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  • ASA 5/6, No. 108

    A three-line autograph attestation in Latin signed by Jacobum Sherley, in a largely italic script below the scribal text of a Schedula Excommunicationis drawn up in the Archdeaconry Court of St Albans, 10 November 1623.

    10 November 1623.

    Recorded in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1066. A very reduced facsimile in I.A. Shapiro, The Melbourne MS, TLS (8 August 1986), p. 865.

    • *ShJ 209
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      James Shirley, Document(s)

  • DE/Cd (Add) F6/13

    Copy, in a neat hand, headed A Letter to Lord Cobham, from the late Mr. Congreve, a little before he dy'd, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

    c.1730-50.

    Among papers of Sir Harry Pope Blount (1702-57) and Anne, Lady Blount (d.1716), of Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire. Later among the papers of the Earl of Caledon, of Caledon Castle, Northern Ireland, and formerly preserved in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (D2433/D7/13).

    • CgW 29.3
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as Of Improving the Present Time, London, 1729. Summers, IV, 177-8. Dobrée, pp. 400-2. McKenzie, II, 486-8.

      William Congreve, Letter to Viscount Cobham ('Sincerest Critick of my Prose, or Rhime')

  • DE/Hx/F 109

    A folio volume of two works by Sir Fulke Greville, in a single professional secretary hand, i + 107 unfoliated leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

    Early 17th century.

    Inscribed (f. [ir]) The 18 chapters are printed are printed [sic] as I found in my library at Castle Rushin the 11th of Oct. 1699: i.e. in Castle Rushen, Castletown, Isle of Man, owned in 1699 by William Stanley (1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby. Later in the collection of William Frampton Andrews (1839-1918) and his brother Robert Thornton Andrews (1838-1928), of Hertford. Formerly ACC 2418.

    • GrF 24.5 ff. [1r-81r]

      Copy, headed A dedication to Sr: Phillip Sidney.

      This MS discussed in Victor Skretkowicz, Greville's Life of Sidney: The Hertford Manuscript, EMS, 3 (1992), 102-36 (esp. p. 127), with a facsimile of the first page on p. 104. Discussed, with a different critical interpretation, in John Gouws, Fulke Greville's A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney and the Protocols of Textual Scholarship, EMS, 6 (1997), 106-31.

      Generally entitled A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney. First published in London, 1652. Grosart, IV, 1-224. Edited by Nowell Smith (Oxford, 1907). Gouw, pp. 3-135.

      Fulke Greville, Life of Sir Philip Sidney
    • GrF 15.8 ff. [81v-107r]

      Copy.

      This MS discussed in Victor Skretkowicz, Greville's Life of Sidney: The Hertford Manuscript, EMS, 3 (1992), 102-36 (esp. p. 127), with a facsimile of the first page on p. 107.

      First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 233-99. Gouws, pp. 137-76.

      Fulke Greville, A Letter to an Honourable Lady

  • DE/Lw Z6/Bdle 1 k

    An octavo miscellany, in varying largely italic scripts possibly in one hand, 55 unfoliated leaves, in a vellum wrapper (a recycled legal document).

    c.1631.

    Among papers of the Wittewronge family, originally from Ghent, of Rothamstead House, Hertfordshire, and elsewhere, and related families.

    • BcF 35 f. [47v]

      Copy of the first stanza, untitled.

      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.

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'

  • DE/Lw Z21

    A folio guardbook of miscellaneous family letters and papers, in various hands.

    • BcF 624 item 49

      Copy of two letters by Bacon, one to Lord Burghley, 6 June 1595, the other to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, undated, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on all four pages of a pair on conjugate folio leaves.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

  • DE/P F10

    Copy, in mixed and italic scripts, probably a single professional hand, with a title-page in roman lettering, as by Sr Robert Cotton knt and Barronett, 8 + ii folio leaves, unbound.

    c.1624-30s.

    Inscribed on the last blank page a A Alice Heyman. Among family papers of the Earls Cowper, of Cole Green House and Panshanger, Hertfordshire, including those of Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, and her husband Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706). Received from Lady Ravensdale.

    • CtR 360
      No description or publication history available.

