A title deed signed by Cotton, concerning the sale by him and by Arthur and William Stanhope of some 121 acres of property to Joseph Woodhouse of Wollescote, 11-12 October 1666.
1666.A facsimile of the signature appears in Parks, p. 19.
A small collection of unbound MS verse and some prose, all in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, all imperfect.
c.1620s.Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/28/5i.
Copy, on one side of a single folio leaf.
Dyce, VI, 199. Bullen, III, 204-5. Bowers, V, 84-5.
Copy of lines 1-104, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, lacking a title.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.
Copy, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves; lacking a title and opening line.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.
Copy of three Problems, on both sides of a folio leaf, imperfect.
Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see Dubia
) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.
A quarto booklet of prose works chiefly by Donne, on seventeen leaves (plus two blanks).
c.1620s.Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).
Copy of eleven Paradoxes, in a small secretary hand.
Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see Dubia
) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.
Copy, in a small secretary hand.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 415-17. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among Dubia
). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's An Essay of Valour
, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.
Copy, in a small secretary hand.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Cottoni Posthuma (London, 1651), as Valour Anatomiz'd in a Fancie by Sir Philip Sidney. Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). The Prose Works of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. Albert Feuillerat, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1968), III, 308-10 (as Appendix). Hayward, pp. 417-20. Peters, pp. 62-7 (among Dubia
). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's An Essay of Valour
, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.
Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed The description of a Scot at first sight
.
First published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 414-15. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among Dubia
). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's An Essay of Valour
, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.
Extracts, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed Certaine considerations touching the Church of England dedicated to his most excellent maiestie
, transcribed from sigs A3v-D4r of the printed edition of 1604.
First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.
Copy, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed in the margin The coppie of that script which Sr walter Rawley gaue his wife the eue before his death
, on one side of a single folio leaf.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).
Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley...
. First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.
A quarto verse miscellany, in a neat secretary hand, fourteen pages.
c.1620s.Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/31/16.
Copy, headed Sonnet
.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
Copy, untitled.
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.
Copy, untitled.
First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes
in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray
).
For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more
: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more
and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
Copy, headed On a Cripple
and here beginning I can neither goe nor stand the Cripple cries
.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo
) and 10.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
Copy, headed Of an Indiferent Affeccon
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, untitled.
Early 17th century.Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).
Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife, one from Guiana dated 1617.
Copy, in a professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, damp-stained.
Headed To Mr. Henrye German in the beginninge of Parliamt 1640
and subscribed J: S:
.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).
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 the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, a folio booklet of six leaves.
Early 17th century.A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...
. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on eleven folio leaves (plus one blank).
Headed A discourse touching the present Consultacon concerning the Peace with Spaine, and the retayninge of the Netherlands in societie & protection written by Sr. Walter Raleigh the first yeare of the Kinge. 1602
.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/34/37.
Eecorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II, (1884), Appendix, p. 386.
A tract addressed to James I and beginning It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...
. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.
Copy, headed A Discourse...Whether it be better to suppresse Popish Practises by the strict execution...
[&c.], the tract dated 11 August 1613.
Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...
, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.
Copy, headed New Instructions to a Painter ./. 1667
, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/48/46.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
A small unbound collection of verse among papers of the Gell family, formerly of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire.
Early 17th century.Copy.
Dyce, VI, 180-1. Bullen, III, 184. Bowers, V, 67-8.
A pair of conjugate folio leaves containing two texts (the first a copy of Lady Penelope Rich's letter to Queen Elizabeth in 1601), both in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple.
c.1620.Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D 258/56/35.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 386.
Copy, headed A letter written by Sr ffulke Grevill to his cousin Grevill Varney then residinge in ffrance...directinge him how hee may make the best use of his travells
.
An epistolary essay beginning My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance...
, dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.
Copy.
Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd
and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue
, was widely circulated.
Copy of a letter by Ralegh.
A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum.
Early 17th century.Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/60/26a.
Copy, headed Ad amicam de perditione armillæ
.
First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
Copy, headed In Flaviam
.
First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
Copy, headed a certain woman
, the text followed by an untitled answer beginning That we yet could in the bible find
.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.
Copy, headed Sr Th. w.S.
and here beginning Who list to hunt I knowe where is an hind
.
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 5.
Copy, untitled, here beginning England men say of late is bankrout growen
, inscribed Sr. J H.
Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see
Copy, untitled, here beginning When doome of death by iudgment fore appointed
.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see
Copy, untitled, here beginning Lalus the zealous preacher as they tell
.
Kilroy, Book IV, No. 20, p. 216.
Copy, untitled.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.
Copy.
McClure, No. 65. Kilroy II, 18, p. 138.
Copy, untitled but superscribed J. D.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
Copy, untitled but superscribed Francis Beaumont
.
First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
Copy.
First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.
Copy, untitled, here beginning You wisht me to a wife both faire and yonge
.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
Copy, untitled.
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 of two letters by Ralegh, to James I, 1603.
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, from Guiana, 1617.
A MS containing four texts relating to Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, on four folio leaves (the last page blank).
c.1620s.Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D 258/67/6b
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 386b.
Copy.
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.
Copy, here beginning Euen such is time that takes in trust
, subscribed made by himselfe, the night before his execucon
.
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
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sr Walter Rawleighs Apologie
, on nine folio leaves, in blank paper wrapper.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/67/6c.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 386.
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 single half-folio leaf containing on one side two copies of Ralegh's Epitaph
in different hands.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/67/33a.
Copy, in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed Sr Walter Rawleys Epitaph written by himselfe the night before his execution
and here beginning Euen such is time that takes in trust
.
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
Copy, in a cursive italic hand, probably of the 18th century, headed Sir Walter Rawleys Epitaph written by himselfe the night before his execution
, here beginning Even such is time that takes in trust
.
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
Copy, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple; untitled, on seven pages of four small quarto leaves, in blank paper wrappers, docketed Raleighs speech at his death
.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/67/33b.
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.
Copy of a speech by Bacon in the House of Commons on the union of the laws of England and Scotland, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple.
c.1620s.Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).
Copy, including the dedication to the King, in a professional cursive hand, headed A Dialogue betwene a Counsellor of State and a Justice of Peace, the one disswadeng, the other perswading the calling of a Parliament. written by Sr Wa: Raleighe
, on 46 folio leaves (plus blanks), in vellum.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).
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.
Copy, including the prose dedication, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed The Iner Temple masque by W.B.
; on seven quarto leaves (plus one blank), imperfect, gnawed by rodents.
Once among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Later owned by Lt. Col. John Chandos-Pole, of Newnham Hall, Daventry.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 386b. The text corrected from this MS in Goodwin (II, 345) and in Hill.
First published in The Works of William Browne, ed. Thomas Davies (London, 1772). Goodwin, II, 165-90. Edited by R.F. Hill as The Masque of the Inner Temple (Ulysses and Circe), in A Book of Masques in Honour of Allardyce Nicoll (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 179-206.
Copy.
c.1620s-30s.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.
Copy of a speech by Bacon.
c.1620s-30s.Copy of a speech by Bacon.
c.1620s-30s.