A tall folio volume of several works, in accomplished hands, with rubrication, on vellum throughout, 146 leaves, in old calf gilt (rebacked).
15th century.Once in the library of John, first Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), collector.
Possibly Bale's autograph annotations.
Unpublished?
Possibly Bale's autograph annotations.
A tall folio composite volume of papal bulls and other works, in accomplished hands, on vellum throughout, 147 leaves, in later calf gilt (rebacked).
15th century.Bale's autograph annotations on ff. 128-9.
Unpublished?
Copy of the complete translation, in accomplished secretary hands, with rubrication, with an explicit Heir endit ye buke of Virgill Writtin be the hand of Johanne mudy wt Maist thomas bellenden...Clerke and endit ye 2o febry Anno xlvo
, 426 folio leaves, in old calf (rebacked).
Inscribed (f. 1v) Edmund Ashefeyld 1596
.
This MS collated in Coldwell and described I, 98-9.
First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's Æneid Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, by David F.C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 30, 25, 27, 28 (Edinburgh & London, 1957-64).
A folio composite volume of treatises, in various hands, 313 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked).
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed (f. 201r) The Life of Syr Thomas More Somtymes Lord Chancellour of England
, with (f. 199r) a preliminary dedication To my deare and tres-deare friend R R
subscribed B R
, and a dedication (ff. 199v-200v) To the courteous Reader
, subscribed Ro: Ba:
.
Edited from this MS in Christopher Wordsworth. Edited principally from this MS in Hitchcock & Hallett., described, p. xii, and with a facsimile of p. 5 as frontispiece.
A life of More written in 1599, possibly by Robert Basset (1574-1641), of Devon, a zealous Catholic and kinsman of More: see Andrew Breeze, Sir Robert Basset and The Life of Syr Thomas More, N&Q, 249 (September 2004), 263. The work first published in Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical History, vol. II (London, 1839). Edited, as The Lyfe of Syr Thomas More Sometymes Lord Chancellor of England, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and P.E. Hallett (EETS, London, 1950).
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, headed Thomas Wolsey late Cardinall his life and deathe, Written by George Cavendishe his Gentleman Vsher
, inscribed (f. 313v) my book. Ano: 1598. / Pe: Manwood / wrytten by my man Rich J / borrowed ye oryginall of Mr Iohn Burrowes, & John Stowe
: i.e. referring to Sir Peter Manwood (1571-1625), judge and antiquary, and John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian.
Sylvester, No. 19.
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).
A 14th-century small folio MS of Philippus Roboti, De gestis Carmelitarum, and its translation by Thomas Bradley (Scrope), Bishop of Dromore), in two accomplished hands, with rubrication, 153 leaves, in later calf (rebacked).
An autograph list by Bale of English and Irish Carmelite bishops, 29 lines.
This MS recorded in McCusker, The Library (1935), 153 (No. 80). A transcript of this list made in March 1655/6 by Sir James Ware (1594-1666) is in the Bodleian (MS Rawl. B. 479, f. 74v), and a transcript made by Henry Wharton (1664-95) is at Lambeth Palace (MS 590, p. 148).
Unpublished.
Copy, almost entirely in a single professional secretary hand, untitled and unascribed (inscribed by a later reader as collected by Sr Robt. Cotton, & publish'd by Will. Prynn
), imperfect, lacking the first half, here beginning with the reign of Henry IV, 265 folio leaves (plus blanks), originally foliated 300-572, 574, in old calf (rebacked).
First published, as Collected by Sr. R. Cotton
, in London, 1657. Probably collected rather by William and Robert Bowyer, Keepers of the Records in the Tower, and revised and edited by William Prynne.
A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, relating to Elizabethan voyages, in various hands, 475 leaves, in modern calf.
The first item inscribed (f. 1r) This boke ys myn / Iohn fford
. Among papers of the Carew family.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The liefe and death of Cardinall Wolsey
.
Sylvester, No. 20.
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).
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.
Copy of an early version, with a dedication (f. 315r) to Charles Howard and Sir Robert Cecil in a neat italic hand, the main text (ff. 316r-36r) closely written in a probably professional secretary hand, with sidenotes (on ff. 320v, 321v, 322v, 325v, 326v) in an italic hand, probably Cecil's, untitled, but endorsed in a later hand (f. 337v) sir Wallter Ralleghes dyscourse: of his first voyadg to Guiana
.
Edited from this MS in Lorimer.
A tract, with To the Reader
beginning Because there haue been diuers opinions conceiued of the golde oare brought from Guinana...
, the main text beginning On Thursday the 6. of Februarie in the yeare 1595. we departed England...