      Tract, addressed to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ... [27 April 1624]

  • DE/P F11

    An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in Latin and English, in a single mixed hand, 73 unfoliated leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Mid-17th century.
    • BuR 1.24 ff. [24r, 29r-30r]

      Extracts, headed Burtons melancho:.

      First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

      Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
    • RaW 478.8 ff. [25r, 26r, 27r, 28r]

      Extracts, headed Sr Gualt: Raleigh.

      First published in The London Magazine (1734), p. 444. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Shall I, like an hermit, dwell'

  • DE/P F 24

    Letters by Abraham Cowley.

    • *CoA 239 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? Martin Clifford], from London, 23 April [1660].

      Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 253-63 (p. 258).

      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)
    • *CoA 240 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham], from Whitehall, 3 October 1660.

      Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 259-60.

      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)
    • *CoA 242 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? Martin Clifford], 18 October 1661.

      Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 260-1.

      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)
    • *CoA 243 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? Martin Clifford], from Barn Elms, 8 October [1662?].

      Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 261-2.

      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)
    • *CoA 248 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? Martin Clifford], Chertsey, 10 June 1666.

      Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 262.

      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)
    • *CoA 250 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? Martin Clifford], Chertsey, 17 December 1666.

      Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 262-3.

      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

  • DE/P F27

    A folio guardbook of separate verse manuscripts and printed poems, in various hands and paper sizes, in modern red cloth.

    Among collections principally of Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).

    • DoC 151 item [13]

      Copy, in a rounded hand, headed Vppon Mr Edward Howard's Utopia, on both sides of 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!')
    • DoC 322 item [21]

      Copy, untitled, on three folio pages.

      Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons ('Religion's a politic law')

  • DE/P F36

    A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, one cursive hand predominating, entitled at one end Poems Collected at several Times from the year 1670 and at the other end Collections of several things out of History. begun about the year 1670, written over a period, 336 largely unnumbered pages (plus blanks), 205 pages from one end and 131 pages from the reverse end, in contemporary vellum boards.

    Compiled chiefly by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), possibly in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. Including (pp. [91-116]) 26 poems by Sir Charles Sedley as a single group (and copies of a poem of doubtful authorship on pp. [165] and [179]).

    c.1670-1705.

    Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Cowper MS: SeC Δ 2. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), pp. 47-76, esp. pp. 62-5, and in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

    • CoA 41 pp. [1-90]

      Copy of Books I-III, in a rounded stylish hand, transcribed from CoA 40, inscribed in the margin By Abraham Cowley.

      This MS, copied c.1670, collated and described in Pritchard's edition, pp. 59-60, and in Pritchard, Editing, with a facsimile of Book I, lines 303-20.

      Most of Book I first published as A Poem on the late Civil War (London, 1679). Waller, II, 465-81. The full text of Books I-III first published in Toronto, 1973, ed. Allan Pritchard. Collected Works, I, pp. 115-62.

      Abraham Cowley, The Civil War ('What rage does England from it selfe divide')
    • SeC 78 p. [91]

      Copy, headed By Sr Charles Sidley.

      First published in The Gentleman's Journal (September 1693), p. 297. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 51.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Maximina ('Ovid, who bid the Ladies laugh')
    • SeC 85 p. [91]

      This MS collated in Pritchard, pp. 62-3.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 55.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Septimus ('Thro' servile Flattery thou dost all commend')
    • SeC 68 p. [92]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 52-3.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Classicus ('When thou art ask'd to Sup abroad')
    • SeC 82 p. [92]

      Copy.

      First published in The Gentleman's Journal (January-February 1694), p. 12. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 53.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Posthumus ('That thou dost Cashoo breath, and Foreign Gums')
    • SeC 87 p. [93]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 53.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Sextus ('What Business or what Hope brings thee to Town')
    • SeC 69 p. [93]

      Copy, with a note that the poem was written To Madame Hall.

      This MS recorded in Pritchard, p. 63.

      First published in The Gentleman's Journal (November 1693), pp. 365-6. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 54.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Cloe ('Leave off thy Paint, Perfumes, and youthful Dress')
    • SeC 47 p. [94]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 55.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Canidius ('Thou strutst, as if thou wert the only Lord')
    • SeC 75 p. [94]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 55.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Flavius ('Thou quiblest well, hast Craft and Industry')
    • SeC 46 p. [95]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 56.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Candidus ('All Things are common amongst Friends, thou say'st')
    • SeC 76 p. [96]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 56.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Gaurus ('That thou dost shorten thy long Nights with Wine')
    • SeC 89 p. [96]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 57.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Thraso ('Whil'st thou sit'st drinking up thy Loyalty')
    • SeC 80 p. [97]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 58.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Maximus ('Wou'd'st thou be free, I fear thou art in jest')
    • SeC 65 p. [98]

      Copy.

