Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Stern, p. 216.
Autograph inscription in Greek, 1533.
1533.Once owned by John Denys (d.1609); by John Ashmore (fl.1621); in 1639 by Henry Jacob (c.1608-52), philologist, lecturer at Merton College, Oxford; and in 1716 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.
Juhász-Ormsby, No. 4.
Additions to the Annales for 1603-23 among copious annotations made by Thomas Smith to his exemplum of his printed edition of Camdeni epistolae (1691).
c.1691.First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 1-85.
Exemplum of the edition of 1709 with annotations in the hand of Thomas Hearne collating the printed text to p. 132 with Leland's autograph MS.
c.1709-16.First published in Oxford, 1709, ed. A. Hall, 2 vols. Edited, as De uiris illustribus/ On Famous Men, with an English translation, by James P. Carley, assisted by Caroline Brett (Oxford, 2010).
A printed exemplum with Ascham's autograph annotations.
1555/6.This item discussed in Ryan, Roger Ascham, p. 211 et seq., 242.
Exemplum of the 1639 Leiden edition of Book IV with numerous MS alterations and additions, possibly derived from Camden's own revisions.
17th century.Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.
A folio composite volume of the state letters and papers of John Thurloe (1616-68), government official, for June-July 1655, in various hands, 430 leaves.
Volume XXVII of the Thurloe Papers.
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to John Thurloe, 15 June 1655.
Edited in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe Esq, ed. Thomas Birch, 7 vols (London, 1742), III, 554. Reprinted in Harbage, p. 120. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 295-6.
A folio composite volume of state papers of John Thurloe (1616-68), government official, in various hands, 284 leaves.
1656-7.Volume XLVI of the Thurloe Papers.
Autograph petition unsigned, [to John Thurloe], for the allowance of stage plays, endorsed by Thurloe Some observations concerning the people of this nation
, [1656].
Identified as Davenant's and edited in Sir Charles Firth, Sir William Davenant and the Revival of the Drama during the Protectorate, EHR, 18 (1903), 319-21. Quoted in Harbage, pp. 125-6.
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers of John Thurloe (1616-68), government official, for, in various hands, 395 leaves.
Volume LVI of the Thurloe papers.
1657.Autograph letter signed by Wither, to John Thurloe, 28 December 1657.
Edited in Wither, Vox Vulgi, ed. W. Dunn Macray (Oxford & London, 1880), pp. ix-xi.
A folio composite volume of state papers of John Thurloe (1616-68), government official, in various hands, 336 leaves.
Volume LVII of the Thurloe papers.
1658.Marvell's autograph transcript of a letter by Oliver Cromwell, in English, to the Marquess of Brandenburg, 18 February 1657/8.
Facsimile of the last page in Kelliher, p. 71.
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers of John Thurloe (1616-68), government official, 202 leaves.
Volume LXVI of the Thurloe Papers (October-December 1659).
Autograph draft by Marvell, with deletions, of a Forme of the Ratification of the Treaty at the Hague as it passed under the Greate Seale, in both English and Latin versions, c.30 June 1659.
Facsimile in Kelliher, p. 76.
Copy of Hayward Townshend's parliamentary journal for 27 October to 19 December 1601, 206 folio leaves, in near-contemporary calf gilt.
In the hand of the Feathery Scribe
but for the heading which is in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary.
Once owned Sir Robert Oxenbridge, MP (1595-1638) of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire; later by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Bishop of St Asaph, ecclesiastical historian, scholar and book collector. It was once bought from John Jackson of Tottenham High Cross.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 90).
Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
.
Edited from this MS in Hartley, III, 412-14; (as Version 1) in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.
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).
A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 45 leaves.
Copy.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.
Speech beginning There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...
. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.
Copy, fourteen leaves.
c.1601.A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and papers, 64 leaves.
c.1620s-30s.Copy.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...
); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...
); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...
), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
Copy of a collection
of the proceedings, 143 folio leaves.
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.
A folio composite volume of state tracts, 79 leaves, in vellum covered boards.
In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe
.
Once owned by James Brydges (1674-1744), first Fuke of Chandos, politician and music patron, of Cannons, Middlesex (lot 1426 in the house sale there in 1747). Among collections of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.
Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 255-6 (No. 91).
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand.
Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James
, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...
. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
Copy in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe
and ascribed to Sr Henrye Wootton
.
This MS recorded in Pearsall Smith, II, 414. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 255 (No. 91.1).
Unpublished?
A folio composite bolume of naval and other papers of Samuel Pepys, in various hands, 498 leaves.
Autograph journal by Pepys, in shorthand., 12 February 1667/8.
Widely printed, including a text in Chappell's edition of the Tangier Papers. (1935)
A folio composite volume of papers belonging to Samuel Pepys, 152 leaves.
1670s.Once owned by Colonel John Scott and seized in his lodgings in Cannon Street, after his flight, on 28 October 1678 by Samuel Pepys.
Copy, headed A Combat Between the Soule And sense
and here beginning Courage Courage My Soule now learn to weild
, on two long conjugate folio leaves.
Facsimile of f. 80r in Kelliher, p. 51.
First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 9-12. Smith, pp. 35-8.
A folio composite volume of naval papers collected by Samuel Pepys, 290 leaves.
Inscribed by him Mixt papers put up in my parchment covers in and about the time of the first Dutch war (1665, 66, 67, 680, design'd for the most part for a collection, as I remember, towards the history thereof
.
Autograph drawing and caption, headed A Scheme of the Posture of the Dutch Fleete and action at Shere-nesse and Chatham, 10th, 11th, and 12th of June, 1667.
This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 88; engraving by Sidney Hall from this MS reproduced in Pepys's Diary, ed. Mynors Bright (1825), IV, facing p. 363.
Evelyn's history of the Dutch War was begun at the instigation of Charles II in 1670 but remained unfinished and unpublished: see Keynes, pp. 202-4. See also related letters in Bray, II, part i, pp. 87-100.
A folio volume of transcripts of some 71 letters of state sent chiefly by Cromwell to foreign princes and officials, partly composed by Milton, from 10 February 1653/4 to 19 October 1655, in a professional hand, 41 leaves, plus blanks and a 4-page index.
Mid-late 17th century.A folio volume of transcripts of some 105 letters of state by Cromwell and others, partly composed by Milton, 1653/4-1655, in two or three professional hands, 55 leaves.
Mid-late 17th century.A folio composite volume, in various hands, chiefly comprising naval papers, 210 leaves.
Formerly in the library of Samuel Pepys.
Copy.
Petition beginning I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain...
. Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?], and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state and parliamentary papers, 357 leaves.
Copy.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.
Speech beginning There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...
. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.
Copy, in a professional, predominantly secretary hand, with a title-page, 68 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1620s.A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...
. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
An octavo volume of nine state tracts, 80 leaves.
Late 16th century.Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to Queen Elizabeth.
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.
A quarto miscellany of heraldic materials, 139 leaves (largely blank after f. 74).
Late 17th century.Copy.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Selden, Titles of Honor (London, 1614). The Vnder-wood (xiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 158-61.
Copy of an adaptation of Peele's poem (without the prologue), 19 quarto leaves.
Entitled The Honour of the Garter. Displaied in a Poeme gratulatory: Entitled to the right honorable and worthy, Sir Robert Karre knight, viscount Rochester, Created Knight of that Order, and install'd att windsore. Anno regni Iacobi 9. Anno Dom: 1611.
c.1611.Inscribed with the name Ed. Webbe
.
This MS recorded in Horne, p. 174.
First published London, [1593]. Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 245-59.
A quarto notebook of verse and prose, including Ball family letters and accounts, the greater part in one hand, written from both ends, 44 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
Late 17th century.The name Will Ball inscribed twice on f. 5r and a copy of his father's will dated 17 November 1647 on ff. 11v-12r
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Methinks the Poor Town (London, 1673). Choice Songs and Ayres…The First Book (London, 1673). Harris, pp. 90-2.
Copy of the Fiddler's song, untitled and subscribed ye song in Epsom Wells
.
Summers, II, 95-182 (pp. 139-40).
A folio volume of heraldic and genealogical collections, in several hands, 276 leaves (eight leaves excised), in contemporary vellum.
Compiled by Sir Richard St George (c.1555-1635).
c.1586-1619.Annotations in Latin, possibly in Camden's hand, partly relating to the genealogy of Lord Winton.
Copy of the pedigree of the Tregoz family taken Ex Itenerario Johannis Lelandi
.
A large double-folio guardbook of genealogical papers, in various hands, 136 leaves.
Copy, untitled, on a folio page at the end of a folding pedigree by Dugdale of Lord Crew's family. Mid-17th century.
First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
A quarto heraldic miscellany, iv + 237 leaves.
Early 17th century.Once owned by Sir William Le Neve (1592-1661), Clarenceux King of Arms, and by Arthur, Earl of Anglesey.
Copy, occurring in a herald's chronicle of ceremonial events in the reign of Henry VII.
Canon, D57, p. 18. Edited from this MS in Ashmole. Discussed and collated in Green.
Canon, D 57, p. 18. First published in Elias Ashmole, The Institutional Laws and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London, 1672). Dyce, II, 387-8. Discussed and Skelton's authorship rejected in Richard Firth Green, The Verses Presented to King Henry VII: A Poem in the Skelton Apocrypha, ELN, 16 (1978), 5-8.
An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
c.1618-30s.Copies of letters by Ralegh.
Copy, headed A prayer wth confession and faith by vicom[t] S. Albans; and something added in the end by another
and inscribed In March. 1621, a litle before Easter.
First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.
Text of a freely adapted paraphrase of the Letter
, headed The effect of a Discourse directed and delivered to Queen Elisabeth about her Mariage with Monsieur: Ao. 158i: by Sr Philip Sidney
and ending ...At your Majestys fete: Philip Sidney
, on seven pages, subscribed Script: Decembr. 7. i618
.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 7.
An abridgement of John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf (1679), the book which partly prompted Sidney's Letter, in on ff. 15v-17v, subscribed Script. i619. Mens: Martij .19
.
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).
Copy.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...
); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...
); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...
), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
Copy of a letter by Bacon.
MS abstract of the treatise.
First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.
Copy of a letter by Bacon to James I.
Copy of a speech by Bacon.
Copy of The character of a church Papist
, subscribed by Mr Erle
.
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).
Copy, dated April. 1621
and subscribed Thought to be done by Mr Hoskins of Hereford
.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.
Copy, headed Mr Hoskins his dream in the Tower. 1614
.
Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd
and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue
, was widely circulated.
Copy, following the two Latin verses.
This MS cited in Osborn.
Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
A quarto composite volume, comprising two tracts (the second on the Commonwealth of Scotland), in two different hands, 19 leaves (plus blanks), in vellum boards.
A lengthy inscription, on an unopened front endpaper, by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts, addressed to Rawlinson, 1748.
Autograph copy, with revisions, of Harington's letter to Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire, and Sir Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, applying for the Chancellorship of Ireland, 1605.
Edited from this MS in Macray. Facsimile example in R. H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 102).
The original autograph letter which accompanied the copy of this memorial (now unlocated) sent by Harington to Sir Robert Cecil on 20 April 1605 is owned by the Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 110/97, and is printed in McClure, p. 118.
First published, edited by W.D. Macray (Oxford, 1879). Facsimile of f. 13 (which includes the epigram Musa Jocosa, meos solari assueta dolores) in Kathleen M. Lea, Harington's Folly, Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to F.P. Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 42-58 (facing p. 48).
A folio composite volume of historical and antiquarian papers, in various hands, 164 leaves, in 18th-century vellum.
