Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Exeter College, Oxford

  • MS 92

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various hands, xxiii + 149 leaves (and three blanks), in contemporary vellum with silk ties.

    • ElQ 192 f. 62r-v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Quene Elizabeths Answer to the L. and others in the Parliament .15.7.5. howse vpon Thursday xvo martij.

      Edited from this MS (as Text ii) in Hartley. Cited in Selected Works.

      First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.

      Version I. Beginning Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses.... Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.

      Version II. Beginning My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted.... Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576

  • MS 100

    A folio volume of parliamentary speeches from 3 March 1627/8 to 16 May 1628, in a single professional mixed hand, i + 303 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary calf.

    c.1628.
    • RuB 18 ff. 27r-9r

      Copy, headed at the side Sr. Beniamin Rudyard.

      Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8
    • RuB 47 f. 94r-v

      Copy, headed at the side Sr. Ben: Rudyer.

      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
    • RuB 108 f. 116r

      Copy of a speech, headed at the side Sr. Ben: Rudyard.

      Speech beginning I hold the same ground still that I brought with me....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.11 June 1628
    • RuB 67 ff. 228r-30v

      Copy, headed at the side Sr. Beniamin Rudyer.

      Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
    • RuB 85 f. 239r

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamyn Rudyer atc.

      Speech beginning We have been long about framing of words for a strong law.... Yale 1628, III, 172. Variant versions: III, 175, 179, 180, 181-2.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.30 April 1628
    • RuB 87 f. 240r

      Copy, headed Sr. Beniamyn Rudyer.

      A brief speech beginning I am sorry that that which I have said....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, early May 1628
    • RuB 89 f. 298r-v

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamyn Rudyer.

      Speech beginning Justice ought to be a great favourer of the Innocent....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, May 1628
    • RuB 91 f. 301r-v

      Copy, headed Sr. Beniamyn Rudyer.

      Speech beginning I would we were as ready to reward as punish....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.16 May 1628

  • MS 113

    A folio volume of state and Chancery tracts and letters, in several professional secretary hands, 89 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties.

    c.1620s.

    Inscriptions include (f. 1v) John Charles Jones and Thomas Stockton and (f. 2r) W. G.

    • BcF 370.5 ff. 27r-42r

      Copies of five speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, and his speeches to Sir John Denham, to Serjeant Hutton, and to Sir William Jones, 19 May 1617.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • BcF 245.5 ff. 43r-7r

      Copy of 100 ordinances, headed Ter: Hillar: 16to Jacob: Regis. 1618 / Ordinances made by Sr francis Bacon..., followed (ff. 48r-9r) by fifteen Addicionall rules.

      First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

      Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery
    • BcF 475 ff. 65r-7v

      Copies of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1621.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

  • MS 127

    A folio volume of political speeches, in one or more professional secretary hands, 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties.

    c.1620s.
    • BcF 371 ff. 1r-16v

      Copy of five speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, and his speeches to Sir John Denham, to Serjeant Hutton and to Sir William Jones, 19 May 1617.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • ElQ 218 ff. 51v-3v

      Copy of Version II, headed Notes of the Queenes speeche to the Lordes and comons of the Parliamt in answer of their peticon exhibited the xij of November 1586: by the Lo: Chancellor vnto her Matie: for ye speedie execucon of the Scotish Queene, as neere as my Capacity wthout tables could serve to note them, and my memory next morning might avayle to set them downe.

      Edited from this MS (as Text ii) in Hartley (pp. 254-8).

      First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

      Version I. Beginning When I remember the bottomless depth of God's great benefits towards me.... Hartley, II, 254-8 (Text ii, a summary) and II, 261 (cited only, as Text iv). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 186-90 (Version 1).

      Version II. Beginning The bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almighty.... Hartley, II, 247-53 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 190-6. Autograph Compositions, pp. 67-72 (Version 2). Selected Works, Speech 8, pp. 61-9.