. First published as The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana (London, 1596). Works (1829), VIII, 377-476. Edited by V.T. Harlow (London, 1928). Edited by Joyce Lorimer (Aldershot, 2006).
Copy, in a formal secretary hand, headed in an italic hand somewhat resembling Ralegh's A prayer made by the queene at the departure of the fleet
, on the second page of A iournall of all the particularities that fell out in the voyadge vnder the Chardge of the tow lls generally
(partly in the same italic hand and occupying ff. 338r-73r).
This MS cited in Selected Works.
Beginning O God, All-maker, Keeper, and Guider, inurement of thy rare-seen, unused and seld-heard-of goodness...
. Collected Works, Prayer 39, pp. 426-7. Autograph Compositions, pp. 104-5. Selected Works, Prayer 5, pp. 257-9.
A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 407 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-morocco.
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, untitled, inscribed later Two Discourses of Sr Rob. Cotton ye 2d not printed wth his posthuma
.
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.
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, subscribed Rob. Cotton
.
Tract beginning To search so high as the Norman Conquest...
. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.
Copy, in a professional angular secretary hand, with some rubrication, with a title-page or introductory rubric Heir begynnis ane liill dialog betuixt experience and ane Courteoure of the miserabill estait of ye Warld compilit be Schir dauid lindesay of the mont knicht, Lionn king of armis Quhilk is diuidit in foure partis as estir followis begun on thurisday ye 11 of Junij 1556
, including (ff. 1r-3r) The Epistill and (ff. 3r-7r) The Prolog, i + 132 small folio leaves, in old calf (rebacked).
This MS described in Hamer, IV, 5-8, and partly collated, III, 233 et seq.
First published [in St Andrews or Edinburgh, c.1554]. Hamer, I, 197-386.
A quarto composite volume of sermons, in several hands, ii + 272 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).
Once owned by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, manuscript collector, with (f. [iiv] his table of contents.
Copy, in a secretary hand.
First published in XCVI Sermons (London, 1629). LACT, Sermons, V (1843), 104-26.
A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 310 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with an added title-page (f. 280r) in an italic hand with title subscribed in another hand Or rather an encomium of W: Conq: By Sr Walter Ralegh
, to which is added (and deleted) Anonimus
.
First published (from a MS found in the Library of a Person of High Quality
) as An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England with the Reign of King William the I, ascribed to Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1693). Works of Sir Walter Ralegh (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 509-37. Daniel's probable authorship discussed in Rudolf B. Gottfried, The Authorship of A Breviary of the History of England, SP, 53 (1956), 172-90, and in William Leigh Godshalk, Daniel's History, JEGP, 63.1 (1964), 45-57.
Copy, in several professional secretary hands, subscribed finys 1596: E: S:
, 111 quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
This MS collated in Variorum.
First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.
Spenser's authorship of this View
is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr, ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.
A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical and state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 315 pages, in later black morocco gilt.
Collected by, and partly in the hand of, William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), William Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).
Copy, in a small neat italic hand, headed A coppie of the forme vsed by the Lo: Bishop of Elye in Consecrating the newe Church plate of the Cathedrall Church of Worcr
.
Edited from this MS in LACT.
First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 159-63.
Copy, in an italic hand, headed The Manner of Induction præscribed by ye R: Reud Lancelot Andrewes Bp of Chichester, Ely & Winchester
.
Edited from this MS in LACT.
First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), p. 164.
A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers, in various hands, 831 pages, in modern half-calf marbled boards.
Compiled by Henry Wharton (1664-95).
Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), William Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).
Extracts.
First published in Posthumous Works (London, 1712). Wilkin, IV, 1-31. Keynes, III, 121-43.
Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed Collectanea Lelandi. 4o. vol. 2
, transcribed from Leland's autograph MS in the Bodleian Library.
Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed Archiva A Lelandi Collectanea / vol. 4. in fol. / vol. 7. in 4o
, transcribed from Leland's autograph MS in the Bodleian Library.
A duodecimo volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in a single hand, 222 pages, in later black morocco gilt.
In the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, the first page (f. [ir] inscribed Z / Sylloge Epistolarum quarundam insignium, aliorumque aliquot Monumentorum, facta manu RRP. Wilhelmi Sancroft. Archiepi Cantuar. Accesserunt Orationes eiusdem nonnulla in Academiâ Cantabrig. habitæ
.
Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).
Copy.
Yale, Vol. 15, pp. 197-311, in Latin, with an English translation.
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.
Copy, in the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, manuscript collector, of a letter by Corbett, in Latin, to Archbishop Ussher, from Cassington, die Julij novisso
[1 July, no year].
