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  • 32D86/7

    A folio volume of auncient ffees due and vsually taken by the seuerall officers in the Countye of Yorke: with a treatise of weights and measures, 126 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 7, Part II, of the Hopkinson MSS.

    1663.

    Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.

    • CmW 66 ff. 97-110 passim

      Extracts labelled Mr Camden, among others labelled Mr Burton, in a section with the running title money and Coynes, almost illegible due to permeation of the ink.

      A tract beginning It is a receaued opinion that in most auncient ages there was onely batterie.... First published in Remaines (London, 1614), pp. 196-210.

  • 32D86/10

    A folio volume of genealogical material, 210 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 10 of the Hopkinson MSS.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.

    • CmW 6.33 passim

      Various extracts and quotations.

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

      William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

  • 32D86/11

    A volume of genealogical material relating to Northern families.

    Late 17th century.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.

    • CmW 6.35 [unspecified page numbers]

      Extracts.

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

      William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
    • FuT 16 [unspecified page numbers]
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Fuller, Extracts

  • 32D86/14

    A folio volume of accounts of travels to countries in Europe and to Turkey, 124 leaves (plus blanks), in calf gilt.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 14 of the Hopkinson MSS

    c.1660s-70s.

    Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 295.

    • OvT 40 ff. 61v-73r

      Copy of Obseruations of the State of ffrance, Observations vpon the Provinces vnited, and Obseruacons vpon the ArchDukes Countrye, all ascribed to Sr Thomas Ouerburye Knt.

      A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State.... First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

  • 32D86/17

    A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.

    c.1670.

    Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

    • StW 1233 f. 9r

      Copy of the second couplet, here beginning My stringes can doe what noe man cold.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

      William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
    • StW 324 f. 9r

      Copy, headed On a Butcher maryeing a skynners daughter.

      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')
    • HrJ 106 f. 9v

      Copy, headed Coynesse.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')
    • DnJ 1758 f. 12v

      Copy, headed On a Cripple and here beginning I can neither goe nor stand the cripple cryes.

      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')
    • JnB 234 ff. 13v-14r

      Copy of lines 191-216, headed Ben: Johnson against Vulcan and beginning Pox on your flameship, Vulcan; if it be.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

      Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan ('Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire')
    • DaJ 48 f. 14v

      Copy, headed Wooing stuffe and here beginning ffaire wench I cannot court thy sprightly eyes.

      First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

      Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion ('Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes')
    • CoR 440 ff. 15r-16r

      Copy, headed On Tom the great Bell of Christ Church Oxford.

      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).

      Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
    • ChG 3 f. 18v

      Copy of a couplet in Sestiad III (lines 231-2), headed Loue and here beginning Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames.

      Chapman's continuation of Marlowe's poem (Sestiads III-VI). First published in London, 1598. Bartlett, pp. 132-70.

      George Chapman, Hero and Leander
    • BrW 9 ff. 18v, 20

      Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 479-80, headed A nosegay wth nettles and here beginning Such is the posye love composes, and of lines 481-2, headed A Girdle and here beginning This dureing light I give to clipt your waist.

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

      William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
    • DnJ 3201 ff. 19v-20r

      Copy, headed A sonnett.

      First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

      The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
    • CoR 700 ff. 25v-6r

      Copy, headed On the preserueing of Lincolns Inn Chappell windowes in the tyme of the warr.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

      Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
    • WoH 202 f. 26v

      Copy, headed Vpon Secretarye Da: fall, subscribed ff. B..

      Edited from this MS (or from the second copy: WoH 203) in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 295.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')
    • CoR 723.5 f. 37r

      Copy of a version headed Est natura hominum nouitatis auida 1618 and beginning The starr that rose from Virgo's trayne.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

      Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
    • CwT 1287 ff. 37r-8r

      Copy, headed An inuectiue against Grace Cooke and here beginning Hayle, shamelesse model of a cursed whore.

      First published as On one Grace C. an Insatiate Whore in a 24-line version beginning Go shamefull Model of a Cursed Whore! in Latine Songs, With their English: and Poems. By Henry Bold (London, 1685). A 36-line version published in Minor Poems of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (Everyman Library, 1931). Dunlap. p. 191.

