenzie, III, 175 (Letter 49).

Berkeley, pp. 371-2. Hodges, No. 39. McKenzie, III, 175 (Letter 49).

Bonhams, 22 November 2011, lot 221, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

McKenzie, III, 175 (Letter 50).

McKenzie, III, 175 (Letter 50).

Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 175, to Henry, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

William H. Robinson's sale catalogues No. 65 (1938), item 80, with a facsimile of an opening (but not showing MS corrections), and No. 73 (1941), item 313, with a facsimile of the title-page.

The MS corrections were compared in 1938 with those in MnJ 12 by A.W. Pollard. Recorded in LR, I, 355.

The MS corrections were compared in 1938 with those in MnJ 12 by A.W. Pollard. Recorded in LR, I, 355.

First published, among Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King, in Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 76-83. Darbishire, II, 163-70. Carey & Fowler, pp. 232-54.

Sotheby's, 11-14 December 1865, lot 702.

Recorded in Gentleman's Magazine, 3rd Ser. 2 (September 1866), 332, as having been recently discussed in the Pall Mall Gazette and sold at Sotheby's: see Columbia, XVIII, 644.

Recorded in Gentleman's Magazine, 3rd Ser. 2 (September 1866), 332, as having been recently discussed in the Pall Mall Gazette and sold at Sotheby's: see Columbia, XVIII, 644.

First published in London, 1671. Columbia, I, Part 2, 330-99. Darbishire, II, 59-109. Carey & Fowler, pp. 330-402.

Later in the library of John Buxton (1912-89), Reader in English Literature, Oxford University. Phillip J. Pirages's sale catalogue (1988), item 166.

Later owned by G. M. Smith. Puttick & Simpson, 30 July 1849, lot 357, and 30 January 1850, lot 275.

Formerly in the library of Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), with his shelfmark Vitellius D. IV. No longer among the Cotton MSS (in the British Library) and probably destroyed, with many of the Cotton MSS, in a fire in 1731. Extracts from Cotton MSS made by George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian, now at the University of Kansas (MS C63), do not include this MS.

Discussed in McCusker (1942), pp. 102-3.

Discussed in McCusker (1942), pp. 102-3.

Unpublished.

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue (1836), part ii, item 3674.

Unidentified sale catalogue, 1911.

Sotheby's, 3 March 1845, lot 681, to Anderton [i.e. J. L. Anderdon].

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue (1839), item 3628.

Undated sale catalogue of Joseph Lilly (d.1870), Bibliotheca curiosa, p. 26. In the library of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 12 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 772, to Pickering.

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, Three Book-Collectors, The Antiquary, 37 (1901), 88-9; in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, p. 29.

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, Three Book-Collectors, The Antiquary, 37 (1901), 88-9; in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, p. 29.

Sotheby's, 7 July 1845, lot 358, to Cotton.

Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt in N&Q, 2nd Ser. 11 (13 April 1861), 286, and in The Antiquary, 37 (1901), 89. Also recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, pp. 15, 29.

Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt in N&Q, 2nd Ser. 11 (13 April 1861), 286, and in The Antiquary, 37 (1901), 89. Also recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, pp. 15, 29.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale), lot 161, to Borg.

Discussed in Alvin I. Dust, The Seventh and Last Canto of Gondibert and Two Dedicatory Poems, JEGP, 60 (1961), 282-5.

Discussed in Alvin I. Dust, The Seventh and Last Canto of Gondibert and Two Dedicatory Poems, JEGP, 60 (1961), 282-5.

Later owned by John Dunn Gardner, MP (1811-1903). Sotheby's, 8 July 1854 (Gardner sale), lot 622, to Lilly.

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Later owned by Thomas Bateman (1821-61).

Recorded by Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing Remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Also recorded in Turner, p. 445, et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, p. 31.

Recorded by Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing Remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Also recorded in Turner, p. 445, et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, p. 31.

Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 November 1978, lot 44, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

Puttick & Simpson, 9 December 1857, lot 435, to Smith.

Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 30 October 1950 (Oliver R. Barrett sale), lot 274.

This letter was transcribed in the 19th century in the selective transcript of the Derby MS now in Derby Central Library (8469). The copyist notes: The preceding Letter in Cotton's own handwriting was sent me by J. E. Blake Esq. 14. Essex Street Strand, (in the year 1834) who inserted it as an illustration in his Copy of the Compleat Angler by Walton & Cotton. He discovered both that & the Answer, in searching among ancient Deeds belonging to the late Marquis of Townshend [descendant of the Ferrers family], which were brought from Tamworth Castle. The text of this transcript is given in Turner, pp. 70-1.

This letter was transcribed in the 19th century in the selective transcript of the Derby MS now in Derby Central Library (8469). The copyist notes: The preceding Letter in Cotton's own handwriting was sent me by J. E. Blake Esq. 14. Essex Street Strand, (in the year 1834) who inserted it as an illustration in his Copy of the Compleat Angler by Walton & Cotton. He discovered both that & the Answer, in searching among ancient Deeds belonging to the late Marquis of Townshend [descendant of the Ferrers family], which were brought from Tamworth Castle. The text of this transcript is given in Turner, pp. 70-1.

Once owned by Samuel Bagster, who wrote to Sir Henry Ellis about it on 25 October 1848, enclosing a rough transcript (see Parks, pp. 30-1). He described it as being in perfect preservation and as having on the back a page of a sermon in the handwriting of M^r. Walton Jun^r. Bagster's letter to Ellis is now in the British Library (among Ellis's collections relating to his edition of The Complete Angler: Add. MS 41313, ff. 67-8v), but without the transcript of Cotton's letter originally accompanying it. The letter might, conceivably be the original of his well-known letter to Walton of 10 March 1675/6, which prefaces Part II of The Compleat Angler (5th edition, London, 1676) (see Nicolas, II, 323-4).

Later owned by John Gerard Heckscher (1837-1908), New York book collector. Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5 February 1909 (Heckscher sale), lot 514.

Recorded in Parks, p. 32.

Recorded in Parks, p. 32.

Lilly's sale catalogue, 1881, item Montaigne.

Later owned by Thomas Bateman (1821-61). Sotheby's, 25 May 1893, lot 1346, to Kender.

Recorded by Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing Remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 21; and in Parks, p. 32.

Recorded by Bateman in Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing Remains, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 21; and in Parks, p. 32.

Edward Jeans sale catalogue, Norwich, 1860, item 3730. Puttick & Simpson, 11 June 1863, lot 1301, to Lonsdale.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 937 (Autumn 1971), item 24.

Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (H.S. Cotton sale), lot 84, to [J.L.] Anderdon.

Recorded in Parks, p. 32.

Recorded in Parks, p. 32.

Formerly in Derby Central Library, but now untraced.

Recorded in Turner, p. 347, and thence in Dust, p. 21.

Recorded in Turner, p. 347, and thence in Dust, p. 21.

Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt in his annotated exemplum of his own A Roll of Honour (London, 1908) in the British Library (Cup. 410. g. 343), p. 49.

Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt in his annotated exemplum of his own A Roll of Honour (London, 1908) in the British Library (Cup. 410. g. 343), p. 49.

Recorded as From the library of the Marquis of Hastings. Once owned by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 8 July 1919 (Huth sale), lot 7240, to F. Edwards. Sotheby's, 24 February 2000, lot 21, to Christopher Edwards, with a facsimile of the inscribed title-page in the sale catalogue.

