Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999

MS Add. 22

A folio volume of state papers chiefly relating to the University of Cambridge.
c.1640.
Once owned by Dr Henry Smyth, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
- SuJ 203 f. 104v
  
  Copy, headed Verses agt S^r John Suckling.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
  
  John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse ('I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King')
- SuJ 151 f. 105r et seq.
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.
  
  John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business
MS Add. 27

A folio composite volume of state tracts, 104 leaves, now disbound.

Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
- RaW 581 ff. 1r-18v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, lacking a title.
  
  A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
- RaW 604 ff. 29-62v
  
  Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, almost entirely on rectos only, headed A Discourse betwixt a Recusant and a Jesuit, incomplete, ending at p. 62 of the published version.
  
  A dialogue beginning My most reverend Father you are well returned into England.... First published, as A Dialogue between a Jesuit and a Recusant. shewing how dangerous are their Principles to Christian Princes, in L. Eachard's An Abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (London, 1700), part ii, pp. 27-70. The authorship discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 59-62.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Jesuit and a Recusant
MS Add. 29

A folio verse miscellany, including 35 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 30 leaves (plus stubs of ten extracted leaves), damp-stained, in modern boards.

The text related to the Skipwith MS (DnJ Δ 21).
c.1620-33.
Inscribed name (f. 8r) of Edward Smyth and (along margin of f. 11v) in M^r Templers. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Edward Smyth MS: DnJ Δ 45.
- DnJ 389 ff. 1r-2r
  
  Copy, headed Elegia 1, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
  
  John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
- DnJ 705 f. 3r
  
  Copy, headed Elegya. 2.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.
  
  John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
- DnJ 2567 f. 3r-v
  
  Copy, headed in the margin 3^d Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
  
  John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
- DnJ 505 f. 4r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
  
  John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
- DnJ 1370 f. 4r-v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
  
  John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
- DnJ 2251 ff. 4v-5r
  
  Copy, headed Mon Tout, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
  
  John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
- DnJ 2646.68 f. 5r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Crowley.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as Probably by Francis Davison. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of Psalme 137, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.
  
  John Donne, Psalme 137 ('By Euphrates flowry side')
- DnJ 3012 f. 5v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  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')
- DnJ 1140 f. 6r
  
  Copy of the six-line epistle only, headed On Madame / J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
  
  John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford ('That I might make your Cabinet my tombe')
- DnJ 940 f. 6r
  
  Copy of lines 1-20, untitled, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
  
  John Donne, The Dreame ('Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee')
- DnJ 1208 f. 6r
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning So so leaue of thy last lamentinge kisse, and subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.
  
  John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
- DnJ 2369 f. 6v
  
  Copy, headed The nothinge, subscribed J. D..
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.
  
  John Donne, Negative love ('I never stoop'd so low, as they')
- DnJ 445 f. 6v
  
  Copy, headed A Songe, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  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?')
- DnJ 3742 f. 7r
  
  Copy, headed Valediction agaynst mourning.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
- DnJ 3917 f. 7v
  
  Copy, headed A Will.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
  
  John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
- DnJ 3115 f. 8r
  
  Copy, headed Ad solem. A songe, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
  
  John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
- DnJ 2053 f. 8v
  
  Copy, headed The Dyet.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
  
  John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
- DnJ 2015 f. 9r
  
  Copy, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
  
  John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
- DnJ 3387 ff. 9v-10
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.
  
  John Donne, To M^rs M.H. ('Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne')
- DnJ 3439 f. 10r-v
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere ('Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare')
- DnJ 2428 ff. 11r-13r
  
  Copy, headed Obsequies vpon the Lord Harringe y^t last dyed, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.
  
  John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford ('Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee')
- DnJ 2146 f. 14r-v
  
  Copy, headed Elegie on Loues pgress, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
- DnJ 838 f. 15r
  
  Copy, headed A Curse, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
  
  John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
- DnJ 1077 ff. 15v-16r
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy vpon the death of the Ladye Marckham, subscribed J. D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
  
  John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
- BmF 68 f. 16r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Elegye vpon the death of the Ladye markham by ff. B.
  