      Thomas Carew, To a Strumpett ('Hayle thou true modell of a cursed whore')
    • HeR 182 f. 38r-v

      Copy, without the preliminary lines.

      First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

      Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')
    • StW 958 ff. 39r-40r

      Copy, headed Cappes.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

      William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin')
    • CoR 554 f. 44r-v

      Copy, beginning at stanza 2 (here Lament, Lament old Abbyes).

      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.

      Richard Corbett, A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will ('Farewell, Rewards & Faeries')
    • DeJ 43 ff. 60v-1v

      Copy, headed A ballad vpon one Greene a quaker and a mare.

      First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.

      Sir John Denham, News from Colchester ('All in the Land of Essex')
    • EaJ 19 ff. 97v-9r

      Copy, headed vpon the death of sr John Boroughe 1628.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
    • WoH 160 f. 121r-v

      Copy, headed Teares at the graue of Sr Albert morton by Sr Henry Wootton Kt.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton ('Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best')
    • WoH 183 f. 121v

      Copy.

      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')
    • WoH 15 f. 123r

      Copy, headed Sr Henry wootton on Mr Roger Askam.

      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).

      Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
    • WoH 203 f. 124v

      Copy, headed On Secretarye Dauison fall and subscribed F. B..

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')
    • SuJ 48 f. 172v

      Copy, subscribed J. S..

      This MS recorded (but not seen) in Clayton, p. 230. Collated in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

      First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 19-20.

      John Suckling, A Pedler of Small-Wares ('A Pedler I am, that take great care')
    • SuJ 45 f. 173r

      Copy, subscribed J. S.

      This MS recorded (but not seen) in Clayton, p. 291. Collated in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

      First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 33.

      John Suckling, The Miracle ('If thou bee'st Ice, I do admire')
    • SuJ 122 f. 173r

      Copy, subscribed J. S..

      This MS collated in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

      First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 88-9.

      John Suckling, Love and Debt alike troublesom ('This one request I make to him that sits the clouds above')
    • SuJ 49 f. 173v

      Copy, subscribed J. S.

      This MS collated (no variants) in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

      First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 20-1.

      John Suckling, A Soldier ('I am a man of war and might')
    • SuJ 26 f. 173v

      Copy, subscribed J. S.

      This MS collated (no variants) in Peter Beal, Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

      First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 21.

      John Suckling, A Barber ('I am a Barber, and I'de have you know')
    • MaA 330 ff. 210r-15r

      Copy.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

      The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 294.5 f. 215r

      Copy, headed On Dunkirke house and here beginning Here doth lye the Sacred bones.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')

  • 32D86/18

    A folio volume of Speeches in Parliamt and other speeches with seuerall letters of Concernmt being of great Antiquitie...And some other speeches and Letters relateing to these late distracted tymes, iv + 165 leaves, in calf gilt.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 of the Hopkinson MSS.

    1660.

    Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 296-7.

    • ElQ 127 ff. 11r-12r

      Copy, headed Queen Elizabeths Answeare to Mr wilbraham the speaker.

      Beginning Williams, I have heard by you the common request of my Commons.... First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 80-3. Hartley, I, 94-5. Collected Works, Speech 5, pp. 70-2. Selected Works, Speech 3, pp. 37-41.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Commons' Petition that she Marry, January 28, 1563
    • ElQ 183 ff. 17v-20r

      Copy, headed Queene Elizabeth in the Parliamt house march 15th 1576.

      First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.

      Version I. Beginning Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses.... Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.

      Version II. Beginning My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted.... Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576
    • WyT 426 f. 43r-v

      Copy.

      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.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (15 April 1537)
    • WyT 435 ff. 44v-6r

      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.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (Autumn 1537)
    • SiP 189 ff. 93r-9v

      Copy, headed To Queene Elizabeth about the mariage with monsieur the Duke of Aniou, with the subscription when God long prserve your maties most dutifull and humble subiect & seruant / Ignot.

      This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 8.

