The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 4101 through 4999

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Robert Cecil, 1601, in the hand of Thomas Birch.

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to Lord Henry Howard, in a secretary hand.

Another copy of a letter by Bacon, to Lord Henry Howard, 3 December 1599, in a secretary hand.

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Robert Carr, in a secretary hand.

Copy, with alterations, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, untitled, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed S^r Walt Raleighs last words on y^e Scaffold.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

Copy of Bacon's submission, 12 March 1620/1 (here dated 9 Martij. 1620), in a secretary hand, on one side of a folio leaf.

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.

Copy, in a probably professional predominantly secretary hand, as by S^r Robt Cotton: feb. 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, in a cursive hand, evidently transcribed from a printed text, on eleven quarto leaves, imperfect.

This MS recorded in Legouis.

First published in Amsterdam, 1677. Thompson, II, 555-83. Marvell's authorship rejected by Grosart and by Legouis, pp. 468-9.

Copies of various letters by Bacon, to James I, Buckingham, and others, in the hand of Thomas Birch, on pages including ff. 92r-8v, 100r-11r.

Copy.

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.

Two copies of Bacon's letter to Lord Henry Howard, 3 December 1599.

Copy, headed A petitionary letter from Jo: Lilly to Queene Elizabeth.

Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

Copy, headed To Queene Elizabeth. Another Letter to Queen Eliz. from Jo: Lilly.

Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme.... Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

Copy of three letters of advice by Bacon to the Earl of Essex.

Copy, subscribed ffran: Bacon.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

Copy of Bacon's humble submission, 22 April 1622.

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.

Copy of letters by Ralegh to Winwood and James I.

Copy of various letters by Bacon, to Essex, Cecil, Egerton, James I, Sir John Davies, Coke, Northumberland, Buckhurst and others, on pages including ff. 15v-17v, 38r, 40v-6v, 52r-5r, and 58v-9r.

Copy, in Birch's hand, transcribed from EsR 0000.

A prose meditation beginning Since that tyme the sonne hath gone about the world and inspired liefe... and ending ...w^ch is noe guift, except y^e p^tie w^ch psenteth the guift be given w^th it. Unpublished?

Copy, headed Verses made by Mr. Fra. Bacon, in Birch's hand.

Edited from this MS in Joiner. Collated in Davis, p. 493.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).

Copy, in Birch's hand, transcribed from EsR 0000.

May, Poems, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 24641.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

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, transcribed from Harley MS 35, p. 338 (EsR 8).

May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand.

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, headed The Prayer w^ch S^r Robert Cicill sent to the Earle of Essex wth afore written letters made by the Queene Elizabeth.

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 of a letter by Ralegh to James I.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Jo: Hoskyns / Ad Regem.

This MS cited in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXX (pp. 202-3).

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Ad Beniaminu filium and here beginning Sweete Beniamin, whilest thowe art younge.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Insomniu.

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.

Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, unascribed.

First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

Copy.

Written 25 April 1604. To be published in the forthcoming The Oxford Francis Bacon.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, X, 218-34.

Copy, in Starkey's hand, headed A matche propounded by y^e Sauoyan betweene the ladie Elizabethe, & the prince of Piemont, unascribed.

A tract beginning To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

Copy, in Starkey's hand, unascribed.

A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

Copy, in Starkey's hand, headed M^r John Hoskins the lawier of the midle Temple, being comitted to the Tower for a speeche, spoken by him in the Parleament howse, writt this Sonnett, intituled his Dreame being presen^td by his wife to the Kings ma^tie: in an^o. 1614.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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.

Copy, in Starkey's hand, headed A censure of a Fart (that was lett in the Parleament howse by m^r Henry Ludlowe) by a worshipfull Jurie each speaking in their order as foloweth an^o:.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

Copy, in Starkey's hand, headed A Discourse written by Doctor Androwes Bishop of Ely against seaconde marriage after sentence of Diuorce w^th a formor match the Partis then Liuing in An^o. 1601.

Edited from this MS in LACT.

First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 106-10.

Copy.

Copy, in Birch's hand, headed A Letter written by S^r Philip Sidney to a Brother of his touching the Direction of his Travell: temper'd with an Edition of it printed in Profitable Instructions &c. London 1633.

