Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

All Souls College, Oxford

  • MS 99

    Copy of seven parts, in a single professional hand, xviii + 504 large folio pages, plus Dugdale's fifteen-page index in his hand and some blanks, in contemporary calf.

    A note (p. [xiv]) by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector, states that this MS of The Itinerary was copied from a Manuscript thereof belonging to Robert Harley Esq [? LeJ 65], & was examined therwith by me, wherein I observed these following matters...., the MS exemplar being not very intelligible in many places.

    2nd half 17th century.
    • LeJ 66
      No description or publication history available.
      John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Dugdale transcript]

  • MS 116

    A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in at least three professional hands, ii + 124 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

    c.1680s.

    Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

    • MaA 163.2 ff. 1r-7v

      Copy.

      A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye 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).

      Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')
    • MaA 442 ff. 8r-10v

      Copy.

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')
    • RoJ 345 ff. 12v-13r

      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.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
    • MaA 148 ff. 13v-16v

      Copy.

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')
    • RoJ 104.2 ff. 18r-21v

      Copy.

      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.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')
    • RoJ 42 f. 22r

      Copy.

      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.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Dialogue ('When to the King I bid good morrow')
    • RoJ 116.5 f. 23r

      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].

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II ('God bless our good and gracious King')
    • MaA 106 ff. 38r-41r

      Copy, headed A Dialogue between Brittania & Sr 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).

      Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')
    • MaA 202 ff. 41v-2r

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy ('The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix')
    • DoC 219 f. 64v

      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.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
    • MaA 481 ff. 67r-8v

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter ('Painter once more thy Pencell reassume')
    • MaA 210.1 ff. 95r-9r

      Copy.

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, Oceana and Britannia ('Whither, O whither, wander I forlorn?')
    • DoC 327 f. 119r

      Copy.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence ('When Portsmouth did from England fly')

  • MS 123

    A quarto colume of state tracts, 23 leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

    • ClE 93 No. 3 (pp. 17-22)

      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.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

  • MS 125

    A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 92 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

    Inscribed (f. [1r]) Nar. Luttrell: His Book 1682 and (f. 31r).Nar. Luttrell: His Book 1680: i.e. by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

    • CtR 142 ff. 31r-45v

      Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as written by Sr 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.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

  • MS 151

    A quarto volume comprising two separate MSS relating to naval matters bound together, 154 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

    • PpS 4.5 ff. 70r-9r

      Copy, headed Mr Pepy's Letter & New Years Gift to his Honble Friend Sr William Coventry, dated from Greenwich 1st January 1665.

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

      Samuel Pepys, The Pursers Employ Annatomized and both Advantages & disadvantages therein discovered and also A Proposall of comitting the Victualling accompt to the care and management of each Comander. Presented as a New yeares guift to Sr: William Coventry by Samuel Pepys Esqr in 1665

  • MS 155

    A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked).

    Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

    Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

    • ElQ 256 ff. 1r-2r

      Copy of Version 2, headed The Queene to the speaker at Whitehall in the pliamente, Anno 43. set downe by Mr Phillips, followed (ff. 2v-4r) by a summary of the speech penned by Mr 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).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
    • BcF 546 ff. 6r-v, 110r-v

      Copy of letters by Bacon to James I.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • ElQ 86 f. 10r

      Copy, headed Her Matie 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).

      Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596
    • DaJ 229 f. 12r

      Copy. Early 17th century.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

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

      Sir John Davies, Verses of the Queene ('A virgin once a glorious starre did beare')
    • RaW 147 ff. 18v-19v

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')
    • EsR 36 f. 19v

      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.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge'
    • EsR 153 ff. 37r-43r

      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.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
    • DaJ 21 f. 44v

      Copy. Early 17th century.

      This MS collated in Krueger.

      Krueger, p. 150.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 47. Meditations of a Gull ('See yonder melancholie gentleman')
    • DaJ 22 ff. 44v-5

      Copy. Early 17th century.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      Krueger, pp. 158-9.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 62. In Claium ('Goe to the warrs, yonge gallant Claius, goe')
    • DyE 36 ff. 45v-6r

      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.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'
    • SpE 43 f. 58r-v

      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.

      Edmund Spenser, A Brief Note of Ireland
    • EsR 50 ff. 63r-4r

      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.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
    • DaJ 37 ff. 72r-3r

      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.

      Sir John Davies, The Kinges Welcome ('O nowe or never gentle muse, be gaye')
    • DaJ 26 f. 73v

      Copy. Early 17th century.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

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

      Sir John Davies, In Curionem ('The great archpapist learned Curio')
    • DaJ 34 ff. 73v-4r

      Copy. Early 17th century.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

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

      Sir John Davies, In Cynnam ('Cynna is pleasd to render up againe')
    • DaJ 35 f. 74r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

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

      Sir John Davies, In Milonem ('Since Milo travelled, his groundes surcease')
    • ElQ 244 f. 74v

      Copy, headed The queenes to her Spanish embasador.

      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.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597
    • RaW 823 ff. 100v-2r, 253r-v

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • DaJ 91 ff. 108v-8ar

      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.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London ('The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since')
    • DaJ 286 ff. 118r-22v

      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.