Collected by, and partly in the hand of, Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
Copy, complete with address to readers and dedicatory epistle to Henry VIII, largely in a single hand, subscribed at the end Ex Originale ab ipso Authore (ut par est credere) Henr: R: 8o. præsentato, In illustri, & copiosa. generosissimi Thomæ Knyuet Armigeri BBcâ: apud Ashwell Thorpe. Com: Norf. Jun. 13. 1625
: i.e. presumably transcribed from
An unpublished treatise in Latin, dedicated to Henry VIII.
A folio volume of Collections, historical, political, philosophical, moral and divine
, in a single hand, 380 leaves.
Extracts.
First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.
Extracts from Taylor's works, including his Life of Christ.
Copy, following (on pp. 302-24) an attack on Religio Medici By an Author in Distresse
.
Written as a letter to the Earl of Dorset, 23 December 1642. First published in London, 1643. Edited in Wilkin, II, 118-52.
A quarto notebook of ecclesiastical and historical materials, largely in one neat italic hand, 44 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.
Compiled by William Fulman (1632-88), antiquary.
Late 17th century.Inscribed on a flyleaf Ex MSS olim Thomæ Turner, S.T.P. CC Coll. Oxen Præsidij
: i.e. of Thomas Turner (1645-1714), President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Copy, in a section relating to the history of the Church of England.
Edited from this MS in Hirsch.
First published in George Whetstone, The Censure of a Loyall Subiecte (London, 1587). Hirsch, p. 313.
The heading only, Verses made by Chidioc Tichburn the night before his death, in the Tower
, the rest of the page left blank.
First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer
to this poem, see
A quarto miscellaneous collection of antiquarian materials in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, 98 leaves.
Early 18th century.A copy of John Bale's edition made by Thomas Hearne.
First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.
A folio volume of historical collections, 113 leaves, in 18th-century half calf.
Owned on 2 July 1709, and largely compiled, by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
Copy, headed A moste Brief Pithy and Profound Private Prayer for the Prosperus good success and happy returne of this her Maiestyes Navy and Army Royall made and composed by the Queenes Matie
.
This MS collated in Collected Works. 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).
A quarto volume of notes on history, 210 leaves.
17th century.Extracts from the Annales and Britannia.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
A folio composite volume of papers of John Robinson (1650-1723), Bishop of London, chiefly relating to ecclesiastical matters, in various hands, 401 leaves.
Autograph proposals by Vanbrugh for building fifty new churches, [1711].
Edited in Whistler, pp. 247-52 (Appendix II), with a facsimile of one page containing his sketch of a cemetery at Surat as Plate 140, and in Downes (1977), pp. 257-8 (Appendix E), with a facsimile example of the same page as Plate 55.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 115 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum, traces of green silk ties.
Entitled (f. ir) A discourse touching the prsent state of Ireland wrytten dialoug wise by mr Edmunde Spenser Ao 1596
and then headed A Vewe of the prsente state of Ireland discoursed by waye of a dialogue betwene Eudoxus and Irenius
. Prepared for intended publication in 1598; with a note at the end from the Warden of the Stationer's Company to the Secretary, Mr. Collinges I pray enter this Copie for mathew Lownes to be prynted when he do bringe other authorytie. Thomas Man
.
Inscribed names on front pastedown of Johes: panton Lincoln
and Richard Bagnett his Booke
and, on f. 1r, Jo: Panton 1596
.
Entered in the Stationers' Register under the date 14 April 1598. This MS collated in Variorum. Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 42. Edited from this MS in Rudolf Brand Gottfried, A View of the Present State of Ireland by Edmund Spenser: The Text of Bodleian MS Rawlinson B 478: see Dissertation Abstracts International, 49, No. 7 (January 1989), p. 1809A.
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.
A quarto volume of historical collections, 120 leaves.
Compiled by the historian Sir James Ware (1594-1666).
c.1644-55.Subsequently owned by the Earl of Clarendon.
Extracts transcribed from Leland's autograph, dated in a different dand at the top of the first leaf 25 November 1644.
First published in Oxford, 1709, ed. A. Hall, 2 vols. Edited, as De uiris illustribus/ On Famous Men, with an English translation, by James P. Carley, assisted by Caroline Brett (Oxford, 2010).
Extracts.
Copy, largely in one mixed hand, partly in two other hands, with a few pejorative annotations by a contemporary reader, 239 folio leaves, on rectos only, in old black morocco (rebacked).
The two main hands also in
Inscribed Anglesey his booke
and Let this book be restored to the owner. Edm. Rassingham
.
Griffin's R
text. Facsimile of the first page (the caption misprinted as MS B
) in Griffin, p. 170.
First published and attributed to Herbert in an edition by Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill, 1768).
Commonly rejected from the canon, but see arguments for possible authorial involvement of Herbert (as well as Charles Blount) in Julia Griffin, Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury's A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil: Some New Questions, EMS, 7 (1998), 162-201, where the various MS texts are discussed.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, 398 leaves.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
c.1674-7.A flyleaf inscribed Tho. Hearne. Julij 12o. 1709
.
Copy, in a professional hand, headed The Fall of Angels, and Man, In Innocence
, By Mr Dryden. 'Tis printed
added in a different hand, on twenty folio leaves paginated 1-39.
This MS recorded in Montague Summers, Dryden's Abortive Opera, TLS (13 August 1931), p. 621, and in Macdonald, p. 115; discussed in Hamilton.
First published in London, 1677. Scott-Saintsbury, V, 93-178. See Vinton A. Dearing, Textual Analysis of Dryden's State of Innocence, TEXT, 2 (1985), 12-23.
An index to the History, compiled by Thomas Hearne.
First published in 3 vols, Oxford, 1702-4. Edited by Bulkeley Bandinel (8 vols, Oxford, 1826). Edited by W.D. Macray (6 vols, Oxford, 1888).
Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, 136 folio leaves, in vellum boards.
Complete with address to readers and dedicatory epistle to Henry VIII, subscribed Ex originale ab ipso Authore (vt par est credere) Henr: R: 8o: prentato, In illustri, & copiosa grosissi Thomæ Knyuet Armigri BBca: apud Ashwell Thorpe, Com: Norf. Jun. 13. 1625
: i.e. presumably transcribed from
Inscribed on a leaf affixed to the first page Suum cuiq Tho: Hearne, Oct. 30. 1717. Ex dono Amici, virtutibus & doctrina ornatissimi Thomæ Bakeri S.T.B. Cantabrigiensis
: i.e. given to Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, who has inscribed f. 136v In testimonium summæ, quam debet, gratitudinis, mittet, Tho: Baker
.
An unpublished treatise in Latin, dedicated to Henry VIII.
A folio volume of legal and state papers, in various professional hands, 110 leaves.
c.1620s-30s.Copy of four Arguments (as in
Four Arguments (on the Case of the Impeachment of Waste, on Lowe's Case of Tenures, on the Case of Revocation of Uses, and on the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches). First published in Opera omnia, ed. J. Blackbourne (London, 1730). Spedding, VII, 517-611.
Copy.
Spedding, XIV, 358-64.
Copy of 21 Rules, headed A Colleccon of the Rules of the Common Lawes of England. F: B:
.
First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.
Bacon claimed to have collected 300 of them
, of which only some few
(25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the missing
maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, On Bacon's Rules and Maximes
of the Common Law, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.
A duodecimo volume of three ecclesiastical tracts, 40 leaves.
Late 17th century.Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1604.
First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.
An octavo volume comprising two letters and a Latin tract, 82 leaves.
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, to Christina Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire (accompanying a draft of a dedication to her husband), from London, 6[/16] November 1628.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 291-2. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 6, Letter 2.
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, to Charles Cavendish, from Chatsworth, 22 August/[1 September] 1638.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 294-6. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 52-3, Letter 28.
A duodecimo volume of historical tracts, 95 leaves.
17th century.Extracts.
First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).
A quarto volume of two tracts attributed to Pepys, 78 leaves.
Late 17th century.Copy, in a professional hand, ascribed to Pepys, on ninety quarto pages.
A treatise, published anonymously, as A Freind to Caesar; or An humble proposicon for the more regular speedy and easy payment of his Mats Treasury graunted, or to be graunted by the Lords and Comons assembled in Parliament for the carrying on of his Mats: Expences whether Ordinary or Extraordinary both in time of Peace and Warr, beginning It appears by several Acts of Parliament...
, in London, 1681. Pepys's authorship is uncertain.
Copy, in a professional hand, headed 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
, on 65 quarto pages.
This MS recorded in Tanner (1929).
First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.
A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers, in various hands, 369 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Early 18th century.Compiled by, and partly in the hand of, the Rev. John Lewis (1675-1747), of Margate, antiquary.
Copy, headed Bp. Andrews's prayer before Sermon in Q: Elizabeth's reign
.
Edited from this MS in Klemp (col. 1).
Versions appear, as The forme of Prayer used by Bishop Andrews after the opening of the Text and as Another Exhortation to Prayer, used by Bishop Andrewes after his opening of the Text, in Private Devotions (London, 1647), pp. 152-61, 161-6. These are edited and collated in P.J. Klemp, Lancelot Andrewes's Prayer before Sermon: A Parallel-Text Edition, Bodleian Library Record, 11 (1985), 300-19 (cols 2 and 3).
A few notes on Hudibras by Lewis, based on the printed edition of 1744.
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).
A duodecimo volume of notes on English counties, 88 leaves.
Mid-17th century.Later owned by Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1797-1861), second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.
Extracts, corresponding to pp. 241-95 of the edition of 1610.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, including academic speeches, in Latin and English, in a single non-professional italic hand, 54 leaves, written from both ends, in contemporary calf.
Compiled by a member of Christ Church, Oxford.
Late 17th century.Copy, headed To a fair, but cruell mistresse
.
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.
Copy, headed Vpon the late storme and the death of the Protector ensuing the same. by Mr Waller
; the text followed (f. 22r-v rev.) 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.
A quarto miscellany of religious verse and prose, 182 leaves.
c.1668-78.Inscribed on the cover This book was wrot by my grandmother Moye; keep it always in the family, for in it lies summum bonum, tho deep yet clear. 1678
.
Copy, transcribed from George Swinnock's Christian-Man's Calling (1668).
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 151-2.
A quarto volume of theological tracts and papers, 56 leaves of vellum and paper, in quarter-vellum over marbled boards.
Mid-16th century.Copy, in an accomplished professional secretary hand. Mid-16th century.
This MS collated in Yale.
First published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1264-9. Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 189-204.
A folio volume of state tracts and proceedings and speeches in Parliament from 2 to 21 April 1572, in a single professional hand, 152 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt stamped with arms.
c.1620s.Copy.
This MS cited in Hartley.
Brief speech beginning My right loving lords and you all, our right faithful and obedient subjects, we in the name of God....
. First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), p. 137. Hartley, I, 195. Collected Works, Speech 11, pp. 108-9.
Copy.
A treatise beginning Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse...
. First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.
A folio volume chiefly of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons chiefly from March to June 1628, in a professional secretary hand, iv + 64 leaves (plus blanks), in later half calf.
c.1630.Copy, with sidenote 22 Mch Sr Beniamin Rudyerd
.
Speech beginning Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...
.
Copy, headed The Bishop of Exeters Letter to the House of Commons
.
Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal...
. First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.
Copy.
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.
A folio volume of state papers and verses relating chiefly to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 58r, other hands on ff. 59r-65r, 65 leaves, in contemporary calf.
c.1610.An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r Septembr 10. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1
.
Copy.
Copy, headed The manner of the Earle of Essex his death in the Tower of London and his prayer
.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
Copy, headed Certaine verses made by the Earl of Essex about a weeke before he entered onto this Accon
.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 124-5.
May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I.
Copy, untitled and subscribed My Lord of Essex verses
.
This MS collated in May, p. 125.
May, Poems, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 24641.
