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  • CR 63/2/19

    A composite volume of verse and prose, compiled by William Davenport of Bramhall.

    Later owned by J.P. Earwaker (1847-95), Cheshire historian. Formerly in the Chester City Record Office.

    Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), pp. 545-52.

    • RaW 728.17 f. 16r-v

      Copy.

      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)
    • MrJ 38 ff. 63v-4r

      Copy.

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

  • CR63/2/692/219

    Copy, untitled, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

    The text followed on the second page by an anonymous epitaph on a Lord B, and endorsed on the fourth page in another hand Reverd Dr Dun Deane of St. Palls - his Anthem made by him selfe & sunge, in that Quire. often.

    Mid-17th century.

    Among papers relating to the Done, Crewe, and Arderne families. Once owned by J.P. Earwaker (1847-95), Cheshire historian. Later donated by the Duke of Westminster to the Chester Archaeological Society. Formerly in the Chester City Record Office.

    This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in Dennis Flynn, Donne Manuscripts in Cheshire, EMS, 8: Seventeenth-Century Poetry, Music and Drama (2000), 280-92 (pp. 282-6).

    • DnJ 1582.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

      John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father ('Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne')

  • CR 62/2/692/225

    Copy of an account of Ralegh's execution, on fourteen small quarto pages, imperfect.

    c.1620.

    Among the collections of J.P. Earwaker (1847-95), Cheshire historian. Formerly in the Chester City Record Office.

    • RaW 771.5
      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)

  • DAR/D/68/51

    Copy of a letter by Donne, to Susan Vere, Countess of Montgomery, [1619], headed To the right honourable countesse of Mountgomery {Ecclesiastes 12.1, on one side of a single folio leaf, following the conclusion of an anonymous sermon, torn from a quire.

    Among papers of the Done family of Utkinton.

    The original letter (now lost) apparently enclosed a copy of Donne's Sermon of Valediction preached at Lincoln's Inn on 18 April 1619 (not Donne's sermon on Matthew 21.44 as was thought by Potter & Simpson). The letter was published in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour (London, 1651).

    This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in Dennis Flynn, Donne Manuscripts in Cheshire, EMS, 8: Seventeenth-Century Poetry, Music and Drama (2000), 280-92 (pp. 280-2).

    • DnJ 4124
      No description or publication history available.
      John Donne, Letter(s)

  • DBW/N/A/A/41

    Extracts.

    • DrJ 247.6
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

      John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

  • DLT/B8

    A folio volume of state tracts and letters, c.480 pages.

    c.1625-30s.

    Inscribed on the rear cover Robert Wingfield his Booke witnes Barbary Wingfield. Among the Tabley House MSS and once owned by Sir Peter Leycester (1614-78), antiquary.

    Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.

    • EsR 292 pp. 19-20

      Copy.

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

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
    • RaW 728.165 pp. 21-4

      Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • RaW 636 pp. 25-48

      Copy, ascribed to Sr W. Raw:.

      A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
    • SiP 180.12 pp. 96-9

      Copy, headed A lre of Sr philip Sidney to his brother Robert aboute travell.

      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
    • BcF 606 pp. 107-8

      Copy of a letter by Bacon to Lord Henry Howard.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • ElQ 279 p. 140 et seq.

      Copy.

      First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

      Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate.... Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

      Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me.... Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

      Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent.... Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

      Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved.... Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
    • EsR 169 pp. 182-5

      Copy, lacking the first paragraph, here beginning Your lordship's purpose is to travel....

      The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state....

      First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

      Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
    • SiP 200 pp. 185-6

      Copy of the first twenty lines and then a series of condensed extracts from various parts of the Letter including the last few lines, in a cursive secretary hand, headed Sr Phillip Sydney to her Matie: concerninge her Marriage wth Mounsieur, on two pages.

      This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 21.

      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
    • RaW 910 pp. 199-203, 300-1

      Copy of letters by Ralegh, one to Winwood dated 21 March 1617[/18], another to Ralegh's wife.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 710.23 pp. 279-82

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raughlyghes Apologie To the Lords of his mats Counsell for his accon in Guiana. 1618.

      Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana
    • RaW 552 pp. 283-300

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleighe his Apolloge.

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
    • RaW 770 pp. 302-6

      Copy, the speech introduced His wordes were to this effecte.

      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)
    • RaW 771 pp. 306-12

      Copy of an account of The speeches of sr Walter Rawleighe beheaded in the old pallace..., here beginning This daie whether the sunne refused to be a beholder or in pittie withdrew himselfe....

      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)

  • DLT/B71

    Copy, in a single secretary hand, headed The Tragady of Amurath third Tyrant of the Turkes As it was publiquely prsented to ye Vniversity of Oxon: By ye students of Christchurch Mathias day i6i8, including The Argument, Prologue, and Dramatis Personæ, on 25 quarto leaves.

    Pen-trials on the first leaf by one Thomas Piggott or Pygott.

    This MS recorded in HMC, First Report (1870), Appendix, p. 49. Discussed in the Malone Society edition, pp. vi-viii.

    • GoT 9
      No description or publication history available.

      First published London, 1632. Ed. David Carnegie, Malone Society, 1968 (Oxford, 1974).

      Thomas Goffe, The Couragious Turke, or, Amurath the First

  • ZCR 469/546

    Copy, on both sides of a folded sheet, loosely inserted in a MS of eleven leaves including probably autograph poems by Thomas Aldersey (1635-1713).

    Late 17th century.
    • MaA 131.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

      Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')

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