      Version III. Beginning My lords and gentlemen, I cannot but accept with much kindness this your petition, wherein I perceive the great love you bear towards me.... Hartley, II, 259-60 (Text iii).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586

  • MS 137

    A MS volume.

    17th century.
    • BcF 372 f. 276r

      Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • MS 139

    A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary speeches, in several professional hands, 197 leaves (plus numerous blanks and some additions at the reverse end), in contemporary vellum.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • CtR 74 ff. 17v-27v

      Copy, ascribed to Sr. Rob Cotton in a later hand.

      Speech beginning My Lords, Vpon the occasions delivered by the Gentlemen, your Lordships have heard.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [219]-250, with The true Copies of the [Latin] Records not printed which were used on either side in that part of the debate on pp. 251-69.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Argument made by the Command of the House of Commons, (Out of the Acts of Parliament, and Authority of Law, expounding the same) at a Conference with the Lords, concerning the Libertie of the person of every Freeman
    • RaW 586 ff. 190v-2r

      Copy, in two secretary hands, of the dedicatory epistle to King James and of the beginning of the dialogue, described as written in the Tower of London by Sir Walter Raleigh...In Anno 1610, subscribed in a later hand Perlegi et pro Libitu Excerpsi Aug. 5. 1697. W. K., incomplete.

      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

  • MS 166

    Copy, in the hands of Sir John Harington (including, pp. 203-26, an addycion), of his servant Thomas Combe, and of Harington's brother Francis, viii + 226 quarto pages, in contemporary vellum with ties.

    c.1585.

    This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226, and the addycion edited from this MS on pp. 229-44. Harington's hand identified by Peter Beal and the MS discussed in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110, with facsimiles of pp. 111, 119 and 203 on p. 89-90. 93.

    • LeC 49
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

  • MS 173

    A folio volume of state tracts, in secretary hands, 219 leaves, in contemporary vellum with ties.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • MrT 101 ff. 42r-60v

      Copy, untitled, on three separate sheaves of paper in different secretary hands, subscribed vita Thomae Mori p Roperio.

      First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

      Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More
    • MrT 5.5 f. 56r

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (London, 1557), p. 1432. Yale, Vol. 1, p. 45.

      Sir Thomas More, Lewes ye Loste Lover ('Ey flatteringe fortune, looke thow neuer so faire')
    • CtR 43 ff. 145r-54v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, here ascribed on a title-page to Sr Ro: C: B:.

      Tract beginning What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.

      Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men

  • 9K 1520

    Autograph inscription Sum Nicolai Vdalli Magnes amoris modestia 1524.

    1524.

    Owned in 1530 by William Cholwell, Fellow of Exeter College; in 1535 by John Dotyn, Fellow and Rector of Exeter College, and donated by him in 1561.

    Juhász-Ormsby, No. 2.

    • *UdN 8
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Nicholas Udall, Camers, Johannes. Joannis Camertis Minoritani, Artium et sacræ theologiæ Doctoris (Vienna, 1520)

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    A printed exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton, given me by my worthy friend, the author…1657, and by me to Mr. Derbyshire, 1682.

    NB. in his Will Walton stated, I give to Mr. Darbishire the Sermons of Mr. Antony Faringdon, or of dor. Sanderson, which my executor thinks fit.

    1657-82.
    • *WtI 166
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Farindon, Anthony. XXX Sermons (London, 1647 [i.e. 1657])

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    A printed exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton; also with a note The legacy of Mr. I. walton, 1683/84.

    c.1674.
    • *WtI 168
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Farindon, Anthony. Fifty Sermons (London, 1674)

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    A printed exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton. giuen to me by Mr Marryot. may. 9°. 1663, also with a note (perhaps by Samuel Conant) And given to me by Mr Isaac Walton not long before his death: & sent to me fro his son soone after his death.

    1663.
    • *WtI 167
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Farindon, Anthony. Forty Sermons (London, 1663)

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