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, Confessions of a Collector (London, 1897), p. 105; in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 21; and in Parks, p. 33.

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, Confessions of a Collector (London, 1897), p. 105; in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 21; and in Parks, p. 33.

Willis & Sotheran's sale catalogue for 1859, item 8940.

Charles W. Traylen's sale catalogue No. 90 (1980), item 254.

Recorded in Parks, p. 33.

Recorded in Parks, p. 33.

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 August 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 3662, to Lilly.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 735 (1944), item 136.

Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (H. S. Cotton sale), lot 74, to Pickering.

Recorded in Parks, p. 31.

Recorded in Parks, p. 31.

Pickering & Chatto's A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books (c.1910?), item 628.

Later owned by Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Thence to the collection of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles), L.6.68.

Edited in Memoirs illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, 2 vols (London, 1818), II, 229. Reprinted in Grosart, I, lxxvii-lxxviii.

Edited in Memoirs illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, 2 vols (London, 1818), II, 229. Reprinted in Grosart, I, lxxvii-lxxviii.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 71, to Lindsay.

Sotheby's, 26 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 77, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 48, to Sabin.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 108, to Sabin.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 119, to Sabin.

Sotheby's, 18 December 1905, lot 242, to Wadmore.

A presentation MS to John Spottiswood (1565-1639), Archbishop of St Andrews, with a Dedication to him, in a small roman script throughout, with little decoration.

Later owned by Elizabeth Sharp and in 1963 by G. S. Cox, in the Channel Islands.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 49 (p. 77).

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 49 (p. 77).

Verse Octonaires in French by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), first published in Paris, 1586. With two lines of Greek by Palladas and four lines of Latin before the Dedication.

Owned in 1799 by Thomas Crane, Minister of St Olave's, Chester (bookplate and inscription). Bookplate of Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe- Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 74.

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).

Descended from the family of William, Earl of Craven (1606-97).

Later owned by Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. W. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset. Sotheby's, 6 May, 1903 (Carew sale), lot 312, to Cotton.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372.

Once owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cunningham (1820-75), field engineer in the Madras Army (retired 1861) and afterwards editor of, and commentator on, Ben Jonson, Marlowe and Massinger. Cunningham's library was dispersed at Sotheby's, 17-21 July 1876, but no mention of this volume is made in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cunningham Volume: WaE Δ 18. The volume is briefly discussed by Cunningham in Waller's Poems, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 9 (10 March 1866), 192-3.

Autograph note by W.C. Hazlitt in his annotated exemplum of his A Roll of Honour (London, 1908), opposite p. 128, in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343, saying: T. K. possessed a copy of Daniel's Civil Wars, 1609, and wrote Killigrew on sigs. Q2.

Autograph note by W.C. Hazlitt in his annotated exemplum of his A Roll of Honour (London, 1908), opposite p. 128, in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343, saying: T. K. possessed a copy of Daniel's Civil Wars, 1609, and wrote Killigrew on sigs. Q2.

Later among the papers of Lord Dartmouth. Sotheby's, 9 March 1948, lot 440, to Myers.

A treatise, published anonymously, as A Freind to Caesar; or An humble proposicon for the more regular speedy and easy payment of his Ma^ts Treasury graunted, or to be graunted by the Lords and Comons assembled in Parliament for the carrying on of his Ma^ts: Expences whether Ordinary or Extraordinary both in time of Peace and Warr, beginning It appears by several Acts of Parliament..., in London, 1681. Pepys's authorship is uncertain.

Sotheby's, 14 March 1920, lot 518, to Hope, with a reduced facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Sotheby's, 4 April 1938, lot 117, to Doran. Christie's, 12 July 2000 (William Foyle sale, Part III), lot 329, the detached inscribed leaf only, in an extra-illustrated printed exemplum of Peter Cunningham, The Story of Nell Gwyn (London, 1852), opposite p. 11.

Formerly among the Egerton-Warburton MSS at Arley Hall, Cheshire. Sotheby's, 16 March 1937, lot 483, to King.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291.

Sotheby's, 7 August 1884 (J.P. Collier sale), lot 1052, to B. J. Stevens.

Sotheby's, 27 November 1807, lot 260, to Clarke & Sons.

First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 182-96. The poem originally intended to form part of Gondibert (see Gibbs, pp. lii et seq., 431).

Inscribed in another hand Henry Spurway bought this book of Sam. Butler, Anno. 1669, pr. 15s.. Pickering & Chatto's A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books, [c.1910?], item 1546.

Sotheby's, 9 May 1961, lot 282, to Dawson.

Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André de Coppet sale), lot 901, to Quaritch.

An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's railing invective against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign …; the main text, in three books, beginning It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge …, and ending … Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.

Sotheby's, 17 June 1969, lot 489, to Dobell. Privately owned in 1990.

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First published in London, 1609. Spedding, VI, 605-764.

Puttick & Simpson's, 3 June 1878, lot 93.

Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929) vol. III, p. 81.

Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929) vol. III, p. 81.

Puttick & Simpson's, 3 June 1878, lot 93.

Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929) vol. III, p. 81.

Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929) vol. III, p. 81.

With pasted-in Derby arms and inscription The Right Hon^ble James Earl of Derby Lord of Man and the Isles, 1702 [i.e. James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby].

This MS collated and briefly described in Hitchcock and Hallett, pp. xiv-xv.

This MS collated and briefly described in Hitchcock and Hallett, pp. xiv-xv.

A life of More written in 1599, possibly by Robert Basset (1574-1641), of Devon, a zealous Catholic and kinsman of More: see Andrew Breeze, Sir Robert Basset and The Life of Syr Thomas More, N&Q, 249 (September 2004), 263. The work first published in Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical History, vol. II (London, 1839). Edited, as The Lyfe of Syr Thomas More Sometymes Lord Chancellor of England, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and P.E. Hallett (EETS, London, 1950).

Later owned by the Rev. Guy Bryon, of Malden, Essex, and by Alex Robertson, of Inverscargill, New Zealand, who acquired it in 1924 from Dobell. Roy Davids's sale catalogue No.VI (1999), item 32.

Owned and recorded (as Alexand Dicson Artificiosa Memoriæ) in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Facsimile in R.C. Bald, Donne & the Drurys (Cambridge, 1959), facing p. 154.

Facsimile in R.C. Bald, Donne & the Drurys (Cambridge, 1959), facing p. 154.

Later owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, South Kensington, 18 December 1992 (unmentioned in the sale catalogue), to Arthur Freeman.

Bearing on the verso of the title-page, dated 1703, the bookplate of Thomas Millington, who was a relation of King. Pickering & Chatto's sale catalogue for 1900, item 2756.

Simon Finch's sale catalogue No. 8 (1991), item 33.

Sotheby's, 18 April 1803 (Robert Grave sale), lot 2021, to Forster.

Sotheby's, 22 May 1874 (Sir William Tite sale), lot 961, to Sotheran.

In the library of David Constable. Sold by Speare, 19 November 1828, lot 2926.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.

Owned in 1627 by William Drummond of Hawthornden, whose main books and MSS are in Edinburgh University Library and the National Library of Scotland, but the rest dispersed.

Recorded in Drummond's catalogue of his library, Auctarium Bibliothecae Edinburgenae (Edinburgh, 1627), p. 22. See Hamer, IV, 12, and Robert H. MacDonald, The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1371.

