The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 17000 through 17999

Add. MS 17017

A folio composite volume of original letters, chiefly to Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, and his brother Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon, c.170 leaves.

f. 49r

*DrJ 312: John Dryden, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, [c. August 1683?].

1683.

Ward, Letter 10. Facsimiles in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical and Literary Manuscripts in the British Museum (1899), No. 101, and in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 22, p. 33.

Add. MS 17018

A tall folio composite volume of state papers and letters relating to affairs from 1675 to 1728, in various hands, 227 leaves, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards.

Volume I of the papers of Laurence Hyde (1642-1711), first Earl of Rochester, politician.

[1681].

ff. 201r-12r

HaG 43: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Observations upon a Late Libel ('')

Copy in a professional hand, with printer's marks, being the printer's copy for the first edition, on twelve folio leaves, endorsed (f. 212v) by Rochester Observations on a late Libel call'd a Letter concerning the King's Declaration in y^e time of King Charles y^e. 2^d.

Edited from this MS in Brown. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark N. Brown, The Printer's Text of Halifax's Observations upon a Late Libel (1681), The Library, 5th Ser. 26 (1971), 259-63.

First published, anonymously [in London, 1681]. Edited, and attributed to Halifax, by Hugh Macdonald (Cambridge, 1930). Brown, I, 150-69.

ff. 214r-17r

HuL 4: Lucy Hutchinson, To M^r: Waller vpon his Panegyrique to the Lord Protector ('Whilst with a smooth but yet a servile Tongue')

Copy, in an accomplished professional hand, with full title, on four large folio leaves, inscribed (by Rochester?, on blank f. 213) M^rs Hutchinson's Answer to M^r Waller's Panegyrique to Cromwell.

Edited from this MS in Norbrook, Seventeenth Century (1996).

First published, and attributed to Lucy Hutchinson, in David Norbrook, Lucy Hutchinson versus Edmund Waller: An Unpublished Reply to Waller's A Panegyrick to My Lord Protector, The Seventeenth Century, 11/1 (Spring 1996), 61-86. The attribution supported in John Burrows and Hugh Craig, Lucy Hutchinson and the Authorship of Two Seventeenth-Century Poems: A Computational Approach, The Seventeenth Century, 16/2 (Autumn 2001), 259-82.

Add. MS 17062

A duodecimo diary recording the progress of the Royalist army from March to September 1644, in a small cursive mixed hand, 80 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Richard Symonds (1617-60), royalist soldier and antiquary.

c.1644.

f. 80r

KiH 362: Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

Add. MS 17325

A quarto volume of state letters and tracts, in three or more secretary hands, 78 leaves, in 19th-century calf.

f. 23r-v

BcF 576: Francis Bacon, Letter(s) ('')

Copy of two letters by Bacon, to the University of Cambridge, the first dated 12 April 1617.

c.1620s.

ff. 76v-9v

BcF 577: Francis Bacon, Letter(s) ('')

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to James I, [1621].

c.1620s.

Add. MS 17492

A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

c.1530s-40s.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

f. 2r

WyT 303: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 189.

f. 2v

WyT 28: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Alas the greiff, and dedly wofull smert

Copy of lines 13-30, untitled and here beginning O cruell causer of vndeserrved chaunge.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 3-4.

f. 3r

WyT 195: Sir Thomas Wyatt, My hert I gave the not to do it payn

Copy, begun by an amanuensis and corrected and completed by Margaret Douglas (omitting lines 10-11), untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 13.

f. 3v

WyT 208: Sir Thomas Wyatt, My pen, take payn a lytyll space

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 190-1.

f. 4r-v

WyT 39: Sir Thomas Wyatt, At last withdraw youre crueltye

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 129-30.

f. 5r

WyT 359: Sir Thomas Wyatt, To wette your yee withoutyn teare

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 181.

f. 6r

WyT 135: Sir Thomas Wyatt, I love lovyd and so doithe she

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 191.

ff. 6v-7r

WyT 291: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Suffryng in sorrowe in hope to Attayne