  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')
- DnJ 3669 f. 16v
  
  Copy of lines 5-7, 22-7, here beginning But oh selfe traytour, I do bring, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
  
  John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
- DnJ 1461 f. 17r
  
  Copy of lines 15-21, untitled and beginning My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
  
  John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
- DnJ 1813 f. 17r
  
  Copy of lines 1-13, untitled, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
  
  John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
- DnJ 1181 f. 17v
  
  Copy of lines 1, 15-28, headed Epithalamion at the mariage of the princesse Elizabeth & y^e Palgraue Cbrated on Valentines day, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
  
  John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day ('Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is')
- DnJ 1427 f. 17v
  
  Copy of lines 1-2, untitled, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
  
  John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ('Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this')
- BeJ 9 ff. 18v-19r
  
  Copy, untitled, suscribed J B.
  
  First published in Sell (1974), pp. 178-80.
  
  Sir John Beaumont, Against the desire of greatnesse, thoughte M^r John Beaumonts ('Thou woldst be greate and to that heighte wouldst rise')
- DnJ 2926 f. 19r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J D.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
- RoJ 157 f. 33r-v
  
  Copy of lines 140-264, here beginning y^e Lady of y[^e house], on a single mutilated long ledger-size leaf tipped-in. Late 17th century.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
  
  First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
- EaJ 40 ff. 34r-5r
  
  Copy on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Verses vpon the slaughter at the Isle of Rheis, bound in a miscellany of poems by John Donne and others.
  
  Unpublished. Discussed, and Earle's authorship rejected, in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 496-7).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, In Cladem Rhenensem ('Thus sick men feare their Cure, and startle move')
- DaJ 144 f. 36v rev.
  
  Copy of an untitled version beginning Heere lyeth Thom: Spooner y^e maker of bellowes.
  
  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.
  
  Sir John Davies, An Epitaph ('Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes')
- RaW 419.5 f. 37v rev.
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning There is a Bowe wherein to shoote I sue.
  
  First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I cannot bend the bow'
- DnJ 2461 f. 38v rev.
  
  Copy of lines 1-20, headed Elegie 5.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
  
  John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
- DnJ 2349 f. 38v rev.
  
  Copy of lines 25-30 (beginning Thy graces and good words my creatures bee).
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
  
  John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
- DnJ 1694 f. 39r rev.
  
  Copy of lines 1-14, headed 4 Elegie.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
  
  John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
- DnJ 2218 f. 39r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Elegie. 7, incomplete, beginning at line 9 (here france in hir Lunatique giddines did hate).
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
- DnJ 61 f. 39v. rev.
  
  Copy, headed Elegie 10.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
  
  John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
- DnJ 2515 f. 39v rev.
  
  Copy of lines 33-44, headed Elegie 11. y^t his m^ris should not trauaile w^th in habit of a page and beginning Men of France, changeable Camelions.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
  
  John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
- DnJ 1021 f. 40r rev.
  
  Copy of part of the poem, headed fureall Elegie for M^ris Bollstredd and beginning at line 5 (Th' earths face is but thy Table; there are set).
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
  
  John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
MS Add. 39

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches in 1640, in three professional hands, 81 leaves, now disbound.
c.1640s.
Owned by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
- RuB 158 ff. 39r-50v
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamen Ridyards speech November the x^th i640.
  
  Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
MS Add. 41

A collection of unbound papers relating to Ely Cathedral, in various hands, in marbled wrappers.
- CmW 6.5 f. 215r
  
  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
MS Add. 42

A collection of unbound verse, in various hands.

Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.
- MaA 333 ff. 4r-7v
  
  Copy of lines 1-300, here called the last work of S^r J. D., imperfect, lacking the ending, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
  
  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')
- CoR 12 f. 21r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, with a poem about Corbett, on a single folio leaf.
  
  First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.
  Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')
- CoR 38 f. 27r-v
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
  
  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).
  
  Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
- ClJ 59 f. 31r
  
  Copy, in a mixed hand, headed M^r Cleuelandes verses w^c were sung at Sidney colledg at comencem^t night 4 July 1630 w^ch he retracted 1^o Augusti in the consistory.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 56-7.
  