Recorded in Drummond's catalogue of his library, Auctarium Bibliothecae Edinburgenae (Edinburgh, 1627), p. 22. See Hamer, IV, 12, and Robert H. MacDonald, The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1371.

First published (in Hamer's Version III) in Edinburgh, 1602. Edited by James Kinsley (London, 1954).

The different versions of the play discussed in Anna J. Mill, Representations of Lyndsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, PMLA, 47. i (1932), 636-51, with corrigenda in PMLA, 48 (1933), 315-16; in Raymond A. Houk, Versions of Lindsay's Satire of the Three Estates, PMLA, 55. i (1940), 396-405; in John MacQueen, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, SSL, 3 (1965-6), 129-43; and in Anna Jean Mill, The Original Version of Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, SSL, 6 (1968-9), 67-75.

Sotheby's, 15 March 1876, lot 120.

Sotheby's, 4 February 1876.

Puttick & Simpson's, 3 June 1878, lot 93.

Later in the library of Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Afterwards in the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection, Somerville, New Jersey, L.3.222.

Ward, Letter 6. Facsimile in the catalogue of The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929), III, after p. 87.

Ward, Letter 6. Facsimile in the catalogue of The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929), III, after p. 87.

Formerly owned by Lord Sackville, at Knole Park, Kent.

Ward, Letter 22. Text, with a facsimile of the signature, in Charles J. Phillips, History of the Sackville Family, 2 vols (London, 1930), I, 444.

Ward, Letter 22. Text, with a facsimile of the signature, in Charles J. Phillips, History of the Sackville Family, 2 vols (London, 1930), I, 444.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858, lot 54 (withdrawn, as only a copy not autograph). Sotheby's, 19 December 1905, lot 317, to Sabin.

Ward, Letter 56, edited from a text in Illustrated London News (28 August 1858), p. 197. Printed facsimile example in Northamptonshire Record Office, D (CA) 302. NB. Also Ward and others identify the addressee as the Duke of Ormonde, but see Pierre Legouis, Dryden's Letter to Ormond, MLN, 66 (1951), 88-92.

Ward, Letter 56, edited from a text in Illustrated London News (28 August 1858), p. 197. Printed facsimile example in Northamptonshire Record Office, D (CA) 302. NB. Also Ward and others identify the addressee as the Duke of Ormonde, but see Pierre Legouis, Dryden's Letter to Ormond, MLN, 66 (1951), 88-92.

Later owned by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 12 June 1911 (Huth sale), lot 63, to Meylen.

Ward, Letter 5. Facsimiles in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Northamptonshire Record Office, D (CA) 302.

Ward, Letter 5. Facsimiles in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Northamptonshire Record Office, D (CA) 302.

The inscription relates to the family of Dryden's wife and would not be a likely subject for forgery.

W.H. Robinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, sale catalogue No. 18 (1927), item 264.

Formerly preserved in The Players Club, New York.

Described by John Malone in a periodical of c.1894-5, a cutting of which is in an extra-illustrated exemplum of George Alfred Townsend, The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth (New York, [1865]) now in the Harvard Theater Collection: see Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1141.

Described by John Malone in a periodical of c.1894-5, a cutting of which is in an extra-illustrated exemplum of George Alfred Townsend, The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth (New York, [1865]) now in the Harvard Theater Collection: see Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1141.

First published in London, 1638. Gifford & Dyce, IV, 101-88.

Owned in 1918 by A. de Castro Glubb, of Pendean, Liskeard, Cornwall.

Discussed in J.J. Alexander, An Otterton Notebook, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 50 (1918), 493-502.

Sotheby's, 4 April 1955, lot 202, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 15 March 1916, lot 108, to Dobell.

Thomas Osborne, Catalogue of the libraries of...several gentlemen (1748), item 248.

Written in a calligraphic script, some letters gilded, containing two miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, one of Elizabeth, the other of the Duc d'Anjou, bound in shagreen with gold enameled clasps, in the centre of each is a small ruby.

Subsequently given by James II to the Duke of Berwick. Later owned by Horace Walpole and then by the Duchess of Portland, who sold it on 24 May 1786. Bought by Queen Charlotte, who gave it to the dowager Duchess of Leeds. Exhibited in 1902 by J.W. Whitehead, of Southwood, at the Fine Art Society.

Photostats of the volume are in the British Library, Facsimile MS 218, which are annotated with a description by J. W. [Whitehead] dated 3 June 1893.

Recorded, with some annotations quoted and with a facsimile of Camden's inscription of ownership, in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, ed. Sir Henry Ellis, Camden Society 23 (London, 1843), p. 128 (and frontispiece).

Recorded, with some annotations quoted and with a facsimile of Camden's inscription of ownership, in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, ed. Sir Henry Ellis, Camden Society 23 (London, 1843), p. 128 (and frontispiece).

A microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, RP 1683.

Later owned by W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 313.

Later in the collection of Donald Frizell Hyde (1909-66) and Mary Hyde (1912-2003), Viscountess Eccles. Christie's, New York, 14 April 2004 (Lady Eccles sale), lot 34.

A facsimile opening in the sale catalogue.

A facsimile opening in the sale catalogue.

Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, lot 70, unsold. Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 11 July 2006, lot 271.

Facsimiles of the signatures in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 70, and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 442. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8989.

Facsimiles of the signatures in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 70, and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 442. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8989.

Sotheby's, 17 December 1998, lot 70, unsold. Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 11 July 2006, lot 271. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8989.

Owned in 1870 by T.E.P. Lefroy, of Hillcote, Bournemouth, Hampshire. One of the letters possibly that to an unspecified correspondent, dated from Ratisbon, 21 December 1685, offered at Sotheby's, 26 November 1891, lot 133. See EtG 000.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 56.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 56.

In a composite volume of five printed almanacs, the others being William Lilly, Merlini Anglici Ephemeris ([London], 1647: 2 copies), The Welsh-Man's New Almanacke for 1647 and Wharton, Hemeroscopeion for 1645.

Once owned by Mrs S.L. Barnard, of Cave Castle, East Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 23 June 1925, lot 347 to Thorp.

This MS recorded in de Beer, I, 48.

This MS recorded in de Beer, I, 48.

First published in selections in Bray (1818). The text for the period from 4 October 1699 to 1706 first published as a serialisation in Abinger Monthly Record, I (1889), pp. 7-8, 20,32, 48, 64, 76. II (1890), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 79-80, 96, 116, 132, 148, 167-8, 184, 199-200. III (1891-3), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 76, 92, 107-8, 127-8, 147-8, 167-8, 191-2, 215-16, 235-6, 251-2, 271-2, 291-2, 311-12, 328, 343-4, 364, 393-6, 414-28, 439-58. The Diary first published in full (but for missing pages) in de Beer (1955).

Mary Evelyn's name inscribed in the volume in the hand of Richard Hoare. Christie's, 8 November 1978, lot 14 (with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue), to Quaritch.

Inscribed (on a flyleaf) Mary Evelyn and names of later owners. Owned in 1936 by Viscount Falmouth, Tregothnan, Truro, Cornwall.

Edited from this MS by Walter Frere (London, 1936), with a facsimile of pp. 64-5 as frontispiece. Recorded in Keynes, p. 254.

Edited from this MS by Walter Frere (London, 1936), with a facsimile of pp. 64-5 as frontispiece. Recorded in Keynes, p. 254.

