Bodleian Library, Eng. misc. MSS

  • MS Eng. misc. b. 48

    A composite volume of papers, mainly verse on separate sheets.

    Mid-18th century.

    Given in 1952 by D. Nichol Smith.

    • DoC 1 f. 79r-v

      Copy, untitled, on the first of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Advice ('Phyllis, for shame let us improve')
  • MS Eng. misc. b. 169

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 340 leaves.

    • SeC 108.5 f. 62r

      Copy.

      Unpublished?

      Sir Charles Sedley, Subject: Pleasure of the Town & Country Sr C Sedley ('Oh! the charms the Country yields')
  • MS Eng. misc. c. 34

    A folio miscellany, owned and probably compiled by one P. D, 123 leaves, the first entry dated Ap. 18. 1687.

    1687-9.

    Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.

    • DrJ 285.2 f. 24v

      Comments on the play.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 278.

      First published in London, 1668. California, IX (1966), pp. 205-89.

      John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feign'd Innocence
    • LeN 10.3 f. 26r

      Comments on the play.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 278.

      By Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden. First published in London, 1679. Stroup & Cooke, I, 367-449. California edition of Dryden's works, XIII (1962), 114-215.

      Nathaniel Lee, Oedipus
    • ShW 67.5 in ff. 59v-60v

      Comments on the play.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 273-4.

      First published in London, 1600.

      William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing
    • ShW 60.2 in ff. 59v-60v

      Comments on the play.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 274.

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

      William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
    • ShW 64.2 in ff. 59v-60v

      Comments on the play.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 274.

      First published in London, 1602.

      William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    • ShW 72.2 in ff. 59v-60v

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 274-5.

      First published in London, 1622.

    • ShW 38.5 in ff. 59v-60v

      Comments on the play.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 275-6.

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

      William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    • DrJ 172.1 f. 64r

      Comments on the poem.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 278.

      First published in London, 1682.

      John Dryden, Religio Laici
    • MaA 519.7 ff. 90v-1e

      Some critical comments on the work.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 278-9.

      First published (the first part) in London, 1672. The Second Part in London, 1673. Edited by Martin Dzelzainis and Annabel Patterson in The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell, 2 vols (Yale University, 2003), I, 41-203, 221-438.

      Andrew Marvell, The Rehearsal Transpros'd
    • SuJ 158.2 f. 101v

      Comments on the play.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 279.

      First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.

      John Suckling, Aglaura
    • DrJ 281.9 f. 119r

      Comments on the play.

      Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 278.

      First published in London, 1668. California, IX (1966), pp. 113-203.

      John Dryden, Secret-Love, or The Maiden-Queen
    • LeN 11.4 f. 120v

      Comments on the play.

      Quoted in Evans, p. 279.

      First published in London, 1689. Stroup & Cooke, II, 147-227 (p. 157). Musical setting of the song by William Turner first published in Choice Ayres and Songs…The Fourth Book (London, 1683).

      Nathaniel Lee, The Princess of Cleve, I, i, 4-15. Song ('All other Blessings are but Toyes')
  • MS Eng. misc. c. 35

    A letterbook of correspondence sent to an officer serving in India in 1810.

    c.1810.
  • MS Eng. misc. c. 93

    A guardbook of miscellaneous separate papers, chiefly folio, 21 leaves.

    Given by J. Fowler 19 March 1918 on behalf of the owner Edward Weston Cracroft, J.P. (1849-1933), of Hackthorn Hall, Lincoln.

    • EsR 53 f. 21v

      Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed Verses made by The Erle of Essex, in a secretary hand, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves (ff. 20r-1v) of Elizabethan verse.

      This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

      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')
  • MS Eng. misc. c. 139

    A folio volume comprising two independent units, foliated as a single series, xii + 246 leaves (plus 12 further blanks).

    Both parts containing antiquarian tracts:

    ff. 1r-29v, Matters of Combat 1609, predominantly in a professional secretary hand, with additions in other hands, owned in 1612 by William Crispe (name inscribed in court hand several times) and also by Henry Crispe (inscribed f. 20r-v), one or both also probably responsible for trial exercises in decorative lettering. c.1609-12.

    ff. 30r-45v, discourses and copies of Latin documents relating to the offices of Lord Steward, Constable, and Earl Marshal of England, with title-page and (incomplete) list of contents, in the hands of professional scribes: ff. 30r-119v, 132r-45v, 150v-61r, 165v to to half-way down f. 205r in the hand of the Feathery Scribe; the remainder in two other scribal hands. c.1630s.

