Copy of a version, on two folio leaves.
Written 25 April 1604. To be published in the forthcoming The Oxford Francis Bacon.
Copy.
Late 17th century.Among the papers of the St John family, of Bletsoe.
A volume of Commons debates about Clarendon's impeachment, in 1667, 182 pages.
Late 17th century.Bookplate of William, Lord St John (d.1720).
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.
Fragment of what was probably a substantial folio volume of poems, including many by Donne, in a single predominantly italic hand.
Comprising three mutilated pairs of conjugate leaves, unquired but once sewn together, with contemporary pagination from [42] to 53, containing eleven poems by Donne, some subscribed J. D.
c.1620-33.Among the papers of the St John family, of Bletsoe, Bedforshire, which, among other connections, was related to the Egerton family by the marriage in 1623 of Oliver St John (1603-42) to Arabella, daughter of the first Earl of Bridgewater
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the St John MS
:
Copy of the six-line epistle only, untitled, on p. [42], imperfect.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
Copy, headed The Nothi[ng]
on p. [42], imperfect.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.
Copy on p. [43], imperfect and lacking title.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
Copy of lines 13-30, here beginning If he wrunge from m[e]e a tea[re ]
, on p. 44, imperfect.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
Copy, on pp. 44-[47], imperfect and lacking title.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
Copy, untitled, on pp. [47-8], imperfect.
First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.
Copy, headed Valediction
, on pp. [48]-49, imperfect.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
Copy, headed [ ]n, of teares
, on pp. 49-50, imperfect.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
Copy, headed 3 Valediction
, on pp. 50-[51], imperfect.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
Copy, headed 4. Valediction of glasse
, on pp. 52-3, imperfect.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
Copy of lines 1-10, headed 5th: Mummy
on p. 53, imperfect and lacking ending.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
A booklet of six folio leaves.
Late 17th century.Among papers of the Earls de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.
Copy, as By E. W. Esq.
First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.
Copy, headed Transcribed from Waller To Sacharissa on her having shewed me a paper of her own Writing Under the Name of Amoret
, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
Apparently unpublished.
Copy, headed Drinking. Out of Mr Cowley's Anacreontiques
, on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.
Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
Copy, headed Tryon on a Dolphin or his Maiestyes passage to England
, with corrections in another hand, subscribed in the main hand Mrs Phillips the author of these verses
and docketed in the second hand Vpon his sacred Majesties Charles Charles ye 2d happy passage to England [on deleted] [Mris Phillipps deleted] May 29 1660 by Mris Phillips
, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
First published, as Arion to a Dolphin, On his Majesty's passage into England, in Poems (1664), pp. 5-9. Poems (1667), pp. 3-5. Saintsbury, pp. 508-9. Thomas, I, 71-3, poem 3.
Copy, in double columns, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
Copy of texts relating to Ralegh's execution, in a single secretary hand, on an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves.
c.1620.Among the papers of the Trevor Wingfield family and possibly deriving from the papers of the Boteler family of Biddenham.
Copy, untitled.
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, untitled, with a sidenote At Sr Walter Rawleighs deathe
.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see
A single unbound folio leaf of MS verse.
Mid-17th century.Among the papers of the Trevor Wingfield family and possibly deriving from the papers of the Boteler family of Biddenham.
Copy.
First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole
, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
Copy.
First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole
, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear
) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
