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  • Baxter Letters, Vol. III, ff. 284r-5v

    Autograph letter signed by More, to Richard Baxter, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 10 February 1681/2.

    1682.

    Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IV, after p. xxi.

    • *MoH 21
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Henry More, Letter(s)

  • Baxter Letters, Vol. III, ff. 286r-7v

    Autograph letter signed by More, to Richard Baxter, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 25 September 1681.

    1681.
    • *MoH 20
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Henry More, Letter(s)

  • Baxter Letters, Vol. V, ff. 85r-6v

    Autograph letter signed, to Richard Baxter, from Hampton Court, 23 June [1662].

    1662.

    Edited in Richard Baxter, Reliquiae Baxterianae, ed. Matthew Sylvester (London, 1696), Book I, part ii, pp. 382-3. Reprinted in White Kennett, A Register and Chronicle Ecclesiastical and Civil (London, 1728), p. 714. Bliss, pp. 242-3 (from Kennett). Printed text quoted in Darwin, pp. 192-3.

    • *MoH 6
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Henry More, Letter(s)

  • MS 12. 11 (25)

    Copy, headed Lady Chudleighs poem the wish, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

    Early 18th century.
    • ChM 4
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (London, 1703). Ezell, p. 77.

      Mary, Lady Chudleigh, The Wish ('Would but indulgent Fortune send')

  • MSS 12. 54

    A group of poems by Corbett, in a single hand, in a folio booklet of fifteen leaves presumably once part of a larger collection, foliated in pencil 49-63, numbered 22, disbound.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • CoR 314 ff. 49r-55v

      Copy, headed Secundum Iter horale [sic] DCor.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
    • CoR 647 ff. 57r, 58r-60v

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet to ye lo: Mordaunt.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

      Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')
    • CoR 340 ff. 61r, 62r

      Copy, headed To Mr Hilsbury at London from Dor Corbett.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

      Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')

  • MSS 28. 49

    A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in Latin, Greek and English, in several hands (two predominating), probably compiled by men associated with the University of Oxford, written from both ends, c.118 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    Mid-late-17th century.

    Inscribed names of Will. Randolph and William Burry '67 [who matriculated at Christ Church on 26 October 1666], and including (ff. 72v-59v rev.) verses by G. Yalden [? William Yalden, who matriculated at Queen's College on 21 November 1687].

    • DeJ 125 pp. 1-89 (ff. 73-117v rev.)

      Transcript of an edition.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.

      Sir John Denham, The Sophy
    • PoW 77.5 f. [14r rev.]

      Copy, untitled and subscribed W: pool.

      Unpublished.

      Walton Poole, 'Love & death laying in a bed to geather'
    • RaW 464.8 f. [16r rev.]

      Copy, headed Dr Duns answer to a lady Laday.

      First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'

  • MSS 28.58 (PP.12.50*4 (21))

    Copy, in one or possibly two rounded hands, complete with (ff. iiir-vir) two prefatory letters, by M. L. and T. H. (? Thomas Harrison, minister in Chester) respectively and (p. 142) a P:S: to the reader, vi leaves + 142 quarto pages.

    In a composite volume principally of 26 printed sermons and elegies, in 19th-century brown leather gilt.

    c.1660s?.

    Bookplate of H:Strangewayes: possibly of Henry Strangewayes (1741-89), of York.

    This MS described in the online Perdita Project.

    • LoM 2
      No description or publication history available.
      Mary Love, The Life of Mr. Christopher Love

  • MSS 61. 12

    Volume of three theological tracts.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • BcF 75 ff. 39r-44v

      Copy of part of the tract, here beginning The wrongs of ye who are possed of the Government of ye Church towards ye others…, inscribed pag. 138 of his Works.

      A tract beginning It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised.... First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.

      Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England

  • MS Jones B. 60

    An octavo volume of works by, or attributed to, Ralegh, in several largely secretary hands, 282 pages, in contemporary velum.

    c.1620s.

    Owned in 1732 by the Rev. John Jones (1700-70), of Abbots Ripton and Alconbury, near Cambridge.

    This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 584-5.

    • RaW 710 pp. 1-15

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleighs Letter to the Earle of Northumberland being a true Relation of the takeing of Cales.