Puttick and Simpson's, 2 June 1921, lot 172, to Last.

Mounted in an album by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, with his note stating that these drawings were done for Elysium Britannicum, together with material relating to the first edition of Evelyn's Memoirs (1818).

Sotheby's, 30 June 1964, lot 464, to A.G. Thomas.

Intended to be Evelyn's magnum opus on horticulture, this work remained unfinished: see Keynes, p. 236. Edited by John E. Ingram, as Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).

Formerly owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.

Facsimile of this MS in Charles John Smith, Historical and Literary Curiosities (London, 1847), No. 57.

Facsimile of this MS in Charles John Smith, Historical and Literary Curiosities (London, 1847), No. 57.

Sotheby's, 4 July 1917, lot 466, to Tregaskis. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 445 (1923), item 123.

Christie's, South Kensington, 8 June 2004, lot 147, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 557.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 489.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 527.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 539.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 576.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 577.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 601.

Formerly Christ Church, Evelyn MS 603.

Inventory of Pictures and other=Houshold-stuff Left at Says-Court 1696 and a 27-page list of books, partly autograph, partly in another hand, on 66 octavo pages in all, badly damaged.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 579.

Formerly part of Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 579.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 532.

Intended to be Evelyn's magnum opus on horticulture, this work remained unfinished: see Keynes, p. 236. Edited by John E. Ingram, as Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 472.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 492.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 559.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 547.

This MS recorded in Bray, UU, part i, p. 103.

This MS recorded in Bray, UU, part i, p. 103.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 421.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 426.

Drawing of an Egyptian stone, with an autograph note, on two folio leaves.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 544.

Formerly a Folder of Drawings in Christ Church, Oxford.

Reproduced in Bray, II, part i, after p. 120.

Reproduced in Bray, II, part i, after p. 120.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 419.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 429.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 543.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 51.

Iin a volume of 201 pages, with Evelyn's autograph notes on p. 201 and on the flyleaf stating This Trifle from p: 89 is much out of Senectus: It is all full of Errors & needs correction.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 89.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 554.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 555.

Edited from this MS in Bray (1818), II, Part i, pp. 33-48. Reported to be at Wotton House in Wheatley (1893), p. 85. Recorded in Keynes, p. 7. Listed as A Discourse of Manuscripts, Begun but Imperfect in one of Evelyn's lists in British Library, Add. MS 15950, f. 80r (EvJ 35).

Edited from this MS in Bray (1818), II, Part i, pp. 33-48. Reported to be at Wotton House in Wheatley (1893), p. 85. Recorded in Keynes, p. 7. Listed as A Discourse of Manuscripts, Begun but Imperfect in one of Evelyn's lists in British Library, Add. MS 15950, f. 80r (EvJ 35).

Christie's, 15 March 1978, lot 1066 (with a facsimile of the main annotation in the sale catalogue), to Quaritch.

Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Morrison sale), lot 2820, to G. D. Smith.

Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Morrison sale), lot 2821, to Francis Edwards.

Recorded in Sampson, p. 224.

Recorded in Sampson, p. 224.

First published in Sampson (1939), Appendix.

Later owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Sotheby's, 16 June 1846 (Upcott sale), lot 555, to Thomas Rodd.

First published in London, 1697. Keynes, pp. 229-34.

Later owned by J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 23 April 1914 (Hodgkin sale), lot 244, to Francis Edwards.

Recorded in HMC, 39, 15th report, Appendix II (1897), p. 184.

Recorded in HMC, 39, 15th report, Appendix II (1897), p. 184.

Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 26, to Winifred Myers.

Formerly among the Fairfax papers at Leeds Castle, Kent.

Recorded as an autograph epitaph by Edward Fairfax on the late monarch in The Fairfax Correspondence, I, 2-3.

Recorded as an autograph epitaph by Edward Fairfax on the late monarch in The Fairfax Correspondence, I, 2-3.

A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

Later owned by Professor A. Stanton Whitfield. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 271.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale), lot 275, to Fleming.

With elaborately coloured and gilt arms and decorated borders, executed by Henrietta Louisa Fermor (1698-1761), Countess of Pomfret, Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales, as a presentation MS to Princess Anne probably on the occasion of her betrothal to William IV of Orange-Nassau.

Sotheby's, 12 July 2007, lot 27, with illustration in the sale catalogue.

First published in Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1650-66. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 406-27.

Formerly among the Finch MSS at Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. (Not among the Finch MSS in the Leicestershire Record Office and possibly destroyed in a fire in 1908).

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516.

Sotheby's, April 1963, lot 494.

The volume was once Library of Congress KD7290 .F57132 1579, but was destroyed probably in the late 1980s. A microfilm is Library of Congress, Microfilm 85/10017 LL.

Probably the exemplum of The Office of Sheriff (London, printed by Thomas Marsh, undated) owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Stern, p. 213 (recording the volume as whereabouts unknown).

Stern, p. 213 (recording the volume as whereabouts unknown).

Sotheby's, 19 March 1951 (Bridgewater Library sale), lot 135, to Rosenbach, with a facsimile of the complete poem in the sale catalogue. Sotheby's, 8 November 1965, lot 122, also with a facsimile in the sale catalogue. Zeitlin and Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, sale catalogue No. 246 (Autumn, 1978).

Discussed in correspondence by Bent Juel-Jensen and John Kerr in TLS, 23 December 1965, p. 1204, and 20 January 1966, p. 43.

Discussed in correspondence by Bent Juel-Jensen and John Kerr in TLS, 23 December 1965, p. 1204, and 20 January 1966, p. 43.

Sotheby's, 19 March 1951 (Bridgewater Library sale), lot 134, to Pickering, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

Sotheby's, 17 June 1974, lot 251, to Foley.

First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, A Roll of Honor (1908), his annotated exemplum in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343, opposite p. 245.

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, A Roll of Honor (1908), his annotated exemplum in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343, opposite p. 245.

Copy, headed Rochesters censure of the poets, on four folio pages, formerly in a composite volume of MS verse and prose collected by Richard Frank (c.1698-1762), of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire.

Chiefly comprising papers of the Yorkshire antiquary Nathaniel Johnston (1627-1705).

This volume recorded (as Bacon Frank Vol. 21) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 457-8. The rest of the volume, lacking this poem, is now Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 25.

This volume recorded (as Bacon Frank Vol. 21) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 457-8. The rest of the volume, lacking this poem, is now Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 25.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

Formerly in the possession of Major General Sir Reginald John Pinney (1863-1943) of Racedown, Dorset.

This MS edited in Bergen Evans, Thomas Fuller at Broadwindsor, RES, 7 (1931), 452-3.

This MS edited in Bergen Evans, Thomas Fuller at Broadwindsor, RES, 7 (1931), 452-3.

Endorsed Alex Fuller 10. June 1937. Bonham's, 18 December 2002, lot 776, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Photocopies of this MS are in the British Library, RP 8200.

Loosely inserted bookplate of David Garrick (1717-79), actor. Sotheby's, 8 December 1983, lot 48 (unsold).

Stated by Halliwell-Phillipps in 1853 to be in the Plymouth Proprietary Library, but no record of this known. Recorded by him in 1860 as having been in private hands. 4^to, 1853 (see Clark, II, 827-8).

Edited from this MS by Halliwell-Phillipps (1853). Partly edited from Halliwell-Phillipps's edition, with collations, in Clark.