      First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

      This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
    • HlJ 50 ff. 138r-45v

      Copy, headed Bishop Hall vpon his emprisonmt, dated from the Tower 1641 and subscribed To my much respected & obliged freind mr A. B these.

      An epistle beginning Sir, whiles you pitty my affliction, take heed lest you aggravate it.... First published in Three Tractates (London, 1646). Wynter, VI, 539-50.

      Joseph Hall, The Free Prisoner, or The Comfort of Restraint, written some while since in the Tower

  • 32D86/19

    A folio volume of state letters, 155 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 19 of the Hopkinson MSS

    c.1665-70s.

    Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 297.

    • RaW 847 f. 81r-8v

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Winwood.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 710.96 ff. 87v-8v.

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Latham & Youings.

      A letter to Prince Henry, written from the Tower, c.November 1607, beginning If the ship your highness intends to build be bigger than the Victory.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650), pp. 8-15. Works (1829), VIII, 627-9. Youings, No. 194, pp. 301-4.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh unto Prince Henry touching the Model of a Ship
    • HlJ 134 ff. 97v-8v

      Copy by Hopkinson of a letter by Hall to Thomas Fuller, from Higham, 30 August 1651.

      Wynter, X, 524-5 (from Fuller's Church History of Britain, p. 478).

      Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

  • 32D86/27

    A folio volume of state documents, speeches and verse, 284 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn.

    1674.

    Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 298.

    • EsR 269 ff. 34r-5v

      Copy, headed The Execution of Robert Earle of Essex in the Tower the 25th of ffebruary 1600.

      Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
    • RaW 728.8 ff. 62r-3r

      Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

      Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • CoR 261 ff. 116v-17

      Copy, headed Doctor Corbett against Doctor Prince his Anniversary upon this princes death.

      sy

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

      The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
    • ClJ 261 ff. 121r-2v

      Copy, headed Mr [John] Cleueland to Captaine [John] Scott vpon his returne into England from beyond Seas.

      Letter, beginning Sir, though no man's arms can be opened wide to receive you on shore....

      John Cleveland, To Captain Scott
    • WoH 79 ff. 122v-3

      Copy of a five-stanza version, headed An Ode upon this mariage [i.e. of the Prince Elector with the Princess Elizabeth].

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • RaW 742.5 ff. 127v-8v

      Copy of an account of the execution, headed The vntimely and vnfortunate death of Sr Walter Rawleighe Knt. 1618.

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • KiH 195.5 f. 128v

      Copy, headed Vpon his death and Elegie.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
    • RaW 29 f. 129r

      Copy, headed His Epitaph, made by himselfe and here beginning O cruell time, which takes in trust.

      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 RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • HoJ 51 ff. 136v-7v

      Copy, headed The Parliament fart / About this tyme was scattered and dispoesed abroad this worke[?] following compiled (as then was said) by mr John Hoskins Barraster of the midle Temple London.

      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')
    • MoG 6 ff. 150r-1r

      Copy, under a general heading Elegies, Epitaphes &c vpon this kings death and here beginning Those that have eies awake & weepe.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • ClJ 97 ff. 174r-5v

      Copy, with prose preamble.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.

      John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines ('Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start')
    • DeJ 67 f. 189r

      Copy, headed Upon the same [i.e. Strafford].

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

      Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')
    • ClJ 179 f. 190r

      Copy, headed Vpon the same.

      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).

      John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')
    • DeJ 88.5 ff. 223v-4v

      Copy, headed A speech against peace.

      First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.

      Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee ('But will you now to Peace incline')
    • HlJ 69 f. 264v

      Extract from one of Hall's meditations.

      Joseph Hall, Extracts

  • 32D86/29

    A folio volume of parliamentary and state tracts and speeches, 112 leaves, in calf gilt.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 29 of the Hopkinson MSS.

    1662.

    Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    • CtR 105 ff. 104r-6r

      Copy, headed The forme and first modell of this State of England in a letter to Sr Edward montague by Sr Robert Cotton...1621.

      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.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

  • 32D86/30

    A folio volume of collections on ecclesiastical matters, c.200 leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 30 of the Hopkinson MSS.

    • CmW 206 [unspecified page numbers]

      Extracts from Camden relating to monasteries.