  John Cleveland, How the Commencement grows new ('It is no Curranto-news I undertake')
- HeR 82 f. 36r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
  
  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
- HeR 15 f. 36r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
  
  Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
- HeR 30.5 f. 36r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, on a single folio leaf of verse.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 87. Patrick, p. 124.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Bubble. A Song ('To my revenge, and to her desp'rate feares')
- RoJ 29 ff. 106r-7v
  
  Copy, in a cursive hand, headed An Alusion to Horace: Sermon: lib: y^e session of the poetes, on two conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
- MnJ 16.5 ff. 152r-9r
  
  Copy of a Latin translation.
  
  First published, among Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King, in Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 76-83. Darbishire, II, 163-70. Carey & Fowler, pp. 232-54.
  
  John Milton, Lycidas ('Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more')
MS Add. 72

An octavo miscellany of tracts, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 52 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.
Early 17th century.
Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
- EsR 122 ff. 16v-39v
  
  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.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
MS Add. 79

An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1653-60s.
- RnT 460 f. 2r-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.
  
  Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')
- RnT 226 ff. 8r-9r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon y^e fall of the mitre, subscribed T. Randolph.
  
  First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
- CmT 217 f. 11r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning What if a day or a night or a yeare.
  
  Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
- WoH 91 f. 11r-v
  
  Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.
  
  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')
- MaA 16 f. 19r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Pastorall Dialogue between Thirsis & his Dorinda, subscribed M^r Symonds A Pembro. Canta. M.A. 1653.
  
  Printed from this MS in the Ingenious Poems added in Samuel Rowlands, A Crew of Kind London Gossips, 2nd edition (London, 1663).
  
  First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.
  
  Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda ('When Death, shall part us from these Kids')
- JnB 374 ff. 28v-31r
  
  Copy, headed Ben: Johnsons discontented Soliloquy upon y^e sinister Censure of his play called y^e New Inne…, alternating stanza-by-stanza with Randolph's Latin version (RnT 28) and answer (RnT 416).
  
  First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.
  
  Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe ('Come leaue the lothed stage')
- RnT 416 ff. 28v-31r
  
  Copy of Randolph's Latin version, alternating stanza-by-stanza with Jonson's poem (JnB 374) and Randolph's answer (RnT 28).
  
  First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated ('Eho jam satis & super Theatro')
- RnT 28 ff. 28v-31
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnsons discontented Soliloquy upon y^e sinister Censure of his play calld y^e New Inne translated into Latin & answerd verse for verse by Tho. Randall, alternating stanza-by-stanza with Jonson's poem (JnB 374) and Randolph's Latin version (RnT 416).
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage ('Ben doe not leave the stage')
- KiH 338 ff. 35r-6v
  
  This MS collated in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
  
  Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
- RnT 442 f. 39r
  
  Copy of the concluding poem, headed Tho: Randall in Comitijs Prevaricator. 1632 and here beginning Nunc sileat Jack Drum, taceat Miracula Tom Thumb.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1875), II, 671-80.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Oratio praevaricatoria Thomae Randolphi. 1632
- RnT 557 f. 41v-2r
  
  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')
- CoR 615 f. 42r
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbet...in Lent 1632.
  
  First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
  This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
- GrJ 30 f. 42v
  
  Copy, headed The Answer.
  
  An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.
  
  John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
- ShJ 111 ff. 44v-5v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the Birth of Prince Charles. The English Babe.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.
  
  James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth ('Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse')
- CoR 650 ff. 45v-6r
  
  Copy, headed Another [i.e. on the birth of Prince Charles].
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse ('Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth')
- JnB 70 f. 46r
  
  Copy, headed Another.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth ('And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth')
- HeR 204 ff. 46r-7r
  
  Copy, headed Myrtillo, Amyntas, Amarillis.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere ('Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse')
- CrR 298 ff. 54v-6r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the Newborn Prince a Panegyrick, subscribed Crashaw.
  