      Sir John Davies, A Contention betwen a Wife, a Widowe and a Maide for Precedence at an Offringe ('Widow well met, whether goe you to daye?')
    • SiP 88.3 ff. 123r-7r

      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.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David
    • DaJ 158 ff. 127v-8r

      Copy, headed in a later hand On one Loveinge his Mrs 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.

      Sir John Davies, On his Love ('My Love doth flye with winges of feare')
    • RaW 738 ff. 144v-5r

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Speech found in Sir Walter Rawleighes pockett after his Execution Written by him in the Gatehouse ye night befores dea[th]
    • SoR 307.5 ff. 184r-95v

      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).

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty
    • RaW 384.1 in ff. 217-38v

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester ('Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword')
    • DaJ 79 ff. 272v-3v, 262v-3v

      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.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke ('Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd')
    • ElQ 181 ff. 282r-4r

      Copy, headed The Queenes most excellent mates: oration in the pliamt house Martij 15, Ao: 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).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576
    • RaW 728.1 ff. 293r-4v

      Copy.

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • SoR 296 ff. 295r-306r

      Copy, untitled, headed in a later hand Letter of a Son to his fathr, 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.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)
    • SiP 181 ff. 306r-12v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in a later hand Reasons offered agt Queen Elizabeths marriage wth ye 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).

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
    • JnB 575 ff. 319r-21r

      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.

      Ben Jonson, An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds, 22 May 1607

  • MS 167

    A quarto composite volume of parliamentary and state papers, in various hands, 200 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

    Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector, and inscribed by him false & seditious tracts etc on public affairs in sevral passages.

    • MaA 506 ff. 10r-16v

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, The Alarme

  • MS 174

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in at least three professional hands, 39 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Late 17th century.

    Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

    • MaA 319 ff. 21r-7r

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 365 ff. 27v-35r

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
    • DaJ 162 f. 34v

      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.

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
    • DoC 305 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy, headed Tarsander: in imitation of the Ld: 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.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Actus Primus, Scena Prima ('For standing tarses we kind nature thank')
    • WaE 707 ff. 36v-7r

      Copy, the subject dated Sept: ye: 3d. 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.

      Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
    • WaE 137 f. 39r

      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 Lap. had severall other Copies of Mr Wallers Verses (of which Mr Waller had not duplicats) which she lent to ye 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 ye 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.

      Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper ('Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write')

  • MS 180

    A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts and papers, in professional hands, ii + 266 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Inscribed (f. 1v) Nar. Luttrell: His Book 1682 [i.e. by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector], with similar inscriptions throughout the volume with dates ranging from 1678 to 1685.

    • BcF 234 ff. 18r-27v

      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).

      Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery
    • CtR 339 ff. 131r-5v

      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.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ... [27 April 1624]

  • MS 181

    A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and papers, 368 leaves.

    Mid-17th century.
    • WaE 787 ff. 234r-49v

      Copy.

      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.

      Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640

  • MS 190

    Copy, with a title-page and dedication to the Queen (pp. [iii-xvi]), in the accomplished italic and secretary hand of one of Howard's amanuenses, and with a sidenote in Howard's own hand on p. 49, xviii + 94 folio pages, in red velvet.

    Late 16th century.

    Owned in 1772 by John White, formerly a member of All Souls College.

    • *HoH 28
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      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.

      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

  • MS 202

    A folio volume of state and parliamentary papers, 125 leaves.

    Late 17th century.
    • CmW 6.32 f. 61v

      Extract.

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

      William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

  • MS 208

    A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in a single probably professional cursive hand up to f. 81r, in another hand afterwards, 100 leaves, in old half-calf (rebacked).

    Late 17th century.

    Labelled on the spine Owen Wynne Vol 8.

    • BcF 732.5 ff. 72v-5r

      Copy.

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

      Francis Bacon, Of ye title of great Britt: drawne by Sr ffrancis Bacon

  • a-11-4 (1)&(2)

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, p. 236.

    • *HvG 159
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Talon, Omer. Audomari Talaei Academia. Eiusdem in Academicum Ciceronis fragmentum explicatio. Item in Lucullum Commentarii; cum indice copiosissimo eorum, quae in his continentur, ad Carolum Lotharingum Cardinalem Guisianam (Paris, 1550)

  • a-11-4(3)

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, pp. 206-7.

    • *HvG 53
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem Vindocinum (Paris, 1550)

  • S.R. 63 c.2(1)

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, p. 201.

    • *HvG 36
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Barnaud, Nicholaus. Dialogus quo multa exponuntur quae Lutheranis et Hugonotis Gallis acciderunt. Orange (1573)

  • S.R. 63 c.2(")

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, p. 210.

    • *HvG 69
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, [Du Faur, Gui, Seigneur de Pibrac]. Ornatissimi cuiusdam viri, de rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Eluidium Epistola. At Ad Hanc De Iisdem Rebus Gallicis Responsio ([Paris], 1573)

  • SR 101.b.28a

    A corrected proof-sheet, for sigs 3O2r-v (pp. 481, 484) and 3O2v-3r (pp. 482-3), for the fourth printed edition (Oxford, 1632).

    Removed from the binding of an exemplum of Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, 4th edition (London, 1631).

    c.1631/2.

    Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 73.

    • BuR 1.1
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

      Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

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