      First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 16.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('Princes make Laws, by which their Subjects live')
    • SeC 20 p. [99]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 43.

      Sir Charles Sedley, On Don Alonzo who was cut in pieces for making love to the Infanta of Portugal ('How cruel was Alonzo's Fate')
    • SeC 34 pp. [100-2]

      Copy.

      First published, in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 28-9.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Soldiers Catch ('Room, Boys, room. room. Boys. room')
    • SeC 16 pp. [103-4]

      Copy, headed Ode out of Horace.

      First published in A New Miscellany of Original Poems on several Occasions (London, 1701). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 31-2.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Eighth Ode of the Second Book of Horace ('Did any Punishment attend')
    • SeC 21 pp. [104-5]

      Copy, headed Song to the Queen Birthday.

      First published in The Gentleman's Journal (May 1692), p. 1. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 26-7. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXIV (Purcell Society, 1926), Part II, pp. 1-35.

      Sir Charles Sedley, On the Birth-Day of the Late Queen A Song ('Love's Goddess sure was blind this Day')
    • SeC 74 p. [106]

      Copy.

      First published in The Gentleman's Journal (October 1692), p. 1. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 42.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Coscus ('O Times! O Manners! Cicero cry'd out')
    • SeC 3 pp. [107-9]

      Copy, headed To the Tune of Bateman.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 32-4.

      Sir Charles Sedley, A Ballad To the Tune of Bateman ('You Gallants all, that love good Wine')
    • SeC 2 pp. [110-11]

      Copy.

      First published in The Gentleman's Journal (August 1693), p. 258. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 35-6.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Advice to the Old Beaux ('Scrape no more your harmless Chins')
    • SeC 11 p. [111]

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 39-40.

      Sir Charles Sedley, A Dialogue ('Cupid, I hear thou hast improv'd')
    • SeC 44 pp. [112-13]
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 36-7.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('Smooth was the Water, calm the Air')
    • SeC 81 p. [113]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 60.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Milo ('One Month a Lawyer, thou the next wilt be')
    • SeC 84 p. [114]

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 61.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Sabinus ('Surly and Sour thou dislik'st Mankind')
    • SeC 73 p. [115]

      Copy of a 22-line poem, headed To Corrinna sick Sr C. S: L W.

      This MS recorded in Pritchard, p. 63.

      Apparently unpublished.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Corrina sick ('Apollo whose kind influences produce')
    • SeC 45 p. [116]

      Copy of a 16-line version, untitled and inscribed L W.

      The additional final quatrain printed from this MS in Pritchard, p. 63.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 36.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('When first Pastora came to Town')
    • DoC 294 pp. [130-2]

      Copy, headed A Ballad giuing a true account of the Birth of the Poem Call'd the female Nine (that poem appearing on pp. [132-7]).

      First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines')
    • SuJ 8 p. [141]

      Copy.

      First published in Edmund Waller: Workes (London, 1645). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 37-8. See also WaE 93-5.

      John Suckling, Against Fruition I ('Stay here fond youth and ask no more, be wise')
    • RoJ 538 pp. [142-7]

      Copy, headed Ann. 1670 A Poem at Tunbridg by Robert West / The Evidence.

      First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')
    • RoJ 32 pp. [148-52]

      Copy, headed A Poem on the Poets.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
    • RoJ 256 pp. [152-3]

      Copy.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • DoC 160 p. [126 rev.]

      Copy, headed These by Lord Dorsett and subscribed These made by Ld. Dors: on his last wife before Married to her...[&c].

      First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity). Harris, pp. 101-2.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mrs. Anne Roche when she Lost Sir John Daws ('Like a true Irish merlin that has lost her flight')

  • DE/P F37

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, 376 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Compiled almost entirely by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), and inscribed by her inside the front cover Sarah Cowper 1673. Possibly compiled in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse.

    c.1673-1700s.