A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you.... First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.

Copies of letters by Ralegh, in Birch's hand.

Copy, by Birch, of a letter by Taylor to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, [early 1656].

Edited in Eden, I, xlix-l.

Autograph letter signed by Anne Wharton, to her husband Thomas Wharton, 22 March/1 April 1681.

Edited in Greer & Hastings, pp. 67-8. Published earlier in A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, ed. John Peter Bernard, et al., Volume X (London, 1741).

Autograph letter signed by Anne Wharton, to her husband Thomas Wharton, 29 March 1681.

Edited in Greer & Hastings, p. 68. Published earlier in A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, ed. John Peter Bernard, et al., Volume X (London, 1741).

Copies by Birch of various letters by Rochester.

Copy by Birch of three letters by Charles Gildon to Robert Harley, the second endorsed Janua. 2. 1710, the third from Chancery Lane.

Extracts made by Birch on 7 February 1755 from a transcript of Herbert's autograph (?) made in 1718 (? HrE 95).

First published at Strawberry Hill, 1764, ed. Horace Walpole. Edited in The Life of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by himself, ed. J.M. Shuttleworth (London, 1976).

The various MSS also discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography, The Library, 6th Ser. 12, No. 2 (June 1990), 133-6.

Extracts, headed Notes taken out of the Historye of the Raigne of King H. 7 Written by ...Francis Lord Verulam Viscount S^t Alban.

First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

Extracts, headed Brief notes taken out of Samuell Daniels collectns of the Historye of England.

First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

Extensive extracts, headed Notes taken out of a Booke intitled: A Discoverye of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirelye subdued....

A treatise, dedicated to James I, beginning During the time of my service in Ireland (which began in the first yeare of his Majesties raigne) I haue visited all the Prouinces.... First published as A Discoverie of the Trve Cavses why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued...vntill...his Maiesties happie Raigne ([London], 1612). Grosart, II, 1-168.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Observations of Holland, numbered 2, imperfect, lacking one leaf.

Inscribed in another hand as given by The Rev.^rd M^r. Jo: Hall's (d.1707, prebendary of St Paul's) as a gift to Ra: Thoresby (1658-1725, Yorkshire antiquary and Topographer).

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

Extracts from three letters by More, to Dr John Worthington, dated respectively 24 January and 7 February 1664/5 and 10 May 1665.

Copy, probably by one or two of Birch's amanuenses.

A tract beginning To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

Copy, probably by one of Birch's amanuenses.

A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

Copy, by Birch and at least one amanuensis, of letters by Ralegh, on pages including ff. 85r-8r.

Copy of a series of short philosophical essays by Bacon, in an italic hand, transcribed from three original MS fragments (now unlocated), with corrections in the hand of John Locker.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

First published in Spedding, III (1857), 177-98.

Copy of Bacon's last will and testament made by him 10 April 1621, in the hand of John Locker (1693-1760), barrister and literary editor.

Edited from this MS in Spedding, XIV, 228-9.

Spedding, XIV, 228-9.

Copy of Bacon's intended dedication of the Essays to Prince Henry, in the same secretary hand as BcF 203.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

Copy.

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.

Copy of letters by Bacon, including (f. 161r) one to James I, 5 June 1616.

Abstracts of various letters by Bacon, in Birch's hand.

Copy of three letters of advice by Bacon to the Earl of Essex.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

Copy of three letters of advice by Bacon to the Earl of Essex.

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

Copies of numerous letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, James I, Buckingham, Cecil, Sir John Davies, Northampton, and various others, in several 17th- and 18th-century hands, on pages including ff. 174r-5v, 228r-9r.

Copies of letters by Bacon.

Copies of speeches by Bacon.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on 55 quarto leaves.

A discourse beginning The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things.... Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.

Copy of the four Arguments, largely in the professional secretary hand of one amanuensis, with Bacon's copious autograph insertions and revisions, with a title-page: The Arguments of Lawe of Sir ffrancis Bacon Knight the Kinges Sollicitor generall in certaine great and difficult Cases, initialled by him at the end F. B.

Edited from this MS in Blackbourne and in Spedding.