Edited from this MS by Halliwell-Phillipps (1853). Partly edited from Halliwell-Phillipps's edition, with collations, in Clark.

Probably privately performed (as Altamira) in Ireland, c.1662. Staged in London 14 September 1664. First published, and attributed to James Shirley, in J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps, A Brief Description of the Ancient and Modern Manuscripts Preserved in the Public Library, Plymouth: To which are added, Some fragments of Early Literature Hitherto Unpublished (London, 1853), pp. 55-175. Clark, I, 101-64.

Later owned by Philip Harcourt (d.1759), barrister.

Recorded in Thomas Hearne, Gulielmi Neubrigensis historia (Oxford, 1719), p. 752. Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 14 (p. 44).

Recorded in Thomas Hearne, Gulielmi Neubrigensis historia (Oxford, 1719), p. 752. Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 14 (p. 44).

Presumably in Latin and derived from the Book of Genesis in the Bible.

In 1931 this MS was in the Jesuit Résidence in Ghent, Belgium, but is no longer there. Unless destroyed in World War II it may have been transferred to other Belgian Jesuit archives.

This MS collated in de Buck and described pp. 9-11.

This MS collated in de Buck and described pp. 9-11.

First published in Spiritual Exercises and Devotions of Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J., ed. J.M. de Buck, S.J. (London, 1931).

Later owned by Frank Capra (1897-1991), film director. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 27 April 1949, lot 227, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.

This inscription edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 666.

This inscription edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 666.

In a printed exemplum of The Faerie Queene, Books I-III, first issue without the complimentary sonnet to Lord Burghley (London, 1590).

Bearing an inscription in Greek meaning the author to himself and therefore possibly owned by Spenser himself. Other early inscriptions including D: S:, T: B:, mr john borlace gave mee this booke 1630; sum e libris G. Coxe;Eliza: Morgan her Booke; S: Byrch, and Gul: N[ ] Coll Rega. Owned before 1907 by Sir Israel Gollancz (1863-1930), and in 1929 by Dr Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach (1876-1952), bookseller, collector and scholar. Owned in 1946 by Frank H. Hogan. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23-4 April 1946 (Hogan sale, Part 3), lot 156, to Ray Hartz. A. Hime, Idyllwild, California, sale catalogue 8 (1983), item 26. Sotheby's, New York, 11 October 1991 (Richard Manney sale), lot 285.

This MS (formerly but no longer thought to be autograph) edited, with A. Judson's discussion, in Minor Poems, II, 419-20. Edited also in the 1991 Sotheby's sale catalogue. Facsimile in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 3.

For some of the sale history of this volume, see Edwin Wolf 2nd and J.F. Fleming, Rosenbach (London, 1960), pp. 433, 540.

This MS (formerly but no longer thought to be autograph) edited, with A. Judson's discussion, in Minor Poems, II, 419-20. Edited also in the 1991 Sotheby's sale catalogue. Facsimile in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 3.

For some of the sale history of this volume, see Edwin Wolf 2nd and J.F. Fleming, Rosenbach (London, 1960), pp. 433, 540.

First published in Amoretti and Epithalamion ([London], 1595). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 191-232 (p. 195).

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part 1), lot 161, to Borg.

Sotheby's, 21 July 1983, lot 18, to Blackwell, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Owned at some time by Howes Bookshop Ltd, Hastings, Sussex.

Apparently compiled by one R. C. (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.

Recorded in Hannah (1845).

Recorded in Hannah (1845).

First published in London, 1624.

Later owned by the Rev. William Parr Greswell (1765-1854), bibliographer. Sotheby's, 28 February-5 March 1855 (Greswell sale), lot 286.

This volume recorded in Mark English, Lost Autographs of John Skelton, David Lyndsay, and Thomas More, N&Q, 248 (December 2003), 385.

This volume recorded in Mark English, Lost Autographs of John Skelton, David Lyndsay, and Thomas More, N&Q, 248 (December 2003), 385.

Once belonging to Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Later part of MS XXXIII among the collections of Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary. Part of eight leaves sold at Sotheby's, 31 March 1936, lot 188, to Last, five of which are now in Yale, Osborn Poetry Box VI/107 (see RaW 100).

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), p. 161.

Formerly MS XXXIV among the collections of Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), p. 162.

Ballard's First book.

Ballard's First book.

Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).

Ballard's second book.

Ballard's second book.

Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).

Ballard's third book.

Ballard's third book.

Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).

Ballard's fourth book.

Ballard's fourth book.

Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).

Ballard's eighth book.

Ballard's eighth book.

Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).

Ballard's eleventh book

Ballard's eleventh book

Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).

Ballard's fourteenth book.

Ballard's fourteenth book.

Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).

Autograph letter signed by Hall, to a lady (a long letter of condolence on the death of her son), on four octavo pages, from Higham, 23 September 1651.

Holloway & Son, London, sale catalogue of Autographs and Manuscripts, [c.1870], item 294.

Christie's, 13-14 June 1979 (Arthur A. Houghton Jr sale, Part 1), lot 247, to Maggs.

Books IV-VI first published as Virgidemiarvm. The three last Bookes (London, 1598). Wynter, IX, 563-680. Davenport, pp. 5-99. Comprising six books of satires following a Defence to Enuie and Prologue.

Sotheby's, 21 July 1983, lot 28, to Sall.

Facsimile of p. 265 in Sotheby's sale catalogue. Facsimile of both pages in the British Library, RP 2601.

Facsimile of p. 265 in Sotheby's sale catalogue. Facsimile of both pages in the British Library, RP 2601.

First published in London, 1603.

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Sotheby's, 12 December 1977, Lot 87, to J.F. Fleming.

Later in the library of James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Sotheby's, 11 June 1885 (Crossley sale), lot 890.

Formerly among the MSS of John Harvey of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Possibly destroyed in a fire in 1937.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 63.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 63.

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

In an octavo composite volume of state tracts, including The Manner of Sir Philip Sidneyes Death by his chaplain George Gifford (wrongly attributed to Fulke Greville), all in a single small neat hand, 72 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

Formerly among the MSS of John Harvey of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Maggs, sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2129. Afterwards owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financier and broker. Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (De Coppet sale), lot 888, to Quaritch. The volume possibly broken up afterwards. The Gifford tract at least owned by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.

A treatise beginning Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse.... First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.

The book owned and inscribed by Lucy Hastings (d.1679), daughter of Sir John Davies and wife of Ferdinando Hastings (1609-56), sixth Earl of Huntingdon. Sotheby's, 9 December 1993, lot 11 (unsold).

Six verses, unpublished.

Apparently prepared as a New Year's Gift, but with an inscription on the cover For my cousin Mr Robert Frenche, Clerk of Kircaldie, 17 Junij 1616, and with A small miniature portrait.

Owned by Alexander Hay, King's Apothecary, and presented by him before 1692 to the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh (where it was Adv. MS 18.3.46). Recorded there by David Laing (1793-1878), but lost sometime between 1892 and 1912.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 48 (pp. 76-7).

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 48 (pp. 76-7).

Verse Octonaires in French by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), first published in Paris, 1586.

Later owned by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts, and afterwards by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 528, to Payne.

First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 529, to Thomas Thorpe.

First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so?).

Formerly owned by Richard Heber (1773-1833), book collector.

Edited from his transcript of this MS in John Payne Collier, Ben Jonson and Alexander Gill, The Athenaeum, No. 1957 (29 April 1865), pp. 587-8, whence collated in Herford & Simpson.