      An account of the Cadiz expedition in 1596, allegedly by Sir Walter Ralegh and Transcribed from a manuscript in the hands of his grandchild, Mr. Ralegh, beginning You shall receive many relations, but none more true than this.... First published in An Abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (London, 1700), part ii, pp. 17-25. Works, (1829). VIII, 667-74.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Relation of the Action at Cadiz
    • RaW 697 pp. 17-22

      Copy, headed That the Seate of Gouernment is vpheld by the two great Pillers Thereof vizt Ciuill Iustice, and Martiall Pollicie...Written by Sr Walter Raleigh kt:.

      A tract beginning They say, that the goodliest cedars which grow in the high mountains of Libanus thrust their roots between the clifts of hard rocks.... First published together with Sir Walter Raleigh's Scepticke (London, 1651). Works (1829), VIII, 538-40.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Seat of Government
    • RaW 710.95 pp. 23-28

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleighs Letter to Prince Henry touching the modell of a Shipp.

      This MS recorded in Youings.

      A letter to Prince Henry, written from the Tower, c.November 1607, beginning If the ship your highness intends to build be bigger than the Victory.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650), pp. 8-15. Works (1829), VIII, 627-9. Youings, No. 194, pp. 301-4.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh unto Prince Henry touching the Model of a Ship
    • RaW 671 pp. 33-63

      Copy, as Written by Sr: Walter Raleigh knight, & by him presented to his Matie: Anno Dni 1602.

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
    • RaW 609 pp. 65-99

      Copy, headed A Discourse of the first invention of Shipps & the Severall parts thereof....

      An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself.... First published, as Upon the first Invention of Shipping, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c.
    • RaW 619 pp. 103-50

      Copy, headed A Discourse of Warr, as it is either naturall (first Remedielesse wherein Somewhat touching transplantations) or Arbitrary...Written by Sr: Walter Raleigh knight.

      A tract beginning The ordinary theme and argument of history is war.... First published (in part), as The Misery of Invasive Warre, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War
    • RaW 1125 pp. 151-68

      Copy.

      A tract beginning The Scepticke doth neither affirm nor deny any position.... First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 548-56. William M. Hamlin, A Lost Translation Found? An Edition of The Sceptick (c.1590), ELR, 31/1 (Winter 2001), 34-51 (pp. 42-51).

      A translation of extracts from the Hypotyposes of Sextus Empiricus. See S.E. Sprott, Ralegh's Sceptic and the Elizabethan Translation of Sextus Empiricus, PQ, 42 (1963), 166-75, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 66-7.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Scepticke
    • RaW 567 pp. 169-211

      Copy, headed Sr: Walter Raleighs large Appologie for his Journey to Guiana.

      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 710.275 pp. 213-19

      Copy, headed Sr: Walter Raleighs short Appologie for his last Actions at Guiana.

      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 993 pp. 221-3

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 693 pp. 229-34

      Copy of notes belonging to the Art of Warre by Sea, consisting of later additions to the treatise, headed Fragments of Sr. Walter Raleighes and beginning For weere it not out of a singuler devotion to doe your Matie service..., apparently transcribed from Ralegh's autograph papers or from an early copy of them.

      Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 599-601, and in Youings.

      No complete text of this treatise is known. Fragments first published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 597-9. Youings, No. 227, pp. 375-6.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Of the Art of Warre by Sea
    • RaW 603 pp. 235-6

      Extract from an early version of Ralegh's dedicatory epistle to the King, untitled.

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
    • RaW 994 pp. 243-5, 247-9, 251

      Copies of letters by Ralrgh, to Winwood, to Lady Ralegh, and to Sir Robert Carr.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 177 pp. 257-60

      Copy, headed A Lye to the world Penned by Sr: W: Raleigh.

      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')
    • EsR 49 pp. 261-3

      Copy, headed An Answere to the same [i.e. RaW 177] and here beginning Goe Eccho of the wynde.

      May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest'
    • RaW 451 pp. 265-7

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleighes Pilgrimage.

      Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 54C, pp. 130-3.

      First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

      This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage ('Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet')
    • RaW 315 p. 267

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleigh on the Snuffe of a Candle the night before hee dyed.

      Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.

      First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died ('Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout')
    • RaW 808 pp. 269-74

      Copy, headed in another hand Sr Walter Raleighs Speech & Behaviour before his Execution &c.

      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 808.5 pp. 275-82

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleighs speech at his Execution.