Copy, untitled, subscribed Mary Shelton.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. Facsimiles of ff. 6v-7r in Powell, pp. 5-6.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 176-7.

ff. 9v-10r

WyT 83: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ffarewell all my wellfare

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 192-3.

f. 11r

WyT 113: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain

Copy of lines 25-35, untitled and beginning Yf I had suffered this to you vnware, subscribed ffynys q^d Wyatt.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 55-6.

f. 11v

WyT 313: Sir Thomas Wyatt, The hart and servys to yow profferd

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 193.

f. 12r

WyT 42: Sir Thomas Wyatt, At moost myschief

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffynys q^d Wyatt.

This MS collated (and lines 42-8 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 36-7.

ff. 12v-13r

WyT 380: Sir Thomas Wyatt, What menythe thys when I lye alone?

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys q^d Wyatt.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 193-4.

f. 13v

WyT 242: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Patience, though I have not

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys q^d Wyatt.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 29. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

f. 14r

WyT 422: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Ys yt possyble

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys q^d Wyatt.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 194-5.

ff. 14v-15r

WyT 203: Sir Thomas Wyatt, My lute, awake! perfourme the last

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys q^d Wyatt.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 48-50.

ff. 15v-16r

WyT 26: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Alas, poor man, what hap have I

Copy, untiitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 195-6.

f. 16v

WyT 186: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Marvaill no more, all tho

Copy, in double columns, untitled, subscribed ffynys q^d Wyatt.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 38-9.

f. 17r

WyT 36: Sir Thomas Wyatt, An wylt thow leve me thus?

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys q^d Wiat.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 272.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 196-7.

f. 17v

WyT 305: Sir Thomas Wyatt, That tyme that myrthe dyed stere my shypp

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 184-5.

f. 18r

WyT 326: Sir Thomas Wyatt, The restfull place, Revyver of my smarte

Copy of the three 7-line stanza version, untitled, subscribed ffynys q^d Wyatt.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

First published (in a three 7-line stanza version) in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 197-8.

f. 19r

WyT 384: Sir Thomas Wyatt, What no, perdy, ye may be sure!

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffynys q^d Wyatt.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 34.

f. 19v

WyT 331: Sir Thomas Wyatt, There was never ffile half so well filed

Copy, headed To my and here beginning Was neuer yet fyle half so well fyled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 14.

f. 20r

WyT 37: Sir Thomas Wyatt, As power and wytt wyll me Assyst

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 198-9.

f. 20v

WyT 293: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sum tyme I syghe, sumtyme I syng

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 199-200.

f. 21r

WyT 239: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Pacyence of all my smart

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 200-1. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

f. 21r

WyT 404: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Who would haue euer thowght

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 201.

f. 22v

WyT 8: Sir Thomas Wyatt, A Robyn

Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published (in this form) in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 41-2.

f. 23r-v

WyT 315: Sir Thomas Wyatt, The knott that furst my hart dyd strayn

Copy, untitled, preceded (f. 22v) by a false-start version of lines 1-4 in the same hand.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 183-4.

f. 24r-v

WyT 9: Sir Thomas Wyatt, A Robyn

Copy (not in the same hand as WyT 8), untitled.

This MS collated (and lines 17-20 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published (in this form) in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 41-2.

f. 24v-5r

WyT 159: Sir Thomas Wyatt, It was my choyse, it was no chaunce

Copy of lines 1-13 (not in the same hand as WyT 158), untitled.

This MS recorded (but not collated) in Muir & Thomson (p. 202).

