Wiltshire and Swindon Archives

*VaJ 344: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 7 September 1722.

1722.

Edited in Clyve Jones, To dispose in earnest, of a place I got in jest: Eight New Letters of Sir John Vanbrugh, 1722-1726, N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (p. 463).

*VaJ 346: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 27 June 1723.

1723.

Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 463-4).

*VaJ 370: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from Hartford Bridge, 11 May 1725.

1725.

Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 464-5).

*VaJ 371: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 1 June 1725.

1725.

Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (p. 465-6).

*VaJ 372: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 29 June 1725.

1725.

Edited in Clyve Jones, N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 466-7).

*VaJ 378: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 21 October 1725.

1725.

Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (p. 467).

*VaJ 381: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from Greenwich, 16 November 1725.

1725.

Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 467-8).

*VaJ 383: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 3 February 1725/6.

1725/6.

Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 468-9).

RaW 723: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts ('')

Copy of S^r Walter Raleighs Great Cordiall S^r Robert Killigrews way. See also RaW 713.

DoC 335.7: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Phryne ('Phryne had Talents for Mankind')

Copy, subscribed Earl of Dorset.

Unpublished.

LeN 11.9: Nathaniel Lee, The Rival Queens: or, The Death of Alexander the Great ('')

Extract.

First published in London, 1677. Stroup & Cooke, I, 211-83.

RoJ 237: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')

Copy.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

MnJ 144: John Milton, Extracts ('')

BcF 650: Francis Bacon, Letter(s) ('')

Copy of letters by Bacon.

RaW 995: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s) ('')

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.

RaW 710.28: Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana ('')

Copy of Ralegh's Appologie.

Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.

BcF 528: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications ('')

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

MrC 18: Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love ('Come live with mee, and be my love')

Copy of an eight-stanza version (plus two lines), in a left-hand column, headed Blundwells exercise.

First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see RaW 189-99.

RaW 199: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard ('If all the world and loue were young')

Copy of a five-stanza version, in a right-hand column, headed Respon: and here beginning If now the world & love were younge.

One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as Her answer to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as The Milk maids mothers answer) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's reply, see MrC 10-19.

EsR 315: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution ('')

Copy.

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

HoJ 113: John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')

Copy of the shortened version, headed M^rs hoskins petition to the kings ma^tie: her husband. being imprisoned in the tower vpon the kings high indignation An: 1615., here beginning The worst is knowne the best is hid.

Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.

RaW 135: Sir Walter Ralegh, Fortune hath taken thee away my love

Copy, in six quatrains, in a left-hand column, headed A sonnett.

Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, poem 7a, pp. 14-15, and in Rudick, No. 15D, p. 22.

Six lines cited in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589). Latham, p. 9. The full text first published as a broadside in London, 1592 (?): see TLS (12 September 1968), p. 1032. This poem is related to the song Fortune my foe: see TLS, 30 May 1968, p. 553. Rudick, Nos 15A, 15B, 15C and 15D (four versions, pp. 19-22), followed by the Queen's answer (p. 23: see ElQ 38).

ElQ 39: Queen Elizabeth I, Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh, circa 1587 ('Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?')

Copy of the complete 24-line poem, in a right-hand column, headed An aunswer.

Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, poem 7a, pp. 14-15, and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe Arizona, 1999), p. 23.

Collected Works, Poem 12, pp. 307-9. Selected Works, Poem 7, pp. 14-18.

RaW 996: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s) ('')

Copy of four letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Ralegh's wife, and to Sir Robert Carr.

RaW 378: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')

Copy, under a general heading Scurrillous epitaphes and here beginning Heare lyeth Hobinoll our shepherd whileare.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

BcF 529: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications ('')

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

KiH 781: Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')

Copy, headed Vppon his mat^ies returne from Scotland.

Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 153-4.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

RnT 137: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son ('I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare')

Copy, headed A gratulatory to Ben: Jonson for his voluntary Adoption of mee to bee His Sonn.

Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 192-4.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.

PoW 74: Walton Poole, If shadows be a picture's excellence

Copy.

First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

MsP 3: Philip Massinger, A funerall Poem Sacred to the memorie of the trewly noble and most accomplishid gentleman S^r Warham Sentliger Knight lineally descended from &c: ('Such were his noble Ancesters, and yet')

Copy of a 108-line elegy, subscribed Written by his truly devoted servant Philip Massenger.

Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 209-12, and initially in his A New Poem by Philip Massinger, N&Q, 223 (December 1978), 503-5, with corrections in N&Q, 224 (August 1979), 347, and further corrections in C.A. Gibson, The New Massinger Elegy, N&Q, 227 (December 1982), 489-90.

First published in J.H.P. Pafford, A New Poem by Philip Massinger, N&Q, 223 (December 1978), 503-5.