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  • MS Sancroft 11

    Notes in the minute hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, on the Book of Common Prayer, vi + 566 quarto pages (the majority blank), in contemporary calf.

    Largely transcribed out of Mr [John] Hayward's booke of Coton. wch were partly his owne collections, & ptly taken out of Bp Andrewes his owne service booke, written in ye Margin wth his owne hand, to whch is prfixed Wint or W. for Winchester of wch he was Bp.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • AndL 40
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in William Nicholls, A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer (London, 1710). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 141-58.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer

  • MS Sancroft 29

    An octavo commonplace book of extracts from various authors, some under headings, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, iv + 558 pages (the majority blank), in contemporary vellum.

    Late 17th century.
    • SuJ 158.5 pp. 58-61

      Extracts.

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

      John Suckling, Aglaura
    • WaE 327 p. 63

      Copy of a version of lines 17-26 beginning Fletcher thy Muse at once improv'd, & marrd.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 3-4.

      Edmund Waller, On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays ('Fletcher! to thee we do not only owe')
    • ShW 119 pp. 67, 75-104

      A serious of extracts from some 37 plays.

    • DkT 48 p. 68

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1636.

      Thomas Dekker, The Wonder of a Kingdom
    • JnB 603 pp. 68, 127

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, III, 191-403.

      Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour
    • CaW 82 p. 68

      Extracts.

      First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.

      William Cartwright, The Royal Slave
    • HyT 8.5 pp. 68-9

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1634.

      Thomas Heywood, A Maidenhood Well Lost
    • WeJ 3.5 pp. 69-70

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1623. Lucas, II, 229-372. Cambridge edition, II, 75-166.

      John Webster, The Devil's Law-Case
    • MiT 19.5 pp. 71-3

      Extracts.

      First published in London, [1625]. Bullen, VII, 1-136. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929) and by J.W. Harper (London, 1966). An early form in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1779-1824, with a later form on pp. 1830-85.

      Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess
    • DaW 102.4 pp. 108-9

      Extract.

      First published in London, 1636. Dramatic Works, II, 1-105.

      Sir William Davenant, The Platonick Lovers
    • SeC 119 pp. 110-11

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1668. Sola Pinto, I, 107-86.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Mulberry Garden
    • SiP 233 pp. 113-23

      A series of extracts, marked Sr Ph. Sidn.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Extracts
    • DrJ 247.35 p. 125

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

      John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe
    • JnB 767 pp. 127-9

      Extracts from the Every Man plays.

      Ben Jonson, Extracts

  • MS Sancroft 53

    An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf.

    c.1682-91.
    • SeC 53 p. 1

      Copy, headed To Celia. Poëms upon Several Occons. 1672. Qui colit illi facit.

      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.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')
    • RoJ 3 p. 2

      Copy of lines 35-50, headed The Feminine Monarchy and here beginning You are Loves citadel; By you he reigns.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 18-19. Walker, pp. 16-17. Love, pp. 8-9.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Advice ('All things submit themselves to your command')
    • SeC 71 p. 3

      Copy, headed Tota pulchra. or Je ne sçay quoy.

      First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 8.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Cloris ('Cloris, I cannot say your Eyes')
    • EtG 93 pp. 3-4

      Copy, headed On ye Dutchess of Newcastle.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 14-15.

      Sir George Etherege, To Her Excellence the Marchioness of Newcastle After the Reading of Her Incomparable Poems ('With so much wonder we are struck')
    • DoC 85 pp. 5-6

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Molière's Tartuffe, translated by Matthew Medbourne (London, 1670). Harris pp. 13-14.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Epilogue to Tartuffe ('Many have been the vain attempts of wit')
    • DoC 84 pp. 6-7

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon Several Occasions, by Several Persons (London, 1672). Harris, pp. 10-12.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Epilogue to Every Man in his Humour ('Entreaty shall not serve, nor violence')
    • WaE 712 pp. 7-8

      Copy, subscribed mr Waller.

      First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

      Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
    • DrJ 53 pp 9-14, and vi

      Copy, the stanza on p. vi headed Dryden's 10th stanza, omitted p. 10.

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

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

      John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. ('And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste')
    • DeJ 3 pp. 33-4

      Copy, headed On Sr W. Davenant's Gondibert, and subscribed Sr Jo. Denham.

      First published, as To Sir W. Davenant, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.

      Sir John Denham, 'After so many sad mishaps'
    • RoJ 125 p. 39

      Copy, two Latin verses headed On ye French Kgs Conquests, then Turn'd thus by ye E. of Rochester and here beginning Lorrain he stole; by Fraud he got Burgundie.

      This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy')
    • DoC 223 p. 40

      Copy, headed The 3 Chitts in Story.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
    • SdT 23.1 pp. 40-1

      Extracts.

      See Summers, V, 239-41.

      Summers, V, 239-41.

      Thomas Shadwell, To…Signior Pietro Reggio… ('If I could write with a Poetick fire')
    • ShW 43 p. 43

      Copy, transcribed from the Folio of 1664.