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 201-2.

f. 30v

WyT 158: Sir Thomas Wyatt, It was my choyse, it was no chaunce

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 201-2.

f. 31r

WyT 289: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Suche vayn thought as wonted to myslede me

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 42.

f. 32r

WyT 276: Sir Thomas Wyatt, So vnwarely was never no man cawght

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 202-3.

f. 33r-v

WyT 316: Sir Thomas Wyatt, The knott that furst my hart dyd strayn

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 183-4.

f. 34v

WyT 147: Sir Thomas Wyatt, If fancy would favour

Copy of lines 1-12, 17-26, 17-36, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in The Court of Venus [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 32-3.

f. 35v

WyT 328: Sir Thomas Wyatt, The wandering gadlyng in the sommer tyde

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 34.

f. 36v

WyT 322: Sir Thomas Wyatt, The lyvely sperkes that issue from those Iyes

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 35.

f. 37v

WyT 339: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 42-3.

f. 38v

WyT 280: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Some tyme I fled the fyre that me brent

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 44.

f. 39v

WyT 378: Sir Thomas Wyatt, What deth is worse then this

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 46-7.

f. 40r

WyT 350: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thy promese was to loue me best

Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 203-4.

ff. 40v-1r

WyT 139: Sir Thomas Wyatt, I se the change ffrom that that was

Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 204-5.

f. 42r-v

WyT 354: Sir Thomas Wyatt, To my myshap alas I fynd

Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 181-3. Attributed to Sir Francis Bryan in A. Stuart Daley, The Uncertain Author of Poem 225, Tottel's Miscellany, SP, 47 (1950), 485-93.

f. 43r

WyT 118: Sir Thomas Wyatt, How shulde I

Copy of lines 1-34, 47-52, 59-62, in double columns, in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 119).

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 205-7.

ff. 47v-8r

WyT 104: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Hart oppressyd with desp'rat thought

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 237.

ff. 49r-50v

WyT 274: Sir Thomas Wyatt, So feble is the threde that doth the burden stay

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 79-82.

f. 51r

WyT 93: Sir Thomas Wyatt, fful well yt maye be sene

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 207-8.

ff. 51v-2r

WyT 296: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Synes loue ys suche that, as ye wott

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 208-9.

f. 52v

WyT 167: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Lo! how I seke and sew to haue

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 209-10.

f. 53r

WyT 201: Sir Thomas Wyatt, My loue ys lyke vnto th'eternall fyre

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 210.

f. 53r

WyT 297: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Synes so ye please to here me playn

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 210.

f. 53v

WyT 415: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Yf in the world ther be more woo

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 70.

f. 54r

WyT 227: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Now must I lerne to lyue at rest

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 211.

f. 54v

WyT 90: Sir Thomas Wyatt, fforget not yet the tryde entent

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 211-12.

f. 55r-v

SuH 45: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, O happy dames, that may embrace

Copy, in the hand of Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), untitled.

This MS collated in Padelford and in Hughey, Harington of Stepney. Edited by Helen Baron in Mary Fitzroy's Transcript of Surrey's Poem, RES, 45 (August 1994), 314-5, and discussed in Raymond Southall, Mary Fitzroy and O Happy Dames in the Devonshire Manuscript, ibid, pp. 316-17.

Facsimile example in Jesse Childs, Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (London, 2006), facing p. 77.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 21, pp. 71-2. Jones, pp. 21-2. Edited, and tentatively attributed to John Harington (1520?-82), in Hughey, Harington of Stepney, pp. 131-2, 286-9.

f. 58v

WyT 231: Sir Thomas Wyatt, O myserable sorow withowten cure!

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 212.

f. 61v

WyT 98: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Goo burnyng sighes Vnto the frosen hert!

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 16-17.

f. 64r-v

WyT 51: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Blame not my lute, for he must sownd

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 212-13.

f. 65v

WyT 211: Sir Thomas Wyatt, MyghtI as well within my songe belaye

Copy of lines 1-4 in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled, with a smudged copy of lines 1-2 in another hand on f. 66r.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 164-5.

f. 69r

WyT 352: Sir Thomas Wyatt, To cause accord or to aggre

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 58.

f. 69r

WyT 31: Sir Thomas Wyatt, All yn thi sight my lif doth hole depende

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 214.

f. 69v

WyT 47: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Behold, love, thy power how she dispiseth!

