Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks G through L

  • MS Gg. 1. 4

    A small quarto miscellany of verse and prose, 81 leaves.

    c.1658.

    Inscribed at the end 12th October, 1658. J. Hinson, possibly the compiler.

    • B&F 132 f. 24r

      Copy, headed Melancholly, dedicated to Reverendissimo domino Do T. Episc. Dunelm [i.e. Thomas Martin, Bishop of Durham in 1632-59], omitting the first stanza and here beginning Come, folded arms.

      Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

      For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')

  • MS Gg. 1. 29

    A quarto volume of theological and state tracts, written from both ends, the first part (ff. 1r-131r) chiefly in the hand of John Overall (1561-1619), Bishop of Norwich, ii + 131 leaves at one end, x + 132 leaves (plus a number of blanks) at the other.

    Mid-17th century.

    Once owned by John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Norwich and Ely.

    • HlJ 4 f. 20r

      Copy of the twelve-line poem, preceded by a two-line Latin motto and headed Josephus Hall in Melv..

      First published in Fram Dinshaw, Two New Epigrams by Joseph Hall, N&Q, 227 (October 1982), 422-3.

      Joseph Hall, 'On the Altar Royall Melvin frownes to fynde'
    • HrG 307 f. 21r rev.

      Copy of lines 1-4, here beginning Dum petit Hispanam Princeps, Grantamq Jacobus.

      This MS collated in Hutchinson.

      First published in True Copies Of all the Latine Orations, made on the 25. and 27. of Februarie 1622 (London, 1623). Hutchinson, pp. 437-8. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 172-3.

      George Herbert, Dum petit Infantem ('Dvm petit Infantem Princeps, Grantámque Iacobus')
    • AndL 50 ff. 21v-6r rev.

      Copy (with copies of Molin's Latin epistles to Andrewes, 1618).

      First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Opuscula (1852), pp. 173-216 (pp. 175-92).

      Lancelot Andrewes, Responsiones ad Petri Molinaei epistolas tres
    • AndL 52 ff. 27r-9r rev.

      Copy, headed Against Traskes trash.

      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
    • BcF 466 ff. 40r-1r rev.

      Copy of a submission by Bacon in 1621.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • BcF 710 ff. 42v-3r

      Copy.

      Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth.... Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).

      Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King
    • AndL 54 ff. 65r-7r rev.

      Copy.

      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 29 ff. 68v-79v rev.

      Copy, headed (with insertions in another hand) Consecratio [et Dedicatio] Capelle Jesu [cum Cemiterio &c.] juxta Southampton[ione] cum Cemeterio ejusdem, in vasto solo Ridgeway Heath…Sept. 17. 1620.

      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 Gg. 1. 35

    Copy.

    17th century.
    • BcF 756
      No description or publication history available.

      A discourse beginning The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things.... Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.

      Francis Bacon, The Use of the Law

  • MS Gg. 2. 1

    Copy, headed Bishop Andrewes on the Ten commandments; incomplete (going as far as p. 848 of the edition of 1642), on 324 folio leaves.

    Mid-17th century.
    • AndL 42
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1630. A version published as The Moral Law expounded (London, 1642). Another version printed, from the Author's own copy, London, 1650. LACT (1841).

      Lancelot Andrewes, A Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine

  • MS Gg. 2. 28

    A folio volume comprising four works, all in one secretary hand, 93 leaves (plus 115 blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    Early 17th century.

    Inscription (f. 1r) Samvell Sandys.

    • LeC 35 ff. 3r-58r

      Copy, headed The Earle of Leicester his Common Wealth, without the dedication.

      This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

      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
    • CtR 408 ff. 59v-67r

      Copy, headed A Short veiw of K: Henry the third his Raigne written by sr Robt Cotton: 1624, subscribed R. C. B. 29 Aprill 1614.

      Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
    • BeJ 14 ff. 70r-8v

      Copy, ascribed to J: B:.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Bosworth-field: with a taste of the variety of other poems, left by Sir John Beaumont, ed. Sir John Beaumont the Younger (London, 1629). Grosart, pp. 23-63. Sell, pp. 66-83.

      Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth Field ('The Winters storme of Civill Warre I sing')

  • MS Gg. 2. 31

    A folio volume of material relating to the Court of Chancery, 1060 pages.

    • BcF 245.2 ff. 322r-31v

      Copy.

      First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

      Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

  • MS Gg. 3. 34

    A folio volume of state tracts, largely in one secretary hand, 409 pages (including a later index and blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

    Late 16th century.
    • ElQ 120 pp. 199-201

      Copy, headed The answere of Queene Elyzabeth to the Comons of the Lowe howse who movede her to marrye and to take ordere for the succession the fyrst yer of her Reygne.

      Edited in part from this MS in Collected Works.

      First published in Richard Grafton, An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England (London, 1563), 179v-80.

      Version I. Beginning As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks.... Hartley, I, 44-5. Collected Works, Speech 3, pp. 56-8 (Version 1).

      Version II. Beginning In a thing which is not much pleasing unto me.... Collected Works, pp. 58-60 (Version 2).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Speech before Parliament, February 10, 1559
    • ElQ 157 pp. 208 to the third 212

      Copy, based on a memorial account by an MP present at the occasion, headed The speeche of the queens matie ...to the Duke of Norfolk, the Archbishope of yowrke [&c.]...as followynge as I could carrye awaye by remembrans.

      Edited from this MS in Hartley (version ii) and (as Version 2) in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works and in Heisch.

      First published in J.E. Neale, Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566, EHR, 36, No. 144 (October 1921), 497-520 (pp. 514-17).

      Version I. Beginning If the order of your causes had matched the weight of your matter.... Hartley, I, 145 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 93-4 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 5, pp. 45-6.

      Version II. Beginning If the order had been observed in the beginning of the matter.... Hartley, I, 146-9 (Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 94-8 (Version 2).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, November 5, 1566
    • ElQ 217 pp. 304-8

      Copy, with a sidenote The Queenes Speech to ye Comittees of both houses.

      Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Cited 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
    • ElQ 225 pp. 312-16

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Cited (as version ii) 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 I perceive you have well considered of my last message.... Hartley, II, 266-71 (2 versions). Hartley, II, 271 (cited only, as Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 196-200 (Version 1).

      Version II. Beginning Full grievous is the way whose going on and end breed cumber for the hire of a laborious journey.... Hartley, II, 266-70 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 200-4 (Version 2). Autograph Compositions, pp. 73-8. Selected Works, Speech 9, pp. 70-6.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Second Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 24, 1586

  • MS Gg. 4. 13

    A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf.

    Mid-17th century.
    • HoJ 222.5 p. 49

      Copy, headed verses made vpon the Lo: Chancellor Bacon and here beginning Great Verulam is very lame, the Gowte of gold out-feeling, among other verse on a sheaf of folio leaves (now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*).

      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')
    • CtR 174 pp. 84-8

      Copy, headed Sr Robt Cottons speeche to ye lls: of ye Councell being (as was thought) ye ground & occasion of calling ye pliamt, holden soone after .1628. relating to ye danger wherein ye kingdome standes & ye remedy.

      Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
    • HlJ 24 p. 103

      Copy, headed The Bp: of Exceter Dr: Hall, his lre to ye lower-howse of pliamt, subscribed Joshua Exceter.

      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
    • CoR 12.5 p. 104

      Copy, headed Certaine verses inveighing agt ye howse of Comons made vpon their said Disorder.

      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')
    • CaE 21 p. 109

      Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place.

      This MS recorded in Akkerman.

      A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

      Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

      Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
    • MrJ 85 pp. 111-12

      An anonymous copy.

      John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce ('And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere')
    • MrJ 37 pp. 112-13

      An anonymous copy.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
    • MrJ 67 p. 115

      An anonymous copy.