      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 97 p. 282

      Copy, headed Verses hee made the night before hee dyed.

      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 RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'

  • MS Jones B. 62

    An octavo volume of autograph Latin poems by George Herbert, together with a series of and early versions of 78 English poems by him, including several not subsequently published in The Temple, in the neat hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions throughout, 137 leaves (including a number of blanks), in a Little Gidding calf binding.

    c.1620s.

    Variously owned by Nicholas Ferrar (1593-1637), of the Little Gidding community, who was in effect Herbert's literary executor; by his relative by marriage the Rev. Hugh Mapletoft (d.1730), rector of All Saints, Huntingdon; by the Rev. John Jones (1700-70), of Abbots Ripton and Alconbury, near Cambridge; and by Thomas Dawson, before being acquired by Dr Williams.

    Generally cited as the Dr Williams MS. A complete facsimile, introduced by Amy M. Charles, published as The Williams Manuscript of George Herbert's Poems (Delmar, New York, 1977). Facsimile examples in John J. Daniell, The Life of George Herbert of Bemerton (London, 1902), facing p. 317, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), pp. 149 and 155. See also discussions in Frank L. Huntley, The Williams Manuscript, Edmund Duncon, and Herbert's Quotidian Fever, George Herbert Journal, 10 (1986-7), 23-32, and Lillian Myers, Facing Pages: Layout in the Williams Manuscript of George Herbert's Poems, George Herbert Journal, 21 (1997-8), 72-82.

    A transcript of this MS volume made in 1899 by Miss E.M. Thompson for Professor George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933), American scholar and author, 202 large quarto pages in modern cloth, was donated to Harvard on 19 March 1912 and is now Harvard MS Eng 1542.

    • HrG 78 [before f. 1r]

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Palmer, II, 108.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 5.

      George Herbert, The Dedication ('Lord, my first fruits present themselves to thee')
    • *HrG 51 ff. 1r-13v
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

      George Herbert, The Church-porch ('Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance')
    • HrG 254 ff. 14v-15r

      Copy, the first quatrain headed Perirranterium.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 25.

      George Herbert, Superliminare ('Thou, whom the former precepts have')
    • *HrG 11 f. 15v
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      Facsimile in James Boyd White, This Book of Starres: Learning to Read George Herbert (Ann Arbor, 1994), p. 84.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 26.

      George Herbert, The Altar ('A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant reares')
    • *HrG 229 ff. 16r-22r
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 26-34.

      George Herbert, The Sacrifice ('Oh all ye, who passe by, whose eyes and minde')
    • *HrG 260 ff. 22v-3v
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 35-6.

      George Herbert, The Thanksgiving ('Oh King of grief! a title strange, yet true')
    • HrG 225 f. 24r

      Copy, headed The Second Thanks-giving.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 36-7.

      George Herbert, The Reprisall ('I have consider'd it, and finde')
    • *HrG 221 f. 25r
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 40.

      George Herbert, Redemption ('Having been tenant long to a rich Lord')
    • HrG 119 ff. 25v, 24v

      Copy, with lines 21-32 (here beginning Since nothing Lord can bee so good) as a separate poem entitled The Passion.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 38-9.

      George Herbert, Good Friday ('O my chief good')
    • HrG 240 f. 26r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 38.

      George Herbert, The Sinner ('Lord, how I am all ague, when I seek')
    • *HrG 91 ff. 26v-7r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision; with lines 19-30 (here beginning I had prepared many a flowre) as a separate poem entitled Easter.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 41-2.

      George Herbert, Easter ('Rise heart. thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise')
    • *HrG 93 ff. 27v-8r
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      Facsimiles of this MS in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 57, and in David West, Easter Wings, N&Q, 237 (December 1992), 448-52 (p. 449).

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 43.

      George Herbert, Easter-wings ('Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store')
    • HrG 125 f. 28v

      Copy of an early version beginning When backward on my sins I turne mine eyes.

      First published in The Temple (1613). Hutchinson, pp. 43-4.

      George Herbert, H. Baptisme (I) ('As he that sees a dark and shadie grove')
    • HrG 127 f. 29r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 44.

      George Herbert, H. Baptisme (II) ('Since, Lord, to thee')
    • HrG 166 f. 29v

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 54.

      George Herbert, Love I. ('Immortall Love, authour of this great frame')
    • HrG 168 f. 30r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 54.

