Cumbria Archives, Carlisle

  • DLons/L/13/7

    Copy, in a professional hand, on twelve folio pages.

    c.1690s.

    Among the muniments of the Lowther family, Earls of Lonsdale, and probably once owned by John Lowther, first Viscount Lonsdale (1655-1700).

    This MS collated in Brown, I, 309-14.

    • HaG 52
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea
  • DLons/L13/9/The Character of a Trimmer/Box 1078

    Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on 71 folio pages.

    c.1690s.

    This MS collated in Brown, I, 345-96.

    • HaG 10
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry], in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer
  • DLons/L13/9/Petition of Edward, Earl of Clarendon/Box 1078

    Copy.

    • ClE 80
      No description or publication history available.

      Petition beginning I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain.... Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?], and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667
  • DLons/L13/9/Some Cautions/Box 1078

    Copy, in a professional hand, on 117 quarto pages.

    c.1690s.

    This MS collated in Brown, I, 404-6.

    • HaG 58
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1695. Foxcroft, II, 466-88. Brown, I, 315-41.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Some Cautions offered to the Consideration of those who are to choose Members to serve in the ensuing Parliament
  • DLons/L13/12/Box 3, Notebook

    An oblong octavo notebook.

    Late 17th century.

    Among the muniments of the Lowther family, Earls of Lonsdale, and probably once owned by John Lowther, first viscount Lonsdale (1655-1700).

    • PpS 11 pp. 1-26

      Copy, headed Mr Pepy's Letter & Newyears Guift to his Honrd. Friend Sr. Wm. Coventry. Greenwich 1 Jan 1665. Late 17th century.

      First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.

      Samuel Pepys, The Pursers Employ Annatomized and both Advantages & disadvantages therein discovered and also A Proposall of comitting the Victualling accompt to the care and management of each Comander. Presented as a New yeares guift to Sr: William Coventry by Samuel Pepys Esqr in 1665
  • DLons/L.14 Various books and papers

    Muniments of the Lowther family, Earls of Lonsdale.

    Late 17th century.

    Probably once owned by John Lowther, first Viscount Lonsdale (1655-1700).

    This MS collated in Brown, II, 506-13.

    • HaG 24 [no item number]

      Copy in a professional hand, with alterations and interlineations, untitled, on 68 folio pages, imperfect and lacking the ending.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 379-424. Brown, II, 363-406.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter
  • DLons/L2/139A

    A folio volume, mostly blank leaves (perhaps originally intended to be a collection of poems on affairs of state).

    Late 17th century.

    Among the muniments of the Lowther family, Earls of Lonsdale, and possibly once owned by Sir John Lowther, first Viscount Lonsdale (1655-1700). Former shelfmark DLons/L Miscellaneous 11/6/33.

    • MaA 336 ff. [1r-5r]

      Copy, in a professional hand, ascribed to Denham.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

      The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 374 ff. [5r-10r]

      Copy, in a professional hand, as Written by the same Hand as the former was (i.e. by Denham).

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
  • DLons/L1/5/stray letters/Box 133

    Five autograph letters signed, to her husband Thomas Wharton, 4 and 20 April, 1 and 14 May, 1 July 1681.

    1681.
    • *WhA 71
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Anne Wharton, Letter(s)
  • D&C Music 1

    Two music part books compiled by Thomas Smith (1614-1701) of The Queen's College, Oxford, later Bishop of Carlisle.

    c.1637.

    Formerly Carlisle Cathedral, Dean & Chapter of Carlisle MSS, Box B1.

    These MSS discussed in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972).

    • JnB 286 Altus, p. 8; Bassus, p. 8

      Copies, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.

      Edited from this MS in Edward Doughtie, Ferrabosco and Jonson's The Houre-glasse, RQ, 22 (1969), 148-50.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

      Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
    • NaT 7.7 Altus, pp. 22-3; Bassus, pp. 20-1

      Copies of the refrain, Do me right, in a musical setting.

