Essex Record Office, Chelmsford

  • D/DBy C27

    Miscellaneous sermon notes, compiled by Elizabeth Cornwallis, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Henrietta Maria.

    c.1635.

    Among the family archives of Lord Braybrooke, of Audley End, Essex.

    • HlJ 10.5 f. 6r-v

      Extracts, as by Dr Hall.

      First published in London, 1623. Wynter, V, 174-85.

      Joseph Hall, The Best Bargain: A Sermon Preached to the Court at Theobald's on Sunday, September 21, 1623
    • HlJ 51.5 f. 8r-v

      Extracts, as by docter hall.

      First published in London, 1623. Wynter, V, 158-73.

      Joseph Hall, The Great Impostor: Laid open in a Sermon at Gray's Inn, February 2, 1623
  • D/DBy Z5

    An unbound bundle of verse MSS, in various hands.

    Among the family archives of Lord Braybrooke, of Audley End, Essex.

    • CgW 14.5 [unnumbered item]

      Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on a single octavo leaf.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.

      Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

      William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')
  • D/DSh Z1

    A miscellany, belonging to the Smyth family of Hill Hall, Essex.

    c.1620.
    • RaW 924 f. 36r-v

      Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to James I and to Ralegh's wife.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 778 ff. 37r-8v

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 56 f. 38v

      Copy, headed The night before hee died.

      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'
  • D/DW Z3

    An unbound bundle of verse MSS, in various hands.

    Late 17th century.

    Among archives of the Copped (or Copt) Hall estate, chiefly relating to the Conyers family.

    • WaE 720 item ii

      Copy.

      First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

      Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
    • DoC 149.5 item xlii

      Copy, headed Upon Mr Edward Howards Vtopia &c., on a single folio leaf.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his New Utopia ('Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!')
    • BrT 5.95 item xlvi

      Extracts.

      First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
    • PsK 430.5 [unnumbered item]

      Copy, headed To my L of Canterburies Grace, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

      First published, as To his Grace Gilbert Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, July 10. 1664, in Poems (1667), pp. 166-8. Saintsbury, pp. 600-1. Thomas, I, 239-40, poem 116.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lord Arch:Bishop of Canterbury his Grace 1664 ('That private shade, wherein my Muse was bred')
    • RoJ 104.32 [unnumbered item]

      Copy.

      See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')
    • DrJ 43.81 [unnumbered item]

      Copy.

      A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

      First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

      The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

      John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
  • D/DW Z3 (iii)

    An octavo MS of Advice to Painter poems.

    Late 17th century.

    Among the archives of the Copped Hall estate, chiefly relating to the Conyers family.

    • MaA 337 pp. 1-17, 53

      Copy, subscribed Sr. J. D.

      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 375 pp. 17-35

      Copy.

      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')
    • MaA 407 pp. 35-41

      Copy, ascribed to Sr J: D[enham].

      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.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • MaA 429 pp. 41-7

      Copy.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter ('Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?')
    • MaA 133 pp. 48-52

      Copy.

      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')
    • MaA 285 p. 53

      Copy.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children ('Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post')
    • MaA 295 p. 53

      Copy.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his House ('Here lies the sacred Bones')
  • D/DW Z4

    An unbound bundle of verse, in various hands.

    Among the archives of the Copped (or Copt) Hall estate, chiefly relating to the Conyers family.

    • MaA 72.5 [unnumbered item]

      Copy, headed The Exchequer Ballad..., on three folio pages.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')
    • MaA 307.5 [unnumbered item]

      Copy, untitled, on two folio leaves.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')