Copy of the first 63 words only, untitled, the rest of the page left blank.
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).
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed Verses made by the Earle of Essex
.
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.
A duodecimo volume of notes on history, 61 leaves.
Extracts.
First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.
Miscellaneous quotations from Camden's works.
A quarto volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons from March to April 1628, in a professional hand, 353 pages, in contemporary calf.
c.1630.Once owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and by his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (No. 387 in the sale catalogue of his library, 1759).
Copy.
Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...
. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Rydgers speech 22 Mar: 1627
.
Speech beginning Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...
.
Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Ruddiers speech 28 Aprill: 1628
.
Speech beginning We are here upon a great business...
. Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.
Copy, headed A Letter sent by the Bpp of Exeter. Aprill
.
Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal...
. First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.
A quarto composite volume of verse, in various hands, 167 leaves (plus blanks), in calf.
Mid-16th century.Copy of anonymous love poems made up of lines transcribed from an early printed edition of The Comfort of Lovers.
This MS edited in Frederick Morgan Padelford, The Songs in Manuscript Rawlinson C. 813, Anglia, 31 (1908), 309-97. Recorded in Gluck & Morgan, pp. xx-xxii.
First published [in London, 1515?]. Gluck & Morgan, pp. 93-122.
Copy of anonymous love poems made up of lines transcribed from an early printed edition of The Pastime of Pleasure.
This MS edited in Frederick Morgan Padelford, The Songs in Manuscript Rawlinson C. 813, Anglia, 31 (1908), 309-97. Recorded in Mead, p. xxxviii.
First published in London, [1509]. Edited by William Edward Mead, EETS 173 (London, 1928).
Copy of the introductory lines and lines 838-1248.
Edited from this MS in Julius Zupitza, Handschriftliche Bruchstücke von John Skeltons Why come ye nat to court?, Archiv, 85 (1890), 429-36.
Canon, C46 & C5, pp. 13-14, 4. First published in London, c.1545. Dyce, II, 26-67. Scattergood, pp. 278-311.
A quarto volume of notes on kings of England, 186 leaves.
18th century.Armorial bookplate of Russell Robartes, MP (d.1718), father of Henry (c.1695-1741), third Earl of Radnor.
Quotations.
First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
Extracts, headed An abstract of some important and remarkable passages taken out of W. Cambden's History of Queen Eliz., by me begun Oct. 7, 1700, with a few remarks here and there of my owne
.
Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.
Autograph octavo-size journal, largely in shorthand, for 1683, 283 leaves (now rebound in two parts [B-C] and with a separate volume of photocopies [A]).
Including details of the proceedings to Tangier and his journey to Spain, as well as some autograph shorthand Parliament-notes for February 1676/7 to June 1677 and some miscellaneous autograph memoranda in longhand (1684).
1677-84.Facsimile examples in Howarth, after p. 384; in Chappell, facing p. 49; and in Edward M. Wilson, Samuel Pepys's Spanish Chap-Books, Part I, TCBS, 2 (1954-8), 127-54 (after p. 130).
Another complete set of photostats is in the Huntington Library.
First published in The Life, Journals and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, deciphered and edited by the Rev. John Smith, 2 vols (London, 1841). Letters and the Second Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. R.G. Howarth (London, 1932), pp. 379-449. The Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys, ed. Edwin Chappell, Navy Records Society 73 ([London], 1935). Slightly abridged version in Pepys's Later Diaries, ed. C.S. Knighton (Stroud, Glos., 2004), pp. 121-72.
A quarto composite volume of papers, 127 pages, in contemporary marbled boards.
Comprising a transcript of MS Wood D. 9 (Fulman's notes on the writings on Oxford University by Anthony Wood) made for Rawlinson, with related correspondence.
Early 18th century.Copy, transcribed from
First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.
A folio volume of legal and parliamentary materials, in five professional hands (one predominating), 592 pages (including blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).
c.1630s.Copy, in two professional hands.
Spedding, VII, 567-611.
A folio composite volume of theological writings, closely written in several hands, collected by William Bedell (1572-1642), Bishop of Kilmore, with some corrections on the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, including various refutations of Alabaster, 152 leaves, in 18th-century calf.
Early 17th century.A tract apparently by William Bedell, with a dedication to Ambrose Jermyn dated 25 February 1604/5.
Unpublished Four Demands by Alabaster and Answer by William Bedell (1571-1642), Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.
William Bedell's autograph MS of a refutation of Mr. Alablaster's declaration of Christ's being 3 dayes and 3 nights in the Bowells of the earth
.
Another tract against Alabaster by William Bedell.
A folio and quarto composite verse miscellany, in several hands, one of them that of the writer Robert Samber (1682-c.1745), 38 leaves.
Early 18th century.Copy.
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 folio commonplace book of extracts from various works, 22 leaves.
18th century.Notes on the work.
First published in 3 vols, Oxford, 1702-4. Edited by Bulkeley Bandinel (8 vols, Oxford, 1826). Edited by W.D. Macray (6 vols, Oxford, 1888).
Copy on twelve folio leaves, incomplete.
Mid-late 17th century.First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).
A large quarto volume of meditations, in a single italic hand, 332 pages (plus over 100 blank pages), in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1686-1703?.folio?
A formal, unfinished autograph compilation by Lady Elizabeth Delaval, comprising largely prose memoirs (covering retrospectively the years 1656-71), meditations, prayers, comments on her reading matter, some verse, and copies of family letters to her.
Edited from this MS in Greene. Discussed, with a facsimile of p. 353, in Margaret J.M. Ezell, Elizabeth Delaval's Spiritual Heroine: Thoughts on Redefining Manuscript Texts by early Women Writers, EMS, 3 (1992), 216-37.
First published as The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval: written between 1662 and 1671, ed. Douglas G. Greene, Surtees Society vol. 90 (Durham, 1978).
Extracts from Good Friday sermons.
Unpublished.
Copy, in a cursive hand, with a title-page The Life and Death of Sr Thomas More some tyme Lord Chancellor of England
, 94 folio leaves.
Collated in Hitchcock & Chambers and described pp. xix-xx.
First published, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, as The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England...by Nicholas Harpsfield (EETS, London, 1932).
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Thomas Wolsey late Cardinall, his life and death, written by George Cavendish his gentleman vsher
, with some additions (after f. 71) copied in a later hand from the printed edition of 1641, 235 quarto pages, in vellum (a recycled legal document dated 1705).
Inscription largely obliterated by ink Erat ex libris prenoblis Georgii Berkley
.
Sylvester, No. 8.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
A quarto volume, 135 leaves, in limp vellum.
Mid-late 16th century.This MS collated and briefly described in Hitchcock & Chambers, pp. xvi-xvii.
Copy, in a neat cursive hand.
This MS collated and briefly described in Hitchcock & Chambers, pp. xvi-xvii.
First published, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, as The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England...by Nicholas Harpsfield (EETS, London, 1932).
A quarto composite volume of papers of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) and his son Edward (1644-1708), 112 leaves.
Late 17th century.Chiefly comprising 24 autograph letters by Sir Thomas (some in draft) chiefly to his son Edward, 1668-82 (ff. 40-1v, 48-9v, 56-73v, 75-98v, 105, one including a letter by Sir Thomas's daughter Elizabeth) and three original letters by Edward to his father (ff. 34-9v); with autograph passages by Sir Thomas on the Pharsalian Fields (ff. 50-3v) and on the natural history of Norfolk (ff. 103-4v) and autograph verses beginning Caesar and Pompey now are met
(f. 74); ff. 1-33, 42-7, 54-5v, 99-102, 106v-12 comprising historical and medical collections, treatises and verses in other hands, certain of them relating to Dr Edward Browne.
The letters by Sir Thomas edited in Keynes, IV, Nos. 20, 22-3, 29, 39, 48, 69-70, 78-9, 84, 99, 105, 118, 122, 131, 135-7, 151, 163-4, 215-16. Letters by both Sir Thomas and Dr Edward Browne edited selectively in Wilkin, I, passim. Miscellaneous drafts on ff. 50-3v, 74, 103-4v edited in Keynes, III, 262-5, 415-16. Facsimile of f. 105 in Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk...from the MSS of Sir Thomas Browne, ed. Thomas Southwell (London, 1902), frontispiece.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
Autograph notebook, 71 quarto leaves.
Entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand except for f. 51, including drafts of his Oratio anniversary Harveaiana (ff. 1-16v) and of another Latin oration on anatomy (ff. 17-20), notes on Vienna relating to Dr Edward Browne's travels (f. 25), miscellaneous notes on natural history (f. 23), figures in nature(f. 24), draining (ff. 48-9), Turkey (ff. 54v-63) and other subjects; some miscellaneous passages on moral subjects (on ff. 21f-2, 27-45, 50, 52, 53v, 64-7v) relating to Christian Morals; a draft passage on ff. 46-7 relating to Certain Miscellany Tracts No. 1 [Upon several plants mention'd in Scripture
]; and notes on f. 68 relating to Repertorium.
Various notes edited from this MS in Keynes, III, 248 255-6, 357-8. Passages relating to Christian Morals collated in part in Keynes, I, 291, and in Martin, pp. 271-88 (passim). For the Oratio, see
A formal copy of an account of the sacking of Cadiz in 1596, by Roger Marbeck, prebendary of Hereford, formerly Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, in a professional secretary and italic hand, with (f. 2v) a sidenote giving apparently printing instructions (Original of her declaration & lords decree to be set down
), 24 quarto leaves, in vellum gilt.
Copy of the prayer, followed (ff. 4v-5r) by Marbeck's homely translation
into Latin.
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).
A duodecimo notebook of extracts, partly under alphabetical letters, and academic orations, written from both ends, 78 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Late 17th century.Copy, headed Oratio Magistri Cleveland Coll. Johan: Socij habita Cantabrigiæ
.
Oration, beginning Si Archetypam corporis vestri elegantiam possem transcribere...
. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 142-4. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 175-7.
Copy, as by Cleveland.
Oration, beginning Quam Augusta sit vestra præsentia, & quam sacro horrore...
. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 135-6.
Copy, as by Cleveland.
Oration, beginning Augustissime Regum, Archetype Caroli, / Quæ nupero dolore obriguit Academia...
. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 121-3. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 177-9.
Copy, headed Epistola Mri Cleveland
.
J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 128-9. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 223-4 (as Ad eundem jam factum Archiepiscopum Eboracensem).
A quarto volume of state tracts, in a single neat italic hand up to f. 15 (ff. 16-19 inserted and in a different hand), 19 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern cloth.
c.1620s.Copy of the shortened version, lines 43-68, headed Mrs Hoskins petition to ye king, her husband being imprisoned vpon ye kings high indignation in ye tower
, here beginning The worst is knowne ye best is hid
, and subscribed (mistakenly) vpon ye sight of it the kinges matie: most graciously granted her suite and her husband was forth with released
.
Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd
and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue
, was widely circulated.
Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...
); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...
); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...
), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
Copy of a speech by Bacon on considerations touching the peace
, 1598, imperfect at the end.
Copy, on 44 quarto leaves.
c.1630s-42.This MS recorded and collated in part by all editors.
First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.
A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers and correspondence of Anthony Hammond, MP (1668-1738), politician, 107 leaves.
Extracts, in the hand of Hammond's cousin A. Twyman, of St John's College, Oxford, including ff. 27r, 29r, 39r, 63r, 67r, and 89r.
Hobbes's translation, first published in London, 1629.
Copy of verses headed Woman
and beginning Your sex by beauty was to heaven allied
, ascribed to Otway, on a single folio leaf.
A quarto composite volume of state tracts, 72 leaves, in later grey boards.
Owned in 1721 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed f. [ir] Given to me by Richard Graves, of Mickleton near Campden in Gloucestershire, Esq.