      John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
    • CoR 616 p. 150

      Copy, headed Bp: Corbetts verses, directed to ye ladies of ye new dresse.

      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 31 p. 150

      Copy, headed The Ladies 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'
    • MrJ 68 p. 150

      An anonymous copy.

      John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
    • FxJ 1.15 pp. 157-205 passim

      Various extracts.

      First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

      John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
    • WiG 12.8 pp. 229-225 rev.

      Extracts, comprising c.600 lines, headed Taken out of withers campo musæ.

      First published, with preliminary material, in London, 1643. Spenser Society, Miscellaneous Works of George Wither. First Collection (1872), item 2 (pp. 1-78).

      George Wither, Campo-Musæ ('Yes,; now Ile write againe, and neither care')
    • SuJ 152 p. 235 rev.

      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
    • HrG 210 p. 236 rev.

      Copy, with a general heading Verses out of Herbert, oratour to ye vniusitie of Cambridge Touching prayer.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 51.

      George Herbert, Prayer (I) ('Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age')
    • HrG 203 p. 236 rev.

      Copy, headed Herberts posie.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 182-3.

      George Herbert, The Posie ('Let wits contest')
    • HrG 37 p. 236 rev.

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 96-7.

      George Herbert, Charms and Knots ('Who reade a chapter when they rise')

  • Hengrave MS 71

    A composite folio volume of verse.

    Among the papers of the families of Kitson (and later of Gage) of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. An inscription records These MSS. poems were found in the Belfry of Hengrave Church Among the title deeds.

    • RaW 161.5 [item 1]

      Copy, headed Sr Gualter Rawly his farewell, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      Edited from this MS text in Carlo M. Bajetta, Unrecorded Extracts by Sir Walter Ralegh, N&Q, 241 (June 1996), 138-40.

      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')

  • MS Hh. 6. 6

    A small quarto volume comprising two works by Bacon bound together, in different hands, 72 leaves, (ff. 65r-72v in other hands), bound with MS Hh. 6. 7 (a 27-leaf tract owned in 1578 by Dr Robert Phipps), in quarter-calf.

    The second Bacon item owned on 24 January 1659 by a lawyer, apparently Anthony Smithson, of Gray's Inn.

    • BcF 224 ff. 2r-54r

      Copy of 25 Rules, in a secretary hand.

      This MS collated in Spedding.

      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
    • BcF 267 ff. 55r-64v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, incomplete.

      A discourse beginning Your Majesty's desire of proceeding towards the union of this whole island.... First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 731-43 (and see p. 775 et seq.).

      Francis Bacon, A Preparation for the Union of Laws

  • MS Ii. 4. 33

    A small folio composite volume of state tracts and genealogical papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 146 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

    • LeC 36 ff. 1r-29r

      Copy, with a title-page, in a secretary hand. End of 16th century.

      This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.

      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 Ii. 5. 1

    Copy, with a title-page bearing at the foot the date 1648, in a professional cursive hand, on 190 large folio leaves, in quarter-calf.

    c.1648?.

    This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

    • LeC 37
      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 Ii. 5. 8

    A folio volume of state tracts, in professional hands, 120 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • BcF 495 ff. 26r-43v

      Copy of the proceedings against Bacon and all his submissions.

      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

  • MS Ii. 5. 9

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands (including that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary), 257 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

    c.1634-41.
    • CtR 291 ff. 1r-24v

      Copy, headed Anno 9o. Jacobi Regis. Collections out of the Records, declaring the manner howe the Kinges of England haue from time to time supplied theire Necessities with Moneyes, without the helpe of Parliamentes.

      Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates.... First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200 [i.e. 202].

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
    • WoH 279 ff. 60r-8v

      Copy, in an accomplished rounded hand, subscribed finis Henry Wotton.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

  • MS Ii. 6. 29

    A duodecimo volume of papers on the office of Compositions for Alienations, 110 leaves (including blanks).

    c.1590s.
    • BcF 738 ff. 1r-20r

      Copy.