  First published in Voces votivae ab academicis Cantabrigiensibus (Cambridge, 1640). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 176-81.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke ('Brittaine, the mighty Oceans lovely Bride')
- StW 1185 ff. 56v-7r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed Strode.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.
  
  William Strode, The Townes new teacher ('With Face and Fashion to bee knowne')
- DaW 19 f. 59r
  
  Copy, headed A Newyeares day to M^ris Porter. Davenant.
  
  First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.
  
  Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')
- DaW 32 f. 59v
  
  Copy, headed On the young Duke of Buckingham and here beginning When Nature saw Men thought her old.
  
  First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 181-2.
  
  Sir William Davenant, The Mistress ('When Nature heard Men thought her old')
- DaW 79 ff. 59v-60r
  
  Copy, ascribed to Davenant (Idem), with a side-note against the first six lines: This is set.
  
  Unpublished. Davenant served in the household of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (d.1628), c.1624-8.
  
  Sir William Davenant, On the old Lord Broak ('Good Reader, kisse on this stone for look')
- DaW 54 f. 60r-v
  
  Copy, headed To my Mistris taking leave for a voyage.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 175-6.
  
  Sir William Davenant, Song. The Souldier going to the Field ('Preserve thy sighs, unthrifty Girle!')
- RaW 903 ff. 62v-5v
  
  Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
MS Add. 84

A small (?sextodecimo) miscellany, in English and Latin, connected with Oxford, written from both ends in different hands, 91 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Late 17th century.
Inscribed John Patrickes Booke may 21 1650. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
- DoC 273 f. 30r-v
  
  Copy, headed Lord Buckhursts verses to Ned Howard who had put out a peice of poetry poorly done.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
MS Add. 102

A notebook of Edmund Leigh (c.1585-1658), MA, of Brasenose College, Oxford.
[After 1607].
- BcF 285.5 ff. 28v-9r
  
  Copy of the opening passage of the first chapter of the work.
  
  Discussed in Richard Serjeantson, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon in Early Jacobean Oxford, with an Edition of an Unknown Manuscript of the Valerius Terminus, The Historical Journal, 56, (December 2013), pp. 1087-1106.
  
  First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 199-252.
  
  Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus
MS Add. 103

A folder of 25 unbound letters and papers, in various hands.
- ClE 143 item 3
  
  Copy of both letters, on two conjugate folio leaves, slightly imperfect.
  
  Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
  These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
  
  Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York
MS Add. 335

A folio volume of state tracts, speeches and accounts, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in contemporary calf.
- ElQ 277 f. 39r-v
  
  Copy of Version 2, with an introduction The 30^th of Novemb. 1601 her ma^ties being set vnder State in the Councill Chamber at White hall...as followeth.
  
  This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected 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).
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
- RaW 728.155 ff. 50r-2v rev.
  
  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)
- EsR 225 ff. 85r-6v rev.
  
  Copy.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
MS Add. 337

MS.
- *HrJ 363 f. 1R
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed by Harington, to Lady Jane Rogers, [19 December 1600].
  
  McClure, No. 18, pp. 86-7.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
MS Add. 711, f. 5v

Copy, by Anthony Dopping (1643-97), Bishop of Kildare and of Meath, of a letter by Taylor to Mr Graham, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, from Portmore, 13 January 1659/60.

Edited in Eden, I, lxxxviii-xc.
- TaJ 71
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
MS Add. 2677

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in two hands, partly associated with the University of Cambridge.
- CoR 39 ff. 3v-5r
  
  Copy, headed After y^e Kinges first entertainment att Cambridge, this Oxford ballad was comon, thus intitled A graue poem...[&c.].
  
  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).
  
  Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
- ClJ 236 f. 7r-v
  
  Copy, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
  
  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
- CoA 148 f. 8r
  
  Copy, headed Prol: coram principe, on the third page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
  
  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 77 f. 8r
  
  Copy, headed Epil:, on the third page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
  
  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')
MS Add. 2716

An unbound collection of miscellaneous manuscripts, in a single secretary hand.

Late 17th century.
- TaJ 30 f. 12r
  
  Extracts from Taylor's sermon at the funeral of Archbishop Bramhall, 16 July 1663, on a single octavo page.
  