Copy, in a single hand, a title-page added in a different hand The inconvenience of altering the Standard of Money by Sr Rob: Cotton
, headed at the concell table Aug: 1626
, on seven octavo leaves.
Speech beginning My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command...
. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626 and Questions to be proposed, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.
Copy in a professional secretary hand, a title added in another hand (f. 24r) Sr walter Rauleighs Appologie
, on quarto leaves.
A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...
. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sr walter Rauleighs Lesser Apollogie
.
Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...
). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
Copy of an account of Ralegh's speech on the scaffold and execution, in a professional secretary hand, on quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking the beginning.
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.
An octavo miscellany, 116 leaves.
Compiled by William Edmundson, D.D. (1672/3-1736), fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
Early 18th century.Copy, headed A Virgin
.
This MS collated in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.
First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.
A duodecimo volume of Latin tracts, 165 leaves.
Late 17th century.Copy, neatly transcribed in black and red ink from the first edition, on the first 245 pages.
This MS recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 557; LR, II, 354.
First published in London, 1651. Columbia, vol. VII. English translation only in Yale, IV, Part 1, 285-537.
A duodecimo miscellany, 28 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary reversed calf.
Late 17th century.Compiled by an Oxford University man, probably its one-time owner Samuel Desmaistres (1655/6-86), of Magdalen Hall.
Copy, headed Vpon ye Death of Oliver Cromwell; alias The Storme
; the text followed (ff. 22v-3) 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.
An octavo composite miscellany, with extracts in verse and prose, in various hands, 213 leaves, in quarter-vellum boards.
Late 17th century.A flyleaf inscribed Tho: Hearne. Sept. 1o. M: DCC: IX:
i.e. Collected by 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.
Copy of a speech (I, i, 61 et seq.) in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, in a small octavo booklet of verse in English and Latin chiefly in one hand (ff. 23r-42v), probably associated with Cambridge University.
First published in London, 1611. Herford & Simpson, V, 409-550.
Copy, headed A Satyr upon Ed: Howard's Poem made by Ld Buckhurst
, in a small octavo booklet of verse in English and Latin chiefly in one hand (ff. 23r-42v) probably associated with Cambridge University.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
Copy of a Latin version of Cowley's verses, headed Cowley's paraphrase on Anacreons poem of drinking, turn'd into Latin verse
, beginning Jellas Epotal silibundis faucib Imbrem
.
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 Sr Kenelm Digby's farewell to England
, in a small octavo booklet of verse in English and Latin chiefly in one hand (ff. 23r-42v) probably associated with Cambridge University.
First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
Copy, headed Upon ye Death of Oliv. Cromwell
, in a small octavo booklet of verse in English and Latin chiefly in one hand (ff. 23r-42v) probably associated with Cambridge University.
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.
An octavo volume of verse and miscellaneous collections compiled by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, with his inscription Tho. Hearne, Aug. 26, 1709
, 185 leaves.
Copy of lines 1-314, in the hand of Thomas Hearne.
First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 297-355.
A quarto volume of miscellaneous extracts and religious tracts, compiled or owned by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, with his inscription Liber Tho. Hearne, 16 Aug. 1709
, 285 leaves.
Extracts.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
A quarto composite volume of Oxford academic orations in Latin, 61 leaves.
Copy of the Oratio anniversaria Harveiana in the hand of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), on eight quarto leaves.
This Latin oration composed by Sir Thomas for his son Dr Edward Browne to deliver at the College of Physicians in 1680, although it was not in fact used. The text was first printed (from other sources) in Wilkin, IV, 343-52, also (with an English translation) in Keynes, III, 188-205. For other texts see
An octavo volume of academic orations and sermons, in English and Latin, in secretary hands, 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Compiled by John Rogers, minister of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, chiefly while he was a student at oxford.
c.1600.Copy.
This MS collated in Autograph Compositions.
Beginning Qui male agunt oderunt lucem et idcirco...
, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 125-6. An English translation, beginning Those who do bad things hate the light...
, in Collected Works, Speech 8, pp. 89-91.
Copy of a version, subscribed sub ex Lauretio hufredo in libro de vita et obitu Juelle
[i.e. from a biographical account of John Jewel (1522-71), Bishop of Salisbury, by Laurence Humphreys, President of Magdalen College and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford].
This MS cited in Autograph Compositions.
Beginning Qui male agunt oderunt lucem et idcirco...
, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 125-6. An English translation, beginning Those who do bad things hate the light...
, in Collected Works, Speech 8, pp. 89-91.
A quarto composite volume comprising (ff. 1r-4r) a booklet of poems by William Alabaster in a neat italic hand, bound with (ff. 5r-18r) an anonymous Latin verse adaptation of Aesop's Fables in another hand, in later vellum.
The first booklet entitled Epigrammata Authore Gulielmi Alabastro S. Theologiæ Professore:
.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, pp. 38-9 (No. XXVIII), with translation (by J.J. Smith).
Copy.
This MS c0llated in Sutton.
First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).
Copy.
This MS collated in Sutton.
First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, pp. 20-3 (No. XXII), with translation (by J.J. Smith).
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 50-1 (No. XXXVII), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 10-11 (No. XV), with translation.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 44-5 (No. XXXII), with translation.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 12-13 (No. XVII), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 50-1 (No. XXXVIII), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 40-1 (No. XXX), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 46-9 (No. XXXIV), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 114-15 (No. XVIII), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 48-9 (No. XXXV), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
First published in Ralph Freeman, Lucius Annæus Seneca, The Philosopher his Book of the Shortness of Life (London, 1663). Sutton, pp. 48-9 (No. XXXVI), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 46-7 (No. XXXIII), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 14-15 (No. XIX), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 14-17 (No. XX), with translation.
Copy.
Sutton, pp. 50-3 (No. XXXIX), with translation.
Copy.
Sutton, pp. 52-3 (No. XL), with translation.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 32-7 (No. XXV), with translation.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Sutton.
Sutton, p. 37 (No. XXVI).
A quarto MS of poems by William Alabaster, 22 leaves, in marbled boards.
Chiefly in a stylish semi-calligraphic roman hand (ff. 2r-22r), the rest of ff. 22r-23r in two other hands, possibly prepared as a presentation copy, with a title-page added in yet another stylish hand.
c.1590s.Copy of Book I, wi 133th added title-page: Elisaeis Apotheosis poetica siue de florentissmo Imperio et rebus gesiis augustissmæ Cinuictis simæ Principis Elizabethæ Dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Reginæ Poematis in duodecim Libros tribuendi. Liber Primus. Authore Gulielmo Alabastro Cantabrigiensi Coll: Trin: Carmen amat quisquis carmine digna gerit
, lacking the dedicatory epistle and dedicatory verses, with alterations in another italic hand.
Edited principally from this MS in O'Connell.
Of Alabaster's unfinished epic Apotheosis poetica
, written probably in 1588-91 and celebrating the reign of Queen Elizabeth, only Book I survives. The text is preceded by a dedicatory prose epistle to the Queen and by eight lines of dedicatory verse to her beginning Qua sinuat tellus viridans immania terga
. First published, with an English prose translation, as The Elisæis of William Alabaster, ed. and trans. Michael O'Connell, Studies in Philology, 76, No. 5 (Early Winter 1979), 77 pp.
Copy.
sutton
First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, pp. 38-9 (No. XXVIII), with translation (by J.J. Smith).
Copy.
This MS collated in Sutton.
First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, pp. 20-3 (No. XXII), with translation (by J.J. Smith).
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 50-1 (No. XXXVII), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 10-11 (No. XV), with translation.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 44-5 (No. XXXII), with translation.
Copy.
sutton
Sutton, pp. 12-13 (No. XVII), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 50-1 (No. XXXVIII), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 40-1 (No. XXX), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 46-9 (No. XXXIV), with translation.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 114-15 (No. XVIII), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 48-9 (No. XXXV), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 46-7 (No. XXXIII), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 14-15 (No. XIX), with translation.
Copy.
This MS cited in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 14-17 (No. XX), with translation.
Copy.
Sutton, pp. 50-3 (No. XXXIX), with translation.
Copy.
Sutton, pp. 52-3 (No. XL), with translation.
Copy.
sutton
Sutton, pp. 32-7 (No. XXV), with translation.
Copy.
Sutton, p. 37 (No. XXVI).
Copy.
sutton
Sutton, pp. 37, 39 (No. XXVII).
Copy, in a second roman hand.
Recorded in Sutton.
First published in Ralph Freeman, Lucius Annæus Seneca, The Philosopher his Book of the Shortness of Life (London, 1663). Sutton, pp. 48-9 (No. XXXVI), with translation.
Copy, in a third roman hand.
Edited from this MS in Sutton.
Sutton, pp. 10-11 (No. XIV), with translation.
A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous papers, 291 leaves.
Owned on 12 August 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
Autograph verse of eight lines on Cromwell's dissolution of the Long Parliament, possibly of King's own composition, untitled, on a single slip of paper.
Edited from this MS in Simpson, loc. cit., and in Crum. Facsimile in Simpson, BLR, 4 (1952-3), after p. 208 (Plate XIV).
First published by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 336). Crum, p. 253.
Autograph verse of six lines concerning the Civil War, possibly of King's own composition, untitled, on a single quarto leaf, endorsed An old Prophecy
.
Edited in part from this MS in Crum. Recorded by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 335).
First published in Crum (1965), p. 253.
A quarto composite volume of state and religious tracts and sermons, in various hands, 233 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.
Rough notes, in a cursive secretary hand, of three sermons on the 6th Commandment and of nine sermons on the 7th Commandment, preached by Andrewes at St Giles, Cripplegate, between 17 February 1593/4 and 28 July 1594.
Unpublished.
Extracts.
First published in London, 1609.
A folio presentation volume containing two neatly written autograph works by Abraham Fraunce in Latin verse and prose, 56 leaves (plus a few blanks), in contemporary vellum bearing gilt and coloured pictorial imprese.
Prepared by Fraunce probably as a leaving present for Philip Sidney before departing from Cambridge in February 1582.
[1582].Later inscribed (f. iir) by Edward Umfreville (1775-1858), collector of legal manuscripts, and (f. iiiv) Richard Munn his booke the gift of the right honourable the lord Viscount Chaworth
.
Discussed in Katherine Duncan-Jones, Two Elizabethan Versions of Giovio's Treatise on Imprese, English Studies, 52 (1971), 118-23.
Autograph fair copy, with margins ruled in red.
Comprising pen and ink drawings by Fraunce of forty imprese, with Latin verse and prose captions beneath, copied from Paulo Giovio's Dialogo dell' imprese (1555; but probably from the illustrated edition published in 1574).
This MS discussed in Katherine Duncan-Jones, Two Elizabethan Versions of Giovio's Treatise on Imprese, English Studies, 52 (1971), 118-23.
A folio miscellany of verse and prose, compiled by Anthony Hammond, MP, of Somersham, Huntingdonshire, 173 leaves.
c.1723-32.Extracts.
First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.
A folio miscellany of poems on ye Governmt. of ye Passions
, in six books
, 373 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
In a non-professional hand with amateur engrossing and decoration, compiled by someone with a daughter named Cater.
Early 18th century.Copy.
Recorded in Harris.
First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.
Copy, headed To King Wm: Vppon his Birth Day Novembr: 4th 1700 By Sr Charles Sydly
.
This MS collated in Sola Pinto.
First published in A New Miscellany of Original Poems, on several Occasions (London, 1701). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 38-9.
Copy, in the same hand as Captuo amore cæcaq Cupidine ductus
and then headed English'd by ye Earle of Dorsett
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Harris (1979), p. 176.
Copy, headed Dorsett on Dorchester
. This MS in the same hand as
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.