      A tract, beginning All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England.... Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

      Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

  • MS Kk. 1. 3

    A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 240 leaves (plus blanks), now in four volumes, in modern quarter-calf.

    • DaJ 7 I, Item 1, ff. 13r-16r

      Copy of 43 epigrams (Nos. 1-7, 9-19, 21-7, 29-44, 49, 61), in a professional italic hand, chiefly in double columns.

      This MS collated and Epigramme 61 Edited from it in Krueger; described in Krueger, pp. 378, 436, and in R.F. Kennedy, Another Davies Manuscript, RES, NS 15 (1964), 180.

      58 Epigrammes first published in Middleborugh [i.e. London?], [1595-6?]. Krueger, pp. 127-51. Fourteen additional Epigrammes printed from MSS in Krueger, pp. 153-9.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes
    • EsR 123 I, Item 2, ff. 2r-12v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

      First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

    • EsR 288 I, Item 2, ff. 14v-15v

      Copy, in a secretary hand.

      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
    • PtG 4.5 III, Item 13, ff. 1r-22v

      Copy, on 22 folio leaves in a 38-leaf section (including SiP 199) in the same professional secretary hand, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Willcock & Walker, p. xxiii (n).

      A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning There hath not happened since the memorie of man…. First published, as A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.

      George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown
    • SiP 199 III, Item 14, ff. 3r-6v

      Copy, on six folio leaves in a 38-leaf section (including PtG 4.5) in the same professional secretary hand, untitled, with a prayer added as a coda after the Finis (f. 6v): God saue our gracious Queen Elizabeth; and so indue her wth his grace, and touch her heart wth the spirit of wisedome, that herein shee erre not, but maie doe onlie that, yt maie make most for his glorie, best for her owne solace & comfort, and the good & quiet of our Land. Amen.

      This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 20.

      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

  • MS Kk. 1. 5 (2)

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, originally in calf, now disbound.

    • SiP 103 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of the prose text (incomplete) and 17 of the poems (Nos. 2-5, 8 [beginning only], 14-17, 20-2, 25, 26 [lines 1-4], 30 [lines 5-37], 62 [lines 1-8], 74 [lines 1-6]), in the same probably professional italic hand as SiP 176, with an engrossed incipit, some decoration, and occasional spaces left in the text presumably for words unclear in the scribe's exemplar, on 210 folio leaves, lacking title, dated (f. 1r) 1584.

      This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler; described in Ringler, pp. 529-31. Facsimile of f. 75r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VII after p. 272.

      The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).

      Sir Philip Sidney, The New Arcadia
    • SiP 70 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Ringler.

      First published in Arcadia (London, 1590). Ringler, p. 241.

      Sir Philip Sidney, 'Me thought some staves he mist: if so, not much amisse'
    • SiP 71 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Arcadia (London, 1590). Ringler, p. 241.

      Sir Philip Sidney, 'Miso mine owne pigsnie, thou shalt heare news o' Damaetas'
    • SiP 28 [unspecified page number]

      Copy of the incipit only.

      This MS recorded in Ringler.

      Ringler, pp. 136-7.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 3 ('The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth')

  • MS Kk. 5. 30

    A folio volume comprising two MSS bound together, the first (iii + 323 leaves) a 15th-century MS of John Lydgate's Destruction of Troy, the second (v + 82 leaves, including blanks) a verse miscellany in various hands, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.

    The volume owned and possibly partly compiled by Sir James Murray, of Tibbermure, or by someone in his household, dated at the end anno 1612 ye 24 of Maij.

    Inscriptions including Marie Moorray wt my hand,Kathrin Morton with my hand, and Capitane James Lyell.

    • DyE 21 Item 2, f. 5r-v

      Copy, headed Inglishe Dyare. Followed (ff. 6r-7r) by Marrayis Dyare, subscribed quod Murradius.