  A number of Taylor's sermons published in several volumes between 1638 and 1667: see Bibliography (1971).
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Sermons
MS Add. 2717

A collection of unbound letters and documents.
- RnT 227.5 Item 9, f. 5r-v
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Vppon the ffall of part of the Miter taverne in Cambridge standinge over a Cell^r, on one of six folio and quarto leaves of verse.
  
  First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
MS Add. 3309

Transcript of the Lansdowne MS (SkJ 34), made by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector, 84 leaves, dated 23 February 1738.
1738.
Inscribed by the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. A note dated 19 June [1798] by Mr Ritson returning the MS to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1173, bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9261. Sotheby's, 26 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 1041.
- SkJ 35
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Canon, R64, p. 21. 2544 lines, attributed to Skelton in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (Oxford, 1725), II, 684-7. Full text in Dyce, II, 413-47.
  
  John Skelton, The Image of Ypocresye
MS Add. 4138

A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf.

Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man.
c.1630s.
Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.
- CoR 40 ff. 1r-3r
  
  Copy.
  
  An additional stanza in this MS edited in Pebworth and Summers. pp. 160-1.
  
  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).
  
  Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
- CoR 67 ff. 14r-16r
  
  Copy, described as to the tune of Tho: of Bedlam.
  
  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')
- KiH 443 f. 23r
  
  Copy, headed A meditation of Death, subscribed Hen: King.
  
  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, 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. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
  
  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
- RnT 254.5 f. 23r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the Englished version of Latin verses beginning Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Passion of Christ ('What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?')
- RnT 131 f. 28r-v
  
  Copy, headed A gratulatory to M^r. Ben. Jonson on his voluntary Adoption of Tho: Randolph: to bee his sonne, subscribed Tho: Randolph.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son ('I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare')
- CwT 1205 f. 29r
  
  Copy, headed on a Ribbon tyed about his arme. by a Lady, subscribed Tho: Carew.
  
  Printed from this MS (recorded as Cosens MS. B. obl. 8°) in Hazlitt, pp. 37-8. A 19th-century transcript is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 121-2.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
- CwT 174 f. 29r-v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed Tho: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded (as Cosens MS. B. obl. 8°) in Hazlitt, p. 22. A 19th-century transcript is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, f. 123.
  
  First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
- CwT 828 f. 29v
  
  Copy, headed on his singing in y^e Gallery at Yorke-house, subscribed Tho: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded (as Cosens MS. B. obl. 8°) in Hazlitt, p. 49.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- CwT 1150 ff. 29v-30r
  
  Copy, headed on a gentlewoman like his mistris, subscribed Tho: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded (as MS. Cosens B. obl. 8°) in Hazlitt, p. 33.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
- CwT 649 ff. 30r-2r
  
  Copy, headed A Rapture by Tho: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded (as Cosens MS. B. obl. 8°) in Hazlitt, p. 62.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
- CwT 1031 ff. 32v-3r
  
  Copy, headed To M^r. Ben: Jonson Vpon occasion of his ode to himselfe by Tho: Carew, subscribed Tho: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded (as Cosens MS. B. obl. 8vo) in Hazlitt, p. 84.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.
  
  Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (''Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand')
- CoR 121 f. 44r
  
  Copy, headed Of S^r. Tho: Ouerburie and subscribed Beamond.
  
  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')
- RaW 161 f. 46r-v
  
  Copy, headed Satira Volans and here ascribed to Doctor Latworth.
  
  A 19th-century transcript of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, f. 146.
  
  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')
- RaW 404 f. 47r
  
  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'
- HrJ 216 f. 49r-v
  
  Copy, headed Of mistaking of a word, deleted.
  
  Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a word in welch mistaken in English ('An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales')
- HrJ 252 f. 49v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in 1618, Book II, No. 2. McClure No. 98, p. 187. Kilroy, Book II, No. 21, p. 138.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of the Bishopricke of Landaffe ('A learned Prelate late dispos'd to laffe')
- PeW 41 f. 49v
  
  Copy, headed of Loue W: E: of Pembroke.
  