Copy, in the same hand as
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (
Copy.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Walker.
First published in Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926). Vieth, pp. 25-6. Walker, pp. 23-4. Love, p. 35.
A folio comonplace book of extracts from different authors, 81 leaves.
Mid-17th century.Inscribed Th. Crewe, pret. 3s 6d
.
Extracts.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
Extracts from Cottoni posthuma (1651).
A folio volume of legal tracts, in professional hands, 157 leaves, in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s.Copy.
Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can...
. First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.
Copy.
Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...
. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200
[i.e. 202].
Copy.
Spedding, VII, 567-611.
A folio volume of state tracts, 243 leaves.
End of 17th century.Copy, in a professional hand.
A treatise, published anonymously, as A Freind to Caesar; or An humble proposicon for the more regular speedy and easy payment of his Mats Treasury graunted, or to be graunted by the Lords and Comons assembled in Parliament for the carrying on of his Mats: Expences whether Ordinary or Extraordinary both in time of Peace and Warr, beginning It appears by several Acts of Parliament...
, in London, 1681. Pepys's authorship is uncertain.
Copy, in a professional hand.
This MS collated in Foxcroft and in Brown, I, 309-14.
First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.
Copy of the tract, ascribed to the Honble: Sr. Ch: Sidley
, on seventeen folio leaves.
This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, Life, p. 303.
Unpublished tract beginning The present Necessity of raising vast and unpresidented Sumes of Money...
.
A double-folio guardbook of political and miscellaneous letters and other papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, 150 leaves, in 18th-century quarter-calf on marbled boards.
Early 18th century.Inscribed on a flyleaf Ex Bibliotheca dom. Catharinæ Bridgeman anno 1742
.
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on a single oblong octavo-size leaf, endorsed Tenisons prayer
. Early 18th century.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.
Copy, headed The verses Sr Walter Rawleigh made and wrote in a bible as he was going to ye place of Execution
, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.
Even such
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
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, 1603.
A folio composite volume of letters and papers of Sir Thomas Browne, 111 leaves.
Including an autograph letter by Browne (ff. 28-30), copies of 17 letters by him and two by his wife Dorothy all in the hand of his daughter Elizabeth (later Lyttelton) (ff. 81-8), an autograph draft of Brampton Urns (ff. 53-4v) and autograph notes on Greenland (f. 111), together with some 24 letters sent to Sir Thomas by various correspondents (ff. 3-10v, 15-21, 26-7v, 36-7v, 52v-v, 55-6v, 59v-63, 65-8, 71-80, 100-10v) and four letters addressed to Dr Edward Browne (ff. 1-2v, 22-24av, 64); with other miscellaneous tracts and papers in other hands. (passim).
The letters of Sir Thomas edited in Wilkin, I (passim), and in Keynes, IV, Nos. 1-13, 18, 138, 141, 143-4. Certain of the letters to Sir Thomas (by Digby, Evelyn and L'Estrange) edited in Keynes, IV, Nos. 168, 181, 186. The notes on Greenland edited from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 475, and in Keynes, III, 347-8. For Brampton Urns, see
Autograph early draft, on two folio leaves.
Edited in part from this MS in Keynes.
First published in Posthumous Works (London, 1712). Wilkin, III, 497-505. Keynes, I, 229-38.
Autograph letter signed by Digby, to Thomas Browne, concerning Digby's Observations on Religio Medici, 20 March 1642/3.
Keynes, IV, No. 168.
Written as a letter to the Earl of Dorset, 23 December 1642. First published in London, 1643. Edited in Wilkin, II, 118-52.
A folio volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 234 leaves.
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Percy, from The Mount, Cornwall, 5 January 1643/4.
Motten, pp. 332-4
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and sizes, 440 leaves, in half-calf.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed the front pastedown Tho: Hearne. July 31st. 1710
.
Autograph copy, untitled, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper.
Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
First published in Crum (1965), p. 253.
A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709
.
Copy, with King's autograph corrections, on two conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.
Copy, subscribed Tho: Goff
, on a folio leaf.
Unpublished.
Second copy, in a different hand, on a folio leaf.
Unpublished.
Copy, in a neat Roman hand, on two folio leaves probably once conjugate. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
Copy in the first column of the recto of a single folio leaf. Early-mid-17th century.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
Copy in the second column of the recto of a single folio leaf. Early-mid-17th century.
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see
Copy, in a neat hand in double columns, with corrections in different ink, headed A proper new ballad, intituled the ffaeries farewell or Soe A merry Will: to be sung or whistled to the tune of the Meddowe Browe by the learned, by the vnlearned to the tune of Fortune
, on a single folio leaf. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 128.
First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.
Autograph copy of the Latin Epitaphium
on John King, Bishop of London, which was originally hung near his tomb in St Paul's Cathedral, the epitaph possibly of Henry King's own composition, on a single folio leaf, the verso bearing a portion of an address panel To the Right < > Mr Henrie D< > these
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Sir William Dugdale, History of St. Paul's Cathedral (London, 1658), p. 73. Crum, p. 242.
Allusions to Shakespeare, and quotations from various of his works, including Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and Richard III, in a contemporary copy of the academic plays The Pilgrimage to Parnassus and The First Part of The Returne from Parnassus, in a non-professional secretary hand.
This MS printed in facsimile in the Old English Drama Students' Facsimile series, 1912. The two plays were first edited by W.D. Macray in 1886. For the third part of the trilogy, see
Copy, in a probably professional hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Mid-late-17th century.
First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 128-9.
Autograph sequence of epigrams chiefly in Latin elegiacs prepared by King while at Christ Church for his father, John King, Bishop of London, comprising: (1) an unheaded opening quatrain; (2) 16 lines, headed In Febrem
Epigram: (Morboru Proteu, monstrum versatile, Febris
); (3) a Greek couplet, headed Aliter in Febrem
; (4) a quatrain, headed Aliter
(Extinctam reparant Epidauria pharmaca vitim
); (5) a quatrain, headed Coelu non morbu mutat &cet.
(Mutandi ventosus amor qui corripit agros
); (6) a couplet, headed Aliter
(Morbosi errones, du coelu aut aëra mutant
); (7) ten lines, headed Ad Galenum consolatio de comuni dicterio Febris opprobriu medici
(Sollicitus minium nesis de Febre Galene
); subscribed Languida si numeris currant Epigramata claudis,/Credas et Musa febricitare meam./Amplitudinis vestrae filius obseruantissimus/Henricus King
; neatly written on two conjugate folio leaves, originally folded as a packet and endorsed Reuerendo admodu in Christo patri, Johani Episcopo Londinensi, Patri meo benignissimo
. [1608-16].
This MS recorded by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 334-5).
Unpublished.
Copy, untitled and here beginning Thou ne're wout Riddle Nebur Jahn
, on a single folio leaf. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, A Devonshire Song, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.
Copy, in double columns, on a single folio leaf. Mid-17th century.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.
A folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 324 leaves, in 18th-century quarter-vellum marbled boards.
A deleted inscription inside the front cover, This book I give to the Bodleyan Library after my decease...Aug. 3, 1710
, written by the volume's compiler Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.
Copy.
Facsimile in Yale, Vol. 15, facing p. cxxiv.
First published, as Epistola Thomæ Mori ad Academiam Oxoniensem, ed. Richard James (Oxford, 1633). Yale, Vol. 15, pp. 129-49, in Latin with an English translation.
Copy, in a neat hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf.
This MS collated in Sutton.
First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).
Copy, in a neat hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf.
A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.
MS of An Essay towards the Recovery of the Four Great Roman Ways by Roger Gale (1672-1744).
Early 18th century.Extracts.
First published in London, 1612. 1622. Hebel, IV.
Extracts.
First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
A quarto commonplace book, in two hands, compiled by John Blackbourne, MA (1683-1741), nonjuror bishop.
Early 18th century.Copy of a letter by Andrewes, to Dr Henry Parry, on the death of Richard Hooker, 7 November 1600.
Edited in The Works of Richard Hooker (Oxford, 1793). Reprinted in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. xl-xli. Yale edition of Hooker, Volume 3, pp. xiii-xiv.
A folio volume of political tracts and letters, in a single secretary hand, 57 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
The lower vellum cover inscribed Book of noates collected out of Mr Traffords Sermons & others
.
Copy, headed A letter sent by the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland before his travaile beyond the seas in Anno 1595
.
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.
Copy, headed The coppie of a letter written by Sir ffrauncis Bacon to the Earle of Deuonshire by waye of Apologie concerning his proceeding against the Late Earle of Essex
.
First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 139-60.
Copy, headed The Coppie of a letter written to Queene Elizabeth when the Duke of Alanson was a suitor to her
.
The text follows (on ff. 35r-54r) a copy of Sir Thomas Smith's discourse concerning the conveniencie of mariage of Queene Elizabeth...by waye of dialogue.
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).
A folio composite volume of epitaphs, in various hands and sizes, 126 leaves.
Partly compiled by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Copy, transcribed from Maria Wentworth's tomb in Toddington Church, Bedfordshire. Mid-17th century.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 56. Inscribed on the tomb of Maria Wentworth in the Church of St George, Toddington, Bedfordshire (1633): see Dunlap. pp. 242-3.
A folio composite volume of state letters and miscellaneous papers, in various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe
, 292 leaves (plus blanks), in panelled calf.
A blank leaf (f. 88r) inscribed William Howard 1635
: i.e. Lord William Howard (1563-1640), of Naworth Castle, antiquary. Owned in 1749 by John Murray.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 256-7 (No. 92).
Copy of Bacon's letter to the judges for deferring his argument in the Case De Commenda, 25 April 1616, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe
.
Unpublished.
Copy in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
, untitled, at the end of his earlier copy of a collection of state letters (ff. 87r-111r).
This MS recorded in Crum. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 257 (No. 92.13), with a facsimile on p. 101.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
A folio composite volume of historical and antiquarian papers, in various hands, including a table of contents by John Price, 75 leaves, in quarter-calf boards.
Owned on 30 June 1709, and probably assembled, by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
Copy, on two folio leaves.
First published in Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1736-40. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 559-66.
A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 302 leaves, in 18th-century half-calf.
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled.
Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...
. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200
[i.e. 202].
Copy, in a professional hand.
Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...
. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200
[i.e. 202].
Copy, in a professional hand, the title in another hand, incomplete.
Tract beginning To search so high as the Norman Conquest...
. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.
A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 372 leaves, differing sizes, in modern half-calf.
Scribbling before and in the first item including Thomas Rastewell hys Booke
, Johannes Barker
(in court hand), Thomas Tamkine
(? Thomas Tomkins), and Thomas Cooke
.
Copy, in several probably non-professional secretary hands, imperfect at the end. Early 17th century.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
Copy.
Copy, headed The Earle of Essex suffered upon Ashwednesday the .25. of ffebruarie 1600 within ye Tower of London betweene .7. and 8 of the Clocke in the Morninge / The manner of his death and the whole summe of such words as he did speake to the Guard ouernight before he died and his speeches from his chamber to the scaffold to the houre of his death...
. Early 17th century.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
Copy.
Copy, headed The beheadinge of the Earl of Essex
. Early 17th century.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
A folio composite volume of proceedings and speeches in parliament, in various hands, 385 leaves.
Copy, in a neat hand, headed ffrydaie the 10th of ffebruary 1559 / the answere of ye queenes highnes to ye petition proposed vnto her by the lower house concerninge her marriage
, and here beginning And to ye first I maie saye unto yw...
, on one side of a single broadsheet. Late 16th century.
Edited partly from this MS in Hartley.
First published in Richard Grafton, An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England (London, 1563), 179v-80.
Version I. Beginning As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks...