Edited from his transcript of this MS in John Payne Collier, Ben Jonson and Alexander Gill, The Athenaeum, No. 1957 (29 April 1865), pp. 587-8, whence collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 410-11.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

Cited in Evans, p. 167, as Heber MS. 1043.

Cited in Evans, p. 167, as Heber MS. 1043.

First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.

Waller's sale catalogue, No. 123 (1879), lot 104.

First published in The Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, I (London, 1836). Hutchinson, pp. 418-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 108-17.

Formerly owned by Lady Langman.

This MS collated in Hutchinson and described p. 571. Erroneously recorded in IELM, I.ii (1980) as at Clare College, Cambridge.

This MS collated in Hutchinson and described p. 571. Erroneously recorded in IELM, I.ii (1980) as at Clare College, Cambridge.

First published in London, 1640. Hutchinson, pp. 321-55.

Alleged by Nichols to be from the collection of Miss Anne Nichols.

A facsimile in John Gough Nichols, Autographs of Royal, Noble, Learned, and Remarkable Personages conspicuous in English History (London, 1829), facing p. [93].

A facsimile in John Gough Nichols, Autographs of Royal, Noble, Learned, and Remarkable Personages conspicuous in English History (London, 1829), facing p. [93].

Contemporary ownership inscription of Robert Hesketh. Also inscribed by Robert Scaliger, 1630. Phillips, 15 June 1989, lot 48.

First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

Later owned by Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949), Hertfordshire solicitor. Sotheby's, 12 December 1977, lot 110, to Quaritch.

Once belonging to Dr William Standfast, rector of Clifton, Nottinghamshire.

Edited in F. Peck, Desiderata Curiosa, 2 vols (London, 1732-5), I, Book 6, No. X. Reprinted in Molesworth, English, VII, 452-3. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 22-3, Letter 12.

Edited in F. Peck, Desiderata Curiosa, 2 vols (London, 1732-5), I, Book 6, No. X. Reprinted in Molesworth, English, VII, 452-3. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 22-3, Letter 12.

Once belonging to Dr William Standfast, rector of Clifton, Nottinghamshire.

Edited in F. Peck, Desiderata Curiosa, 2 vols (London, 1732-5), I, Book 6, No. XI. Reprinted in Molesworth, English, VII, 454-5. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 30-1, Letter 17.

Edited in F. Peck, Desiderata Curiosa, 2 vols (London, 1732-5), I, Book 6, No. XI. Reprinted in Molesworth, English, VII, 454-5. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 30-1, Letter 17.

Later in the collection of William and Thomas Bateman, of Lomberdale House, Youlgrave, Derbyshire. Sotheby's, 3 June 1893 (Bateman sale), lot 143, to Pearson.

Recorded in Malcolm & Tolonen, p. 486.

Recorded in Malcolm & Tolonen, p. 486.

Later owned by Major W.R. Waller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995, lot 106, to Dr Schram. Christie's, 3 July 2007 (Dr Albin Schram sale), lot 508. Facsimiles in both sale catalogues.

Edited in Philip R. Wikelund, Thus I passe my time in this place: An Unpublished Letter of Thomas Hobbes, ELN, 6 (1968-9), 263-8. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 124, Letter 39.

Edited in Philip R. Wikelund, Thus I passe my time in this place: An Unpublished Letter of Thomas Hobbes, ELN, 6 (1968-9), 263-8. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 124, Letter 39.

Sotheby's, 16 December 1824, lot 142, to Triphook. Puttick and Simpson's, 2 March 1870 (Jacob Henry Burn sale), lot 212, to Addington. Sotheby's, 24 April 1876 (Addington sale), lot 170, to Goupil. Then in the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 13 December 1917 (Morrison sale), lot 512, to Captain Lindsay.

Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 169-71, Letter 58. Facsimile in Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, II (1885), Plate 89, facing p. 296.

Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 169-71, Letter 58. Facsimile in Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, II (1885), Plate 89, facing p. 296.

Formerly among the Egerton-Warburton muniments at Arley Hall, Cheshire (dispersed in 1937).

Edited in Molesworth English, IV, 458-60. Summarized in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291. A slightly abbreviated version, dated 6 November 1668, was printed in Edward Howard, The British Princes (London, 1669), sig. a7^v-a8^r. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 704-5, Letter 184.

Edited in Molesworth English, IV, 458-60. Summarized in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291. A slightly abbreviated version, dated 6 November 1668, was printed in Edward Howard, The British Princes (London, 1669), sig. a7^v-a8^r. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 704-5, Letter 184.

Formerly among the muniments of the Duke of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire (MS III. C. 3).

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 82. Edited from this MS, as if Hobbes's holograph. In Strong, with a facsimile of the first page facing p. 55. Recorded in Macdonald & Hargreaves, p. xv.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 82. Edited from this MS, as if Hobbes's holograph. In Strong, with a facsimile of the first page facing p. 55. Recorded in Macdonald & Hargreaves, p. xv.

A tract in twenty-three sections, beginning The most naturall & easy posture of the body of a Horse, at rest, is in a streight line…. First published, as if ny Hobbes, in S. Arthur Strong, A Catalogue of Letters and Other Historical Documents Exhibited in the Library at Welbeck (London, 1903), pp. 237-40. Probably written by Robert Payne (1596-1651), the Cavendish family's chaplain.

Also ownership inscription of A.H. Eccles, of Brasenose College, Oxford, 1765. Sotheby's, 24 July 1995, lot 36.

Photocopies of eight pages are in the British Library, RP 6030.

Photocopies of eight pages are in the British Library, RP 6030.

Christie's, 3 December 1986, lot 279, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue, p. 37.

A defence of the government of women by the Lo: Howard in fol: is listed at Holkham Hall, Norfolk (Coke Library scroll, Archives) as being among MSS owned by Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), Attorney General.

An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's railing invective against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign …; the main text, in three books, beginning It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge …, and ending … Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale), lot 247, to Maggs.

Books IV-VI first published as Virgidemiarvm. The three last Bookes (London, 1598). Wynter, IX, 563-680. Davenport, pp. 5-99. Comprising six books of satires following a Defence to Enuie and Prologue.

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector.

Recorded in Ringler, p. 493.

Recorded in Ringler, p. 493.

First published in Arcadia (London, 1593), a blank space having been left for this epitaph in the edition of 1590. Ringler, p. 241.

Once in the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary, of Naworth, Cumberland.

Recorded, as Cavendish Life of Cardinal Wolsey. On paper 4t^o, in Selections from the Household Books of the Lord William Howard of Naworth Castle, Surtees Society, 68 (1877), p. 486, No. 19. Edwards (item b).

Recorded, as Cavendish Life of Cardinal Wolsey. On paper 4t^o, in Selections from the Household Books of the Lord William Howard of Naworth Castle, Surtees Society, 68 (1877), p. 486, No. 19. Edwards (item b).

First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

Cochrane's sale catalogue of manuscripts, No. 2 (1837), item 528. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogues of manuscripts, 1841, item 609; and 1846, p. 45.

First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, [c.1636?] (no title-page known). 2nd edition [London, 1666]. Molesworth, Latin, V, 319-40.

Christie's, 10 January 1831, lot 114. Possibly the same MS, including other verses and Hobbes's Vita carmine expressa (1879), ex libris the Earl of Sefton, later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector, sold at Sotheby's, 25 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 110, to Sotheran.