      George Herbert, Love II. ('Immortall Heat, O let thy greater flame')
    • HrG 132 ff. 30v-1v

      Copy.

      Edied from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.

      First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 200-1.

      George Herbert, The H. Communion ('O gratious Lord, how shall I know')
    • HrG 49 f. 32r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 65-6.

      George Herbert, Church-musick ('Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure')
    • HrG 256 ff. 32v-3r

      Copy, headed The Christian Temper.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 55.

      George Herbert, The Temper (I) ('How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rymes')
    • HrG 258 f. 33v

      Copy, headed The Christian Temper.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 56.

      George Herbert, The Temper (II) ('It cannot be. Where is that mightie joy')
    • HrG 208 f. 34r

      Copy.

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

      George Herbert, Prayer (I) ('Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age')
    • HrG 129 f. 34v

      Copy of lines 25-40, headed Prayer and beginning Give me my captive soul, or take.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 52-3.

      George Herbert, The H. Communion ('Not in rich furniture, or fine aray')
    • HrG 43 f. 35r

      Copy, headed Prayer.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 66.

      George Herbert, Church-lock and key ('I know it is my sinne, which locks thine eares')
    • HrG 97 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 57.

      George Herbert, Employment (I) ('If as a flowre doth spread and die')
    • HrG 284 ff. 36v-7r

      Copy of an early version beginning Come blessed doue charmd wth my song.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 59-60.

      George Herbert, Whitsunday ('Listen sweet Dove unto my song')
    • HrG 133 f. 37v

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.

      George Herbert, The H. Scriptures ('Oh Book! infinite sweetnessse! let my heart')
    • HrG 135 f. 38r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.

      George Herbert, The H. Scriptures. II. ('Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine')
    • HrG 165 ff. 38v-9r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.

      First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 201-2.

      George Herbert, Love ('Thou art too hard for me in Love')
    • HrG 238 f. 39r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 63.

      George Herbert, Sinne (II) ('O that I could a sinne once see!')
    • *HrG 266 f. 39v
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 68.

      George Herbert, Trinitie Sunday ('Lord, who hast form'd me out of mud')
    • HrG 268 f. 40r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.

      First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 202-3.

      George Herbert, Trinity Sunday ('He that is one')
    • *HrG 223 ff. 40v-1r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 48-9.

      George Herbert, Repentance ('Lord, I confesse my sinne is great')
    • HrG 204 f. 41v

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 61.

      George Herbert, Praise (I) ('To write a verse or two is all the praise')
    • *HrG 186 f. 42r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 45.

      George Herbert, Nature ('Full of rebellion, I would die')
    • *HrG 121 ff. 42v-3r
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 60-1.

      George Herbert, Grace ('My stock lies dead, and no increase')
    • HrG 179 f. 43r-v

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 62-3.

      George Herbert, Mattens ('I cannot ope mine eyes')
    • HrG 107 f. 44r-v

      Copy.

      First published (from this MS) in Grosart (1874). printed from this MS in Hutchinson, p. 203.

      George Herbert, Euen-song ('The Day is spent, & hath his will on mee')
    • HrG 39 f. 45r

      Copy of lines 1-14, headed Christmas-Day.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 80-1.

      George Herbert, Christmas ('All after pleasures as I rid one day')
    • HrG 47 ff. 45v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 64-5.

      George Herbert, Church-monuments ('While that my soul repairs to her devotion')
    • *HrG 114 f. 46r-v
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 71-2.

      George Herbert, Frailtie ('Lord, in my silence how do I despise')
    • *HrG 67 ff. 47r-8r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938). pp. 240-1.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 68-9.

      George Herbert, Content ('Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep')
    • HrG 218 f. 48r

      Copy, headed Poetry.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 69-70.

      George Herbert, The Quidditie ('My God, a verse is not a crown')
    • *HrG 2 ff. 48v-50r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph correction.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 46-8.

      George Herbert, Affliction (I) ('When first thou didst entice to thee my heart')
    • HrG 144 ff. 50v-1r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 70-1.

      George Herbert, Humilitie ('I saw the Vertues sitting hand in hand')
    • *HrG 252 ff. 51r-2v
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 75-7.

      George Herbert, Sunday ('O day most calm, most bright')
    • *HrG 151 f. 53r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 56-7.

