Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Inner Temple Library

  • Miscellaneous MS No. 17

    A quarto commonplace book, in a single mixed hand, 319 pages (including blanks, plus a few more), in brown calf.

    c.1620s-40s.
    • RaW 579.5 ff. 123r, 245

      Extracts.

      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 1081 pp. 161-2

      Extracts.

      A tract beginning That the only way to civilize and reform the savage and barbarous lives and corrupt manners of such people is..., First published in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 541-7.

      A translation of parts of a work by Giovanni Botero. See Lefranc (1968), p. 66.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations concerning the Causes of the Magnificence and Opulence of Cities
    • BcF 207.8 passim

      Numerous extracts from Bacon, principally from the Essays, including entries and citations on pp. 31-2, 39, 42-3, 56, 59, 62, 65-7, 85, 88-9, 233-4.

      Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
    • BcF 215.125 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

      Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
    • BuR 1.25 passim

      Extracts.

      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
    • HrE 125.7 passim
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII

  • Miscellaneous MS No. 19

    A folio composite volume of legal and antiquarian papers, in various professional secretary hands, 284 leaves, in half brown morocco.

    • CmW 83 ff. 280v-2v

      Copy.

      A tract beginning That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here.... First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

      William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

  • Miscellaneous MS No. 38

    An octavo commonplace book relating to military history, in probably a single mixed hand, 230 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary brown calf.

    c.1630.
    • HrE 125.8 pp. 31, 87

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
    • RaW 679.6 passim

      Extracts, including entries on pp. 143-4, 167, 169, 171, 177, 181, 187, 193, 195.

      First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

  • Miscellaneous No. 81

    Manuscript notes, partly derived from notes made by George Steevens (1736-1800). literary editor and scholar, on 32 pages tipped-into an exemplum of the 1652 printed edition of The Anatomy, in dark brown calf.

    c.1800.
    • BuR 1.255
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • Petyt MS 511, Vol. 17

    A composite folio volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 152 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.

    • CmW 7.2 passim

      Extracts

      Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

      William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
    • CmW 102.9 passim

      Extracts.

      First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).

      William Camden, Remaines of a Greater Worke concerning Britaine

  • Petyt MS 512, Vol. A

    A folio volume of historical material, 123 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.

    • CmW 13.17 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

      William Camden, Britannia

  • Petyt MS 512, Vol. AA

    A folio volume of historical materials, 331 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.

    • CmW 13.174 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

      William Camden, Britannia

  • Petyt MS 512, Vol. E

    A folio volume of miscellaneous transcripts and extracts, 247 leaves.

    • DaJ 238.3 ff. 166-70 passim, 180r et seq.

      Extracts.

      A compilation, beginning with Trin. 2. Iacobi en Leeschecquer. Le Case de Praxiet, the main part an epistlolary tract by Davies to Lord Ellesmere. First published as Le Primer Report des Cases en Matters en Ley (Dublin, 1615). Grosart, II, 243-357.

      Sir John Davies, A Discourse of Law and Lawyers: with Appendix of Cases
    • CmW 13.175 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

      William Camden, Britannia

  • Petyt MS 512, Vol. I

    A draft by William Petyt on a treatise concerning the Parliaments and Governments of England after the Reign of King John, 296 folio leaves.

    • CmW 13.176 passim

      References and quotations.

      First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

      William Camden, Britannia
    • DaJ 234.4 passim

      References and quotations.

      Charge beginning You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you.... First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.

      Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]

  • Petyt MS 512, Vol. Q

    A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single rounded hand, 261 leaves, in black morocco gilt.

    Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

    Late 17th century-1700s.
    • CmW 54 ff. 211r-13v

      Copy, entitled A Collection made by Mr. Camden concerning the Different Sense and meaning of the word Baro in severall Ages, and headed The following Collection was communicated to me by the Learned Dr. Thomas Smith….

      A tract beginning I have else where said somewhat of Barones.... First published in Hearne (1720), pp. 205-8. Hearne (1771), I, 124-6. Camden's original MS is untraced: it is apparently not among Hatton MSS in the Bodleian, British Library, or Northamptonsire Record Office.

      William Camden, The Etymologie and Original of Barons

  • Petyt MS 512, Vol. S

    • CmW 7.3 passim

      Extracts.

      Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

      William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
    • HkR 73 passim
      No description or publication history available.
      Richard Hooker, Extracts

  • Petyt MS 512, Vol. U

    • CmW 7.4 passim

      Extracts.

      Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

      William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
    • HkR 74 passim
      No description or publication history available.
      Richard Hooker, Extracts

  • Petyt MS 526

    A folio volume of three works, each in a different secretary hand, 50 leaves (including blanks, plus more blanks), in brown morocco.

    • BcF 228 ff. 33r-5v

      Copy of the Dedication to the Queen and the Preface only, dated 8 February 1596.

      First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.

      Bacon claimed to have collected 300 of them, of which only some few (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the missing maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, On Bacon's Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.

      Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law
    • RaW 555 ff. 43r-50r

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Rayleigh's Apology.

      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

  • Petyt MS 533, Vol. 5

    A folio volume of state papers, 298 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.

    • FxJ 1.13 f. 19r et passim

      Extracts.

      First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

      John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

  • Petyt MS 533, Vol. 38

    A folio volume of transcripts and extracts largely from state papers, 184 leaves.

    • DaJ 238.5 ff. 16r-23 passim

      Extracts or refererences.

      A compilation, beginning with Trin. 2. Iacobi en Leeschecquer. Le Case de Praxiet, the main part an epistlolary tract by Davies to Lord Ellesmere. First published as Le Primer Report des Cases en Matters en Ley (Dublin, 1615). Grosart, II, 243-357.

      Sir John Davies, A Discourse of Law and Lawyers: with Appendix of Cases

  • Petyt MS 535, Vol. 6

    A folio volume chiefly of Acts of Parliament from 1483 to 1546, in a single rounded hand, 349 leaves, in brown morocco gilt.

    Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

    Late 17th century-1700s.
    • LeJ 95 ff. 129r-33v

      Copy, headed John Leyland's New years Gift, given of him to King Henry the VIII. in the 37.year of his Reigne concerning his laborious Journey and search for Englands Antiquities.

      First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.

      John Leland, The Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johan Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees
    • HrE 125.9 ff. 267r-70r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII

  • Petyt MS 536, Vol. 1

    A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, 314 leaves.

    • CmW 13.178 f. 1r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

      William Camden, Britannia

  • Petyt MS 536, Vol. 8

    A volume of state papers relating to criminal trials, in three secretary hands, 392 pages.

    • EsR 303 pp 129-34r

      Copy, headed The manner of the Earle of Essex his death, the whole sume of all words as hee spake to the Guard overnight before hee dyed, and his speeches from his Chamber to the Scaffoulde, and alsoe vpon the Scaffould at the howre of his death.

      Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

  • Petyt MS 536, Vol. 10

    • HrE 125.95 ff. 245r-8r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII

  • Petyt MS 536, Vol. 11

    A folio volume of transcripts of public records, inscribed on a flyleaf De Creatione Nobilium in Parliamento, 235 leaves.

    • CmW 13.18 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

      William Camden, Britannia

  • Petyt MS 537, Vol. 16

    A parliamentary journal of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, in two professional secretary hands, the second (ff. 295r-524r) that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, 524 folio leaves (plus blanks), in brown leather gilt.

    c.1620.
    • ElQ 287 ff. 401v-3r

      Copy of Version I, in Starkey's hand, introduced ...The Queene Answered herselfe.

      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
    • ElQ 288 ff. 500r-3r

      Copy of Version I, in Starkey's hand, introduced ...And her Matie begane thus to Answere her selfe (viz).

      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

  • Petyt MS 537, Vol. 21

    A folio volume of parliamentary journals, in several hands, one secretary hand predominating, 338 leaves, in leather gilt.

    c.1620s.
    • BcF 486 ff. 143v-7r, 154v-6v

      Copy of Bacon's submission, 22 April 1621, and subsequent confession and answers to the articles against him.

      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

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 1

    A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament, largely in a single rounded hand, ff. 1r-4r and 19r-41v in a clerk's hand, 246 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

    Late 17th century-1700s.
    • ElQ 219 ff. 43r-6v

      Copy of Version II, headed A speech Spoken by Queen Eliz: to her Parliamt Concerning The Treasons of Mary, Queen of Scots, inscribed in the margin Ex MS penes Meipsum.

      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
    • ElQ 289 ff. 51r-4v

      Copy of Version I, entitled The last Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her last Parliament held Anno 43o of her Reigne Annoque Domini 1601.

      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

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 2

    A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament and related papers, 296 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    17th century.
    • BcF 626 ff. 274r-90

      A collection of copies of correspondence of Bacon in 1616.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 3

    A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, largely in a single rounded hand, 182 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco.

    Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

    Late 17th century-1700s.
    • BcF 487 ff. 132r, 145v-6v, 159v-62r, 169r-79v

      Copy of Bacon's submissions on 20 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1621 and his subsequent confession and answers to the articles against him.

      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

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 8

    A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, in three secretary hands, 163 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • BcF 386 ff. 67v-85r

      Copy of Bacon's report in the House of Commons on speeches delivered by the Earls of Salisbury and Northampton, 17 June 1607.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 9

    A folio volume of speeches in Parliament 1628-29, in one or more secretary hands, 79 leaves (plus blanks), in morocco gilt.

    c.1630s.
    • RuB 70 ff. 19r-20r

      Copy, headed Sr: Beniamin Rudiard: the 28th Aprill: 1628.

      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

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 10

    A folio composite volume of largely state and parliamentary papers, in several professional secretary hands, 202 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    Including (f. 3r-v) Elizabethan verses inscribed Thomas Aldwell me possidet and (ff. 4r-81r) a formulary of political and legal documents and precedents, in several hands, largely compiled by Francis Alford, MP (c.1530-92).

    • ElQ 38 f. 3r

      Copy, annotated in the margin per reginam Walter Rawley, and deleted.

      Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe Arizona, 1999), No. 15B, p. 20.

      Collected Works, Poem 12, pp. 307-9. Selected Works, Poem 7, pp. 14-18.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh, circa 1587 ('Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?')
    • DyE 56 f. 3v

      Copy, headed In praise of a contented minde.

      This MS text collated in Sargent. Part I edited from this MS in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My Mind to me a Kingdom is, RES, NS. 26 (1975), 385-94 (pp. 391-3); in May, The Poems of Edward DeVere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), as Poem II possibly by the Earl of Oxford; and in May, Courtier Poets, pp. 283-4 (among Poems possibly by Oxford).

      First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'
    • ElQ 21 f. 3v

      Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin per Reginam.

      This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

      A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

      Queen Elizabeth I, 'The doubt of future foes'
    • DyE 89 f. 3v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
    • ElQ 100 f. 6r

      Copy, written lengthways down the margin, headed A praier made by her Matie vpon the Settinge furth of the Army to Cales: 1596.

      This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

      Beginning Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest.... Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596).

      Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596
    • ElQ 220 ff. 6v-7v

      Copy of Version II, headed in the margin A speech made By her matie tochinge the Treasons of the Queene of Scottes.

      This MS partly collated in Hartley. Cited in Collected Works.

      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
    • SoR 308 ff. 129r-40v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, apparently transcribed from the edition of 1595.

      This MS recorded in Bald, pp. 47-8.

      First published (by a secret English press) 1595 [for 1600?]. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 11

    A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament, in various secretary hands, 346 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

    • RuB 130 ff. 252r-3v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sir Beniamin Rudyard knt:.

      Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

      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
    • CmW 13.85 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

      William Camden, Britannia

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 16

    A folio composite volume of proceedings in Parliament and the Exchequer, in several professional largely mixed hands, one predominating, 321 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

    • CtR 297 ff. 297r-320v

      Copy, with a title-page, Extracts out of the Records wherein may be collected by what meanes the kings of England haue, and may raise Moneye Written by Sr Robert Cotton, Knt. & Baronett.

      Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates.... First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200 [i.e. 202].

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 17

    A folio composite volume of state letters, papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 570 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    • ElQ 290 ff. 33r-5r

      Copy of Version II, in a professional rounded hand, introduced Her Gratious Matie vsed a most Excellent speech to the effect following.

      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
    • FxJ 1.135 ff. 80r-4v

      Extracts, in a professional mixed hand, untitled, comprising the Bishop of Winchester's letter to the Lord Protector.

      First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

      John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
    • MrT 36.8 f. 90r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1529. Yale, Vol. 7, pp. 109-228.

      All exempla of the two editions of 1529 bear a MS correction, evidently made in the printer William Rastell's workshop, on sig h2v: see Ralph Keen, A Correction by Hand in More's Supplication, 1529, Moreana, Vol. 20 (February 1983), 100.

      Sir Thomas More, The Supplication of Souls
    • FxJ 1.14 ff. 534r-8r

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, with inscriptions in the margin Apud Foxum vol 3 fo 977 and vol 3 fo 542 Ao 1555.