First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, [c.1636?] (no title-page known). 2nd edition [London, 1666]. Molesworth, Latin, V, 319-40.

Owned in 1806 by Julius Hutchinson.

Ex Bibliotheca Constantini Hugenii: i.e. the Dutch diplomatist and poet Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687). Janus Albinus, Catalogus...librorum (Dordrecht, 1696), p. 325, as item 41 in the section Libri Manuscripti in Folio.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

Initials E: B on the spine. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (John Brett-Smith sale), lot 119, to Bayntun-Coward.

First published in London, 1692. McKenzie, III, 1-62.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 493 (1927), item 282A.

Facsimile of the boar's crest cover in Maggs's sale catalogue, Plate LIX.

Facsimile of the boar's crest cover in Maggs's sale catalogue, Plate LIX.

Sotheby's, 21 December 1937, lot 552.

Facsimile of the boar crest and cover in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Facsimile of the boar crest and cover in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Sotheby's. 18 February 1947, lot 292.

Facsimile of the boar crest and cover in Sotheby's sale catalogue, Plate II.

Facsimile of the boar crest and cover in Sotheby's sale catalogue, Plate II.

Sotheby's, 11 May 1953, lot 52.

bookplate of Sir Willoughby Jones and inscribed by him in 1859. Also bookplate of Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935), Boston banker and book collector. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale), lot 22, to Kraus.

Facsimile of the boar's crest and cover in the sale catalogue, Plate 5 opposite p. 32.

Facsimile of the boar's crest and cover in the sale catalogue, Plate 5 opposite p. 32.

W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 240 (as whereabouts unknown). Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 240 (as whereabouts unknown). Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

David Constable's sale catalogue, 19 November 1828, item 2926.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.

Formerly among the papers of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. (Not among the Isham papers in the Northamptonshire Record Office.)

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix p. 253.

From the papers of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 253.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 253.

Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

From the papers of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 253.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 253.

A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past.... First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.

Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, Who is the author of the tract intitled Some observations touching trade with the Hollander?, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Copy of An humble supplication to her Majesty, wherein is an Answer to a Proclamation in 1591 against Seminary Priests. As also the Death of the Queen of Scots, Ballard, Babbington, and the Residue of the Confederates, how and by what means they were drawn into the same, on folio leaves.

Whiston's sale catalogue, 26 February 1738/9 (Sir Joseph Jekyll sale), lot 319.

First published (by a secret English press) 1595 [for 1600?]. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).

Formerly owned by the Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park.

Recorded in HMC, 8th Report, Part I (1874), Appendix, p. 99 (No. 9).

Recorded in HMC, 8th Report, Part I (1874), Appendix, p. 99 (No. 9).

First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

Among the MSS of the Frank family, of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire.

This MS recorded (as O. 1) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 461.

This MS recorded (as O. 1) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 461.

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.

Recorded in Hannah (1845), pp. xv-xvi.

Recorded in Hannah (1845), pp. xv-xvi.

First published in London, 1624.

Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Quaritch's sale catalogue English Books and Manuscripts (Winter 2008-9), item 40.

Owned in December 1655 by Killigrew's son Charles.

Discussed in R.N. Worth, The Killigrew Bible, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, ed. J.J. Howard (London, 1870), NS. I, 370-1.

Discussed in R.N. Worth, The Killigrew Bible, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, ed. J.J. Howard (London, 1870), NS. I, 370-1.

American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, 11-12 March 1936, with a facsimile of the last page in the sale catalogue, p. 125. Facsimile of the last page also in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 125.

Puttick & Simpson's, 11 July 1878, lot 122 (the date of the letter given as 18 June 1644), to Stamp. Later in the collection of Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Subsequently in the collections of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles).

Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library, 3 vols (London & New York, 1929), III, 145.

Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library, 3 vols (London & New York, 1929), III, 145.

Sotheby's, 26 July 1887, lot 40, to Preston.

Cutting of an unidentified sale catalogue in W.C. Hazlitt's annotated exemplum of his A Roll of Honour (London, 1908), opposite p. 128, in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343.

Cutting of an unidentified sale catalogue in W.C. Hazlitt's annotated exemplum of his A Roll of Honour (London, 1908), opposite p. 128, in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343.

Owned in 1847 by George Percy Elliott (1800-74). Sotheby's, 20 July 1988, lot 262, to Morton, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Edited in Diary of Dr. Edward Lake, ed. G.P. Elliott, Camden Miscellany I, Camden Society 39 (London, 1847).

Joseph Lilly's sale catalogue of above fifty thousand volumes of rare, curious, unusual, and valuable books (c.1870), p. 31.

First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.

Autograph owner inscription (Sum Nicolai Udalli, 1549) and annotations in a printed exemplum of Sacrosancta Testamenti Veteris et Novi è Sacra Hebræorum.

Alan G. Thomas, sale catalogue No. 35 (1976), item 56.

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, A Roll of Honor (1908), his annotated exemplum in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343, opposite p. 245.

Recorded in W.C. Hazlitt, A Roll of Honor (1908), his annotated exemplum in the British Library, Cup.410.g.343, opposite p. 245.

Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

A presentation MS, probably to Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, in a professional hand, with title-page, inscribed Given by Sir Arthur Gorges.

Formerly Leconfield MS 83 at Petworth House, Sussex. Sotheby's, 24 April 1928, lot 105, to A.S.W. Rosenbach. Afterwards in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937). Sotheby's, 23 June 1988 (Philip Robinson sale, Part I), lot 169. Quaritch's sale catalogue English Literature in Manuscript (November 1996), item 9.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 308. A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 3898.

In the library of Sir Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds, politician. Sotheby's, 6 April 1869 (Leeds sale), lot 218. Sotheby's, 9 May, 1983, lot 362, to Morgan.

Petition beginning I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain.... Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?], and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

Probably destroyed in World War II. A copy of the MS made by Jenö Abel is in Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Kézirattára, Budapest, Hungary, MS 335/12, entry 3.

This MS recorded in George Gömöri, Inscriptions by Philip and Robert Sidney in Alba Amicorum, N&Q, 50 (September 2004), 240-2.

This MS recorded in George Gömöri, Inscriptions by Philip and Robert Sidney in Alba Amicorum, N&Q, 50 (September 2004), 240-2.

Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

From the family papers of John Loveday (1711-89), of Caversham, Oxfordshire, and formerly at Williamscote House, near Banbury. Sold to Maggs in 1971.

Recorded in Davenport, p. lxxv.

Recorded in Davenport, p. lxxv.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 937 (Autumn 1971), item 90, with a facsimile of the inscribed title-page as Plate 8.

Recorded in Brian N. Lee, Early Printed Book Labels (London, 1976), p. xi.

Recorded in Brian N. Lee, Early Printed Book Labels (London, 1976), p. xi.

Sotheby's, 18 May 1853 (Thomas Jolley sale), lot 297, to Bumstead.

Recorded in Hazlitt, p. 149, and in Wilkinson (1925), I, xviii, and (1930), p. xix.

Recorded in Hazlitt, p. 149, and in Wilkinson (1925), I, xviii, and (1930), p. xix.