      First published, in a garbled version, in Poems by the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660), pp. 29-31. Sargent, No. V, pp. 184-7. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 290-2. EV 8529.

      Sir Edward Dyer, A Fancy ('Hee that his mirth hath loste, whose comfort is dismaid')
    • SiP 61 Item 2, ff. 71v-2r

      Copy, untitled, in an ungainly roman hand.

      This MS collated in Ringler, p. 554. Facsimile of f. 71v in Sebastiaan Verweij, Ten Sonnets from Scotland: Text, Context and Coterie Writing in Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.30, EMS, 16 (2011), 141-169 (p. 141).

      Ringler, pp. 161-2.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 32 ('Leave me o Love, which reachest but to dust')
    • DrW 115 Item 2, f. 78v

      Copy, untitled.

      Facsimile of f. 78v in Sebastiaan Verweij, Ten Sonnets from Scotland: Text, Context and Coterie Writing in Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.30, EMS, 16 (2011), 141-169 (p. 144).

      First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 229. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'First in the orient raign'd th'assyrian kings'
    • CmT 219 Item 2, f. 82v

      Copy, here beginning Quhat giff a day or a nyt or a yeir.

      Edited from this MS text in Swaen, pp. 403-4.

      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'

  • L*.9.4

    Ralegh's signature, W Ralegh. T., at the top of the title-page.

    This volume possibly noted in Ralegh's list of books (Oakeshott's No. 305).

    1587.
    • *RaW 1034
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Walter Ralegh, Rerum Britannicarum, ed. Hieronymus Commelin (Heidelberg, 1587)

  • MS L1. 3. 10

    Copy.

    • BcF 540
      No description or publication history available.

      Advice beginning Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection.... First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

      Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

  • MS Ll. 3. 11

    A folio composite volume of state tract and speeches, in various hands, 332 leaves (including blanks).

    • BcF 362 ff. 1r-6r

      Copy of a speech by Bacon to the judges in Star Chamber, Trinity 1617.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • BcF 541 ff. 167r-78r

      Copy, headed An excellent Treatise against Jesuits and Recusants, written by the Earle of Salisbury or rather the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, to Queene Elizabeth.

      Advice beginning Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection.... First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

      Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

  • MS L1. 5. 8

    A folio volume of two tracts and parliamentary speeches, 121 leaves.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • BcF 467 ff. 26r-43v

      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

  • MS Ll. 5. 10

    A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed Q[uod] Dunnbar), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623.

    1622-3.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex libris Mr cristopher Cokburne.

    Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS. Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

    • DuW 78 f. 1r

      Copy of lines 1-22, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 34-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 10, pp. 26-7. Craigie, I, 380-2. Bawcutt, I, 109-10.

      William Dunbar, Meditatioun in Wyntir ('In to thir dirk and drublie dayis')
    • DuW 141 ff. 1r-v, 14r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Collated in Craigie, II, 39-41, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 22, pp. 46-8. Craigie, I, 19-20.

      William Dunbar, The Petition of the Gray Horse, Auld Dunbar ('Now Lufferis cummis with larges lowd')
    • DuW 176 ff. 1v-2v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 44, pp. 81-3. Craigie, II, 41-4. Bawcutt, I, 174-6.

      William Dunbar, To the Merchantis of Edinburgh ('Quhy will ye, merchantis of renoun')
    • DuW 81 ff. 2v-3r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 26, p. 51. Craigie, II, 44-5. Bawcutt, I, 129.

      William Dunbar, A New Year's Gift to the King ('My Prince, in God gif the guid grace')
    • DuW 112 f. 3r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, II, 45-6; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 23, pp. 48-9. Murdoch, II, 180-1. Ritchie, II, 163-4. Bawcutt, I, 75-6.

      William Dunbar, Of Folkis Evill to Pleis ('Four Maner of folkis ar evill to pleis')
    • DuW 34 ff. 3v-5r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, II, 45-6; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 60, pp. 127-30. Craigie, II, 46-50. Bawcutt, I, 240-4.

      William Dunbar, The Dream ('This hinder nycht, halff sleiping as I lay')
    • DuW 92 f. 5r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 50-1. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 223, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No.70, pp. 144-5. Craigie, I, 366-7. Bawcutt, I, 169-70.

      William Dunbar, Of Content ('Quho thinkis that he hes sufficence')
    • DuW 193 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 24, pp. 49-50. Craigie, II, 51-2. Bawcutt, I, 98-9.

      William Dunbar, Welcome to the Lord Treasurer ('I thocht lang quhill sum lord come hame')
    • DuW 136 f. 6r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 3, p. 3. Bawcutt, p. 127.

      William Dunbar, On His Heid-ake ('My heid did yak yester nicht')
    • DuW 175 f. 6r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 25, pp. 50-1. Craigie, II, 53-4. Bawcutt, p. 128.

      William Dunbar, To the Lordis of the Kingis Chalker ('My Lordis of Chalker, pleis yow to heir')
    • DuW 41 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 62, pp. 133-4. Craigie, II, 54-5. Bawcutt, p. 100.

      William Dunbar, Elegy on the Death of Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny ('Illuster Lodovick, of France most Cristin king')
    • DuW 165 f. 7r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 64, pp. 137-9. Craigie, II, 55-8. Bawcutt, pp. 63-6.

      William Dunbar, To Aberdein ('Blyth Aberdeane, thow beriall of all tounis')
    • DuW 19 f. 8r

      Copy of lines 1-16, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 58. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 218, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 54, pp. 104-7. Murdoch, III, 607-10. Ritchie, III, 249-52. Bawcutt, I, 229-32.

      William Dunbar, Bewty and the Presoneir ('Sen that I am a presoneir')
    • DuW 120 f. 8r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 35-6, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 35, pp. 63-4. Craigie, I, 2-4. Bawcutt, I, 133-4.

      William Dunbar, Of Sir Thomas Norny ('Now lythis off ane gentill knycht')
    • DuW 123 ff. 8v-9r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222.

      Mackenzie, No. 66, pp. 140-1. Craigie, I, 4. Bawcutt, p. 93.

      William Dunbar, Of the Changes of merche ('I seik about this warld unstabille')
    • DuW 95 f. 9r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 67, pp. 141-2. Murdoch, II, 175-6. Ritchie, II, 159-60. Bawcutt, I, 77-8.

      William Dunbar, Of Covetyce ('Fredome, honour, and nobilnes')
    • DuW 147 ff. 9v-10r

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 11, pp. 27-8. Craigie, I, 6-7. Bawcutt, I, 196.

      William Dunbar, Quhone Mony Benefices Vakit ('Schir, at this feist of benefice')
    • DuW 5 f. 10r

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 29, pp. 55-6. Craigie, I, 7. Bawcutt, p. 60.

      William Dunbar, Aganis the Solistaris in Court ('Be divers wyis and operatiounes')
    • DuW 169 f. 10r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37.

      Mackenzie, No. 12, p. 28. Craigie, I, 8-9. Bawcutt, I, 140-1.

      William Dunbar, To the King ('Off benefice, Schir, at everie feist')
    • DuW 40 f. 10v

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 53, pp. 104. Craigie, I, 9. Bawcutt, I, 266.

      William Dunbar, Dunbar at Oxinfurde ('To speik of science, craft, or sapience')
    • DuW 26 f. 11r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 5, p. 5. Craigie, I, 10. Bawcutt, I, 199.

      William Dunbar, Complaint to the King Aganis Mure ('Schir, I complane off injuris')
    • DuW 44 f. 11r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 38, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 36, pp. 65-6. Ritchie, I, 87-8. Bawcutt, I, 111-12.

      William Dunbar, Epetaphe for Donald Owre ('In vice most vicius he excellis')
    • DuW 30 ff. 11v-13r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 38-9.