  First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
- PeW 110 ff. 49v-50r
  
  Copy, headed An answer by S^r. Ben: Rudiard.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'
- KiH 291 f. 51r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on y^e trulye Noble Rich: E. of Dorset who leaft this world y^e [space] of March. 1624, subscribed Hen King.
  
  A 19th-century transcript of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d.7, ff. 169-70 (recorded in Crum, p. 60).
  
  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
- LyJ 26 f. 51v
  
  Copy.
  
  Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.
  
  John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
- LyJ 48 f. 51v
  
  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
- CoR 591 f. 52r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome ('Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire')
- HrG 298 ff. 52v-3v
  
  Copy, complete with L'Envoy, ascribed to G: H:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Pebworth and Summers, with facsimiles.
  
  First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [186-92]. Hutchinson, pp. 211-13. Ted-Larry Pebworth, George Herbert's Poems to the Queen of Bohemia: A Rediscovered Text and a New Edition, ELR, 9/1 (Winter 1979), 108-20 (pp. 117-20). Herbert's authorship supported in Kenneth Alan Hovey, George Herbert's Authorship of To the Queene of Bohemia, RQ, 30/1 (Spring 1977), 43-50, and in Pebworth.
  
  George Herbert, To the Queene of Bohemia ('Bright soule, of whome if any countrey knowne')
MS Add. 4146

A small (?sextodecimo) miscellany, entitled (f. 1r) Miscellanea Vol 2 1690, largely in a neat minute hand (up to f. 60v), 85 leaves (plus 37 blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1690.
Inscribed name (f. 2r) Peter Save (who was also responsible for University of Illinois, 821.08/C737/17—). Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Kensington.
- MnJ 136 ff. 56r-8r
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Milton, Extracts
- SiP 167.5 ff. 59r-60r
  
  Copy of a version headed S^r Phil: Sidney Lib. 3: 133p. and beginning Vnto a Caitiff wretch who misery well nigh has ended.
  
  Ringler, pp. 122-4. Robertson, pp. 341-4.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Fourth Eclogues, No. 74 ('Unto the caitife wretch, whom long affliction holdeth')
MS Add. 4329

Two works by Bacon, 36 quarto leaves, in later half calf on marbled boards.
c.1630.
Inscribed (f. 1r) W Hone / xvii.30.15. Among the Bacon collections of Basil Montagu (1770-1851), legal scholar and editor of Bacon's works (1825-37).
- BcF 58 ff. 1r-28r
  
  Copy in an accomplished roman hand (ff. 1r-6v) and neat mixed hand (ff. 7r-28r), on 28 quarto leaves, unfinished, ending The rest was not perfected.
  
  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.
  
  Francis Bacon, Advertisement touching a Holy War
- *BcF 232.7 ff. 29r-36r
  Autograph
  
  Copy in an accomplished predominantly italic hand.
  
  A transcript is printed in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, 14 vols (London, 1857-74), XIV, pp. 358-64.
  
  Spedding, XIV, 358-64.
  
  Francis Bacon, Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England
MS Add. 4347

Copy, on 144 folio pages.
Late 17th century.
From the library of the third Earl of Gosford (1806-64). Puttick and Simpson's, 26 April 1884, lot 1616, to Henry Bradshaw.

Microfilm in the National Library of Ireland, n. 5328, p. 5437.
- ClE 32
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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).
  
  Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme
MS Add. 4348

Copy, on 45 folio leaves, imperfect.
Late 17th century.
Bought by Henry Bradshaw from William Ridler, London bookseller, 11 May 1885.

Microfilm of this MS in the National Library of Ireland, n. 5328, p. 5437.
- ClE 33
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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).
  
  Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme
MS Add. 4429 (11)

An autograph statement signed by Dryden, regarding the second subscriptions to his edition of Virgil, with his forecast that the whole work will be finishd by Lady day next (i.e. 25 March 1697).
1697.
- *DrJ 378
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  John Dryden, Document(s)
MS Add. 4876, ff. 667r-79v

Extracts from, and notes on, Henry More's writings.
19th century.
- MoH 30
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Henry More, Extracts

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