      First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

      John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 18

    A folio composite volume of state papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 448 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

    • RuB 36 ff. 26v

      Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, headed Sr Beniamon Ridier.

      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
    • CtR 186 ff. 29r-30v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as By Sr Robte Cotten Knt and Barronet, imperfect, lacking the ending.

      Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
    • RaW 954 ff. 207r-16v, 233r-4r

      Copies of five letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to Ralegh's wife, to his son, and to James I (2), in a professional secretary hand, on quarto pages.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 710.245 ff. 217r-20r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sr walter Rawleighs short Apollege.

      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
    • EsR 11 f. 220v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed to a copy of a letter by the Earl of Essex to Queen Elizabeth vppon his Comaund to goe for Ireland in 1599.

      This MS text collated in May, pp. 124-5.

      May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate'
    • RaW 728.22 ff. 237v-9v

      Copy of Ralegh's arraignment on 28 October 1618, in a professional secretary hand.

      Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • RaW 786 ff. 240r-4r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sr. Walter Rawleighs confession & gesture at the tyme of 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)
    • EsR 80 ff. 383r-4r

      Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in a professional secretary hand, headed Intituled the discontented Courtier, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
    • EsR 137 ff. 385r-98v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

      First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

    • CtR 187 ff. 400r-2v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, as Sr Robt Cotten his opinion. c.1630.

      Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
    • HlJ 27 f. 414r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Bishop of Exeters Speech to the Lower Howse of Parliament.

      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
    • RuB 71 ff. 436r-7r

      Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed Sr Beniamin Rudyards Speech in the house of Commons on the 28th of Aprill. 1628.

      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

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 19

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in several professional hands, 302 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

    • CvG 33 ff. 37r-60v

      Copy of a possibly abridged version, in a professional secretary hand, headed Notes of the life of Cardinall Wolsey written by George Cavendish his get vsher.

      First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

      George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
    • CtR 298 f. 150bis-179r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, unascribed.

      Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates.... First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200 [i.e. 202].

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 20

    A folio composite volume of parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 735 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

    • BcF 488 ff. 694r-715v

      Copy of an account of The Passages in Parliament Against Frauncis Viscount St: Albanes Lord Chauncellor of England; with his Confession, Submission, And Censure. Anno Dni: 1620:, incorporating his various submissions, in a professional secretary hand.

      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

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 24

    A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, largely in two professional secretary hands, 120 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    • CmW 84 ff. 21v-4v

      Copy, headed The antiquitie of Parliaments, subscribed William Camden.

      A tract beginning That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here.... First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

      William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 27

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 273 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

    • CtR 510 ff. 1r-36r

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed Considerations for the Repressinge of the increase of Preistes Jesuits and recusants without Drawinge of Blood: Written by Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Barronett.

      Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads..., dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?
    • BcF 387 ff. 96r-110r

      Copy of a speech by Bacon at the arraignment of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, 1616, in a secretary hand.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 31

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a formal title-page, as Written by Sr Robert Cotton knight and Barronett, iii + 62 folio leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    c.1630.
    • CtR 25
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

      Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 36

    A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 346 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • SoR 309 ff. 56r-77v

      Copy, headed The Coppy of an Humble Supplication to Her Matie in answere to the late Proclamation.

      Edited from this MS in Bald. Described in McDonald, p. 16.

      First published (by a secret English press) 1595 [for 1600?]. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty
    • LyJ 34 f. 78r

      Copy, headed A Peticon made by John Lilly to the Qs. Matie.

      Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yor Highnes wth many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

      John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
    • LyJ 56 f. 78r-v

      Copy, headed Another of the same mans Peticons.

      Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme.... Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

      John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
    • RaW 955 ff. 78v-81r

      Copies of five letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Ralegh's wife, to Sir Robert Carr, and to Queen Anne.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • GrF 21 ff. 82r-3r

      Copy, headed Sir ffulke Grevill to his Kinsman in ffrance.

      This MS recorded in Farmer, p. 141.

      An epistolary essay beginning My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance..., dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.

      Fulke Greville, Letter to Grevill Varney on his Travels
    • BcF 313 ff. 111r-14r

      Copy of six speeches by the Squire (2), the Hermit (2), the Soldier, and the Secretary, headed The Earle of Essex his deuice one the Queenes day præsented before he rann at Tilt.

      First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.

      Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595
    • CvG 34 ff. 149r-84v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

      George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
    • RaW 728.225 ff. 273r-80r

      Copy of the 1603 arraignment.

      Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • RaW 728.228 ff. 283r-313r

      Copy of the 1603 arraignment.

      Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 37

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several hands, 216 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

    • RaW 688 ff. 1r-16v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, as Excellent obbservations...By Sir Walter Rawleigh Knt, with (f. 1v) an Index.

      A tract dedicated to Prince Henry and beginning Having formerly, most excellent prince, discoursed of a maritimal voyage, and the passages and incidents therein.... First published in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 335-50. These notes probably written by Ralegh but usually appended to Sir Arthur Gorges, A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage, printed in Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition, XX (1907), 34-129. See Helen Estabrook Sandison, Manuscripts of the Islands Voyage and Notes on the Royal Navy, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown (New York, London & Oxford, 1940), 242-52, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 53, 58-9.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea-Service
    • BcF 542 ff. 171r-82r

      Copy, in a secretary hand.

      Advice beginning Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection.... First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

      Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 39

    A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in various hands, 378 leaves (the first 29 paginated), in red morocco gilt.

    • BcF 146 pp. 1-57

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

      A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels.... First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

      A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

      Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 43

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    • WoH 286 ff. 60r-81r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with (f. 60r) a later note in the margin See an Answer to this in this Vo: fo: 188. JB / 1721: i.e. by Joshua Blew, librarian, referring to an Answer to Wotton's tract on ff. 188r-208r.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
    • RaW 638 ff. 84r-103r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with some marginal annotations.

      A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
    • SiP 88.5 ff. 284r-6r

      Copy of Psalms 51, 104 and 137, in an italic hand, headed Psalmes translated by the Countesse of Pembrooke, on three folio leaves.

      A copy of verses sent by Sir John Harington to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, on 29 December 1600, his letter (copy on f. 303v) declaring I have sent yow heere the devine, and trulie devine translation of three of Davids psalmes, donne by that Excellent Countesse, and in Poesie the mirroir of our Age.

      This MS discussed in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke, II, 316. See also SiP 74, SiP 76 and SiP 88.8.

      Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David
    • PeM 3 ff. 286r-9r

      Copy, in an italic hand, headed The Triumph of death translated out of Italian by the Countesse of Pembrooke.

      Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Also in The triumph of death, and other unpublished and uncollected poems by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, 1561-1621, ed. G.F. Waller (Salzburg, 1977), and in The Triumph of Death: A critical edition in modern spelling of The Countess of Pembroke's translation of Petrarch's Trionfo della Morte, ed. Gavin Alexander, Sidney Journal, 17/1 (Spring 1999), 2-18.

      Collected Works, I, 273-82.

      Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, The Triumph of Death ('That gallant Ladie, gloriously bright')
    • HrJ 25 ff. 289v-92r

      Copy of ten Epigrams (McClure Nos. 188, 271, 31, 302, 337, 67, 90, 267, 338, and 329), in an italic hand, headed Certaine Epigram's out of a Pamphlet called Misacmos: Merriments, composed by Sir Jhon Harryngton.

      In Harington's letter of 19 December 1600 to Lucy, Countess of Bedford (copy on f. 303v), he presents these epigrams to her. The present MS is probably a copy deriving from the MS he sent to her.

      This MS recorded in McClure, p. 390, and the letter printed p. 87; also discussed in Frances Berkeley Young, The Triumphe of Death translated out of Italian by the Countesse of Pembrooke, PMLA, 27 (1912), 47-75.

      Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).

      Sir John Harington, Epigrams
    • BcF 318 ff. 294r-5r

      Copy of Bacon's possible contribution, the Prince's speech to the Counsellors and the speeches of the first two Counsellors, with what claims to be the speech of the third Counsellor but which is a somewhat mangled version of the speeches of the third and fourth Counsellors.

      Performed at Christmas 1594-5. First published in London, 1688. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1914), (pp. 32-7). Bacon possibly the author of the Prince's speech to the Counsellors and of the speeches of the six Counsellors: see Spedding, VIII, 325-42.

      Francis Bacon, Gesta Grayorum
    • NaT 1 ff. 295v-8v

      Copy, headed The choice of valentines, with a dedicatory sonnet To the right Honorable the lord S., beginning Pardon sweete flower of matchless Poetrie, subscribed Thomas Nash.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart (lines 1-17), in Farmer (complete), and in McKerrow (complete).

      Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.

      Thomas Nashe, The choise of valentines ('It was the merie moneth of Februarie')
    • HrJ 363.5 f. 303v

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, enclosing psalms, [19 December 1600].

