CELM

Isle of Wight Record Office

NWD/APR/9Z/1

A miscellany compiled by Vincent Sparkes, Minister of Northwood, Isle of Wight.
Mid-17th century.
Formerly recorded as Cromwellian commonplace book.

Recorded in Mary Damant, A Cromwellian Commonplace Book, N&Q, 7th Ser. 10 (13 September 1890), 204-5.
- JnB 379.5 ff. 137v-8v
  
  Copy, together with (stanza-for-stanza) a Latin version by William Strode (StW 1413) and a Greek version by M^r Maisters of New=colledge.
  
  First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.
  
  Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe ('Come leaue the lothed stage')
- StW 1413 ff. 137v-8v
  
  Copy, headed M^r Stroade of Ch: Ch: turning, together with (stanza-for-stanza) Jonson's original poem (JnB 379.5) and a Greek version by M^r Maisters of New=colledge.
  
  First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), 335-6. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
  
  William Strode, Ben: Johns. Ode translat. per Gu. Stroad, Proc. Oxon. ('Scenam defere Musa nauseatam')
OG/AA/87

A small folio book of accounts, from 1625 onwards, compiled by Sir John Oglander (1585-1655), of Nunwell House, Brading, Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight.

Formerly recorded as Oglander book of accounts.
- MrJ 71 f. 88v
  
  An anonymous copy.
  
  John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')

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