      George Herbert, Jordan (I) ('Who sayes that fictions onely and false hair')
    • *HrG 80 ff. 53v-4r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 79-80.

      George Herbert, Deniall ('When my devotions could not pierce')
    • HrG 275 ff. 54v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 82.

      George Herbert, Ungratefulnesse ('Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie')
    • *HrG 99 ff. 55v-6r
      Autograph

      Copy, the title added in Herbert's hand.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 78-9.

      George Herbert, Employment (II) ('He that is weary, let him sit')
    • HrG 289 f. 56r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 185.

      George Herbert, A Wreath ('A wreathed garland of deserved praise')
    • *HrG 263 ff. 56v-7r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 77-8.

      George Herbert, To all Angels and Saints ('Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bands')
    • *HrG 198 ff. 57v-8r
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 88-9.

      George Herbert, The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45. ('I know the wayes of Learning. both the head')
    • HrG 6 ff. 58v-9r

      Copy, headed Tentation.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 89-90.

      George Herbert, Affliction (IV) ('Broken in pieces all asunder')
    • HrG 287 ff. 59v-60r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 84.

      George Herbert, The World ('Love built a stately house. where Fortune came')
    • HrG 60 f. 60r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 84-5.

      George Herbert, Coloss. 3. 3. Our life is hid with Christ in God ('My words & thoughts do both expresse this notion')
    • *HrG 108 ff. 60v-1v
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 49-51.

      George Herbert, Faith ('Lord, how couldst thou so much appease')
    • *HrG 161 ff. 62r-3r
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 86-7.

      George Herbert, Lent ('Welcome deare feast of Lent: who loves not thee')
    • *HrG 175 ff. 63v-4v
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph corrections and the title added by Herbert.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 90-2.

      George Herbert, Man ('My God, I heard this day')
    • HrG 18 f. 65r

      Copy, headed Ode.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 92-3.

      George Herbert, Antiphon (II) ('Praised be the God of love')
    • HrG 8 ff. 65v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 97.

      George Herbert, Affliction (V) ('My God, I read this day')
    • HrG 236 f. 66r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 45-6.

      George Herbert, Sinne (I) ('Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!')
    • HrG 35 ff. 66v-7r

      Copy.

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

      George Herbert, Charms and Knots ('Who reade a chapter when they rise')
    • HrG 277 ff. 67v-8r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 93-4.

      George Herbert, Unkindnesse ('Lord, make me coy and tender to offend')
    • HrG 184 ff. 68v-9r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 98-9.

      George Herbert, Mortification ('How soon doth man decay!')
    • HrG 182 ff. 69v-71v

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 100-2.

      George Herbert, Miserie ('Lord, let the Angles praise thy name')
    • HrG 211 ff. 71v-2r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 103.

      George Herbert, Prayer (II) ('Of what an easie quick accesse')
    • HrG 188 ff. 72v-3v

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 104-5.

      George Herbert, Obedience ('My God, if writings may')
    • HrG 153 f. 74r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 102-3.

      George Herbert, Jordan (II) ('When first my lines of heav'nly joyes made mention')
    • *HrG 95 ff. 74v-5r
      Autograph

      Copy of an early version beginning Lord teach mee to referr, with extensive autograph revisions; originally entitled Perfection, the title The Elixir added by Herbert.

      Facsimiles of this MS in Palmer, I, after p. 120; in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 10; and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 34.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 184-5.

      George Herbert, The Elixir ('Teach me, my God and King')
    • HrG 160 f. 75v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.

      First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, p. 204.

      George Herbert, The Knoll ('The Bell doth tolle')
    • HrG 200 f. 76r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.

      First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 204-5.

      George Herbert, Perseverance ('My God, the poore expressions of my Love')
    • HrG 75 ff. 76v-7r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 185-6.

      George Herbert, Death ('Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing')
    • HrG 87 ff. 77v-8r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 186-7.

      George Herbert, Dooms-day ('Come away')
    • HrG 156 f. 78v

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 187-8.

      George Herbert, Judgement ('Almightie Judge, how shall poore wretches brook')
    • HrG 137 f. 79r

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 188.

      George Herbert, Heaven ('O who will show me those delights on high?')
    • HrG 170 f. 79v

      Copy.

      Facsimiles in Palmer, I, 84 and in James Boyd White, This Book of Starres: Learning to Read George Herbert (Ann Arbor, 1994), p. 262.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 188-9.

