The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 5000 through 5999

ElQ 247: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597 ('')

Copy of the Latin version, in a secretary hand, the heading with dates anno 1597 v^l 1598.

Early 17th century.

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.

ElQ 234: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Speech to the Heads of Oxford University, September 28, 1592 ('')

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Oratio Rne Elizabeth ad academicos Oxonienses Sabita 28. Septem 1592.

Early 17th century.

Beginning Merita et gratitudo sic meam rationem captiuam duxerunt..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 163-5. An English translation, beginning Merits and gratitude have so captured my reason..., in Collected Works, Speech 20, pp. 327-8.

ElQ 93: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596 ('')

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A praier of the Quene after the Launchinge to sea of thenglysh Navye by the augst hes therle of Esex in June 1596. a^o R...38.

Early 17th century.

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).

DnJ 2746: John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')

Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

DnJ 2776: John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')

Copy, almost entirely in a mixed hand, the last line (f. 99r) in a probably professional italic hand, headed in the margin Sat. 2^da.

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

DnJ 2808: John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')

Copy, in a probably professional italic hand, headed in the margin Sat. 3. Of Religion.

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

FeO 79: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries ('')

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Touching the Lowe Countries. c.1630s.

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).

*CtR 17: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace ('')

Notes, partly autograph, largely in the hand of an amanuensis, headed by Cotton Common places for you to observe in the reading over of the storyes of England, partly relating to war and invasion and relating to this tract.

A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

RaW 1090: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander ('')

Copy.

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

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

ClE 11.5: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Difference and Disparity betweene the Estates and Condicions of George Duke Buckingham and Robert Earle of Essex ('')

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled The Difference: and: disparitye, Betwene the Estates, and Condicons, of George Duke of Buckingham; and Robte Earle of Essex, the title-page only in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, the rest in another professional hand.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), where it is ascribed to Sir Henry Wotton. First ascribed to Clarendon in the third edition (1672). First published separately as The characters of Robert Earl of Essex … and George Duke of Buckingham (London, 1706). Reprinted in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (London, 1724), pp. 247-71, and in A Collection of several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727), I, 247-71.

WoH 272: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham ('')

Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.

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

NaR 8: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia ('')

Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, beginning at the sixth character, on 71 folio pages, imperfect, lacking the first part.

Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

CtR 18: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace ('')

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page in another hand, A discourse of Peace shewing that Peace is more fitting for the State and realme of England, than Warre, unascribed.

c.1620s.

A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

ElQ 170: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech Dissolving Parliament, January 2, 1567 ('')

Copy of Version I, in a professional italic hand, headed A bille deliuered by her Ma^tie vnto my Ladie Bacon to be deliuered by her highnes commaundemente vnto my Lo: Keeper. Late 16th-early 17the century.

This MS cited in Hartley.

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 113-17.

Version I. Beginning I love so evil counterfeiting and hate so much dissimulation that I may not suffer you depart.... Hartley, I, 174-5 (Separate version). Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 105-6 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 6, pp. 47-51.

Version II. Beginning My lords and others, the Commons of this Assembly, although the lord keeper hath, according to order, very well answered in my name.... Hartley, I, 172-3. Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 107-8 (Version 2).

ElQ 139: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon ('')

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A speach vsed by her Ma^tie vnto my Lord Keeper in the Parliament howse in the ende of a Session.

Early 17th century.

Edited principally from this MS in Hartley (Text ii).

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

Beginning Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words.... Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

HoJ 64: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')

Copy of a 144-line version, in a secretary hand, headed Of a ffart that was lett in the lower house of Parliamt 1607. Early 17th century.

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

RnT 554: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')

Copy.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

EsR 215: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1 ('')

Copy.

EsR 281: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution ('')

Copy, headed The true Copie in substance of Robert Devereux lat Earle of Essex his behevior speache and preyer at the tyme of his execution w^thin the Tower of london 1600.

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

EsR 119: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology ('')

Copy.

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.

AndL 12.9: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermon preached at Westminster, Whit-Sunday, 23 May 1602, on John 16: 7 ('')

Manningham's notes on the sermon as heard by him.

This MS discussed in P.J. Klemp, John Manningham's Diary and a Lost Whit-Sunday Sermon by Lancelot Andrewes, Studies in Bibliography, 54 (2001), 137-55.

Unpublished.

HoH 34: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish ('')

Extracts, headed Notes out of a copie of a letter written by way of dedication of charles the 5^th: his instructions to his sonne Phillip: Translated out of Spanish: and sent to her ma^tie by L: H: Howard [E: of Arundell deleted].

August 1602.

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

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

DaJ 142: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')

Copy, headed An epitaph vpon a bellowe maker, here beginning Here lyes Jo: Potterell, a maker of bellowes, subscribed in a different ink B: J:. October 1602.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

RaW 345: Sir Walter Ralegh, The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty

Copy, headed S^r wa Rawly made this rime vpon the name of a gallant one M^r Noel, followed by Noels answere/ Raw Ly (The foe to the stomacke, and y^e word of disgrace). December 1602.

Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick, No. 19B, p. 29.

First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

DaJ 293: Sir John Davies, An Entertainment at Harefield ('')

Copy of 16 lots and an extract from the prose dialogue betwee[n]e the bayly and a dary mayd, headed Somme of the lotteries w^ch were the last Sumer at hir M^ties, being w^th the L. Keeper. February 1602/3.

This MS (the lots) collated in Krueger, pp. 207-14.

The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.

DnJ 4085: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems ('')

Copy of parts of Paradox II (That Women ought to Paint) and Paradox X (That a Wise man is known by much laughing), together with extracts from two paradoxes beginning Hee that weepeth is most wise and To keepe sheepe, the best lyfe. February 1602/3.

These extracts printed and discussed and the two anonymous paradoxes attributed to Donne in R.E. Bennett, John Manningham and Donne's Paradoxes, MLN, 46 (1931), 309-13.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

DnJ 1762: John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')

Copy, headed Of a beggar that lay on the ground / Dun, here beginning He can nor goe nor sitt nor stand the beggar cryes. March 1603.

Printed from this MS in The Diary of John Manningham, ed. John Bruce, Camden Society 99 (London, 1868), p. 156; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.

BcF 57: Francis Bacon, Advertisement touching a Holy War ('')

A formal copy, ending The rest was not perfected.

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.

BcF 232.6: Francis Bacon, Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England ('')

Copy, in a stylish italic hand

Spedding, XIV, 358-64.