    Discussed in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

    • DoC 260 pp. 43-4

      Copy, following (pp. 35-43) A copy of a letter to mr Dryden occasion'd by the Kings Papers dated Jan [16]85[/6].

      First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Bays ('Thou mercenary renegade, thou slave')
    • RoJ 588 pp. 180-2

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • CoA 191 pp. 221-3

      Copy, headed A Pindarick Ode, to the Duke of Buckingham, here beginning Beauty, and strength, and witt, together came and inscribed in the margin M C [i.e. probably Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), Master of the Charterhouse and erstwhile secretary to the Duke of Buckingham].

      This MS recorded in Pritchard, Editing, p. 61. Discussed and collated in his edition of The Civil War (Toronto, 1973), pp. 186-9.

      First published in Works, 9th edition (London, 1700), pp. 135-6. Waller, II, 462-4.

      Abraham Cowley, To the Duke of Buckingham, upon his Marriage with the Lord Fairfax his Daughter ('Beauty and strength together came')
    • CoA 42 pp. 258-9

      Extracts, chiefly from Book I, here beginning How could a Warr so sad and Barbarous please, with a few lines from Books II and III.

      This MS recorded in Pritchard's edition, p. 8.

      Most of Book I first published as A Poem on the late Civil War (London, 1679). Waller, II, 465-81. The full text of Books I-III first published in Toronto, 1973, ed. Allan Pritchard. Collected Works, I, pp. 115-62.

      Abraham Cowley, The Civil War ('What rage does England from it selfe divide')
    • ClE 147 pp. 281-4

      Copy.

      Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

      These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York
    • RoJ 318 pp. 331-8

      Copy of lines 1-173, headed A Satyr Ld Roches-..

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')

  • DE/P F42

    Index volume to DE/P F37 compiled by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).

    • RoJ 291.5 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • RoJ 569.5 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')

  • DE/P F43

    A folio miscellany of verse and prose, compiled by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), begun in 1690 and resumed in 1698, dedicated to her son William's wife Judith, 369 leaves erratically foliated and paginated, in contemporary calf.

    c.1690-1700s.
    • BcF 688.5 pp. 1, 131
      No description or publication history available.
      Francis Bacon, Extracts
    • TaJ 128 pp. 12, 26, 35, 49, 77
      No description or publication history available.
      Jeremy Taylor, Extracts
    • PsK 120.5 pp. 623-4

      Copy, headed A Prayer and without the quotation from More, inscribed in the margin Mrs Phillips.

      First published, untitled (but with quotation from Henry More), in Poems (1664), pp. 137-42. Poems (1667), pp. 68-9, as A Prayer. Saintsbury, pp. 547-8. Thomas, I, 138-41, poem 48.

      Katherine Philips, God ('Eternal reason! glorious majestie!')
    • SeC 15.5 p. [669]

      Copy, headed The Prayer of Sr Charles Sedley, subscribed by Lady Cowper This was Composed in the time of his health and giuen to me by his Lady.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 45-6.

      Sir Charles Sedley, The Doctor and his Patients ('There was a prudent grave Physician')

  • DE/P F44

    A quarto miscellany of devotional writings and extracts, in a single cursive italic hand, 359 pages, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

    Compiled by Dame Sarah Cowper (1644-1720), of Panshanger.

    • HrG 332 pp. 348-56

      A series of extracts, headed Precepts out of Herbert's Poem.

      George Herbert, Extracts

  • D/EP F48

    Partly autograph manuscript, in three unbound quarto quires, iii + 28 leaves.

    Comprising: Book I, 576 lines, in the hand of an amanuensis, with corrections and a few insertions in Cowley's hand, on eight leaves; Book II, 617 lines, entirely in Cowley's hand, on nine leaves; and Book III, 647 lines, also entirely in Cowley's hand, on ten leaves.

    c.1643.

    Among the MSS of the Cowper family of Panshanger, Hertfordshire; evidently once belonging to Dame Sarah Cowper (1644-1720) and probably given to her by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77).

    Edited from this MS in Pritchard's edition, with a facsimile of Book III, lines 65-92, as frontispiece. Also discussed in Pritchard, Editing, with facsimiles of Book I, lines 477-518, and Book III, lines 33-64. A facsimile of f. [6r] is also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile Xa, after p. xxii.