A printed exemplum of Crashaw's Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648), incorporating a section of printer's proof-sheets, pp. 75-96 of Part I being printed on one side of the paper only, the blank versos filled with contemporary MS copies of other poems and extracts and with MS. Poems mostly in the same hand written on several other l[eaves], including (according to Grosart) on the blanks from p. 75 to p. 77…18 numbered Epigrams which would seem to belong to Crashaw, though not assigned to him, also (on blanks of pp. 78-84) a series of epigrams by Thomas Fuller, with other epigrams (according to Hazlitt) in a different hand and including several of an amatory cast; the volume signed and possibly compiled by Dudley Posthumus Lovelace, brother of the poet Richard Lovelace.

Owned c.1862-5 by William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer, and from c.1868 by Henry Hucks Gibbs (1819-1907), first Lord Aldenham. Sotheby's, 3 May 1937 (Aldenham sale), lot 553, to Dobell.

Recorded in IELM as CrR Δ 8. Discussed in Lucasta. The Poems of Richard Lovelace, Esq., ed. W. Carew Hazlitt (London, 1864), p. 42; in W. Carew Hazlitt, Thomas Fuller's Unpublished Epigrams, N & Q, 3rd Ser. 7 (6 May 1865), 352-3; in The Poems and Translations in Verse…of Thomas Fuller D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart (privately printed, 1868), pp. 8, 219-20; and in John Eglinton Bailey, The Life of Thomas Fuller, D.D. (London, 1874), pp. 132-3. Hazlitt notes: At the close of the volume occurs, with considerable appearance of having been written by the same person, who has composed or transcribed other pieces, the autograph of Dudley Lovelace, who has written his name a second time with an eye to a little jeu de mots, thus: Dudley Lovelasse, and this gentleman has apparently…copied out portions of his brother's Lucasta upon some of the spare leaves…On the recto of p. 96 there are four verses from Lucasta with the signature of Richarde Lovelace. Grosart adds a few details of the extracts from Lucasta which occur on the verso of the title-page and two following pages, noting that This portion is partly in short-hand characters, and differs, I think, from the Epigram hand-writing, also mentioning that the predominant handwriting is somewhat intricate and difficult. Bailey notes: The handwriting is much abbreviated, but bears a certain similarity to Fuller's in his later years. Grosart made no reference to this volume in his later edition of Crashaw (1872-88). The presence of the epigrams by Fuller, as also perhaps the use of shorthand, suggests a possible connection with the Hailstone MS (Folger, MS V.a.148).

Mullocks Auction Ludlow, 23 August 2007, lot 270.

Photocopies of this MS are in the British Library, RP 9244 (i).

Photocopies of this MS are in the British Library, RP 9244 (i).

First published, as Of Improving the Present Time, London, 1729. Summers, IV, 177-8. Dobrée, pp. 400-2. McKenzie, II, 486-8.

Once in the library of John, first Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), collector.

Recorded, as George Candish, of the lyfe of Cardinall Woolsey, in The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London, 1956), p. 144, No. 1139. Edwards (item a).

Recorded, as George Candish, of the lyfe of Cardinall Woolsey, in The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London, 1956), p. 144, No. 1139. Edwards (item a).

First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of manuscripts for 1841, item 602.

First published in London, 1673. Dramatic Works, V, 295-394. Edited by Christopher Spencer (New Haven, 1961).

Sotheby's, 15 March 2007 (The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle, Part Nine), lot 3258.

Sotheby's, 13 March 2008 (The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle, Part Eleven), lot 3875, to Quaritch.

Facsimile of the first page of the main text in Sotheby's catalogue, p. 29.

Facsimile of the first page of the main text in Sotheby's catalogue, p. 29.

A treatise beginning A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families.... First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface To the Reader, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include T.B., for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, A Note on the Ralegh Canon, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

W.C. Hazlitt (Bernard Quaritch Dictionary of Book Collectors, Part XIII, London, 1899), sub. Gabriel Harvey. Stern, p. 226 (as whereabouts unknown).

W.C. Hazlitt (Bernard Quaritch Dictionary of Book Collectors, Part XIII, London, 1899), sub. Gabriel Harvey. Stern, p. 226 (as whereabouts unknown).

Later owned by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.

Formerly owned by the Duke of Manchester, at Kimbolton Castle.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 12.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 12.

Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

Owned in 1920 by John Burns. Sold at Sotheby's, 1943/4. Then at Manhattan College, New York. Christie's, 24 June 1992, lot 77, to the Rev. Smith.

This MS probably that catalogued as The Praise of Private Life, a folio Manuscript in a MS list of Books in the Closset in the Passage Room next the Pantry in Skipton Castle 28^th Aug^st 1739 (a list now Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds, DD 121/111). The MS was still at Skipton Castle when a transcript was made by William Ford (see DaS 46), and at Appleby Castle when examined by Moore Smith.

Briefly described in Sellers and also in a review [? by G.C. Moore Smith] of McClure in TLS (4 September 1930), p. 697.

Briefly described in Sellers and also in a review [? by G.C. Moore Smith] of McClure in TLS (4 September 1930), p. 697.

First published (and attributed to Sir John Harington) in The Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Norman Egbert McClure (Philadelphia, 1930), pp. 323-78. Attributed to Daniel in Sellers (1930), 341-2.

Formerly owned by H. M. Margoliouth.

Once owned by one Ferdinando Marsh. Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, 21 October 1992 (Sparrow sale), lot 111, to Hannas.

This volume, or else DeJ 55.5, possibly corresponds to the exemplum of Gondibert (1651) with 118 lines on the fly-leaf sold at Sotheby's, 19 November 1906 (sale of the Trentham Hall Library of the Duke of Sutherland), lot 461.

First published, as Vpon the Preface, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 3-4. Banks, p. 313.

Formerly (before the late 19th century) in the Guildhall, Hull.

Edited in Grosart. Edited from Grosart in Margoliouth, Nos 118, 158, 294.

Edited in Grosart. Edited from Grosart in Margoliouth, Nos 118, 158, 294.

Formerly in the Guildhall, Hull.

Edited in Thompson (1776). Edited from Thompson in Margoliouth, No. 40.

Edited in Thompson (1776). Edited from Thompson in Margoliouth, No. 40.

Sotheby's, 14 March 1979, lot 422, to the Scriptorium.

Edited in Grosart. Edited from Grosart in Margoliouth, No. 258.

Edited in Grosart. Edited from Grosart in Margoliouth, No. 258.

Dulau's sale catalogue No. 182 (1935), item 331, with a facsimile. Sotheby's, 12 November 1963, lot 104, to Barker's and Lee Smith.

Laster owned by John Thane (1747?-1818), London print and manuscript dealer.

Facsimile example of a few lines in John Thane, British Autography, 3 vols (London, [1788-93?]), II, [unnumbered]. The facsimile example edited from a transcript by Pierre Legouis in Margoliouth, II, 307.

Facsimile example of a few lines in John Thane, British Autography, 3 vols (London, [1788-93?]), II, [unnumbered]. The facsimile example edited from a transcript by Pierre Legouis in Margoliouth, II, 307.

Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1917, lot 731, to the Rt. Hon. Frederick Leverton Harris (1864-1926), politician and art collector.

Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, 6 vols (1883-92), IV, 162-3. Margoliouth, II, 337-8. A facsimile, once owned by Margoliouth, is in Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 119, in ff. 127-40.

Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, 6 vols (1883-92), IV, 162-3. Margoliouth, II, 337-8. A facsimile, once owned by Margoliouth, is in Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 119, in ff. 127-40.