      William Camden, Extracts

  • 32D86/32

    A folio volume of state letters, tracts and verse, 177 leaves, in calf gilt.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 32 of the Hopkinson MSS.

    1674.

    Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

    • LeC 9 ff. [iiir], 1r-100v

      Copy, with (f. [iiir]) a title-page: Greene=Sleeues OR Leicesters Commonwealth...Ex libris Roberti sancti Gerardi 1630. / Nil temere. / transcribed in Anno Dni 1674. by J H.

      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.

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
    • MoG 7 f. 101r

      Copy of lines 15-32, headed Vpon the death of King James of happye memorie, here beginning If noe Uriah lost his life, subscribed G: M:.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')

  • 32D86/34

    A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.

    Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

    • EsR 270 pp. 3-4

      Copy, headed my Lord of Essex his confession before his death the 25th of February vpon the scaffold Anno 43o Regine Elizabeth, including His prayer before his execution.

      Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
    • RnT 548 p. 7

      Copy.

      Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
    • HrJ 99 p. 8

      Copy, headed Upon a shrewd mrs.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 37. McClure No. 291, p. 266. Kilroy, Book II, No. 88, p. 162.

      Sir John Harington, Of a faire Shrew ('Faire, rich, and yong? how rare is her perfection')
    • HrJ 136 p. 9

      Copy, headed Upon a vertuous Ladye falling asleepe.

      First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
    • RaW 156 pp. 9-11

      Copy.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

      This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')
    • DaJ 95 p. 12

      Copy of poem 5, headed Upon R.F. Bp of London, and poem 4, headed Upon E.F. his wife.

      First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London ('The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since')
    • CoR 61 pp. 15-18

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

      Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane ('Am I madd, o noble Festus')
    • MoG 8 p. 24

      Copy, headed Vpon the death of Kinge James of famous memorie and here beginning All who haue eyes awake & weep, subscribed G. M:.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • DnJ 456 p. 26

      Copy, headed A songe.

      First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
    • CoR 71 pp. 27-8

      Copy, the date in the title rendered as 20 December 1615, subscribed R. Corbet.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 ('I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue')
    • CoR 176 p. 29

      Copy, headed Vpon Docter Rauis Bishop of London.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke')
    • RaW 241 p. 31

      Copy, headed Upon the life of man.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • HrJ 107 p. 33

      Copy, headed vpon a gentlewoman painted.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek ('Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke')
    • CoR 403 p. 33

      Copy, headed A New Yeares guifte to the marquess of Buckingham by Doctor Corbett.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

      Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')
    • RaW 30 p. 35

      Copy, headed Epitaph upon Sr Walter Rawleigh made by himselfe and here beginning O cruell tyme, wch takes in trust.

      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 RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • CoR 537 p. 35

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

      Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power')
    • CoR 723.8 p. 36

      Copy, headed These verses were found by k: James 1618 scattered by whome vn certaine, vpon the blasing starr and here beginning The starre itt rose in Virgins traine.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

      Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
    • CoR 328 pp. 37-8

      Copy, headed Vpon the blasing starr by Doctor Corbett to Mr Alesbane.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

      Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')
    • DnJ 2312 p. 40

      Copy, headed In Eandem [i.e. upon a Mistresse] and with the second stanza appearing first (beginning Send home my harmlesse heart againe).

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
    • EaJ 3 pp. 41-2

      Copy, headed Vpon Mr Francis Beamont.

      First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1r-K2r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont ('Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have')
    • MoG 59 p. 44

      Copy, headed The Nightingale, subscribed G: M:.

      George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
    • WoH 16 p. 44

      Copy, headed vpon a priuate life.

      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).

      Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
    • BmF 32 pp. 45-7

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Countess of Rutland, subscribed F. B.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep')
    • CoR 117 p. 48

      Copy.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth')
    • CoR 354 pp. 49-51

      Copy, headed Docter Corbett to the Duke of Buckingham may 1mo 1623°.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

      Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
    • HoJ 52 pp. 53-5

      Copy, headed The Parliament fart.