      McClure, No. 19, p. 87.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • BcF 543 ff. 304r-14r

      Copy.

      Advice beginning Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection.... First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

      Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 45

    A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, 486 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    • CtR 299 ff. 132r-50v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Extracts out of the Records wherein...[&c.], inscribed in the margin Per Cotton milit et Barronett nuper defunct.

      Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates.... First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200 [i.e. 202].

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
    • BcF 741 ff. 153r-76r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Of the lately erected seruice called the Office of Composicons for Alyenacons. Written by the Right hoble ffrancis Lord Verulam late Chancellor of England.

      A tract, beginning All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England.... Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

      Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
    • MrT 66 ff. 177r-263v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, unascribed.

      First published c.1626.

      Sir Thomas More, Cresacre More's Life of Sir Thomas More
    • LeC 63 ff. 278r-333v

      Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, with a supplied title (f. 275r) The History of ye Earle of Leicester and incorporating further notes at the end, including An Additon agreable to ye history Writtne in uerse.

      This MS recorded in Peck, p. 826.

      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

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 46

    A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 488 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

    • FxJ 25 passim

      Five items apparently owned and used by Foxe; corresponding to Nos 3, 4, 5, 17 (part), and 18 in a list of 23 Manuscripts out of John Fox his study (f. 29r): namely, the historical documents on ff. 389r-90r, 481r-8r, 391r-426r, 4r-13x, and 431r-70v respectively.

      The list of Foxe's MSS is printed in J. Conway Davies, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (London, 1972), I, 43-4. The contents of the volume are analysed in this catalogue, Vol. II, 847-57.

      John Foxe, Miscellaneous Papers
    • EsR 138 ff. 108r-29r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 22 quarto leaves.

      First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 47

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 592 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    • FxJ 26 passim

      Fourteen items owned and used by Foxe; corresponding to Nos 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 (part), 19 (possibly), and 22 in a list of 23 Manuscripts out of John Fox his study (Petyt MS 538, Volume 46, f. 29r): namely, the historical documents on ff. 303-14r, 364x-72v, 392r-3v, 1r-11v, 353r-63r, 394r-5r, 390r, 389r, 415r-16r, 398r-406r, 66r-8r, 410r-14r, 397r (possibly), and 410r respectively.

      The list of Foxe's MSS is printed in J. Conway Davies, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (London, 1972), I, 43-4. The contents of the volume are analysed in this catalogue, Vol. II, 857-83.

      John Foxe, Miscellaneous Papers

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 49

    A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, 96 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    c.1630s.
    • HoH 14 ff. 80r-2r

      Copy.

      A tract beginning By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled …. Unpublished?

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 50

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 171 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    • NaR 27 ff. 125r-71v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page.

      Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

      Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 51

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, with (ff. 1r-2v) a table of contents, ii + 266 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

    • RaW 956 ff. 44r-8r

      Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to the Earl of Southampton, 14 August 1603, and to James I, 1 August 1603, in a secretary hand.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • SiP 204 ff. 110r-18v

      Copy in a professional secretary hand, headed A Coppie of A Letter written by Sr Phillipp Sydney vnto Queene Eliz: toucheing hir Marriage with Monsier and with an extended valediction subscribed Phillipp Sydney, on eighteen pages.

      This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 25.

      First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

      This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
    • EsR 304 f. 162r-v

      Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed The speech and Execution of the Earle of Essex, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

      Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
    • BcF 627 ff. 188r-93v

      Copy of a letter beginning Sir at our last conference I remembered unto you..., in a professional secretary hand, subscribed Frances Bacon.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

  • Petyt MS 538, Vol. 55

    A folio composite volume of seventeen legal tracts and papers, 240 leaves.

    • BcF 742 ff. 228r-34v

      Copy.

      A tract, beginning All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England.... Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

      Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

  • [no shelfmark]

    Autograph inscription, presenting the volume to Ralph Sadler.

    The inscription is printed in G. T[horn].-D[rury], George Chapman, RES, 1 (1925), 350; in Tannenbaum, p. 148, with a facsimile, plate XIV; in Jean Robertson, The Early Life of George Chapman, MLR 40 (1945), 157-65 (p. 157); in Eccles, p. 177. Facsimile in Index, I.i (1980), Facsimile VIII (p. 193).

    • *ChG 21
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      George Chapman, Chapman, George. The Crowne of all Homer's Worckes Batrachomyomachia (London, [1624?])

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