    Once owned by the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. Sotheby's, 17 June 1904 (Library of a Gentleman in the Country), lot 89, to Quaritch. P.J. and A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 80 (1928), item 719.

    Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 88). Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney, p. 30.

    • CmT 89 f. 1r

      Copy, in a different hand, untitled.

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

      Thomas Campion, 'The man of life upright'
    • CmT 90 f. 21r

      Second copy, in yet another hand.

      Edited from this MS in Joiner.

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

      Thomas Campion, 'The man of life upright'
    • CtR 252 ff. 30r-7v

      Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      Tract beginning For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name.... Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett
    • CmW 35 ff. 48v-51r

      Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      A tract beginning Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus.... First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.

      William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England
    • CtR 235 ff. 52r-3v

      Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      Tract beginning Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question.... Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by Sr: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 51 ff. 54v-9v

      Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      Tract beginning The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto.... Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 218 ff. 60r-4r

      Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      A dedicatory epistle beginning Sir, Yor small tyme, I must Ballance, wth as sclendr Aunswere... followed by a tract beginning Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne....

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Antiquitye, and Offyce of the Earle Marshall of England, written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, Att the request of the Lord Henrye Howard, Earle of Northampton [25 November 1602]
    • CmW 23 ff. 71-7v

      Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      A tract beginning Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes... and sometimes entitled in manuscripts The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England. First published, as Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.

      William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
  • MS Eng. misc. c. 144

    A volume of state treatises, copied for, and annotated by, Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1703), diplomat and government official, vi + 420 pages.

    Late 17th century.

    Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue for 1834, item 245. Later owned by J.R. Magrath. Donated in 1930 by Miss Lefroy.

    • HkR 63 pp. 152-63
      No description or publication history available.
      Richard Hooker, Extracts
    • RaW 1058 pp. 338-57

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1700, with A Memorial of Sir Walter Raleigh to Q. Elizabeth beginning There is no one thing, most renowned Soveraign, of greater necessitie..., drawn up either by Sir Walter Raleigh or Sir Dudley Diges. Written by Thomas Digges or Sir Dudley Digges?: see Ernest A. Strathmann in TLS (1956), p. 228, and Lefranc (1968), p. 65.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of Sea-ports, principally of the Port and Haven of Dover
  • MS Eng. misc. c. 292

    A guardbook of miscellaneous separate papers, chiefly folio, 218 leaves.

    Early 18th century.

    Chiefly collected by W.H. Black. Subsequently bought from Miss N.T. Harrison, 1947.

    • FrG 7 f. 101r

      Copy of Archer's song, headed The Triffle, on a single folio leaf, the verso containing recipes and the note Mr. Cheney at the backside of St Thos. Apostles Key Court near Choue Land. Early 18th century.

      First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).

      George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song ('A Trifling Song you shall hear')
    • SuJ 19 ff. 108r-9v

      Copy, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 18th century.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.

      John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding ('I tell thee Dick, where I have been')
    • DoC 23 f. 116r-v

      Copy, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves of verse. Mid-late 18th century.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea ('To all you ladies now at land')
  • MS Eng. misc. c. 339

    A volume of estate and household accounts of Anne Freke at Hannington, Hampshire, i + 101 leaves (ff. 77-101 blank), in vellum.

    1737-46.
    • RoJ 664 f. 30r

      Copy of Rochester's letter on his death-bed to Dr Thomas Pierce, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, July 1680.

      See also RoJ 662 and RoJ 663.

  • MS Eng. misc. c. 437

    Part of a collection of papers of Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920), poet and essayist, for her proposed edition of William Alabaster's sonnets, including correspondence with Bertram Dobell, 1904-14, 51 leaves.

    Late 19th-early 20th century.

    Donated by her executor 1964.

    • AlW 271
      No description or publication history available.
      William Alabaster, Editorial papers
  • MS Eng. misc. d. 239

    Copy on thirty folio leaves.

    With a title-page (f. 5r), inscribed Scripsit Pau: Thompson Cant: in gratia Amicissmi: sui Jwhs: Clapham; with the Dedication To the Qs most sac: matie on ff. 10r-13r; the main text on ff. 14r-39r; written in a single secretary hand, that of Paul Thompson (1563-1617) of Cambridge, apparently for his friend John Clapham. Folios 6r-9r are occupied by sixteen sonnets (two addressed to the painter Segar), apparently by one Ch. M., in a different hand. The volume was originally in vellum wrappers extracted from a 15th-century Italian manuscript of letters by Cicero.