      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')
    • CoR 638 pp. 57-62

      Copy, headed Doctor Corbett to the Lord Mordant.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

      Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')
    • PeW 222 pp. 63-4

      Copy, headed A paradoxe in praise of a painted face, here beginning Not kisse? by Joue and make impression, subscribed Baker.

      Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

      A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • DrW 117.18 pp. 65-7

      Copy, headed The fiue senses.

      Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • JnB 657 pp. 67-8

      Copy, headed In Eosdem [i.e. The fiue Senses].

      Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

      For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge')
    • PoW 15 pp. 74-5

      Copy, headed Vpon a faire gentlewoman haueing blacke haire / Mrs. P.

      First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
    • HrJ 101 p. 75

      Copy.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 15. McClure No. 16, p. 154. Kilroy, Book I, No. 24, p. 102.

      Sir John Harington, Of a faire woman. translated out of Casaneus his Catalogus gloriae mundi ('These thirty things that Hellens fame did raise')
    • HrJ 64 p. 76

      Copy, headed A gentlewomans answeare to a Lawyer.

      First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

      Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer ('A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome')
    • HrJ 251 p. 76

      Copy.

      First published in 1618, Book II, No. 80. McClure No. 176, p. 218. Kilroy, Book III, No. 19, p. 174.

      Sir John Harington, Of swearing first betweene the wife and the Husband ('Cis, by that Candle, in my sleepe, I thought')
    • HrJ 297 p. 76

      Copy.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book II, No. 46. McClure No. 142, pp. 203-4. Kilroy, Book II, No. 80, p. 159.

      Sir John Harington, A pretty questions of Lazarus soule well answered ('Once on occasion two good friends of mine')
    • HrJ 298 pp. 77-8

      Copy.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 91. McClure No. 93, pp. 183-5. Kilroy, Book II, No. 2, pp. 130-1.

      Sir John Harington, A Tale of a Bayliffe distraining for rent. To my Ladie Rogers ('I heard a pleasant tale at Cammington')
    • HrJ 85 p. 80

      Copy, headed The praise of the Countess of Derby married to the Lord Chancellour.

      First published in 1618, Book III, No. 47. McClure No. 248, p. 251. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 74, p. 237.

      Sir John Harington, In prayse of the Countesse of Darby, married to the Lord Keeper ('This noble Countesse liued many yeeres')
    • HrJ 52 p. 81

      Copy.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 29. McClure No. 30, p. 160. Kilroy, Book I, No. 56, p. 113.

      Sir John Harington, The Author, of his own fortune ('Take fortune as it falles, as one aduiseth')
    • HrJ 221 p. 81

      Copy, headed Of Blessing wthout the Crosse.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.

      Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse ('A Priest that earst was riding on the way')
    • CoR 668 p. 82

      Copy, headed Vpon Mrs m. An invectiue against her.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

      Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
    • HrJ 277 p. 83

      Copy, headed Vpon Comending a wife to a gent. and here beginning I wish yow to a wife rich, faire & younge.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

      Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
    • HrJ 172 p. 92

      Copy, headed Upon a precise Taylor.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
    • RaW 209 p. 107

      Copy, headed A rimeing prophecye alludeing to the Cards and Dice in Christenmas.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice ('Beefore the sixt day of the next new year')
    • KiH 196 p. 108

      Copy, headed Vpon the death of Sr Walter Rawleighe beheaded 1619.

      Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
    • BmF 60 pp. 109-10

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
    • StW 524 ff. 117-19

      Copy of the sequence, the first headed An Elegie upon the death of Mrs M. P.

      Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

      William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge ('Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I')
    • ClJ 180 p. 128

      Copy, headed An epitaph vpon the Earle of Strafford.

      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).

      John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')
    • HrJ 166 p. 129

      Copy.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 82. McClure No. 83, pp. 179-80. Kilroy, Book I, No. 72, pp. 118-19.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Lawyer ('A Lawyer call'd vnto the Barre but lately')
    • JnB 161 p. 130
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
    • JnB 200 pp. 130-2

      Copy.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
    • CoR 295 pp. 138-50

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
    • ClJ 19 pp. 175-6

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

      John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')
    • WoH 313 pp. 178-81

      Copy of Wotton's last will and testament, dated 1 October 1637.