Copy, headed Bp hall of Exeter his Letter to the Comons House in Parlamt. 1628
.
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.
Copy.
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 149-53.
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 208 leaves, in morocco stamped in gilt on each cover MMM
.
Among papers of George Carew (1555-1629), Earl of Totnes, soldier and administrator.
Copy of The Lo: Chancillor Sr ffrancis Bacons reporte to the lls concerning the staple of wooll in Irelande Julij 22 1616
, in a professional secretary hand, on a folio leaf.
Two folio guardbooks of 166 state letters, in various hands, 515 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.
Volume III of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Copies of letters by Francis Bacon, probably in the hands of amanuenses.
Letters by Francis Bacon, partly autograph, chiefly in hands probably of amanuenses.
A volume of state papers and correspondence, including original letters by Francis Bacon.
Volume IV of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Copy of a letter by the Countess of Pembroke, to Sir Edward Wotton, 1594.
Edited in Collected Works, II, 286-7.
A volume of state papers and correspondence.
Volume VI of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Autograph letter signed, to Anthony Bacon, 6 October 1595.
A letter by Constable, to the Earl of Essex, in a secretary hand, sent on to Anthony Bacon, endorsed Lo of Essex & H. Constable to my / 7 December. 1595 at paris
.
A folio guardbook of state letters, mainly addressed to Anthony Bacon, in various hands, 241 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.
Volume IX of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, with corrections or emendations in a different ink, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Des vers de mr Sothwell de la Reyne d'Escosse l'an 1596, receus au mois de Feuurier
and Sa vertu m'attire
.
This MS recorded in Brown, p. lxxx, but not collated. Described in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets (London & New York, 1938), p. 247.
First published in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 47-8.
A folio guardbook of state letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 288 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.
Volume XIV of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Autograph letter signed, to Anthony Bacon, from Rouen, 8 January 1596[/7].
A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands, 284 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.
Volume XV of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed Responsio Reginæ Angliæ ad Legatu Poloniæ
, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Responce de la Reyne a L' Ambassadeur pollonois. le mois d'aoust 1597
, once folded as a letter or packet.
Beginning Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti...
, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint...
, in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.
A tall folio guardbook of letters and state papers, in various hands, 128 leaves, in later half-morocco.
Volume X of Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, from France, 7 September 1591.
A tall folio composite volume of letters, in various hands, 231 leaves.
Volume XV of Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, frpm the Tower, 14 May 1604.
A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 296 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Copy, in the italic hand of William Woodhouse, public notary, headed Mr Hooker's 8th Book
.
This MS collated in Keble (see I, xlv) and in Houk.
First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's complete
edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.
Copy, in a professional italic hand, in double columns, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed Mac Flecknoe / A Satyr
, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.
The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.
Copy, complete with a Dedication to the Queen subscribed Henrie Howarde
, in a single professional secretary hand.
Inscribed (f. 213r) Nathaniell Darby his Booke ffeb: ye 22th in the year of our Lord god 1701/2
.
An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth … to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).
Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ …
; the main text begins I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point …
, and ends … to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, lacking a title, 83 folio pages, in contemporary vellum.
End of 16th-early 17th century.Among the collectionss of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
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.
A quarto volume of tracts, in a single hand, 331 pages, in old half-calf.
Early 17th century.A tract apparently by William Bedell, with a dedication to Ambrose Jermyn dated 25 February 1604/5.
Unpublished Four Demands by Alabaster and Answer by William Bedell (1571-1642), Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.
A collection of state tracts and verse, in various professional hands (including the Feathery Scribe
), now bound in two volumes, Vol. I comprising 249 leaves (plus blanks), Vol. II 247 leaves (plus blanks), each in modern half-morocco gilt.
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 349 (No. 75).
Copy, in a rounded italic hand, with prefatory verses (four lines in Latin beginning Et Phoebum, castasque doces, Fairfaxe, Sorores
and four lines in English beginning Apollo, and the Muses taught by thee
), imperfect, lacking the first five stanzas, here beginning at line 31, Sufficeth to each Man his owne mishap
. Mid-late-17th century
Edited from this MS and discussed in N.L. Green, Edward Fairfax's Fourth Eclogue: Lost and Found, RES, NS 52, No. 207 (August 2001), 331-40.
First published in Elizabeth Cooper, The Muses Library (London, 1737), pp. 364-76. Lea & Gang, pp. 654-64. The premiminary verses published in Atterbury Correspondence, III, 255-69.
Copy, in two italic hands, a supplied title-page in another hand The Apologie of Sr Walter Raleigh for his Voyage to Guaiana
, with notes along the margin of f. 26r by a reader, inscribed on the first page [?Gri]ffith M.A. / 1664
.