      Mackenzie, No. 57, pp. 120-3. Murdoch, II, 312-15. Ritchie, II, 291-4. Bawcutt, I, 149-56.

      William Dunbar, The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis ('Off Februar the fyistene nycht')
    • DuW 24 ff. 13v-14r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 39; in Mackenzie, p. 206; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 19, pp. 39-41. Craigie, I, 17-19. Bawcutt, I, 67-8.

      William Dunbar, Complaint to the King ('Complane I wald, wist I quhome till')
    • DuW 33 ff. 18v-19r

      Copy of a 13-stanza version, untitled and beginning Dremand me thocht that I did heir.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 64-5, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 42, p. 76-9 (see pp. 238-9). Murdoch, III, 372-5. Ritchie, III, 1-4. Bawcutt, I, 250-7.

      William Dunbar, The Devillis Inquest ('This nycht in my sleip I wes agast')
    • DuW 188 f. 19v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 65, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 46, p. 84. Murdoch, III, 386-7. Ritchie, III, 14-15. Bawcutt, I, 180-1.

      William Dunbar, The Twa Cummeris ('Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday')
    • DuW 102 f. 21r-v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Eftir everie asking followis nocht.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 14, pp. 31-3. Murdoch, II, 165-7. Ritchie, II, 150-2. Bawcutt, I, 142-3.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Asking ('Off very asking followis nocht')
    • DuW 106 ff. 21v-2v

      Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Asking (see DuW 102).

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110.

      Mackenzie, No. 15, pp. 33-4. Murdoch, II, 167-9. Ritchie, II, 152-4. Bawcutt, I, 144-6.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Geving ('To Speik of gift or almous deidis')
    • DuW 109 ff. 22v-3r

      Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Geving (see DuW 106).

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 16, pp. 35-6. Murdoch, II, 170-1. Ritchie, II, 154-5. Bawcutt, I, 147-8.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Taking ('Eftir Geving I speik of taking')
    • DuW 162 ff. 24v-6r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis qd Kennedie.

      This MS collated in Bawcutt.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 40, pp. 71-4. Murdoch, III, 438-41. Ritchie, III, 62-6. Bawcutt, I, 89-92.

      William Dunbar, The Testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy ('I, Maister Andro Kennedy')
    • DuW 134 ff. 27r-8v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 101.

      Mackenzie, No. 13, pp. 28-31. Craigie, I, 202-5. Bawcutt, I, 258-61.

      William Dunbar, Of the Warldis Instabilitie ('This waverand warldis wretchidnes')
    • DuW 143 ff. 28v-9r

      This MS recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 65, pp. 139-40. Craigie, I, 210-11. Bawcutt, I, 162-3.

      William Dunbar, Quhen the Governour Past in France ('Thow that in hevin, for our salvatioun')
    • DuW 173 f. 34r

      Copy of lines 76-83, untitled and beginning How suld I leif and I not landit.

      This MS collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 20, pp. 41-3. Murdoch, II, 271-4. Ritchie, II, 251-4. Bawcutt, I, 225-8.

      William Dunbar, To the King ('Schir, yit remembir as of befoir')
    • DuW 69 ff. 34v-5r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 121, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 28, pp. 53-5. Murdoch, II, 296-8. Ritchie, II, 275-7. Bawcutt, I, 106-8.

      William Dunbar, 'In secreit place this hyndir nycht'
    • DuW 192 ff. 37r-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 121-2; and in Bawcutt.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 43, pp. 79-80. Murdoch, II, 160-2. Ritchie, II, 145-7. Bawcutt, I, 39-40.

      William Dunbar, Tydingis fra the Sessioun ('Ane murlandis man of uplandis mak')
    • DuW 64 f. 38r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 123.

      Mackenzie, No. 9, pp. 24-6. Murdoch, II, 178-80; Ritchie, II, 162-3. Bawcutt, I, 87-8.

