Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks E through F

  • MS Ee. 2. 12

    A folio volume of state and antiquarian papers and accounts, in secretary hands, 70 leaves, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards.

    • ElQ 216 ff. 64v-6r

      Copy, headed An Answer by owr quene to the peticion of the pliament house for the speedye execution of the scottyshe queene and here beginning When I consider the profound and bottomless depth of God's wonderful and miraculous work.... Late 16th century.

      This MS collated in Hartley.

      First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

      Version I. Beginning When I remember the bottomless depth of God's great benefits towards me.... Hartley, II, 254-8 (Text ii, a summary) and II, 261 (cited only, as Text iv). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 186-90 (Version 1).

      Version II. Beginning The bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almighty.... Hartley, II, 247-53 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 190-6. Autograph Compositions, pp. 67-72 (Version 2). Selected Works, Speech 8, pp. 61-9.

      Version III. Beginning My lords and gentlemen, I cannot but accept with much kindness this your petition, wherein I perceive the great love you bear towards me.... Hartley, II, 259-60 (Text iii).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586

  • MS Ee. 2. 30

    A folio volume comprising two legal tracts bound together, 25 leaves (plus 55 blanks), in quarter-calf.

    Early 17th century.
    • BcF 201 ff. 1r-8r

      Copy, in a clear secretary hand. Early-mid 17th century.

      This MS collated in Spedding.

      A tract beginning Inter magnalia regni, amongst the greatest and most haughty things of this kingdom.... First published in Briefe Collections out of Magna Charta (London, 1643) [Wing B4557]. Spedding, VII, 505-16.

      Francis Bacon, Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell

  • MS Ee. 2. 32

    A folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe and Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), 374 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter-calf.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Bookplate of John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely.

    Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 216-17 (No. 6).

    • SiP 180.112 ff. 99r-102v

      Copy, headed A Lre wrytten by Sir Phillipp Sidnye, to his Brother Robte Sidnye (now Lord Lyle) shewinge what Course was ffitt ffor him to hould in his Travells.

      A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you.... First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney
    • RaW 662 ff. 109r-27v

      Copy, headed A Discourse touchinge the prsent Consultacon concerninge the peace with Spaine, and protection written by Sr Walter Rauleigh, and prsented to Kinge James in the first yeare of his Raigne: 1602.

      A tract addressed to James I and beginning It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands.... First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
    • BcF 282.5 ff. 267r-84r

      Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 217 (No. 6.8).

      First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.

      Francis Bacon, A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain
    • CtR 476 ff. 285r-302v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

      Tract beginning To search so high as the Norman Conquest.... First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.

      Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611

  • MS Ee. 2. 35

    A folio volume of antiquarian tracts and letters, in two secretary hands, written from both ends, 137 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf.

    End of 16th-early 17th century.
    • CtR 259 ff. 126r-9r rev.

      Copy.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett
    • CtR 244 ff. 129r-30r rev.

      Copy.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by Sr: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 61 ff. 130r-3v rev.

      Copy.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett

  • MS Ee. 3. 53

    MS of an anonymous Supplement of The Faery Queene in three Bookes. Wherein are allegorically described Affaires both military and ciuill of these times, with a dedication probably to Charles I, in an italic hand, in nine Bookes, subscribed This was finished Anno Dni. 1633, 376 folio leaves, some pages excised, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards.

    Written apparently by Ralph Knevett (1600-71).

    c.1635.
    • SpE 84
      No description or publication history available.

      Unpublished.

      Edmund Spenser, Supplement of The Faerie Queene

  • MS Ee. 4. 9

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 21 folio leaves; bound with other tracts (in MS Ee. 4. 6-12).

    Early 17th century.

    Bookplate of John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Norwich and Ely.

    • BcF 62.4
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract beginning It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised.... First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.

      Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England

  • MS Ee. 4. 14

    A folio collection of 28 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in two independent units (ff. 1-60v, 61r-78r), each in a different secretary hand, bound with a tract (MS Ee. 4. 13), in quarter-calf on boards.

    c.1620-33.

    From the library of John Moore, Bishop of Norwich and Ely (1646-1714), which was given to the University of Cambridge by King George I.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Moore MS: DnJ Δ 46.

    • GrF 14.4 ff. 1r-60v

      Copy.

      First published, attributed to Greville, in London, 1643. Almost certainly apocryphal.

      Fulke Greville, The Five Yeares of King James
    • DnJ 2927 f. 61r

      Copy, headed Sonnt.

      This MS 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')
    • DnJ 3470 f. 61v

      Copy, a heading cropped by the binder.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
    • DnJ 3918 f. 62r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS 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 1741 f. 62v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning I cannot goe, sitt, stande, yonder begger cryes.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • DnJ 506 f. 62v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS 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 839 ff. 62v-3

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS 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 1652 f. 63r-v

      Copy, headed Sonnett.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

      John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
    • DnJ 2054 f. 63v

      Copy, untitled but subscribed the dyette.

      This MS 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 446 f. 64r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS 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 3670 f. 64r

      Copy, untitled.

      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 638 f. 64v

      Copy, headed Elegye 1.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

      John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
    • DnJ 2516 f. 65r-v

      Copy, headed Elegye 2.

      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 2350 f. 65v

      Copy, headed Elegie. 3..

      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 1545 f. 66r

      Copy, headed Elegye. 4..

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

      John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
    • DnJ 2462 f. 66r-v

      Copy, headed Elegye 5.

      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 706 ff. 66v-7

      Copy of lines 1-25, 30-54, headed Elegye 6..

      This MS 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 390 ff. 67r-8r

      Copy, headed Elegye. 7..

      This MS 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 2751 ff. 68v-9v

      Copy, headed Sat: i.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

      John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
    • DnJ 2781 ff. 69v-70v

      Copy, headed Satyra 2a.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

      John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
    • HrE 17 ff. 70v-1r

      Copy, headed Elegye, subscribed Sr Edwarde Harbort one the Prince.

      This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

      First published among Sundry Funeral Elegies appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince ('Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add')
    • DnJ 3079 ff. 72v-3v

      Copy of the complete poem after a false start (lines 1-4 deleted).

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

      John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
    • DnJ 564 ff. 73v-4r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

      John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
    • DnJ 600 f. 74v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

      John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
    • DnJ 3631 f. 75r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

      John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
    • DnJ 2302 f. 75r

      Copy, headed (on f. 74v) Sonnett.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      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')
    • DnJ 1371 f. 75v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS 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 1978 ff. 75v-6r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

      John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
    • WoH 30 f. 76r

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • DnJ 62 f. 76v

      Copy, headed Satyra 3a.

      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')
    • PeW 234 ff. 77r-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      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')
    • DnJ 3185 f. 78r

      Copy of lines 1-19, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      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')

  • MS Ee. 5. 14

    Leland's presentation copy to King Henry VIII, 187 folio leaves.

    In a professional virtually calligraphic hand, with sidenotes in italic, including (f. 1r) a title-page (Antiphilarchia) with two Latin epigrams, Ad candidos lectores (eight lines beginning Me iussit pietas, amorque ueri), and Ad Censorem (two lines beginning Cui minus ista mei calami foetura placebit); (f. 2r) a dedication in Latin to the King; (ff. 3r-4r) a list of contents, Syllabus capitum; and (ff. 5r-187r) the text, headed Dialogus cui titulus Antiphilarcha Interlocutores Philalêthes & Iranôtes, in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

    1540s.

    Inscribed (f. 11r) Thomas Knyvett Nouemb: 18: 1586: i.e. Thomas, Baron Knyvett (1545/6-1622), courtier.

    • LeJ 9
      No description or publication history available.

      An unpublished treatise in Latin, dedicated to Henry VIII.

      John Leland, Antiphilarchia

  • MS Ee. 5. 18

    A folio composite law book, in Latin and Law French, in several hands, 101 leaves, in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

    Mid-16th century.

    Once owned by Walter Ashwell (Ashwell Waltero constat liber iste benigno) and his wife Margery.

    • SkJ 21 f. 52av

      Copy, untitled and ascribed to Skeltonidis laureati, among other verses and medical prescriptions, on a tipped-in leaf of parchment.

      Edited from this MS in Brie and, with a translation, in Carlson, pp. 58-9. Discussed, and an additional couplet printed, in David Carlson, John Skelton's Latin Verses Qui Trahis, N&Q, 233 (March 1988), 29.

      Canon, D55, p. 17. First published in Friedrich Brie, Skelton-Studien, ES, 37 (1907), 1-86 (p. 28). Carlson, pp. 58-1 (with a translation).

      John Skelton, 'Qui trahis ex domiti ramum pede diue leonis'

  • MS Ee. 5. 23

    A folio miscellany, begun as a commonplace book and then used for transcribing state papers, letters and verses, in several hands, 560 pages (including numerous blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Inscribed (p. i), probably in the late 17th century, John Peck His Book.

    • DnJ 3683 p. 1

      Copy, untitled, under the general heading Loue Verses.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and 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 2317 p. 3

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      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')
    • RaW 522 pp. 6-7

      Copy of stanzas 1-7, here beginning Wrong (not dear mrs: of my heart and set out as two poems.

      This MS recorded in Gullans.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

      This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
    • RaW 905 pp. 418, 427-9, 436-7, 446-50, 452-3

      Copies of letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr (1608), to James I (3); to Lady Ralegh (3); and to Ralph Winwod.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • LyJ 27 p. 434

      Copy, headed A peticion of John Lillie to ye queenes Maiestie.

      Recorded in Bond.

      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 49 pp. 434-5

      Copy, headed John Lillies second peticon.

      This MS recorded in Bond.

      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
    • SiP 180.115 pp. 438r-9

      Copy, headed Sr Phillip Sidney to his Brother beyond ye seas.

      A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you.... First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney
    • ElQ 207 p. 460

      Copy, headed A speech of Quee [sic] Elyzabeths made in ye Parliament at the breaking up theire-of 29o march: 1585 Ano Elyzab: 27o. p.

      This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

      Beginning My lords and you of the Lower House: My silence must not injure the owner.... Hartley, II, 31-3. Collected Works, Speech 16, pp. 181-3.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585
    • RaW 728.16 pp. 462-4

      Copy of Ralegh's arraignment on 28 October 1618.

      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)
    • RaW 768 pp. 464-7
      No description or publication history available.

      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)

  • MS Fff. 2. 3

    Copy, in a secretary hand, on 48 folio leaves, imperfect at the end, in quarter-calf.

    Late 16th-early 17th century.

    This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

    • LeC 34
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • MS Ff. 2. 9

    Two Latin plays (the second Pastor Fidus), in two different hands, 41 folio leaves, in quarter-calf.

    • AlW 262 Item 1

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, with title and Dramatis Personae (f. 1r), on 16 leaves.

      First acted at Trinity College, Cambridge c.1595?. First published in London, 1632. A translation by Dana F. Sutton put online in 1998 by the University of California at Irvine.

  • MS Ff. 2. 35

    Copy of an early version, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on 28 folio leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked).

    c.1609.

    This MS recorded in Wilkes, II, 464-5. Collated in Bullough (his C text).

    • GrF 29
      No description or publication history available.

      An early version first published in London, 1609. A later version first published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, II, 63-137. Wilkes, I, 210-97.

      Fulke Greville, Mustapha

  • MS Ff. 3. 17

    A folio volume of state tracts, in professional hands, 182 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

    Inscribed (f. ir) Nathaniell Snape 1640.

    • DaJ 268 ff. 1r-72r

      Copy, headed An Argument vppon the question of Imposicons divided into sundry chapters by Sr John Davies Kt one of his Mats learned Councell in Ireland with an answer to it. c.1620s-30s.

      A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely.... First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

      Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

  • MS Ff. 4. 16

    Copy of the 20 rules, in a neat hand, untitled, 28 small folio leaves (plus blanks), bound with a 16th-century MS (MS Ee. 15), in old calf.

    c.1630.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Tho: Corie Hosp: Graij 1630.

    This MS collated in Spedding.

    • BcF 223
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.