    Late 16th century.

    Owned in 1898 by Richard Mullings and before 1933 by the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society.

    Recorded in Wiltshire Archæology and Natural History Magazine, 30 (1898), pp. 39, 85-6, and in Woudhuysen, p. 102.

    • HoH 29
      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 Eng. misc. e. 13

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single small hand, 31 leaves, in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, imperfect.

    A label on the cover: Dr. Lynnet's Common Place Book: i.e. compiled by Dr William Lynnet (1622/3-1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge.

    c.1643.

    Inscribed Ri. Walker 1758. some years agoe Mr. Brigg bought this Common place book in Smithfield, and gave it to RW. Inscriptions dated 1792 by Thomas Bousefield (or possibly James Simpson), wheelwright of Kendal. Purchased from J.W. Jarvis & Son, 30 January 1891.

    • DnJ 2646.6 f. 10r-v

      Copy, headed Psalm. 137, subscribed John Donne.

      This MSA collated in Crowley.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as Probably by Francis Davison. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of Psalme 137, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.

      John Donne, Psalme 137 ('By Euphrates flowry side')
    • CoA 204 f. 11r

      Copy, untitled and here ascribed to A.C..

      Unpublished.

      Abraham Cowley, 'Qualiter in ramo volucris quae semper eodem'
    • CoA 205 ff. 12v-13r

      Second, variant version, untitled, original heading with ascription to William Spratt deleted.

      Unpublished.

      Abraham Cowley, 'Qualiter in ramo volucris quae semper eodem'
    • CrR 75 f. 23r-v

      Copy of lines 15-46, headed To ye reader on Lessius hygiasticon, here beginning Heark hither, Reader: wouldst thou see, and subscribed R: Crashaw. Pemb:.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published (lines 15-46 only) in Leonard Leys, Hygiasticon…done into English, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1634). Published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted, as Temperance, Or the Cheap Physitian Vpon the Translation of Lessivs, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 156-8 (and later version pp. 342-4).

      Richard Crashaw, In praise of Lessius his rule of health ('Goe now with some dareing drugg')
    • KiH 37 f. 24r

      Copy, headed The answer.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • BrT 0.4 f. 29r

      Copy.

      First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Colloquy with God ('The night is come like to the day')
  • MS Eng. misc. e. 147

    A quarto composite volume of micellaneous papers, in verse and prose, 188 leaves (including blanks), in half-green morocco over marbled boards, worn.

    Collected by Thomas Gale, FSA (1635?-1702), Dean of York, or else by his son, Samuel Gale (1682-1754), Land Surveyor at the Customs House, London.

    Once owned by Elizabeth Stukeley (née Gale) and by William S. and Richard Fleming. Later bookplate of Andrew Coltee Ducarel L.L.D. Doctor's Commons, 1778. P.J. & A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 62 (1926), item 129.

    • DrJ 50 ff. 88r-90v

      Copy, forming part of a quarto transcript of Three Poems upon…Oliver Lord Protector (1659), ascribed By John Dryden. Late 17th century.

      This MS collated in Dearing et al., loc. cit.

      First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 18-29.

      John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. ('And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste')
    • WaE 708 f. 91r-v

      Copy, forming part of a quarto transcript of Three Poems upon …Oliver Lord Protector (1659), ascribed By Mr Waller.

      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')
  • MS Eng. misc. e. 183

    A verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 83 leaves.

    Compiled by William Parry, vicar of Shipton-on-Stow, Warwickshire.

    c.1741.

    Once owned by one Anne Bromage. P.J. & A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 73 (1928), item 487.

    • FrG 8 ff. 18v-19r

      Copy, headed Nonsensical Folkes, &c - a Song.

      First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).

      George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song ('A Trifling Song you shall hear')
  • MS Eng. misc. e. 219

    A notebook chiefly of verse, compiled by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, 35 leaves.

    c.1749.

    Acquired by William Macmath from W. B. Bennett, Birmingham bookseller, in 1885. Davis & Orioli, sale catalogue No. 72 (1936), item 67.

    • JnB 123.5 f. 6v

      Copy.

      First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

      Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')
    • DrJ 43.1 f. 10v

      Copy.

      Kinsley, IV, 1801. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 671-2.

      John Dryden, Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Paston of Barningham in Norfolk ('So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet')
  • MS Eng. misc.e. 226

    A notebook of state and parliamentary papers compiled by John Browne, Clerk of the Parliaments, partly in another hand, ii. + 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Early 17th century.

    Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 25152. Sotheby's, 27 April 1903, lot 868. Donated in 1938 by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.

    • RaW 677.1 f. 12r

      Extract.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
  • MS Eng. misc e. 241

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, i + 200 leaves (ff. 129-199 blank), in quarter-vellum over boards.

    Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776.

    c.1776-1804.

    Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.

    • CrR 455 ff. 20r-4r, 96v-8r

      Extracts, including The Weeper and The Teare from Crashaw's Steps to the Temple (1646).

      Richard Crashaw, Extracts
    • CaW 62 f. 24v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Works (1651), p. 218. Evans, p. 471.

      William Cartwright, Women ('Give me a Girle (if one I needs must meet)')
    • CaW 60 ff. 24v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Works (1651), pp. 245-6. Evans, p. 494.

      William Cartwright, A Valediction ('Bid me not go where neither Suns nor Show'rs')
    • CaW 1 f. 25r

      Copy.

      First published in Works (1651), p. 248. Evans, p. 496.

      William Cartwright, Absence ('Fly, O fly sad Sigh, and bear')
    • BuS 0.2 f. 45r

      Extracts.

      Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

      Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')
    • BrW 5.5 ff. 45v-6r

      Extracts.

      Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
    • HeR 219.2 f. 60v

      Copy.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 176.

      Robert Herrick, To Blossoms ('Faire pledges of a fruitfull Tree')
    • SeC 17.2 f. 99r

      Copy, ascribed to Sir Charles Sedley.

      First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 69-70. Sola Pinto, I, 29-30.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Indifference ('Thanks, fair Vrania. to your Scorn')
    • ShJ 118.5 ff. 115v-16r

      Copy.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 408. Sir Henry Chauncy, Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire (London, 1700), p. 472. R.G. Howarth, Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a Doubtful Poem.

      James Shirley, Verses on the martyrdom of St. Alban ('This image of our frailty, painted Glass')
    • DrW 25.5 f. 118r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 7.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, Son ('Sleepe, Silence Child, sweet Father of soft Rest')
    • DrM 0.5 f. 126r

      Copy.

      First published, as sonnet 4, in Idea in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 312.

      Michael Drayton, 'Bright starre of Beauty, on whose eye-lids sit'
    • DrM 37.8 f. 126r

      Copy.

      First published, as sonnet 6, in Idea in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 313.

      Michael Drayton, 'How many paltry, foolish, painted things'
  • MS Eng. misc. e. 262

    A quarto miscellany of poems on the death of Lady Rich, 44 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

    With a general title-page (f. 1r), The Shadow of the (sometimes) right Faire, Vertuous, and Honourable Lady Anne Rich Now an Happy, Glorious, and Perfected Saint in Heaven, and (ff. 2r-3r) a dedication dated 22 October 1638; the miscellany collected by, and apparently in the hand of, John Gauden (1605-62), later Bishop of Worcester.

    1638.

    Inscribed on a flyleaf Ger. Sleigh. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 4.

    • KiH 222 ff. 37v-8v

      Copy, subscribed Dr Hen: King.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 93-5.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche ('I envy not thy mortall triumphes, Death!')
    • WaE 697 ff. 40v-1v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.

      Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich ('May those already cursed Essexian plains')
    • CrR 177.5 f. 96v

      Copy, subscribed Crashaw.

      First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.

      Richard Crashaw, On the Miracle of Loaves ('Now Lord, or never, they'l beleeve on thee')
  • MS Eng. misc. e. 536

    A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth.

    In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714.

    c.1680s.

    Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.

    • MaA 325 pp. 1-12

      Copy, including the envoy To the King.

      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 367 pp. 13-26

      Copy, including the envoy To the King, the poem here dated 1666.

      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')
    • MaA 396 pp. 27-34

      Copy, the poem here dated 1667.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • MaA 484 pp. 35-6

      Copy, headed An Advice to a Paintr in 1670.

      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')
    • RoJ 75 pp. 41a-42b

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
    • RoJ 288 pp. 43-9

      Copy, headed A Satyr on Man.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      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).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • RoJ 242 pp. 54-5

      Copy, followed (p. 55) by The Answr.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • RoJ 208 p. 56

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny ('Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring')
    • RoJ 216 p. 57

      Copy.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • RoJ 555 p. 59

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress ('Tis not that I am weary grown')
    • RoJ 546 p. 60

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl ('Vulcan, contrive me such a cup')
    • RoJ 169 p. 61

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')
    • RoJ 192 p. 62

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published, as Epigram upon my Lord All-pride, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride ('Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells')
    • BeA 12 pp. 63-5

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 151-3. Todd, I, No. 15, pp. 42-4.

      Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 451-2.

      Aphra Behn, On the death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter ('What doleful crys are these that fright my sence')
    • RoJ 566 pp. 67-9

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated 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.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • DoC 268 p. 79

      Copy, headed On Mr E— H—. upon his B— P—.

      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.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
    • DoC 146 pp. 81-2

      Copy, headed On the same Author upon his New Vt-.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his New Utopia ('Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!')
    • RoJ 473 pp. 83-8

      Copy, headed A Satyr.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Love, Text of Timon.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')
    • RoJ 48 pp. 89-90

      Copy, headed The Maim'd Debauchee.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
    • RoJ 13 pp. 91-4

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
    • RoJ 137 pp. 103-10

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
    • RoJ 275 pp. 113-14

      Copy, incomplete.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park ('Much wine had passed, with grave discourse')
    • EtG 1 pp. 115-16

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 331.

      First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

      Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
    • RoJ 607 pp. 117-18

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
  • MS Eng. misc. e 714

    A volume of entomological and antiquarian notes, 75 leaves, in vellum.

    19th century.

    Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 18210.

    • BaJ 21.5 ff. 39v-75r

      Extracts.

      First published in Wesel [i.e. Ipswich], 1548.

      John Bale, Illustrium Maioris Britanniae scriptorum summarium
  • MS Eng. misc. f. 49

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose extracts, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, ii + 79 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Compiled by men associated with Oxford University.

    c.1647-1698.

    Inscribed on the rear pastedown To the right worsppf my very kind friend Mr Tho.: Young and Ed Burham. Bought in 1899 by W.D. Macray from George's of Oxford. Sold by Blackwell's, 1921.

    • StW 773 fol. 1v rev.

      Copy.

      First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • RaW 204 fol. 20v

      Copy of an untitled six-line version, here beginning the first day of ye next new yeare.

      First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice ('Beefore the sixt day of the next new year')
    • RaW 205 fol. 70

      Second copy of an untitled six-line version, also beginning The first day of ye next new yeare.

      First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice ('Beefore the sixt day of the next new year')
  • MS Eng. misc. f. 79

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in two or more hands, written from both ends, 180 pages, in contemporary calf.

    c.1740s.

    A flyleaf inscribed, possibly by a compiler, Miscellanies / Rob: Traile. Owned in 1938-42 by Norman Ault.

    • DrJ 3 pp. 71-7

      Copy.

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

      John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Or The Power of Musique. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day (''Twas at the Royal Feast, for Persia won')
  • MS Eng. misc. f. 89

    Autograph fair copy of 51 characters, with corrections, 174 octavo pages (with later additions, 98 leaves in all), in modern green morocco gilt.

    Entitled Micro-Cosmographie or a peece of the world discouerd.

    c.1627.

    Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 83. Subsequently by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 121. Owned in 1901 by C.W. Holgate. Sotheby's, 31 July 1947, lot 347. Myers & Co., sale catalogue No. 350 (1947), item 201. Bequeathed to the Bodleian by E.H.W. Meyerstein (1889-1952), writer and scholar.

    This MS collated in Bliss's annotated exemplum of his edition (Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. e. 112), and some of Bliss's collations printed in Bliss-Irwin (1897). The character of A shee-Puritan (pp. 115-21) edited from this MS (in an expurgated version) by Peter Lombard in Varia, The Church Times, No. 1832 (4 March 1898), p. 250.

    A complete facsimile of the MS published by the Scolar Press, Menston, 1966.

    • *EaJ 71
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

  • MS Eng. misc. f. 473

    An octavo miscellany of ecclesiastical, legal and political tracts and notes, with later additions, 103 pages (plus some blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    Early 17th century [to 1788].

    Once owned by Thomas Smethurst and, later, by Thomas Madocks, mariner. Owned in 1713-88 by William Billington, of Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, son of John Billington. Scribbling on pastedown and flyleaves also including the name Anne Pilling. Later purchased from John Salkeld by A.F. Norwood. Donated in 1974 by E.R. Lewis.

    • SpE 64 ff. 51r-66r

      A précis of Spenser's arguments, in a small neat secretary hand, headed Spensers discourse of Ireland termed Irelands good and beginning 1. The cause of Tyrons and the rests Rebellion in Ulster was the new Countyinge of Monahon…

      First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

      Spenser's authorship of this View is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her 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. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

      Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland