The Inventarie of the goodes and chattells (including the library) left by Hooker at his death, 26 November 1600.
1600.Edited in Rosemary Keen, Inventory of Richard Hooker, 1601, Archaeologia Cantiana (Kent Archaeological Society), 70 (1956), 231-6.
Marlowe's signature (Christofer Marley
), as well as his father's (Jhan Marley
), as witnesses to the last will and testament of Katherine Benchkin, November 1585.
Facsimiles of the signature in Bakeless, I, facing p. 208; in Wraight & Stern, pp. 229-30; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 34; in Gill et al., I, 11; and in Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe Poet and Spy (Oxford, 20050, p. 108. Full text of the document in William Urry, Christopher Marlowe and Canterbury, ed. Andrew Butcher (London, 1988), pp. 123-7.
Hooker's last will and testament, 1600.
1600.An indenture signed by Sedley, relating to a property transaction, 12 May 1699.
1699.A quarto commonplace book, in an italic hand, xii + 758 pages, the great majority blank, in a recycled vellum membrane from a 14th-century missal.
Compiled by Sir Roger Twysden (1597-1672), antiquary.
c.1618-26.Copy, in Twysden's hand, headed part of an Epytaph made by Sr water Raugley beefore he sufferd
.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see
An indenture signed, relating to Sedley's estate in Aylesford, 7 July 1668.
1668.A receipt signed by Shadwell, acknowledging payment of a quarterly pension of £10, 13 August 1688.
1688.Recorded in John Ross, Addenda to Shadwell's Complete Works: A Checklist, N & Q, 220 (June 1975), 256-9.
A receipt signed by Shadwell, acknowledging payment of a quarterly pension of £10, 24 November 1688.
1688.Recorded in John Ross, Addenda to Shadwell's Complete Works: A Checklist, N & Q, 220 (June 1975), 256-9.
A receipt signed by Shadwell, acknowledging payment of a quarterly pension of £10, 10 August 1689.
1689.Recorded in John Ross, Addenda to Shadwell's Complete Works: A Checklist, N & Q, 220 (June 1975), 256-9 (p. 258). Edited in Brice Harris, Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset: Patron and Poet of the Restoration, Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 25, Nos. 3-4 (Urbana, 1940), p. 124.
A signed receipt acknowledging payment of a quarterly pension of £10, 23 December 1689.
1689.A possibly autograph receipt signed by Shadwell, acknowledging payment of £5, 24 November [no year].
c.1689.A receipt signed by Shadwell, acknowledging payment of a quarterly pension of £10, 12 December 1689.
1689.Recorded in John Ross, Addenda to Shadwell's Complete Works: A Checklist, N & Q, 220 (June 1975), 256-9.
Autograph letter signed by Sedley, to Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset, [?early July 1695].
1695.Edited in Sola Pinto, Life, pp. 215-16.
Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, to Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset, 24 January 1682/3.
1683.Recorded in HMC, 4th report (1873), Appendix, p. 280. Edited in Summers, V, 401.
Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, to Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset, 10 September 1692.
1692.Edited in Brice Harris, Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset: Patron and Poet of the Restoration, Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 26, Nos. 3-4 (Urbana, 1940), p. 158.
Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, to Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset, from Chelsea, 2 May 1692.
1692.Recorded in HMC, 4th report (1873), Appendix, p. 281. Edited in Summers, I, ccxxx-ccxxxi, and V, 404.
Autograph letter signed by Donne, to Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, 18 November 1628.
1628.Edited in part from this MS in Potter & Simpson, VIII, 24-5.
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Brussels, 3 May 1630.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 114-16.
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, [to the Earl of Middlesex], from Hamburg, 10 October 1631.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 118-19.
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Würtzburg, 9 November 1631.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 119-21.
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Frankfurt, 29 November 1631.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 123-4.
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Frankfurt, 4 September
[but really December] 1631.
Edited in Clayton, p. 125.
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Camp
[Scottish border], 6 June 1639.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 145-6. Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XIV, after p. xxi.
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Whitehall, [30 September 1639].
Edited in Clayton, pp. 148-9. Facsimile in Berry, frontispiece.
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to Mary Cranfield, from Gravesend, 30 October 1629.
1629.Edited in Clayton, p. 107.
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to Sir George Southcot, from Wiston, 9 September 1635.
1635.Edited in Clayton, pp. 131-3.
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to William Wallis, from Brussels, 5 May 1630.
1630.Edited in Clayton, pp. 116-18, with a facsimile of the first page, Plate 2, after p. xcviii.
A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of De la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
Copy, in an accomplished rounded hand, headed The Lord Rochester uppon himselfe
, on one side of a single folio leaf, later endorsed very spirited but, very licentious!
. Late 17th-early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
Copy, in an italic hand, headed Another
, following other verses on Richmond, on the second page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed Song by Earl of Dorset
on one side of a single folio leaf. Early 18th century.
First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.
A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton, ELR.
First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court: The Texts and Authorship of His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, in the upper left-hand corner of part of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed in a later hand Sir John Suckling
.
Edited from this MS in Clayton.
First published in Clayton (1971), p. 95.
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
Edited from this MS in Clayton.
First published in Clayton (1971), pp. 94-5.
Copy.
Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.
Copy, in a rounded hand, ascribed to W D
, on the first page, followed by other verses, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Gibbs.
First published in Gibbs (1972), pp. 279-80.
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 653. Clayton, p. 9.
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 653. Clayton, p. 9.
Copy on the first page of two conjugate leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 653. Clayton, pp. 9-10.
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 653-4. Clayton, p. 10.
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 654. Clayton, p. 10.
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 654. Clayton, p. 10.
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 654. Clayton, p. 11.
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 654. Clayton, pp. 11.
Copy on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton, with a facsimile, Plate 4, after p. xcviii. Facsimile also in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 259.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 654-5. Clayton, pp. 11-12.
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled and subscribed J Sucklyn Esqr
, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in L.A. Beaurline, The Canon of Sir John Suckling's Poems, Studies in Philology, 57 (1960), 492-518 (pp. 512-13). Clayton, p. 12.
Copy, in a neat italic hand, subscribed J Sucklyn. Esqr
, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton, with a facsimile in Clayton, Plate 5, before p. xcix. Facsimiles also in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 270, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 260.
First published in L.A. Beaurline, The Canon of Sir John Suckling's Poems, Studies in Philology, 57 (1960), 492-518 (p. 513). Clayton, pp. 12-13.
Copy, in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 39-40.
Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
First published, as Song, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 51-2.
Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
First published in Edmund Waller: Workes (London, 1645). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 37-8. See also
Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Sir William Davenant, Works (London, 1673). Clayton, p. 94. Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), pp. 133-4. Possibly written by Davenant.
Copy, in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in an eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, p. 39.
Copy, possibly in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, Rymes Of som Poettes Of som Wittes Abowt London Septembr 1637
.
This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.
Copy of Lady Anne Clifford's journals for 1603 and 1616-19, probably chiefly in the hands of Elizabeth Sackville and her sister May, transcribed imperfectly from the earlier transcript at Longleat House (
Edited from this MS in The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford, ed. V. Sackville-West (London, 1923). Discussed and the handwriting tentatively identified in Acheson, p. 38, with facsimile examples on pp. 19-20.
Autograph letter signed (J Hoskyns
), to Lord Cranfield, 2 March [1616/17].
Autograph letter signed (J Hoskyns
), to Lord Cranfield, from Hereford, 15 March 1618[/19].
Autograph letter signed (J Hoskyns
), to Lord Cranfield, docketed 16 March 1623[/4].
An autograph letter signed by Florio, to Lord Cranfield, received 11 November 1621.
1621.Formerly Cranfield Papers 2323.
Edited in Yates, pp. 296-7.
Autograph letter signed by Florio, to Lord Cranfield, 1623.
1623.Formerly Cranfield Papers 985.
Edited in Yates, pp. 299-300.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, probably once folded as a letter, unbound.
c.1640.Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
Edited from this MS in Clayton and discussed p. ci.
First published as A Coppy of a Letter Found in the Privy Lodgeings at Whitehall (London, 1641). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 163-7.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, written on the address leaf of a folio autograph letter by Richard Blackall, to Sir Lionel Cranfield, 27 October 1618.
c.1618.Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent. Formerly EN M1012.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 314.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see
Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1679.
1679.Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1680, with a codicil added 1681.
1680-1.Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1688, together with a draft and copy of it.
1688.Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1690.
1690.A registered copy of Sackville's last will and testament, made 1607, proved 1609.
1609.An abstract of Dorset's last will and testament, made c.1678.
c.1678.Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1704.
1705.Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him and sealed on every leaf, 1705.
1705.The administration of Dorset's last will and testament of 1705, made in 1707.
1707.Dorset's last will and testament dated 1704.
1704.Autograph letter signed by Philips (Orinda
), to Sir Edward Dering, 15 December [no year].
Among the Dering family papers.
Edited, with a facsimile, in Peter Beal, Orinda to Silvander: A New Letter by Katherine Philips, EMS, 4 (1993), 281-6.