      William Dunbar, How Sall I Governe Me? ('How sould I rewill me or in quhat wys')
    • DuW 126 ff. 38v-9r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 123, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 48, pp. 97-8. Murdoch, IV, 762-3. Ritchie, IV, 30-1. Bawcutt, I, 238-9.

      William Dunbar, Of the Ladys Solistaris at Court ('Thir ladyis fair, That makis repair')
    • DuW 139 f. 40r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 102, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 78, p. 154. Craigie, I, 393. Bawcutt, I, 193.

      William Dunbar, Ane Orisoun ('Salviour, suppois my sensualitie')
    • DuW 86 ff. 40v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 125-6, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 21, pp. 44-6. Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 234-6. Ritchie, II, 215-17 (with a facsimile of f. 84v). Bawcutt, I, 171-3.

      William Dunbar, None May Assure in this Warld ('Quhom to sall I compleine my wo')
    • DuW 61 f. 42r-v

      Copy of lines 1-20, 26-50, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 4, pp. 3-4. Murdoch, II, 327-8. Ritchie, II, 306-7. Bawcutt, I, 248-9.

      William Dunbar, How Dumbar wes Desyrd to be Ane Freir ('This nycht, befoir the dawing cleir')
    • DuW 22 ff. 42v-3r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 39, pp. 70-1. Murdoch, III, 375-7. Ritchie, III, 4-5. Bawcutt, I, 114-15.

      William Dunbar, The Birth of Antichrist ('Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht')
    • DuW 17 f. 43r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 69, pp. 143-4. Murdoch, II, 281-2. Ritchie, II, 260-1. Bawcutt, I, 79-80.

      William Dunbar, Best to be Blyth ('Full oft I mus and hes in thocht')
    • DuW 114 f. 44r-v

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 127, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 33, pp. 61-2. Craigie, I, 413. Bawcutt, I, 236.

      William Dunbar, Of James Dog, Kepar of the Quenis Wardrop ('The wardraipper of Venus boure')
    • DuW 132 ff. 44v-5r

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 127-8.

      Mackenzie, No. 34, pp. 62-3. Craigie, I, 414. Bawcutt, I, 237.

      William Dunbar, Of the Said James, Quhen he had plesett him ('O Gracious Princes, guid and fair')
    • DuW 88 f. 45r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 128, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 32, pp. 60-1. Craigie, I, 415-16. Bawcutt, I, 233-4.

      William Dunbar, Of a Dance in the Quenis Chalmer ('Sir Jhon Sinclair begowthe to dance')
    • DuW 90 ff. 45v-6r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 128.

      Mackenzie, No. 37, pp. 66-7. Craigie, I, 416-17. Bawcutt, p. 113.

      William Dunbar, Of Ane Blak-Moir ('Lang heff I maed of ladyes quhytt')
    • DuW 179 f. 46r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 129; in Mackenzie, p. 210; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 31, pp. 59-60. Craigie, I, 417-18. Bawcutt, I, 116-17.

      William Dunbar, To the Quene ('Madam, your men said thai wald ryd')
    • DuW 37 ff. 55v-6v

      Copy, subscribed Dumbaris dirige to ye king.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 129; in Mackenzie, p. 210; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 30, pp. 56-9. Murdoch, II, 292-6. Ritchie, II, 271-5. Bawcutt, I, 274-7, as Dumbaris Dirige to the King.

      William Dunbar, The Dregy of Dunbar ('We that ar heir in hevins glory')
    • DuW 196 f. 58r

      Copy of lines 1-14, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 27, pp. 51-3. Murdoch, II, 330-3. Ritchie, II, 309-11. Bawcutt, I, 245-7.

      William Dunbar, The Wowing of the King quhen he was in Dumfermeling ('This hindir nycht in Dumfermeling')
    • DuW 49 ff. 58r-65r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Craigie, II, 69-70.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 6, pp. 5-20. Murdoch, III. 420-37. Ritchie, III, 44-62. Bawcutt, I, 200-18.

      William Dunbar, The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie ('Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild')

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