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 1.

f. 69v

WyT 344: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thou hast no faith of him that hath none

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 16.

ff. 69v-70r

WyT 337: Sir Thomas Wyatt, They fle from me that sometyme did me seke

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 27.

f. 70r

WyT 57: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Caesar, when that the traytour of Egipt

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 2.

f. 70v

WyT 144: Sir Thomas Wyatt, If chaunce assynd

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 50-1.

ff. 70v-1r

WyT 254: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Perdy I sayd hytt nott

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 170-1.

f. 71r

WyT 247: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Patiens for my devise

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 29-30. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

f. 71v

WyT 132: Sir Thomas Wyatt, I have sought long with stedfastnes

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 51-2.

f. 71v

WyT 222: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Nature, that gave the bee so feet a grace

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 51.

f. 71v

WyT 362: Sir Thomas Wyatt, To wisshe and want and not obtain

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 43-4.

f. 71v

WyT 236: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Ons as me thought fortune me kyst

Copy of lines 1-8.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 47-8.

f. 72r

WyT 264: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Resound my voyse, ye woodes that here me plain

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 18.

f. 72r

WyT 310: Sir Thomas Wyatt, The fructe of all the seruise that I serue

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 214.

f. 72v

WyT 299: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Syns ye delite to knowe

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 54-5.

f. 72v

WyT 367: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First pub in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 57-8.

f. 72v

WyT 153: Sir Thomas Wyatt, In eternum I was ons determed

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 53-4.

f. 7r

WyT 178: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Lyke as the Swanne towardis her dethe

This MS collated (and edited in part) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 52-3.

f. 73r

WyT 417: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Yf with complaint the paine might be exprest

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 214.

f. 73r

WyT 65: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Desire, alas, my master and my foo

Copy of an early version, untitled, here beginning Cruell desire my m^r & my foo.

& my foo.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 57.

f. 73r

WyT 270: Sir Thomas Wyatt, She sat and sowde that hath done me the wrong

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 40.

f. 73r

WyT 397: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Who hath herd of suche crueltye before?

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 32.

f. 73v

WyT 409: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Ye know my herte, my ladye dere

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated (and lines 1-23 edited) in Muir & Thomson. Lines 24-39 collated in Harrier.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 30-1.

f. 73v

WyT 272: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sins you will nedes that I shall sing

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 215.

ff. 73v-4r

WyT 237: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Ons as me thought fortune me kyst

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 47-8.

f. 74r

WyT 60: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Comfort thy self my wofull hert

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 56-7.

f. 74r

WyT 379: Sir Thomas Wyatt, What deth is worse then this

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 46-7.

f. 74r

WyT 109: Sir Thomas Wyatt, He is not ded that somtyme hath a fall

Copy, untitled, here beginning I am not ded altho I had a fall (agreeing with the uncorrected state of the poem in WyT 108).

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 45.

f. 74v

WyT 199: Sir Thomas Wyatt, My hope, Alas, hath me abused

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 45-6.

f. 74v

WyT 187: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Me list no more to sing

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 215-17.

f. 75r

WyT 85: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Ffarewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever

Copy, untitled, here beginning Nowe farewell love and thye lawes forever.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 12-13.

f. 75r

WyT 89: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ffor to love her for her lokes lovely

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 14.

f. 75r-v

WyT 357: Sir Thomas Wyatt, To Rayle or geste ye kno I vse it not

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 217.

f. 75v

WyT 196: Sir Thomas Wyatt, My hert I gave the not to do it payn

Copy, omitting line 10, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 13.

f. 75v

WyT 314: Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Joye so short, alas, the paine so nere

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 217-18.

f. 75v

WyT 78: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 11.

f. 75v

WyT 250: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Payne of all payne, the most grevous paine

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 218-19. Considered of doubtful authorship by H. A. Mason in Sewanee Review, 84. ii (1976), 679-80.

f. 76v

WyT 162: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Lament my losse, my labor, and my payne

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 219-20.

f. 77r

WyT 386: Sir Thomas Wyatt, What shulde I saye

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 220-1.

f. 77r-v

WyT 119: Sir Thomas Wyatt, How shulde I

Copy of lines 1-22, 29-62, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 118).

