All Souls College, Oxford

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A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of y^e Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

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This MS collated in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.

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.

Copy, headed On The King, here beginning There is a Monarch in an Isle (say some).

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

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This MS collated in Margoliouth and 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.

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See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

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This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as Dialogue L: R.

Copy of a version, headed On the King, beginning Farewell my witty witty king.

First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].

Copy, headed A Dialogue between Brittania & S^r Walter Rawleigh.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

Copy of a version headed An Ancient Prophecy of Nostredamus Rendred into English and beginning Her faults and follies London's doom shall fix.

Edited from this MS in POAS, I. Collated in Margoliouth.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

Copy, headed On our Ministers of State.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

Copy, headed On the Council that Sat at Arlington's House for the Cutting off of Coventry's nose.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.

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

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Published in Thompson (1776), III, 307-14. Cooke, II, 17-25. Grosart, I, 443-9. The poem probably dates from 1680-1, after Marvell's death.

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First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

Copy of the articles of impeachment, 21 November 1667.

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.

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as written by S^r Robert Cotton Knight and Barronett in January 1627.

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.

Copy, headed M^r Pepy's Letter & New Years Gift to his Hon^ble Friend S^r William Coventry, dated from Greenwich 1^st January 1665.

First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.

Copy of Version 2, headed The Queene to the speaker at Whitehall in the pliamente, Anno 43. set downe by M^r Phillips, followed (ff. 2v-4r) by a summary of the speech penned by M^r Attorney generall At thende of the pliament in Anno. 43. [i.e.19 December 1601]. Early 17th century.

This MS cited in Hartley.

First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate.... Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me.... Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent.... Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved.... Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

Copy of letters by Bacon to James I.

Copy, headed Her Ma^tie prayer. Early 17th century.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Beginning Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest.... Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596).

Copy. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 307.

Copy, untitled, headed in a different hand Satyr on all things. Early 17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

Copy, untitled, here beginning Courtes skorning, states disgracinge. Early 17th century.

This MS collated in May, p. 127.

As The Answer to the Lie in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.

Copy, untitled but subscribed The Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland. Early 17th century.

The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state....

First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

Copy. Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Krueger, p. 150.

Copy. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

Krueger, pp. 158-9.

Copy of a 44-line version, untitled, headed in a later hand On Contentment.

First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

Copy of part of the third section, in a secretary hand, headed Certaine notes to be considered of in the recoveringe of the Realme of Irelande.

Facsimile in Jean R. Brink, 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 (pp. 134, 136)

First published in The Complete Works Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, ed. Alexander B. Grosart ([Manchester], 1882-4), I, 537-55. Spenser's authorship of this brief tract is now generally rejected: see Jean Brink's discussion of the MSS in 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.

Copy of a fifteen-line version, untitled, later headed Song On bees. Early 17th century.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

Copy of a revised version, with three additional stanzas, subscribed John Dauies. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I, (1869), 463-6. Krueger, pp. 228-30.

Copy. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.

Copy. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 183.

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 183.

Copy, headed The queenes to her Spanish embasado^r.

Beginning Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint..., in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

Copies of letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Sir Robet Carr.

Copy of poems 2-5, headed in a later hand On ye Bp of London & his wife and here beginning The Romaine Tarquine in his folly blinde. Early 17th century.

This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 398, 446.

First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.

Copy of a revised version. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Krueger, pp. 216-24.

Copy of Psalms 51, 104 and 137, in a neat secretary hand.

The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II, pp. 49-51, 158-62, 231-2.

Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

Copy, headed in a later hand On one Loveinge his M^rs and subscribed R. S.

Lines 1-20 edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 437-8. Krueger, pp. 306-7.

Copy, headed A prayer, unascribed. Early 17th century.

A prayer, beginning I owe to god a death because his sonne died for me… and ending …I am willing help my vnwillingnes. Unpublished.

Abstract of the work, headed Epitome supplicacojs, another title supplied in a later hand, probably that of Narcissus Luttrell, Petition of Roman Catholicks to [King James deleted] Queen Eliz. in maintenance of yeir religion; Cardinal Allen & father Parsons. Early 17th century.

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

Copy, in a copy (on ff. 217r-38v) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592.

First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

Copy of a series of eleven poems, headed (f. 272v) in a later hand Song. A Lawyer made a Cuckold and (f. 262v) On a Widow & a Cook. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.

Copy, headed The Queenes most excellent mat^es: oration in the pliam^t house Martij 15, A^o: Dni 1576.

First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.

Version I. Beginning Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses.... Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.

Version II. Beginning My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted.... Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).

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

Copy, untitled, headed in a later hand Letter of a Son to his fath^r, desireing him to be mindfull of death, & to prepare for his change 1589. Early 17th century.

Epistle, beginning In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty.... First published as An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in a later hand Reasons offered ag^t Queen Elizabeths marriage w^th y^e Duke of Anjoy, Alanson; in a letter to her, on fourteen quarto pages. Early 17th century.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, 274, No. 1.

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).

Copy of an early version of lines 1-125, without the prose description. Early 17th century.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 153.

First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 151-8.

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

Copy, in a professional hand, headed The Alarme. By Andrew Marvell, with corrections and additions, inscribed in the margin by Narcissus Luttrell Very scandalous in severall passages, on seventeen quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Legouis.

An unpublished tract, beginning Like the dumb man that found his tongue when he saw an arm lifted up to kill his father.... Discussed as a work of doubtful authorship in Legouis, pp. 470-1.

Copy, the poem dated June 1665.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

Copy, the poem dated 1 October 1666.

This MS collated in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

Copy, headed Epitaph vpon a Child, here beginning As carefull Mothers vse their babes to lay.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

Copy, headed Tarsander: in imitation of the L^d: Orreryes Poetry, subscribed Buckhurst.

This MS recorded in Harris and in Vieth.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Discussed in Harris, p. 185, and in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 437-8.

Copy, the subject dated Sept: y^e: 3^d. 1658, subscribed Ed: Waller. The text followed (f. 37r-v) by Godolphin's answer.

First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

Copy, headed The Lady Isabella Thynne on her exquisite cutting trees in paper, subscribed I had these Verses from my Lady Long in 1656. Her La^p. had severall other Copies of M^r Wallers Verses (of which M^r Waller had not duplicats) which she lent to y^e Dutches of Beaufort, and were never return'd. Their friendship is now broken: but I hope her Grace will be so kind as to grant Transcripts of them upon the reprinting of y^e Book, and also subscribed Ed. Waller.

This MS discussed in Kate Bennett, John Aubrey and the Circulation of Edmund Waller's Of a Tree Cut in Paper, N&Q, 247 (September 2002), 344-5.

First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.

Copy of 100 rules.

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).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, the last page in another hand.

Tract, addressed to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

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A speech beginning I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them … First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries.

Extract.

Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

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A tract beginning As it is a manifest token or rather a substantiall effect of y^e wrath & indignation of God when Kingdomes are devided.... Unpublished?