Four Arguments (on the Case of the Impeachment of Waste, on Lowe's Case of Tenures, on the Case of Revocation of Uses, and on the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches). First published in Opera omnia, ed. J. Blackbourne (London, 1730). Spedding, VII, 517-611.

Copy, in a small mixed hand, as by S^r ffrancis Bacon, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

Edited partly from this MS in Spedding.

First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.

Copy, in a small mixed hand, varying in style, subscribed Fr: B, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

A tract beginning I do not find it strange (excellent King).... First published in London, 1603. Spedding, X, 90-9.

Copy, in a small mixed hand, on one side of a folio leaf, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.

Copy, as by ffr: Bacon, in two italic hands, one that of William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

This MS collated in Spedding.

First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1620/1, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled.

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.

Copy, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

This MS (erroneously cited as Harl. MSS. 4263) collated in Spedding.

First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VII, 1-36. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 183-206.

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

The text corrected from this MS in Spedding.

A tract beginning It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised.... First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, subscribed Fr: Bacon, possibly made for William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

Copy, as Made by Francis Bacon, in two hands, one predominantly italic, the other secretary, at least one of which was employed by William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis and posthumous editor, imperfect.

This MS collated in Spedding.

A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels.... First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

Copy, in a professional italic hand, on quarto leaves.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

Copy, in two hands, one predominantly secretary, the other cursive italic, on quarto leaves, incomplete or imperfect, comprising only the beginning.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

Copy of 102 Ordinances, in a professional small secretary hand.

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 of Bacon's letter of advice to Buckingham, unascribed.

Copy, in double columns, on one side of a folio leaf, quoted as a sweet meditation by devout Herbert in an autograph letter by John Lake, later Bishop of Chichester, to his sister, 6 June 1676.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 171.

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Dr E. Langsdale, 24 November 1643 [or 1653?].

Edited in Eden, I, xxv-xxvi.

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [? John Evelyn], 22 February 1656/7.

Edited in Eden, I, lxi-lxii; Wheatley, III, 233-4. Facsimile in Conway Letters, ed. Marjorie Hope Nicolson (New Haven, 1930), after p. 118.

Copy, subscribed George Herbert, on one side of a folio leaf.

This MS collated in Hutchinson, p. 416.

An untitled eight-line poem on the visit of Frederick, the Elector Palatine, to the University of Cambridge. First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 416. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 102-3.

Autograph letter signed by More, to Dr John Sharp, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 16 August 1680.

Autograph signed demonstration by Hobbes of a mathematical theorem, in Latin, with a diagram, on a single folio leaf.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 38.

Unpublished.

Autograph letter signed by Makin, to her brother-in-law John Pell, 19 December [1652].

Quoted in Teague, p. 81.

Autograph letter signed by More, to Dr John Pell, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 23 May 1665.

Copy of Dryden's letter to his sons, 3 September [1697].

Copy, in Birch's hand, of a petition by Hobbes to King Charles II, referring to Hobbe's extreme age.

Edited in Molesworth, English, VII, 471-2. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 774-5, Letter 210.

Copy of a letter by Marvell, to John Milton, from Eton, 2 June 1654, in a cursive rounded hand, subscribed in the same hand Attested by me J. Owen.

Margoliouth, II, 305-6. Also edited in The Works of John Milton, General Editor: Frank Allen Patterson, 18 vols plus 2 index vols (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931-8), XII, 331-6.

Copies by Birch of various letters by and to Bacon.

A Royal Warrant, drawn up by John Berkenhead and signed by Charles II, granting Butler sole rights of republishing any part of Hudibras, 10 September 1677.

The text of this is printed in Samuel Butler, Hudibras, ed. Treadway Russell Nash, 3 vols (London, 1793), I, viii.

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Porter, from Ashley, Thursday [November 1718?].

Hodges, No. 54 (dated [1717-19]). McKenzie, III, 182-3 (Letter 63).

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Porter, from Ilam, [21 August 1692].

Hodges, No. 1. McKenzie, III, 136 (Letter 1). Facsimile in T.J. Brown, English Literary Autographs XXI, The Book Collector, 6 (Spring 1957), facing p. 61.

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Porter, [from Stowe, Buckinghamshire], 1 January [1714?].