Copy, in an italic hand, headed The passion of a discontented minde
, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, frayed and imperfect.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
First published in London, 1601. Attributed to Breton in Robertson, pp. xcii-xcviii, but see also Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Printed and firmly attributed to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 49-59 (No. 11) and pp. 94-106.
Three texts relating to Bacon, comprising four folio leaves, in a probably professional secretary hand, once folded as a letter and addressed on the outer leaf (p. [7]) ffor James Jackson these
, bound out of order, in a folio composite volume of sixteen parliamentary papers in various hands, in modern half-morocco.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
Copy of Bacon's submission 22 April 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.
Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1621/2.
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.
Copy.
First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.
Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on three folio pages, in a folio composite volume of 31 parliamentary papers, in modern quarter-morocco.
c.1620s.Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
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.
Copy, in an italic hand with corrections, headed Sir Benjamin Rudiers Speech in ye lower house of Pariamt Novem: 1640
, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, in a folio composite volume of 31 parliamentary papers, in various hands, in modern quarter-morocco.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
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 Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
A folio MS relating to the Essex Rebellion, in a professional secretary hand, 21 pages, in modern quarter-morocco.
Early 17th century.Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
Copy, imperfect.
Copy, headed The description of ye executione of ye E: of Essex wthin ye tower the 25 of February / 1600/
.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
A folio volume, comprosing two MSS of copies of letters by Ralegh, in three secretary hands (pp. 1-86, 87-91, 91-[93] respectively), with a table of contents, iii + 93 pages, in modern quarter-morocco.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
c.1620s.Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to Ralph Winwood (both parts), to Ralegh's wife (2), and to James I (2).
Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleigh his Appologie after his Retorne into England in excuse of his not working the Mynne at Orenoque
.
A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...
. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.
A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one rounded hand, with later additions in other hands, 169 pages, in a marbled wrapper.
c.1710-30s.Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
Copy.
First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, Third
edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.
Copy, headed To a Lady
.
First published in Poems, Third
edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.
Copy.
First published, as On the Rose, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
Copy, headed On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke
and here beginning Underneath this Marble Hearse
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
Copy, headed A Song
.
First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.
Copy, headed True Content
.
First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.
Copy, headed A Song
.
First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.
Copy, in at least two professional secretary hands, with a title-page, 50 folio leaves, in a paper wrapper.
c.1630s.Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1602-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.
Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
Copy, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, headed Doctor Corbett to the Lord Mordant
, here beginning My Lord, I must confess at ye first newes
, subscribed Rich: Corbett
, on twelve folio pages, unbound.
Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1602-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
Copy, complete with the prefatory poems To the true Patroness of all Poetry, Calliope and The Author to the Reader, in a professional cursive italic hand, ii + 28 + iii folio pages, subscribed Finis / Francis Beamont
, unbound.
Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1602-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.
First published (anonymously) London, 1602. Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 441-71. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 281-304. Elizabethan Narrative Verse, ed. Niel Alexander (London, 1967), pp. 168-91. Beaumont's authorship discussed by Philip J. Finkelpearl in N&Q, 214 (October 1969), 367-8, and by Roger Sell in N&Q, 217 (January 1972), 10-14.
A quarto formal commonplace book, in Latin, Greek and English, in a single predominantly secretary hand, written from both ends, including numerous blanks, unfoliated, in contemporary limp vellum, with traces of ties.
Compiled by Robert Marsham, fourth Baronet.
Late 17th century.Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1605-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.
Extracts from five essays, headed Essaies of sr Francis Bacon
.
Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
Autograph letter signed by Wroth, to her father Sir Robert Sidney, from Penshurst, 17 October 1614.
1614.Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 234-5 (No. II).
Autograph commonplace book, on political and historical subjects, under headings, with some additions, including an index, possibly in the hand of the second Earl of Leicester, 754 folio pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.
c.1613-15.Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Discussed in Robert Shephard, The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30, and in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010, 453-69 (pp. 457-60).
Autograph commonplace book, on principally genealogical and historical matters, with a few additions possibly in the hand of the second Earl of Leicester, 486 pages (including blanks), partly in ruled columns, in contemporary vellum, with green silk ties.
Early 17th century.Recorded in Robert Shephard, The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30 (p. 2 n).
Autograph commonplace book, on coinage and history, 348 quarto pages (including blanks, plus further blanks at the end), in contemporary vellum.
Late 16th-early 17th century.Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Recorded in Robert Shephard, The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30 (p. 2 n).
Autograph commonplace book by Robert Sidney, on political subjects, under some headings, with additions, including an index, possibly in the hand of the second Earl of Leicester, 954 folio pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.
c.1600.Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Discussed in Robert Shephard, The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30.