. Hartley, I, 44-5. Collected Works, Speech 3, pp. 56-8 (Version 1).
Version II. Beginning In a thing which is not much pleasing unto me...
. Collected Works, pp. 58-60 (Version 2).
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous, genealogical and heraldic papers, in various hands, including John Aubrey, and on various sizes of paper, 126 leaves, in modern half-calf.
Chiefly from the collection of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.
Copy by Aubrey
Osborn, No. XLIII (pp. 212-13). Clark, I, 419.
Copy by Aubrey.
Edited from this MS in Osborn and in Clark, I, 417.
The Latin poem followed by an Englished version, beginning Years sixty six, I have with vigour Past
. Osborn, No. XLVIII (pp. 214-15).
Copy by Aubrey of a version beginning My little Ben, whilst thou art young
and including the two Latin verses.
This MS cited in Osborn.
Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
Copy by Aubrey, headed The Serjeant's Epitaph on his Wife at Bowe-church-Heriff
.
Edited from this MS in Clark, I, 424. Cited in Osborn.
First published in Clark, I, 424. First stanza of Osborn, No. XLII (p. 212).
Copy by Aubrey, headed On Mr Bourne his sonne-in-law: by him
.
Clark's edition of Aubrey cited in Osborn.
First published in Clark, I, 424. Osborn, second stanza of No. XLII (p. 212).
Copy by Aubrey, recording that these veses were written in the bible of Richard Martin.
Edited from this MS in Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 48; thence in Osborn.
Clark, II, 48. Osborn, No. XXXVI (p. 209).
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous historical papers, in various hands, c.300 leaves, in 18th-century half-calf.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
Part of a transcript of Leland's autograph MS made by Thomas Hearne, on a series of quarto and folio leaves paginated (but lacking numerous leaves) 5-44 and 217-[531].
A folio book of geometrical and mathematical exercises and religious tracts, written from both ends, 20 leaves, in contemporary marbled boards within modern cloth.
Early 18th century.Copy.
Pebworth & Summers, pp. 52-4.
Copy, in double columns.
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 65-6.
Copy.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 8.
Copy, docketed This Copy ye late Printer hath been pleased to mistake for one of Sir John Suckling
.
Fitst published in The Last Remains of Sr John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.
Copy, in double columns.
A sixteen-line version first published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 11.
Copy, in double columns.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 45.
Copy, in double columns.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 25.
Copy, following the poem By a Gentlewoman
(Believe not him...
) to which it is His Answer
, in double columns.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 46.
Copy, in double columns.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 50-1.
A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous collections, in various hands, 383 leaves, in contemporary reversed calf.
Owned in 1730, and largely compiled as Vol III of his collections, by the Rev. John Lewis (1675-1747), of Margate. Owned in 1749 by Thomas Lewis. Acquired from Peter Thompson.
Copy, with a title-page, The Life and Deathe of Sir Thomas Moore sometimes Lord Chauncellour of England Written by William Roper of Eltham
, with the copyist's note NB. The marginal notes were all added by me John Lewis Vicar of Minster in the Isle of Tenet who made an end copying this from a MS of the hand used in King Henry 8th time, lent me by Mr Thomas Beake of Stourmouth, October the 10th A. D. 1727
.
First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).
An extensive series of extracts from most of More's writings, probably taken by John Lewis from the printed Workes (London, 1557), f. 229 onwards in different hands.
Extracts. Early 18th century.
First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
Extracts. Early 18th century.
First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous and genealogical collections, in several hands, 183 leaves.
Copy by Samuel Stebbing of a memorandum by Vanbrugh on reasons why the Norroy King of Arms should not share in the Garter King of Arms's fees during a vacancy of the latter, 1717.
Copy of Books I-VII.
In two hands, those of William Edgeman (pp. 1-243 and 264-9) and of William Shaw, on 643 pages, including some blanks intended for the insertion of copies of document; together with four leaves of later prefatory material, including three letters to Dr Richard Rawlinson from the compiler of the Chandos sale catalogue (1747) erroneously stating that this MS is in Clarendon's autograph, and William Wogan's affidavit of 16 February 1743.
Once in the library of James Brydges (1674-1744), first Duke of Chandos. Purchased at the Chandos sale by Cock at Cannons, Middlesex (12 March 1746/7), lot 2578, by Richard Rawlinson.
Extracts from the prefatory letters printed in W.D. Macray, Annals of the Bodleian Library, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1890), pp. 227 and 250. This MS discussed in Belford and in Simpson, Proof-Reading, pp. 90-4. See also Introduction.
First published in 3 vols, Oxford, 1702-4. Edited by Bulkeley Bandinel (8 vols, Oxford, 1826). Edited by W.D. Macray (6 vols, Oxford, 1888).
A folio composite volume of letters, papers and tracts, in various hands, 223 leaves.
Extract from Denham's last will and testament of 13 March 1668/9, proved 9 May 1670.
A folio composite volume of correspondence of the Rev. Richard Roach (fl.1697-1727), Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Rector of Hackney, in various hands, 321 leaves.
c.1700.Roach's copies of three letters by Ann Bathurst, to an aged aristocratic lady (1693); to Roach and Francis Lee (9 July 1695); and to an unidentified person (undated).
A folio composite volume of correspondence of the Rev. Richard Roach (fl.1697-1727), Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Rector of Hackney, in various hands, 408 leaves.
Copy, headed A Hymn on the creation: By Dr More: wth some Additions
and beginning When God ye ferst Foundations laid
, on two conjugate quarto leaves.
First published in More's Philosophical Poems (Cambridge, 1647).
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers on theological matters, in various hands, 213 leaves, in 18th-century half-calf.
Copy of Chapters 6 and 8, in a minute secretary hand, headed Of the autoritye of making Lawes
.
This MS collated in Houk.
First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's complete
edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.
A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts relating to Roman Catholicism in England, in various hands, 179 leaves.
Copy, headed Considerations for the repressing of priests, Jesuits, and recusants without drawing of bloode
.
Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...
, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.
Autograph letter signed, to George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, enclosing answere to Certaine propositions, controuerted Atwixt us and the Popistes
), from Christ Church, 2 January [1621/2 or 1622/3].
The letter alone edited in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxiv.
Autograph theological notes and arguments sent to the Marquess of Buckingham, beginning For your other Quaestion wher our church was before Luthers time I answer…
, on four folio leaves, endorsed An answere to Certaine propositions, controuerted Atwixt us and the Popistes: by Dr Corbett etc
.
Unpublished.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and other papers of the Baskervile family, in various hands, 164 leaves (with omissions).
c.1590-1636.Assembled by Hannibal Baskervile, of Sunningwell, Berkshire.
Copy of a letter by Ralegh.
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, with an annotation at one point in the hand of someone apparently present at the execution, declaring that when Ralegh came into his gallery hee said nothinge as I remember
.
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, in a professional hand, untitled and subscribed W.R.
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
Copy in two secretary hands, endorsed twice (f. 88v), once by Hannibal Baskerville's brother-in-law A. Scudamore, S. W: Raleighs Apollogie to the Kinge, for sacking S. Thome 1618
.
Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...
). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
Copy, untitled, in two columns, on a single oblong octavo-size leaf.
First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed by Hannibal Baskervile I think this was Sr Rob. Cotton
.
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.
Second copy, in the hand of Hannibal Baskervile, subscribed Anno 1636. when ye king was at Oxon
, on the back of a folio printed sheet of Vesper Questions for 1627.
First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy.
This MS text recorded in Hirsch.
First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer
to this poem, see
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of Elias Ashmole, 245 leaves.
Extracts from Dryden's Virgil.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 222 leaves, in 18th-century half-calf.
Entitled (on an oblong octavo vellum strip attached to f. iir)Collection of Papers relating to Foreign Kingdoms.
Compiled by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.
Copy, in a non-professional secretary hand, headed Three monthes obseruation of the Low Contryes especiallie Holland
, lacking a dedicatory epistle.
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).
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 168 leaves.
Copy.
First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 40-5.
Extract from Pepys's will relating to his library.
A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts and other papers, in various hands, 404 leaves, in half-calf.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect at the end.
Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...
. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200
[i.e. 202].
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
Once in the library of James Brydges (1674-1744), first Duke of Chandos, politician and patron of music, of Cannons, Middlesex (lot 280 in the house sale there in 1747).
Speech beginning My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command...
. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626 and Questions to be proposed, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect at the beginning.
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).
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James
, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...
. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
Extracts, in English and Latin. Early 18th century.
First published in an English translation as The Private Devotions, ed. Humphrey Moseley (London, 1647). Selections of the original Greek and Latin version published in Verus Christianus, ed. David Stokes (Oxford, 1668). A more comprehensive version published as Preces privatae, Graece et Latine, ed. John Lamphire (London, 1675). Translated by F.E. Brightman as The Preces Privatae of Lancelot Andrewes (London, 1903).
A folio composite volume of tracts and papers largely relating to the University of Oxford, in various hands, 691 leaves, folio- and quarto-size, in 18th-century half-calf.
Including notes by Anthony Wood.
Copy, formally drawn up in a neat italic script, with a correction in a different hand (? King's), of a 28-line elegy on the death of Dr John Spenser (1559-1614), subscribed Mærens posuit Hen: Kinge ex Æde Chri:
, within wide black vertical and horizontal strips, in the form of a funerary placard, on a single broadsheet, and endorsed in a different hand with an English translation (beginning If this tru sorrow counted be with fatall Cypresse bowes
).
Unpublished.
A quarto and duodecimo composite volume of miscellaneous papers in several European languages, in various hands, 500 leaves.
Copy of a French translation of at least Book II, by Jean Loiseau de Tourva, with two prefixed dedications.
Edited from this MS in Albert W. Osborn, Sir Philip Sidney en France (Paris, 1932), Appendice, pp. i-xlii.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous parliamentary papers, 390 leaves.
Copy.
Sometimes called Upon the cutting of Sr John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from Marvell's writing
). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.
A folio composite volume comprising wills and biographical papers, in various hands, 365 leaves.
Extracts from Pepys's will relating to his library.
A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various largely professional hands, folio- and quarto-size leaves, 577 leaves.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in a partly court hand A letter written by Sr Phillippe Sidney to his brother Robert Sidney (now Lord Lisle) showing what Course was fittest for him to hold in his Trauaile
.
A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...
. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.
Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617 (here dated 7 March), in a professional secretary hand.
Copy, in a single professional secretary hand.
First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VII, 1-36. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 183-206.
Copy, originally paginated 978-80, in a section of the volume in a single professional secretary hand (ff. 14r-39r, originally paginated 937-[1003]).
Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...
). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
Copy.
Spedding, XIV, 358-64.
Copy, headed Giuen By a Mistake to his Majty
, subscribed Rochester 1673
, in a quarto miscellany of verse and prose on affairs of state (ff. 297r-318v, originally paginated 1-44) in a single professional hand. Late 17th century.
Edited from this MS 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.
Copy, headed On the Lord Mayor Sr. Robt. vyner & the Courtt of Aldm going to whitehal & psentg the King & Duke wth a Gouldn Boxe in wch weere the copies of the ffreedome of the Citty In a 1674
, originally paginated 29-31, in a quarto miscellany of verse and prose on affairs of state (ff. 297r-318v, originally paginated 1-44) in a single professional hand. Late 17th century.
First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….
Copy, headed Dialogue Britania & Rawleigh
, originally paginated 32-7, in a quarto miscellany of verse and prose on affairs of state (ff. 297r-318v, originally paginated 1-44) in a single professional hand. Late 17th century.
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).
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).
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.
Copy, headed Reflections upon Our Last and Present Proceedings in England By Sir Charles Sedley
, subscribed GL. Scripsit, in a quarto booklet (ff. 319r-44v) written on rectos only.