      Bacon claimed to have collected 300 of them, of which only some few (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the missing maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, On Bacon's Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.

      Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law

  • MS Ff. 5. 14

    A small quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, 142 leaves, in quarter-calf.

    c.1580.

    Once owned by one W. Kytton.

    • WyT 370 f. 5v

      Copy, untitled and omitting line 4.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier. See also WyT 220.

      First pub in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 57-8.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene'
    • WyT 220 ff. 5v-7r

      Copy, immediately following on from Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene (WyT 370), subscribed finis T Wyet.

      This MS collated in F.D. Hoeniger, A Wyatt Manuscript, N&Q, 202 (March 1957), 103-4 and in Harrier; recorded in Muir & Thomson, p. 350.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 88-91.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know'
    • ElQ 76 f. 109r-v

      Copy, headed A prayer made by the quens ma the 15. of August 1574. beying then in Brysto.

      Edited from this MS in Michael Brennan, Two Private Prayers by Queen Elizabeth I, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 26-8 (p. 28). Cited in Selected Works.

      Beginning I render unto thee, O merciful and heavenly Father, most humble and hearty thanks.... Collected Works, Prayers 29, pp. 310-11. Selected Works, Prayer 1, pp. 246-8.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Prayer at Bristol, August 15, 1574

  • MS Ff. 5. 21

    Copy, on 99 quarto leaves, in calf gilt (rebacked).

    In a secretary hand, headed An Argument vppon Imposicons Digested and divided into sundry Chapters By his maties Atturney generall in Ireland.

    c.1637/8.

    Inscribed (f. ir) Ri: Mason D.M. [probably the MD (d.1668), Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1638-44]. Subscribed (f. 99r) P [or R cropped]. 10 Januar. 1637[/8].On two leaves at the end are lists of furniture brought into Dover House.

    • DaJ 269
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely.... First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

      Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

  • MS Ff. 5. 25

    A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and sermons, in various hands, in modern quarter-calf.

    • BcF 129 ff. 1r-15v

      Copy, in a probably professional hand, docketed (f. 1r) Bye F: B: but ye name not added to the Tract, with other markings and comments by one or two readers relating to pages here missing in the printed edition. Early 17th century.

      Facsimile example of f. 11v in Serjeantson and Woolford, p. 142.

      First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

      Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England
    • AndL 51 ff. 23r-8v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in another hand Concerninge abstinence fro meats & Observation of ye Jewes Sabboth. Against Trask. by Dr Andrewes B: of Elye.

      First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 81-94.

      Lancelot Andrewes, A Speech delivered in the Star-chamber against the two Judaical opinions of M. Traske
    • AndL 53 ff. 33r-7v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, the heading in another hand.

      First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 95-105.

      Lancelot Andrewes, A Speech delivered in the Star-Chamber, concerning Vows, in the Countess of Shrewsbury's Case
    • AndL 1 ff. 39r-58v

      Copy, in a formal italic hand, the heading in another hand.

      First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Opuscula (1852), pp. 29-31.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Concio ad clerum in synodo provinciali Cantuariensis provinciae ad D. Pauli. 20 February 1592/3
    • AndL 28 ff. 60r-79r

      Copy in two hands, headed Consecratio et dedicatio Capellæ Jesu cum cæmeterio eiusdem, in vasto solo, dicto Ridgway Heath, iuxta Southamptoniam.

      First published in London, 1659. LACT, Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine (1846), pp. 307-33.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Form of Consecration of a Church and Churchyard

  • MS Ff. 6. 28

    Autograph duodecimo volume of collections relating to the Carmelite order, consisting chiefly of six offices of the principal Carmelite saints, on 42 leaves of paper and parchment.

    c.1514-23.

    Unpublished (complete). Brief extracts from this MS in Monumenta historica Carmelitana; recorded and discussed in Davies, pp. 236 (i), 245 (with facsimile examples of ff. 4, 35 in plate I); in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XXXI (with facsimile examples of ff. 1, 19v); in McCusker (1942), pp. 106-8; and in Fairfield, pp. 157-8.

    • *BaJ 12
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Unpublished.

      John Bale, Collectiones

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