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 205-7.

f. 77v

WyT 101: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Gyve place all ye that doth reioise

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 221-2.

f. 77v

WyT 76: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Dyvers doth vse as I have hard and kno

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 222-3.

f. 77v

WyT 320: Sir Thomas Wyatt, The losse is small to lese such one

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 223.

f. 78r

WyT 284: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Spight hath no powre to make me sadde

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 223-4.

f. 78v

WyT 100: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Grudge on who list, this ys my lott

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 224-5. Authorship discussed in Richard Leighton Greene, A Carol of Anne Boleyn by Wyatt, RES, NS 25 (1974), 437-9.

f. 78v

WyT 91: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ffortune dothe frowne

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 225.

f. 78v

WyT 5: Sir Thomas Wyatt, A! my harte, A! what aleth the!

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 129.

f. 78v

WyT 106: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Hate whome ye lyste, I care not

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 145.

f. 79r-v

WyT 99: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Greting to you bothe yn hertye wyse

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 225-6.

f. 79v

WyT 210: Sir Thomas Wyatt, My love toke skorne my servise to retaine

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 227.

ff. 79v-80r

WyT 304: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Tanglid I was yn loves snare

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 227-8.

f. 80r

WyT 163: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Lengre to muse

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 228-9.

f. 80v

WyT 174: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Love hathe agayne

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 161-2.

f. 81r

WyT 406: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Wythe seruyng styll

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 185-6.

f. 81r-v

WyT 225: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Now all of chaunge

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 230-1.

f. 81v

WyT 70: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Dryven to Desire I dyd this Dede

Copy of lines 1-7, untitled, here beginning Dryven bye desire I dede this dede.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Lines 1-7 first published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1575). Muir & Thomson, pp. 139-40.

f. 81v

WyT 120: Sir Thomas Wyatt, I abide and abide and better abide

Copy of lines 1-7, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 231.

ff. 81v-2r

WyT 15: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Absens absenting causithe me to complaine

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 231.

f. 82r-v

WyT 127: Sir Thomas Wyatt, I fynde no peace and all my warr is done

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonnettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 20-1.

f. 82v

WyT 245: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Patiens, for I have wrong

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 232. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

ff. 82v-3r

WyT 376: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Whan that I call vnto my mynde

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 232-3.

f. 83r-v

WyT 353: Sir Thomas Wyatt, To make an ende of all this strif

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 233-4.

f. 84r

WyT 405: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Wyll ye se what wonders love hathe wrought?

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 234-5.

f. 84v

WyT 63: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Deme as ye list vpon goode cause

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this collated in Muir & Thomson.

First published in The Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (London, 1578). Muir & Thomson, pp. 235-6.

f. 85r

WyT 121: Sir Thomas Wyatt, I am as I am and so wil I be

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated and lines 1-18 edited in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 148-50.

ff. 85v-7r

WyT 216: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know

Copy of lines 1-27, 31-103, untitled.

This MS collated and lines 1-27, 31-52 edited in Muir & Thomson. Collated in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 88-91.

f. 87v

WyT 206: Sir Thomas Wyatt, My mothers maydes when they did sowe and spynne

Copy of lines 1-18, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 91-5.

Add. MS 17940A

A map, possibly drawn for Ralegh by Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), the names in which appear to be in Ralegh's own hand. c.1595.

Facsimiles of this map appear in T.N. Brushfield, A Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh Knt. (Exeter, 1908), p. 29; in Geographical Journal, 44 (1914), facing p. 181; in Ralegh, Selections, ed. G.E. Hadow (Oxford, 1917), after p. 200; in John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), p. 172; on large folded leaves, in Richard Hakluyt, Principal Navigations of the English Nation (Glasgow edition, 1903-5), X, after p. 384; and in Ralegh, The Discoverie of...Guiana, ed. V.T. Harlow (London, 1928), facing p. 1, and in Joyce Lorimer's edition of this work (Aldershot, 2006), p. 282.

*RaW 1031: Sir Walter Ralegh, Map(s) of Guiana