      George Herbert, Love III ('Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back')
    • *HrG 45 ff. 82v-9r
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 190-8.

      George Herbert, The Church Militant ('Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throne')
    • *HrG 101 f. 89v
      Autograph

      Copy, with an autograph revision and the title added by Herbert.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 199.

      George Herbert, L'Envoy ('King of Glorie, King of Peace')
    • *HrG 325 ff. 102r-7r
      Autograph

      Autograph of twenty-one Latin poems.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson. Facsimiles of f. 103r in Palmer, I, 168, and of f. 106r in Hutchinson, frontispiece.

      First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 404-9. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 62-79.

      George Herbert, Passio Discerpta ('Cvm lacrymas oculósque duos tot vulnera vincant')
    • *HrG 315 ff. 107v-19r
      Autograph

      Autograph MS of thirty-five Latin poems.

      Edited principally from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson. Facsimiles of poems xxv, xxvi and xxvii in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 58, and of poems xxx and xxi in John J. Daniell, The Life of George Herbert (London, 1902), facing p. 317.

      First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 410-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 80-121.

      George Herbert, Lucus ('Svm, quis nescit, Imago Dei, sed sexea certè')

  • MS Morrice A

    A folio composite volume of late 16th-century ecclesiastical tracts, in various hands, 338 leaves, in marbled boards.

    • HkR 50 Part I, f. 35r-v

      A letter written from Laleham by Lawrence Tomson to Mrs Crane discussing Hooker's propositions concerning the salvation of Papists, in a secretary hand, on a folio leaf, dated 26 February 1585/6.

      This MS believed to be unpublished. Recorded in The Seconde Parte of a Register, ed. Albert Peel (Cambridge, 1915), II, p. 48, No. 197. A late 17th-century copy of this letter is in MS Morrice C, pp. 640-1.

      Richard Hooker, Lawrence Tomson's Letter on the Hooker-Travers Controversy
    • HkR 32 Part I, ff. 109r-16r

      Copy, in a secretary hand.

      This MS collated in Folger edition, Volume V.

      First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.

      Richard Hooker, Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council
    • HkR 52 Part I, ff. 178r-83r

      Copy of a treatise discussing at length the Hooker-Travers controversy.

      This MS believed to be unpublished. Recorded in The Seconde Parte of a Register, ed. Albert Peel (Cambridge, 1915), II, p. 48, No. 198.

      Richard Hooker, Sr Hew Herberts treatise against Hooker
    • HkR 33 Part II, ff. 244v-51v

      Copy, transcribed from HkR 32 by an amanuensis for Roger Morrice (1628-1701/2).

      This MS recorded in Folger edition, Volume V.

      First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.

      Richard Hooker, Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council

  • MS Morrice C

    A folio volume of ecclesiastical tracts, in a single hand, 898 pages (plus numerous blanks), in rough calf.

    Late 17th century.
    • HkR 34 pp. 805-13

      Copy, transcribed from HkR 32 by an amanuensis for Roger Morrice.

      This MS recorded in Folger edition, Volume V.

      First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.

      Richard Hooker, Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council

  • MS Morrice E

    A folio volume chiefly comprising a journal of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1627-8, 187 pages (plus blank pages 288-656), in contemporary vellum.

    Mid-late 17th century.
    • RuB 38 p. 27

      Copy, headed Sr Benjamin Ruddierds Speech 22. March. 1627.

      Speech beginning Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8
    • RuB 39 pp. 37-8

      Copy, headed Sr Benjamin Ruddierds Speech upon the Receipt of his Maties Answer to the Petition against Recusants. 9. April. 1628.

      Speech beginning The best thanks we can return his Matie for his gracious and religious answer....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628
    • HlJ 29.4 pp. 126-7

      Copy, headed The Bishop of Exeters Letter sent to the house of Commons 28. april. 1628.

      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
    • FeO 50 pp. 177-8

      Copy, headed In compassion of the Duke, among other poems on Buckingham.

      First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.

      Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 ('Sooner I may some fixed Statue be')

  • 12.57.87

    An exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages (sigs E1v-2r, E3v-4r, F1r-2v) supplied in MS in a secretary hand, the printed text also containing a reader's marginal markings and underlinings.

    c.1604.
    • BcF 130.6
      No description or publication history available.

      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.

      Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

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