      Edited in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972), pp. 45-6.

      First published, as The Song, in Nashe's Pleasant Comedie Summers last will and Testament (London, 1600). McKerrow, III, 264. EV 14798.

      Thomas Nashe, 'Monsieur Mingo for quaffing doth surpass'
    • StW 1026 Altus, p. 99

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in James Walter Brown, Some Elizabethan Lyrics, Cornhill Magazine, 51 (September 1921), 285-96 (p. 290).

      First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
    • StW 720 Altus, p. 100

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.

      William Strode, A Sigh ('O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde')
    • CmT 37 Altus, pp. 106-7

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in James Walter Brown, Some Elizabethan Lyrics, CM, 51 (September 1921), 285-96 (p. 290-1). Collated in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972), p. 53.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.

      Thomas Campion, 'Fire, fire, fire, fire!'
    • B&F 104 Altus, pp. 113-18

      Copy, in a musical setting, subscribed ye Battle.

      Dyce, VI, 199. Bullen, III, 204-5. Bowers, V, 84-5.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, V, iv, 43-73. Song ('Arm, arm, arm, arm! the scouts are all come in')
    • SaG 17 Bassus, pp. 61-73

      Copy of fifteen Psalms, in musical settings by Henry Lawes: namely, Psalms 2, 5, 13, 26, 31, 38, 54, 60, 67, 71 [part iii], 102, 136, 142, and 120 [v. 5], in an irregular sequence.

      First published in London, 1636. Hooper, I, 91-195; II, 195-310.

      Some of Henry Lawes's musical settings published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Musical settings by Henry and William Lawes also published in Choice Psalmes Put into Musick for Three Voices (London, 1648).

      George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David ('That man is truly bless'd who never strays')
    • DrM 21 Bassus, pp. 84-5

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman.

      Edited from this MS in James Walter Brown, Some Elizabethan Lyrics, CM, 51 (September 1921), 285-96 (p. 292).

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

      Michael Drayton, The Cryer ('Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre')
    • DrM 62 Bassus, p. 85

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

      Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')
    • SuJ 60 Bassus, p. 88

      Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

      First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.

      John Suckling, Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?')
    • BrN 15 Bassus, p. 90

      Copy of lines 1-4, 9-12 of the prologue, in a musical setting.

      A musical setting first published in Thomas Morley, First Booke of Ayres (London, 1600). Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972), p. 60. Recorded in Rollins, England's Helicon, II, 113-14.

      First published in Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 33>, ascribed to N. Breton (S. Phil. Sidney cancelled). Grosart, I (t), p. 8.

      Nicholas Breton, Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon ('Faire in a morne (o fairest morne)')
    • LoT 3 Bassus, p. 92

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Ford, here beginning Now I see thy looks were feigned.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972), p. 61.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning Now I see thy looks were feigned first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

      Thomas Lodge, An Ode ('Now I find thy lookes were fained')
    • B&F 88 Bassus, pp. 94-5

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972), pp. 61-2.

      Dyce, VI, 179-80. Bullen, III, 183. Bowers, V, 66-7.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 24-41. Song ('Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below')
    • B&F 13 Bassus, pp. 96-7

      Copy of the Boy's song, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, A Newly Discovered Musical Setting from Fletcher's Beggars' Bush, Comparative Drama, 5, 1971, 101-5.

      Bowers, III, 281.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, III, i, 97-113. Song ('Bring out your Cony-skins, faire maids to me')
  • DX/227/5

    Copy of the abridged version.

    1914.
    • CdA 3
      No description or publication history available.
      Lady Anne Clifford, The Great Books of Lady Anne Clifford
  • [unnumbered]

    A memorandum book.

    c.1671-89.
    • EvJ 11.5 [unspecified page numbers]

      Extracts and notes.

      First published in London, 1661.

      John Evelyn, Fumifugium