Copy.
Copy, in a secretary hand, lacking a title-page, inscribed by the copyist at the end Cutbert Crooke
, 133 quarto leaves, in vellum.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
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.
Copy, transcribed from Sidney's autograph MS (The Answer of Sir Philip Sidney To a Book published by Father Parsons the Jesuit Intituled Secret Memoirs of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester
, fifteen small folio leaves, on rectos only, now on mounts, unbound.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Edited from this MS in Feuillerat. Collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten.
First published in Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State of the Sidney Family (London, 1746), I, 62-8. Feuillerat, III, 61-71. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 129-41.
Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed W. R.
, 33 + ii folio leaves, in remains of paper wrappers within later boards.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penhurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
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.
Autograph? presentation copy to Sir Philip Sidney, in a secretary hand, with dedication Heroi Nobilissimo, Domino illustrissimo Mæcenati optimo Philippo Sidneio S P D:
, followed by eight Latin verses beginning Meus erat immenso, nuper confecta Idore
subscribed Abrahamus Fransus
, the page of Personæ (p. 5) headed Victoria
, v + 91 folio pages, in contemporary vellum, with remains of green silk ties.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Facsimile of the dedication to Sidney in DLB, vol. 236, British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660. First Series, ed. Edward A. Malone (Detroit, 2001), p. 142.
First published, edited by G.C. Moore Smith (Louvain, 1906).
A formal presentation copy, in a small secretary hand, with a title-page bearing a dedication to Sir Robert Sidney (Ad illustriss: D Dominu Robertum Sydneyu
, signed at the end by Fraunce Abrahamus Fransus
, 24 small quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum, with remains of green silk ties.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Basically an addendum to Fraunce's Insignium, armorum, emblematum, hieroglyphicorum, et symbolorum, quae in Italia imprese nominantur, explicatio: quae symbolicae philosophicae postrema pars est which was published in London, 1588.
Copy, in a neat italic hand, entitled (f. [vir]) in the small italic hand of Sir Roger Twysden, second Baronet (1597-1672), antiquary, Certayn comfortable places of Scripture and three prayers collected and made by my deare and Noble Mother ye Lady Ann Twysden who dyed at her howse in East=Peckham the 14th of October 1638 / Roger Twysden
, and with his headnotes, vii leaves + 84 octavo pages (including blanks, plus further blanks at the end, in contemporary vellum with green ties.
Transcribed from Lady Twysden's original MS (known as the Jennings-Bramley MS and now untraced) and including a prayer by her brother, Sir Heneage Finch (1580-1631), Speaker of the House of Commons.
c.1638.Described in detail in the online Perdita Project.
Autograph signature, on an indenture for the sale to Richard Hulse of land abutting on the Kinges high way leading from Lovelace greene or Gigghill to Biddenden towards the North
, 25 October 1644.
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
Autograph signature, on a receipt for payment of £300 by Richard Hulse, 1 February 1647[/8].
1648.Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
Signature on each of three membranes of an indenture relating to the sale of land in Bethersden and Halden to Richard Hulse, 10 March 1642/3.
1643.Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
Autograph signature, on an indenture concerning the sale of property to Richard Hulse, 10 October 1645.
1645.Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
Scriveners' drafts, unsigned, of two legal documents involving Lovelace and Richard Hulse, 20 March 1642/3 and 20 August 1644 respectively.
1643-4.Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
Autograph signature, on an indenture concerning the sale to Richard Hulse of land on the road from Bethersden to Biddenden East. 14 February 1644/5.
1645.Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
Autograph signature, on each of the three membranes of an indenture concerning the sale to Richard Hulse of land on the road from Bethersden to Biddenden East, 28 August 1645.
1645.Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
Autograph signature, on an indenture, 29 March 1647.
1647.Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
Autograph signature on an indenture, 28 September 1647.
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
An indenture for the sale of The Splayed Eagle in Canterbury, signed by both John Lyllye
and his mother, Jane, 10 January [1570/1].
Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116a.
Recorded in William Urry, John Lyly and Canterbury, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).
A title deed relating to the sale of The Splayed Eagle in Canterbury, signed by Jane Lyly.
1581.Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116b.
Recorded by Urry in John Lyly and Canterbury, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).
A title deed relating to the sale of The Splayed Eagle in Canterbury, signed by Jane Lyly.
1581.Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116c.
Recorded by Urry in John Lyly and Canterbury, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).
A quitclaim from John Lyly to his mother, signed in an italic script Per me Joanne Lilie
(or Liliu
), 3 October [1581].
Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116e.
Recorded in William Urry, John Lyly and Canterbury, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).