    • ClJ 98 pp. 182-4

      Copy.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.

      John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines ('Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start')
    • CoA 143 pp. 184-5

      Copy, headed Prologue before the play acted at Camebridge to his matie and the Prince march 1641.

      First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

      Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian ('Who says the Times do Learning disallow?')
    • CoA 73 p. 185

      Copy.

      First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

      Abraham Cowley, The Epilogue [to the Guardian] ('The Play, great Sir, is done. yet needs must fear')
    • DeJ 68 p. 203

      Copy, headed An Elegie upon the death of the Earle of Strafford.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

      Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')
    • DeJ 88.8 pp. 252-3

      Copy, headed A speech against peace.

      First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.

      Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee ('But will you now to Peace incline')

  • 32D86/44

    A quarto volume of state letters, in several hands, 543 pages, in calf gilt.

    Mid-17th century.

    Once owned by John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 44 of the Hopkinson MSS. Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

    This volume (when unnumbered) recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 300.

    • LyJ 18 pp. 16-18

      Copy.

      Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yor Highnes wth many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

      John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
    • LyJ 41 pp. 18-20

      Copy.

      Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme.... Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

      John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
    • BcF 559 pp. 55-71, 144-51, 153-78, 184-99, 539-41

      Copy of various letters by Bacon.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 177 pp 71-81

      Copy, subscribed ffrancis Bacon.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
    • BcF 443 pp. 178-84

      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.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • RaW 848 pp. 388-401

      Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to James I, and to Lady Ralegh.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 31 p. 401

      Copy, headed Verses found in Sr Walter Raleighs Bible in ye Gate house.

      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 RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • HlJ 19.5 pp. 491-2

      Copy, headed Dr Joshua Hall, Bishopp of Exeter his Message to ye Lower House of Parliamt.

      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.

      Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
    • SpE 72 ff. 494r-507r

      Copy.

      One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities.... First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.

      Edmund Spenser, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on the 22 Stanza in the 9th. Canto of the 2d. book of Spensers Faery Queen

  • SpSt/9/1a

    A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin.

    c.1630.

    Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).

    • CoR 639 ff. [2v-5r]

      Copy, headed Dr Corbett to the Lord Mordant.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

      Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')
    • RaW 364 f. [6r]

      Copy, headed In obitum Ro: Cecillij and here beginning Here lies old Hobynoll, or shepheard while here.

      First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

      Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')
    • DkT 9 f. [6v]

      Copy, headed Of the remoue of her bodie from Richmond to whitehall by water.

      First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

      Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
    • CoR 262 f. [6v]

      Copy, headed Dr Corbett against Dr Brice's annyversaries on P: Henrie.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

      The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
    • CoR 238 f. [7r-v]

      Copy, headed A replie to the defence.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

      Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
    • CoR 441 f. [10r-v]

      Copy, headed On yong Tom of C: C: Dr Corbet.

      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).

      Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
    • HoJ 218 ff. [10v-11r]

      Copy of a 28-line version, headed on the Lord chancellor and here beginning Greate Verulam is verie lame, the goute of goe=out feeling.

      Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

      John Hoskyns, Sr Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount St Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling')
    • DnJ 3021 ff. [11v-12r]

      Copy, headed Dr Donne on his departure from his loue and here beginning Dearest loue! I do not go.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

      John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
    • MrJ 29 ff. [17v-18v]

      Copy, headed In Duce reduce.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')

  • SpSt/9/25

    A bundle of unbound verse MSS.

    Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds.

    • DrJ 2.93 [no item number]

      A second copy of Dryden's Character of Zimri, on two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 450-532.

      John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ('In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin')

  • SpSt/9/28

    A bundle of unbound verse MSS.

    Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds.

    • DrJ 2.92 [no item number]

      Copy of Dryden's Character of Zimri, here beginning In the first Rank of there did Zimri stand, followed by a Latin translation, headed Translated by W S. At. 15, beginning Hos inter Princeps primo stetit Ordine Zimri, evidently written as a schoolboy exercise, on the second and third pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 450-532.

      John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ('In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin')

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