      William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, II, iii, 19-27. Song ('Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings')
    • ShW 75 p. 43

      Copy of Iago's lines beginning She yt was ever fair, & never proud (II, i, 148-58), transcribed from the Folio of 1664, headed Womens unknown Vertues and subscribed W.Sh. 795.

      First published in London, 1622.

    • WoH 182 p. 44

      Copy, headed A Lady dy'd soon after her husbd and here beginning He first deceased. She a little try'd.

      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 HrG 290.5-290.8.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
    • DaJ 174 p. 45

      Copy, headed Another [i.e. epitaph] and here beginning As carefull Nurses on yr Beds do lay.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
    • HrJ 77 f. 47

      Copy, headed Sr Jo. Harrington On K. James his Coming in and here beginning England (Men say) of late is banckrupt grown.

      Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

      Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed ('Men say that England late is bankrout grown')
    • RaW 395 p. 48

      Copy, headed On the Earl of Somerset.

      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).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
    • HoJ 99 p. 50

      Copy of a version of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd.

      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.

      John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
    • DnJ 4063.3 p. 52

      Copy, headed Descripto of a Scot at first sight.

      First published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 414-15. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among Dubia). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's An Essay of Valour, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

      John Donne, The Character of a Scott at the First Sight
    • HoJ 100 p. 52

      Copy of a version of lines 43-68, headed Mris Hoskins petition for her Husband and here beginning The worst is told, ye Best is sed.

      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.

      John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
    • DnJ 2886 p. 52

      Copy, untitled and here beginning You follow whores: (yor Mistress taxeth you:).

      This MS recorded in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 89. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 10.

      John Donne, A selfe accuser ('Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you')
    • HoJ 48 pp. 53-6

      Copy, headed The Parlement-Fart. 1607 and here beginning Down came grave ancient Serjeant Crook.

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

      John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
    • HoJ 121 p. 56

      Copy, headed The Fart's Epitaph and here beginning Reader, I was born, & cry'd.

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
    • HrJ 78 p. 57

      Second copy, untitled and here beginning England, Men say, of late is Bankrupt grown.

      Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

      Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed ('Men say that England late is bankrout grown')
    • DnJ 904 p. 58

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Thy Father gave fro thee by his last Will.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.

      John Donne, Disinherited ('Thy father all from thee, by his last Will')
    • DnJ 1727 p. 58

      Copy, untitled and here beginning So deeply N. hath vow'd, ne'r more to come.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

      John Donne, Klockius ('Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come')
    • DnJ 1899 p. 58

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Thy Sins, & hairs no Man can equal call.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

      John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
    • DnJ 1756 p. 58

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • RaW 396 p. 58

      Second copy, deleted.

      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).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
    • SdT 18.5 p. 59

      Extract.

      First published in London, 1682. Summers, V, 263-72.

      Thomas Shadwell, Satyr to his Muse ('Hear me dull Prostitute, worse than my Wife')
    • RoJ 567.2 p. 68

      Copy of the last six lines.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • RoJ 223 p. 69

      Copy, headed On Rome's pardons and here subscribed Ea of Rochr.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • StW 323 p. 69

      Copy, subscribed These 3. out of Philpot's Remains. pp. 533. & 547.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

      William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')

  • MS Sancroft 59

    An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, iv + 302 pages.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • HeR 249 p. 284 rev.

      Copy.

      First published in John Stow, Survey of London (London, 1633), p. 812. Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 145-6. Patrick, pp. 197-8. The memorial tablet of c.1630 bearing this epitaph at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, was restored there in 1955: see Charles Smyth, A Herrick Epitaph, TLS (13 May 1955), p. 253.

      Robert Herrick, Upon his kinswoman Mistris Elizabeth Herrick ('Sweet virgin, that I do not set')
    • DaJ 175 p. 286 rev.

      Copy, headed On an infants death and here beginning As nurses strive their babes in bed to lay.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
    • RnT 491 p. 296 rev.

      Copy.

      Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

      Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton ('Do pious marble let thy readers know')

  • MS Sancroft 89

    An octavo volume of university Latin orations compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, xiv + 204 pages (pp. 110-94 blank).

    Late 17th century.
    • WoH 57.5 pp. 57-8

      Copy of a Latin rendition of the poem, headed Ad Regem e Scotia reducem Henrici Wottonj Plausus, & Vota.

      First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.

      Sir Henry Wotton, An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there ('Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse')
    • ClJ 235 pp. 97-8

      Copy, headed Mr Cleveland before ye K. 14 March 1641[/2].

      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.

      John Cleveland, Oratio coram Rege, & Principe Carolo in Collegio Joannensi Cantab. habita. 1642
    • StW 1471 pp. 106-9

      Copy, headed Ad Rege Carolu I. Oratorii Acad. Oxon. (Mri Strode, ut puto) Alloqu Woodstochii, ut—.

      Unpublished oration, beginning Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro ….

      William Strode, Speech to Charles I at Woodstock, 30 August 1635

  • MS Sancroft 97

    An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, ii + 456 pages (pp. 121-96 blank).

    Late 17th century.
    • ShW 116 pp. 79-82

      Quotations from Shakespeare (including Henry VI, King Lear, and A Midsummer Night's Dream).

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