This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, Life, p. 303, and in Sola Pinto (1928), I, xvi.
First published, anonymously, in London, 1689. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 175-224. See Sola Pinto, I, 249.
Copy, headed The Preisthood out of Herberts Poems
, in a quarto booklet (ff. 319r-44v) written on rectos only.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 160-1.
Copy, headed Out of Herberts Poems
, in a quarto booklet (ff. 319r-44v) written on rectos only.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.
A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 80 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Entitled (f. 1r) Liber de sententijs epistolarum Mearum, quas feci vel postea facicam deo iuuante Finis, and compiled by Joseph Meddus (b.1602/3) of Exeter College, Oxford
c.1619.Scribbling on f. 1b including the name Hen Heardson
.
Copy of the first five stanzas, incomplete.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made
).
A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, 76 leaves.
Mid-late 17th century.Copy of the original version, dated April 1649.
A satire first published in 1682 with the subtitle The Loyal Satyrist, or, Hudibras in Prose
. Almost certainly written by Thomas Winyard (or Winnard or Winwood), Fellow of St John's College, Oxford: see De Quehen, RES, (1982), 274-5, and Lamar, pp. 347-65. Before its re-publication in Butler's Posthumous Works, it was heavily doctored with interpolated Hudibrastic verses.
A duodecimo notebook, in Latin and English, in several hands, written from both ends, 88 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Owned and probably compiled at least in part by John Gandye (b.1604/5), of Oriel College, Oxford, who has inscribed f. 2r Si quis me quærat, præsto est / Jo: Gandye
.
Name inscribed (f. 1v rev.) Thomas Keen
.
Copy, headed on Sr Henry Wottons [wife deleted] Lady
and here beginning He first deseast She liv'd & tryd
.
First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds
, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see
Copy, subscribed Q: Eliz
.
Edited from this MS in Collected Works.
First published in Alexander Huish, Lectures upon the Lord's Prayer (London, 1626), sig. Y2v of his sermon on Give us this day our daily bread
. Bradner, p. 6, as Christ was the Word, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 3, p. 47. Selected Works, among Wrongly Attributed Works 1, p. 330. The authorship discussed with scepticism also in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 102-3.
A version headed On the Sacrament and beginning He was the Word that spake it
published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 427, among Poems attributed to John Donne
.
A duodecimo volume of legal and historical tracts, chiefly in two or more secretary hands, written from both ends, 174 leaves (ff. 100-52 blank), in contemporary calf, with remains of ties.
c.1620s-30s.Copy, as By Sr Robert Cotton
.
Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James
, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...
. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
A duodecimo miscellany of miscellaneous extracts and academic orations, chiefly in Latin, written from both ends, 78 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Compiled probably by a Cambridge University man.
Copy, headed Oratio Magistri Cleveland Coll. Johan: socij habita Cantabrigiæ Cora serenissimo Carolo Comiti Palatino
.
Oration, beginning Si Archetypam corporis vestri elegantiam possem transcribere...
. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 142-4. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 175-7.
Copy, as by Cleveland.
Oration, beginning Quam Augusta sit vestra præsentia, & quam sacro horrore...
. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 135-6.
Copy, as by Cleveland.
Oration, beginning Augustissime Regum, Archetype Caroli, / Quæ nupero dolore obriguit Academia...
. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 121-3. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 177-9.
Copy, headed Epistola Mri Cleveland
.
J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 128-9. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 223-4 (as Ad eundem jam factum Archiepiscopum Eboracensem).
Extracts.
First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.
Extracts.
First published in Works (1651). Evans, pp. 269-351.
Extracts, headed His poems: To ye Queene
.
This MS recorded in Evans, pp. 676, 809.
First published in Works (1651), pp. 183-8. Evans, pp. 441-5.
Copy of lines 47-54, here beginning Ruins here stand ruins as if none
.
First published in Works (1651), pp. 188-9. Evans, pp. 445-7.
Copy of lines 27-8, headed To ye prince
and here beginning The late and Tardy stock of Nephews may
.
First published in Works (1651), pp. 190-1. Evans, pp. 447-8.
Extract, beginning at line 9 (here Let then yr name be altered, let us say
).
First published in Pro Rege suo Soteria (1633). Works (1651), p. 192. Evans, pp. 448-9.
Extracts, headed Vpon ye great Frost
.
First published in Works (1651), pp. 204-6. Evans, pp. 457-9.
Copy.
First published in Works (1651), p. 214. Evans, pp. 465-6.
Extracts, beginning at line 5 (here Whether close eghs be Diamond...
).
First published in Works (1651), pp. 223-4. Evans, pp. 475-6.
Copy.
First published in Works (1651), p. 227. Evans, p. 478.
Extracts.
First published in Works (1651), pp. 227-9. Evans, pp. 479-80.
A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 60 leaves, disbound.
Owned and probably compiled by John Abbott (b.1653/4), of St John's College, Oxford.
c.1670s.Extract, from the nineteenth precept.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.
Extracts.
Copy, ascribed to J. H.
First published, as An Epitaph upon King Charles 1st, in Eikon Basilike (1649), p. 312.
Copy of lines 1-2, here beginning Her being was in him a lone
.
First published in Arcadia (London, 1593), a blank space having been left for this epitaph in the edition of 1590. Ringler, p. 241.
Copy, headed An Elegy on Sr W. Raleigh
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.
Copy of lines 1-4, under a general running head Help to discourse
and headed Q[uestion]. Wt Issue was yt wch was older then his mother? A[nswer]. Christ: to wch purpose ye Poet wittily followeth it:
.
Brown, pp. 6-7.
Copy of lines 958-9, headed On time
and here beginning It cheares ye plowman wth increasefull Crops
.
First published in London, 1594.
Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.
First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.
Copy of Longaville's couplet (I, i, 26-7), untitled and here beginning ffat paunches make lean pates, & dainty bitts
.
First published in London, 1598.
A duodecimo memorandum book, compiled by William Harris, MA, Master of Winchester School, 64 leaves.
Mid-late 17th century.Extracts.
A quarto academic notebook, in Latin and English, in two or more hands, 186 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1614.Among scribbling on f. 1r is twice inscribed the name Nicolas Dudson
, possibly Nicholas Dochen (d.1619), Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Extracts, partly in double columns.
First published in London, 1609.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Of the latelie erected Service called the Office of Compositions for Alienation
, dated 10. September: 1604
, 32 quarto leaves, in old half-calf.
A tract, beginning All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...
. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on seventeen quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum within grey paper wrappers.
c.1620s.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.
A quarto volume of parliamentary speeches, in a single hand, 92 pages, in contemporary calf gilt.
Early 17th century.Copy of Version I, headed The Queenes answere
.
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).
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1625.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.
Copy, untitled and here beginning A starre of late appear'd in virgoes traine
.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
Copy, headed Dr Corbets verses: Spayne
.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 146.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
Copy, untitled and subscribed Qt Sr. Henr. Wotton
.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Copy of poems 1-6, untitled.
This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 395, 443.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.
Copy, untitled.
Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), p. 227.
First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).
Copy, headed The maner of my Lord of Essex his execucon
.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 160 leaves, in half-calf.
Copy in a secretary hand.
First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
Copy of a list of monastic houses in England, abstracted chiefly from Leland's Itinerary
, in a secretary hand, with corrections and additions in another hand, on 41 quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
Scribbling on f. 1r including names Foster Anthonius
and Bartholomew Weekes
. Once owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.
A quarto volume of state letters, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 84 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Late 16th-early 17th century.Copy, headed ffrom olde Sr Thoma wiate to his sonne out of Spayne
.
Letter beginning In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding …
, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 38-41.
Copy.
Letter beginning I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you …
, subscribed From Valedolide the xxiiith of June
. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 41-4.
A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf.
Copy, headed An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme
.
Copy, headed An Epitaph on Queene Elizabeth
, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
Copy, here ascribed to Jer: Terrent
, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.
First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent
).
Copy, in double columns, headed Jacke on both sides
and subscribed Dc Strode of Ch: Ch:
, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.
This MS recorded in Forey.
First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy, ascribed to Tho: Randolph
.
Copy, subscribed Tho: Randolph
, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
Copy, headed vpon ye Register of a Bible
and subscribed Dr Strode
, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.
Copy of the song, untitled and subscribed W: Cartwright
, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.
Evans, pp. 311-12.
Copy, headed The Fayer Maydes Answere
and subscribed Dr Hen: King
, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.
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).
Copy, headed A Complemente
, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.
First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy, headed The Blazing starre
and here beginning A starre of Late appear'd in Virgoes Traine
, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
Copy, headed The Lovers Melancholy
, here beginning Hence hence all you vaine delights
, and subscribed W. Strode
, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man.
Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see
Copy, subscribed Dr Strode
.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.
A quarto verse miscellany, 153 leaves.
Early 18th century.First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 3-4. Dobrée, pp. 235-7. McKenzie, II, 315-17.
A duodecimo volume of debates and proceedings in the House of Commons from 22 May to 8 August 1641, 191 leaves.
c.1641.Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner
. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland
. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
A duodecimo volume of copies of letters by various correspondents to William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, manuscript collector, copied by him while at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 23 leaves.
c.1633-42.Copy of a letter by Hobbes, to Charles Cavendish, from Chatsworth, 22 August/[1 September] 1638.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 294-6. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 52-3, Letter 28.
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, to Christina Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire (accompanying a draft of a dedication to her husband), from London, 6[/16] November 1628.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 291-2. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 6, Letter 2.
A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, including academic material, in English and Latin, mostly in a small closely written hand, written from both ends, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Including Latin elegies by the possible compiler, Samuel Conduit (d.1662), of Lincoln College, Oxford.
c.1640.Owned in 1710 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who notes inside the lower cover This Book was written in his younger Years by the late learned Mr. Abednego Seller
: i.e. Abednego Seller (1646/7-1705), clergyman, scholar and religious writer, who also inscribes a flyleaf Abednego Sellers booke
.
Copy, headed Oratio habita coram Rege Woodstochiæ a Gulielmo Stroad Acad. oratore publico
.
Unpublished oration, beginning Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro …
.
Copy of the English translation by Sir Arthur Gorges, transcribed from the edition of 1619, 85 octavo leaves.
c.1619.Gorges's translation first published as The Wisedome of the Ancients (London, 1619).
First published in London, 1609. Spedding, VI, 605-764.
A quarto composite volume of letters, historical and heraldic collections, 103 leaves, in 18th-century quarter-vellum boards.
Owned on 21 August 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
Copy, partly written lengthways down the margins, on p. [1] of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, and ascribed to Sr George Etherege
. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 7-8.
Copy, headed On a Poet who writ in Praise of Satyr, by ye Earl of Roches.
and here beginning To vex & torture thy unmeaning Brain
, on p. [2] of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
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).
A quarto composite volume of chiefly state letters and tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, 176 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.
Copy in Richard Rawlinson's hand, transcribed from the printed edition of 1546 given to St John's College, Oxford, in 1602 by (Sir) William Paddy (1554-1634), physician to Lord Burghley.
Ownership inscription by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, 30 December 1710.
First published in London, 1546. Reprinted in Joannis Lelandi...collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 3rd edition (London, 1774), V, 69-78.
Copy, headed A Politick Dispute about the Happiest Match for ye noble & most hopefull prince Charles
.
A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...
. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
A quarto volume comprising notes and extracts by Francis Turner (1638?-1700), Bishop of Ely, headed Notes taken from the Lord Chancellor Clarendon's History
[i.e. Clarendon's MS lent him to read
], seventeen leaves (plus numerous blanks), incorporating (ff. iv-2r) a printed indenture dated 30 March 1681, in contemporary vellum.