Hodges, No. 51. McKenzie, III, 180 (Letter 59). Facsimiles of the first page in Hodges, Man, facing p. 88, and in T.J. Brown, English Literary Autographs XXI, The Book Collector, 6 (Spring 1957), facing p. 61.

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Edward Porter, from Rotterdam, 27 September 1700.

Hodges, No. 5. McKenzie, III, 147-8 (Letter 12).

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Porter, from Calais, 11 August 1700.

Hodges, No. 4. McKenzie, III, 146-7 (Letter 11).

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Edward Porter (?), 9 August [1717?].

Hodges, No. 53.

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Porter, [from London, 1714?].

Hodges, No. 52. McKenzie, III, 181 (Letter 60).

Autograph MS of a paper on refraction, endorsed by Walter Warner M^r Hobbes analogy, on two quarto leaves.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 39. This analogy mentioned by Warner in a letter of 17 October 1634 (British Library, Add. MS 4279, f. 290). Discussed in Jacquot & Jones (1973), pp. 17-18.

Incorporated in the Tractatus opticus by Hobbes which was printed in Marin Mersenne, Cogitata physico-mathematica (Paris, 1644) [Molesworth, Latin, V, 217-47] and also in Hobbes's other Tractatus opticus (see HbT 91).

Copy of part of Vieta's treatise, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), with diagrams added in Hobbes's hand.

Discussed, with a facsimile of p. 31v, in Noel Malcolm, Hobbes, the Latin Optical Manuscript, and the Parisian Scribe, EMS, 12 (2005). 210-32 (p. 212).

Unpublished.

Autograph compendium of religious meditations, verse, and autobiographical writings by Katherine Austen, as well as family records.

Described in detail in the online Perdita Project.

Unpublished.

Copy of Harington's English translation of a Latin verse by Sir Walter Mildmay cited in the notes to Book XXII of Orlando Furioso (see HrJ 9).

This MS recorded in Hughey, II, 123.

First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.

Extracts from lives of More, including Roper's, headed A Supplement of some things Relating To S^r Thomas More.

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).

Copy, the prologue dated Feb. 26. 1671.

This MS collated in California. Recorded in Kinsley.

First published in Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Westminster Drolery, The Second Part (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 140. California, I, 143-4. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 256-7.

Copy, headed A Prologue to Edw: Howards Eutopia made by M^r Buckherst.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

Extracts.

This MS recorded in California, IV, 781.

First published (…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus) in London, 1693 [i.e. 1692] (as By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory Discourse concerning Satire and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 3-137.

Extracts, headed Out of M^r Cowleys works.

Copy, on a pair of conjugate long ledger-size leaves, misbound.

First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 3-18.

Copy, headed On Tunbridge-wells a Satyre of L.R., on three quarto leaves (of a six-leaf gathering).

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

Copy of lines 1-173, headed Satyr, on three quarto leaves (of a six-leaf gathering).

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

Copy, headed Sonnet by Q. Elizabeth 1555, on one side of a quarto leaf.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

First published, in a garbled version, in Paul Hentzner, Itinerarivm Germaniae, Galliae; Angliae; Italiae (Nuremberg, 1612), pp. 144-5. Bradner, p. 3, as Written on a Wall at Woodstock. Collected Works, Poem 1, pp. 45-6. Selected Works, Poem 1, pp. 2-3.

Copy of lines 1-474, in a mixed hand, on eight folio leaves, inscribed at the top of the first leaf Ralph Thoresby, imperfect, lacking lines 475 onwards.

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

Copy of speeches by the Squire, the Hermit and the Soldier, in the hand of Thomas Birch, transcribed from BcF 308, imperfect, lacking the rest.

First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.

Copy, headed On Nothing, subscribed Rochester, on both sides of a single quarto leaf, inscribed by Thomas Birch This Autograph of the eminent D^r. John Nalson [1637-86, rector and author, prebendary of Ely] was given me by his Son the Rev^rd. & Ingenious M^r. Val: Nalson Preb: of York 1710.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

Extracts.

First published in London, 1667. Columbia, II. Darbishire I. Carey & Fowler, pp. 417-1060.

Extracts from works by Cowley.

Copy, untitled, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

California, XVI, 63. Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 196. Kinsley, II, 577. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 266-7.

Autograph MS of a translation by Marvell of The Justice of the Swedish Cause.

Edited from this MS in The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell, 2 vols (Yale University, 2003), I, 441-9. Facsimile of f. 175r in Hilton Kelliher, Some Notes on Andrew Marvell, British Library Journal, 4/2 (Autumn 1978), 122-44 (p. 133).

A ten-line autograph annotation by Camden, in the margin of a scribal copy (ff. 58r-61v) of the proceedings at the coronation of James I and Queen Anne, 25 July 1603.

Several autograph or partly autograph papers by Cotton, who signs f. 3r Robertus Cottonus Conningtonensis 1602, including two autograph pedigrees showing the descent of Conington Manor, Huntingdonshire (f. 2r-v); his apparently autograph preamble to an inspeximus of the will of Edward VI (f. 70r); and a scribal copy of the will of Henry VIII inscribed by Cotton in 1604 Adulterina voluntas (ff. 70r-7v).

Copy of Dicsone's letter to John Davidson, subscribed Your brother in Christ Alexander Dicksone.

Beal, Checklist, pp. 129-30. The letter edited from this transcript in the edition of Calderwood's Historie by the Rev. Thomas Thomson, Woodrow Society (8 vols, Edinburgh, 1842-9), VI, 214-15.

Copy, headed Ex Jo. Skelton Poeta laureato.

This MS collated in Dyce.

Canon, D53, p. 17, First published in Pithy pleasaunt and profitable workes of maister Skelton (London, 1568). Dyce, I, 177.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Out of a booke called The vocation of John Bale to the Bishoprick of Ossory in Ireland, his psecutions in the same & finall delliu^rance.

First published in Rome, 1533. Reprinted in Harleian Miscellany (London, 1745), VI, 402-28 (1810 edition, VI, 437-64).

Copy of Davies's two speeches when he was appointed Speaker in the Irish House of Commons, in a professional secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

Two speeches, one in the Irish House of Commons, the other in the Irish House of Lords, beginning respectively Most hon^ble. Lord & R^t. Worthy Deputy of Our most Invincible Renowned & Gracious Sovereign, I am here presented to your Lord^p.... and Most hon^ble. & Right Noble Lord. Since your high Wisdom (unto which I humbly made my Appeal) has not thought fit to repeal.... The second speech first published in Davies, Historical Tracts (Dublin, 1787). The two speeches first published together in Grosart, III (1876), 215-21, 222-41.

Copy, in a secretary hand, with other verses, on a folio leaf of vellum (inverted), deleted and faded.

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

Autograph letter signed, to Alexander Pope, from Ashley, [late summer 1719?].

Hodges, No. 133. McKenzie, III, 184 (Letter 66).

Autograph letter signed, to Alexander Pope, from Surrey Street, 20 January [1719/20?].

Hodges, No. 135. McKenzie, III, 185 (Letter 68).

Copy, with Huggett's description of the monument and comments on the incorrect date of 1653 instead of 1658 in y^e MS.

This MS recorded in Kelliher, BLJ, 4, 137.

First published, as prose, in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 139-40. This inscription, in lapidary verse, was on a memorial formerly in Eton College Chapel and several extant texts recorded below were transcribed from a transcript of it made by one Taffy Woodward, Chapel Clerk at Eton. See the discussion and reconstructed text in Kelliher (1978), pp. 72-3, and in Kelliher, Some Notes on Andrew Marvell, British Library Journal, 4 (1978), 122-44 (pp. 134-9). Smith, pp. 193-4, with English translation.

Copy, in a musical setting, subscribed finis m^r Heywood.

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 79-80. Milligan, pp. 256-7.

Extracts, headed S^r Walter Raleigh Histor Mundi Libro 3 fo 15.

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

Copy of an eight-line version, in an italic hand, headed The Brevitye of Mans lyfe, beginning As a Tale tould w^ch sometymes men attend, and subscribed Fran: Viscount S^t Albons.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 88.

Copy of Gatty's song, untitled.

First published in London, 1668. Brett-Smith, II, 1-179 (p. 169). Thorpe, p. 23.

Copy of the dirge, untitled.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).