    • *CoA 40
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Most of Book I first published as A Poem on the late Civil War (London, 1679). Waller, II, 465-81. The full text of Books I-III first published in Toronto, 1973, ed. Allan Pritchard. Collected Works, I, pp. 115-62.

      Abraham Cowley, The Civil War ('What rage does England from it selfe divide')

  • DE/V F317/1

    Copy, on six pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Among papers of the Grimston family, Earls of Verulam, of Gorhambury, Hertfordshire.

    • ClE 148
      No description or publication history available.

      Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

      These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

  • IX A 6

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Observations on the States contryes especially Holland / 1621, subscribed with the autograph signature HarGrimston [i.e. Sir Harbottle Grimston, second Baronet (1603-85), lawyer and parliamentarian], 23 small quarto leaves (plus numerous blanks), in limp vellum with ties, later inscribed on the cover Observations on ye States of Holland by H: G:.

    c.1625-30.

    Among papers of the Grimston family, Earls of Verulam, of Gorhambury, Hertfordshire.

    This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. [16r] on p. 136.

    • FeO 90
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

      Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

  • IX A 6a

    Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, with corrections, headed Three weekes Obseruations of the states cuntryes, especially Holland, subscribed with the autograph signature Harb Grimeston [i.e. Sir Harbottle Grimston, first Baronet (d.1648)], on i + eight small quarto leaves, in a vellum wrapper (a recycled indenture).

    c.1625-9.

    Edited from this MS in HMC, Verulam (1906), pp. 221-9. Discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. [5v] on p. 150.

    • FeO 91
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

      Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

  • XII B 5

    A folio volume of parliamentary speeches, in a single professional secretary hand, with a title-page A Booke of seuerall speaches and answers, 27 unnumbered leaves, unbound.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • ElQ 284 ff. [24v-7r]

      Copy of an eclectic text combining Versions I and II, headed The Queenes Answere, following (on 23v-4v) the Speaker's address to the Queen.

      First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

      Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate.... Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

      Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me.... Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

      Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent.... Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

      Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved.... Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

  • XII B 16

    A folio volume of speeches and proceeding in Parliament in 1601 (the journal of Hayward Townshend), in several professional secretary hands, with a decorative title-page, 451 pages, in a limp vellum wrapper.

    Early 17th century.
    • ElQ 285 pp. 235-9

      Copy of Version I, with introduction The Queene answered herselfe.

      This MS cited in Hartley.

      First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

      Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate.... Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

      Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me.... Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

      Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent.... Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

      Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved.... Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

  • XII B 36

    A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in April 1640, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, ii + 73 unnumbered leaves, in a stiff paper wrapper.

    c.1640s.
    • RuB 128 ff. [47v-50r]

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Rudyerd his Speech in Parliamt.

      Speech beginning There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good.... Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640
    • WaE 793 ff. [63v-71r]

      Copy, headed Mr Wallers Speech in Parlt in the House of Comons 1640.

      A speech beginning I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them … First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries.

      Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640

  • 19061

    An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, in two secretary hands, the first page occupied by a draft petition to John Williams (1582-1650), Bishop of Lincoln in 1621-41, from the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire citizens Richard Mun, Edward Rinxall, and Edward Paine.

    c.1621-30s.

    Among papers of the Sebright family, received from Sir Giles Sebright, thirteenth Baronet (1896-1954).

    • DnJ 2972 p. [4]

      Copy of an untitled version beginning Lye still my deere whie wilt thow rise, in a secretary hand, on one page.

      First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

      John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
    • DnJ 464 p. [4]

      Copy of an untitled version, in a secretary hand, following (after a space) Lye still my deere whie wilt thow rise (DnJ 2972), and before two sestains beginning Deare let mee dy on those fayre brests.

      First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')

  • 80040-1

    A legal document signed by Agnes Beaumont, relating to the sale of the house formerly occupied by her and her deceased second husband, Thomas Warren, August 1708.

    1708.

    Recorded in Patricia L. Bell, Agnes Beaumont of Edworth, Bunyan Studies: Bunyan and his Times, 10 (2001/2), 7-28 (pp. 23 and 28 n. 25).

    • *BmA 3
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Agnes Beaumont, Document(s)

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