Inscribed (f. 1r rev.) Ex MSS. olim Rev. Adm. Fr. Turner
: i.e.
First published in 3 vols, Oxford, 1702-4. Edited by Bulkeley Bandinel (8 vols, Oxford, 1826). Edited by W.D. Macray (6 vols, Oxford, 1888).
MS, in at least two small cursive hands, entitled Rhapsodical meditations and visions by Mrs Ann Bathurst, from 17 March, 1679 to 29 June, 1693
, 607 large quarto pages, in quarter-vellum marbled boards.
Inscribed on the first page This Book belong's to Dr Heath's Library at Mrs Brackley's in Tufton Street Westminster
.
Unpublished.
Copy, in at least three cursive hands, covering the period from 31 June 1693 to 21 October 1696, untitled, 99 quarto leaves, in boards.
Inscribed on the front paste-down Mrs Ann Bathurst's Writings. vol. 2. from Ann. 1693. to 1696. wch with vol. 1 contains all that she wrote
.
Unpublished.
A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in three hands, written from both ends, 96 leaves, in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps.
Late 17th century.Owned on 14 September 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
Copy of the last stanza, untitled and here beginning Stone walls doe not a prison make
.
The last stanza printed from this MS in Wilkinson, I, 53; collated in Clayton.
First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
A duodecimo miscellany of extracts, predominantly in one hand, 43 leaves (plus 21 blanks).
c.1725.Inscribed on the lower endpaper Anne Castell 1725
.
Extracts.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.
A duodecimo volume of sermons and theological tracts, in two hands, written from both ends, 138 leaves, in vellum.
Early 17th century.Copy, closely written in a small hand.
This MS recorded (but not collated) in Story, p. xlix.
First published in XCVI Sermons (London, 1629). LACT, Sermons, I (1841), 356-74. Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons, ed. G.M. Story (Oxford, 1967), pp. 119-42.
Copy.
First published in XCVI Sermons (London, 1629). LACT, Sermons, I (1841), 375-97.
Copy.
First published in XCVI Sermons (London, 1629). LACT, Sermons, I (1841), 398-416.
A duodecimo book of prayers, chiefly in English, some in Latin, in a large clear hand, 64 leaves.
18th century.Extracts.
First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 843-4. California, IV, 422-3. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 308-10.
Autograph fair copy, 44 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in a recycled vellum devotional text within modern black morocco.
In Ascham's calligraphic roman hand, with (f. 1r) a title-page, Expositiones antiquæ in Epistolam D. Pauli ad Titum, ex diuersis sanctorum Patrum græce scriptis commentarijs ab Oecumenio collectæ, et nunc primum latine uersae: Cantabrigiæ Anno D.M.D XLII
, and (ff. 2r-5r) a dedication to Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely.
Inscriptions including Frederick Tilney Non est mortale quod optat Fred. Tilney
and Fredericus Tilneus Est Uerus huivs Libri Possessor
.
This MS recorded in Ryan, Roger Ascham, p. 301. Facsimiles of ff. 4v-5r in A.J. Fairbank and R.W. Hunt, Humanistic Script of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1960; reprinted Oxford, 1993), No. 19 (pp. 32-3), and in Petti, English Literary Hands (1977), No. 23.
Ascham's Latin translation of Oecumenius's collection of Greek commentaries on St Paul's Epistle to Titus. First published in Apologia pro caena dominica, ed. E. Grant (London, 1577).
A compilation of two sets of works, in the hand of Charles Hutton, prepared as a presentation MS, 166 octavo leaves (plus blanks).
Comprising Lady Carey's Meditations, & Poetry
(ff. 1r-117v) and works by and about Thomas Lord Fairfax. (ff. 118r-66v).
Copy, in Charles Hutton's hand, headed Herein is contained my Lady Carey's Meditations, & Poetry
, comprising a dedicatory epistle to her second husband George Payler, a religious dialogue and meditations, and verse, chiefly on the deaths of her children, including (f. 95r) an elegy by Payler, subscribed (f. 117v) January, 12th: 1657. saith Maria Carey always in Christ happy
.
Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), p. 40, and in HMC, 55 (1901-14), I, 15. Selected extracts from this MS by editors. Also described in the online Perdita Project.
Selectively edited in Meditations from the Note Book of Mary Carey 1649-1657, ed. Francis Meynell (Westminster, 1918), and in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 156-61.
A quarto religious diary of possibly a woman in London, covering the period from 29 September 1706 to 31 March 1707, with some verses and epitaphs in another hand at the reverse end, 31 leaves.
Early 18th century.Inscribed on the cover [William] Woodman his book, 1706
.
Copy.
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
Copy, in several hands, with corrections or revisions, covering only the period from 11 June to 19 September 1679, untitled, 68 quarto leaves, in a recycled vellum deed dated 1673 within modern brown morocco.
c.1673-1704.Unpublished.
A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts, in various hands, 203 leaves, in half-calf.
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand. Early 17th century.
First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.
A quarto composite volume of state and religious tracts, 375 leaves.
Copy, following Cuffs speech at his execution thus delivered by himself
and headed The same speech turned into an Elegia by, R. Corbet
, in a booklet (ff. 53r-77v) of historical Miscellanea
dating up to 1632.
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 94-5.
Copy, the work Written by Sr Rob. Cotton Bruceus Knight Baronet
.
Tract beginning What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been...
. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.
A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, an academic play and other papers, in various hands, 401 leaves, in 18th-century half-calf.
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, headed Obseruations of the Lowe Countries especially Holland
, with the dedicatory epistle by J.S.
.
This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 8v on p. 156.
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).
An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 127 leaves, in contemporary vellum, heavily soiled.
Early-mid-17th century.Copy, headed Of ye bellows-maker of Oxford, by J: Hoskins
and here beginning Here lyes John CrukerA maker of bellowes
.
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.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XX (p. 189).
Copy, headed A Puritannical Lock Smith
.
Whitlock, p. 108.
Copy, headed upon A Butcher yt married A Tanners daughter
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
Extracts.
A quarto commonplace book of extracts, 237 leaves.
Mid-17th century.Inscribed on first and last pages
.James Hamilton
and Lyonell Gwillims [i.e. Lionel Williams], his booke, 1636
Copy, headed Epitaphium in 2 amatores decessd
, written inside a flyleaf.
First published in Poetical Blossomes (London, 1633). Waller, II, 39.
A quarto commonplace book, in Latin and English, in a predominantly secretary hand throughout, written from both ends, 130 leaves (including many blanks after f. 57), in contemporary vellum.
c.1634-7.Inscribed inside the front cover Philip Broome 10th Novembr 1634
.
A series of extracts, headed Bishop Andrewes Sermons
.
Unpublished.
A quarto theological notebook, in English and Latin, 65 leaves.
Late 17th century.Notes taken from Taylor's epsle to a sermon prach'd…in Ireld. maij 8, 166i
[i.e. at the opening of the Irish Parliament] and from his Consecracon Sermon [on 27 January 1660/1].
Full texts of the sermons are in Eden, VIII, 333-58, and VIII, 309-30.
A number of Taylor's sermons published in several volumes between 1638 and 1667: see Bibliography (1971).
A duodecimo notebook, 129 leaves.
17th century.Extracts, headed Observations out of Cambden's Remains
.
First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).
A quarto miscellany of extracts, in various hands, 198 leaves.
Late 17th century.Notes of Leland's list of books in various monastic libraries taken from the Collectanea.
A quarto volume of fragments of theological tracts, 113 leaves.
Late 17th century?.Extracts.
First published in Oxford, 1643.
A duodecimo notebook of extracts from English books, 85 leaves.
Mid-17th century.Extracts.
First published in London, 1617. Wynter, IX, 525-62.
A folio composite volume of autograph sermons by the nonjuror bishop Samuel Hawes, 142 leaves (including blanks), in 18th-century half-calf.
c.1700-10.Copy by Hawes of an English translation, with a separate title-page, A Sermon of Lancelot Andrews, then DD. afterwards Bishop of Winchester preached in Latin in St Pauls Church 20th of ffeb: to the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury assembled in Convocation in ye Raign of Queen Elizabeth A: D: 1593. now made English
.
First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Opuscula (1852), pp. 29-31.
A quarto volume chiefly of sermons, in English and Latin, in a single hand, 122 leaves (plus blanks), in 18th-century half-calf over mottled boards.
c.1634.Copy, headed A Speach deliured at Norwich to the Clergy at a Synod April .29. 1634. By Dr Corbet Bp of Norwich
.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.
Sermon, beginning My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission...
, first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.
A folio composite volume of correspondence of Philip, fourth Baron Wharton (1613-96), in various hands, 360 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Philip, fourth Baron Wharton, inscribed on a letter to Marvell by Dr Benjamin Worsley, 1 January [1671/2], sent on by Marvell to Wharton [early January 1671/2].
Margoliouth, II, 326.
Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Philip, fourth Baron Wharton, inscribed on a letter to Marvell by Dr Benjamin Worsley, 2 January [1671/2], sent on by Marvell to Wharton [early January 1671/2].
Margoliouth, II, 326.
Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Philip, fourth Baron Wharton, inscribed on a letter to Marvell by Dr Benjamin Worsley, 3 January [1671/2], sent on by Marvell to Wharton, 3 January 1[671/2].
Margoliouth, II, 327.
A folio composite volume of correspondence of Philip, Lord Wharton, 399 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Philip, fourth Baron Wharton, 10 March 1673/4.
Edited and discussed by Nicholas von Maltzahn in TLS, 21 June 2002, pp. 14-15, and in Andrew Marvell and the Lord Wharton, The Seventeenth Century, 18/2 (Autumn 2003), 252-65 (p. 258).
A folio composite volume of papers of Sir Thomas Browne, chiefly autograph, 113 leaves (including blanks), different sizes.
Including autograph notes and passages on preserving health (in Latin) (ff. 4-5v), on bridges (ff. 8-9), on dolphins (f. 11), on an old woman (Boulimia centenaria
, f. 14, with a copy in another hand on f. 15), on echoes (ff. 32-3v) and on gardens (ff. 40-1v), and autograph copies of passages relating to the travels of his son Dr Edward Browne (ff. 24-8); autograph incomplete or imperfect draft versions of two of the Certain Miscellany Tracts (viz. Nos. XII [A Prophecy] and VIII [Of Languages]) (ff. 18-19v, 36-7v); nine original letters by Dr Edward Browne to his father, 1668-9 (ff. 52-84v); part of an original letter by M. Escaillot to Sir Thomas (f. 20r-v), and historical and medical notes, tracts and orations in the hand of Edward Browne and others (ff. 43-50v, 87-104).
Various of these miscellaneous passages by Sir Thomas selectively edited from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 340, 372-4, and in Keynes, III, 242-3, 348-9. The two Miscellany Tracts edited in part from this MS in Endicott, pp. 425-38, 448-52; collated in part in Wilkin, IV, 195-212, 231-8, and in Keynes, III, 103-8. See also
Autograph letter signed by Andrewes, to James Ussher, 11 June 1623.
In one of the folio volumes of correspondence written partly by G.J. Vossius (1577-1649), Dutch classical scholar and theologian.
1623.A quarto composite volume of letters and papers, in various hands, 78 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Thomas, [November 1699].
Ward, Letter 69, edited from a text in Miscellanea (London, 1727), pp. 151-2.
Autograph letter signed by Mary Chudleigh, to an unnamed lady, from Ashton, 9 December 1701.
Autograph letter signed by Mary Chudleigh, to Corrina
, from Ashton, 19 October 1701.
A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands, to Dr Francis Turner (1637-1700), Bishop of Ely, i + 377 leaves, 1678-90.
Brief quotations in a letter by Dr William Balam (1651-1726).
Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.