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.
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, written, with the page reversed, in a copy of Ralegh's Apology.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Short view of the Raigne of Kinge Henry the third
, unascribed.
Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James
, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...
. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
Copy, in several cursive hands, 89 quarto leaves, in limp vellum.
c.1600.This MS collated in Hitchcock & Chambers and described, pp. xv-xvi.
First published, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, as The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England...by Nicholas Harpsfield (EETS, London, 1932).
A small quarto volume of five academic Latin plays, in several non-professional hands, 127 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).
c.1630s.Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Copy, in possibly several secretary and italic hands, lacking a title-page (probably excised), on nineteen leaves, subscribed finis Roxana Allablastuire
.
First acted at Trinity College, Cambridge c.1595?. First published in London, 1632. A translation by Dana F. Sutton put online in 1998 by the University of California at Irvine.
A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands, 24 items, unfoliated, in old calf (rebacked).
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Copy of a Latin translation, in a predominantly italic hand, headed Lycidas Miltoni...1637
and beginning Rursus odoratæ myrti, laurique virentes
), on both sides of seven quarto leaves.
Recorded in Shawcross, Bibliography, No. 410.
First published, among Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King, in Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 76-83. Darbishire, II, 163-70. Carey & Fowler, pp. 232-54.
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed Apology of ye old Earl of Essex
, on 21 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.
Copy, in two professional secretary hands, headed Sr Thomas Overbury his Observacons vpon the state of the 17 Provinces and of France; and first vpon that of the Provinces vnited
, on fourteen quarto leaves (plus five blanks).
A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...
. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.
A tall folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 89 items, unfoliated, in later black morocco gilt.
Volume IV of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
Copy of 33 maxims, in a professional rounded hand, on seven folio pages, being the first of a series of three sets of Observations on Government, or certain Maxims of State, with Moral Reflections, and dated 1692; the text followed (pp. [8-10] by fourteen supplementary maxims by Charles Montagu, dated 1695, and then (pp. [10-16]) by 44 maxims by John, Lord Somers, dated 1697.
This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.
First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor… [&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.
A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 127 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt.
Volume V of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
Copy, closely written in a cursive secretary hand, on both sides of seven folio leaves, somewhat faded, once folded as a letter or packet.
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.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, with a postscript by his wife, to his sons, 3 September [1697].
Ward, Letter 47.
Copy of a letter by Marvell, [to William Popple], from London, 15/17 July 1676.
Margoliouth, II, 346-8.
Copy of five speeches, of the Squire (twice), Hermit, Soldier, and Statesman, in a professional secretary hand, on all pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.
Edited from this MS in Birch and in Spedding (where it is erroneously described as autograph).
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.
A tall folio composite volume of letters and papers of Francis Bacon, in various hands and paper sizes, with a fourteen-leaf table of contents, 282 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt.
Volume VIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
Two fragments of autograph rough drafts, the first endorsed The first copye of my discourse touchinge the safatye of the Qs person
and once folded as a letter or packet; the second on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed The first copy or fragmts of a discors touching intelligence and ye safty of the Qs person
. [1594].
These fragments, the first beginning The first remedy in my poor opinion...
, the second beginning These be the principal remedies...
, edited in Spedding.
Written in 1594. The complete discourse unknown. Spedding, VIII, 305-7.
Copy of a variant version, in a predominantly italic hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, the second leaf with possible signature partly torn away, the verso bearing a spot of red wax.
Edited from this MS in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding et al. (London, (1857-74), IX, 16-18.
The letter lacking a date, beginning My good Lord, The last I sent to your Lordship was so long...
. Spedding, IX, 16-18. This letter, probably by neither Essex nor Bacon, is related to one normally attributed to Fulke Greville and perhaps originally composed by Sir Thomas Bodley: see GrF 16-23.
Fragments of Bacon's autograph draft, with revisions, including The speech of ye Heremite or Philosopher
, on four pages of three folio leaves. [1595].
Edited from this MS in Spedding, VIII, 376-8. Facsimiles of the first page in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile II (p. 25), and in Brian Vickers, The Authenticity of Bacon's Earliest Writings, SP, 94/2 (Spring 1997), 248-96 (p. 267). Also discussed, with a facsimile page, in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010).
Thomas Birch's transcript is in the British Library, Add. MS 4164, f. 167.
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.
A tall folio composite volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in various hands, 185 itemns, unfoliated, in later black morocco gilt.
Volume XIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
Copy, in a probably professional hand, headed Tunbridg waters
, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
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.
Copy, in a probably professional hand, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and 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.
A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 176 leaves, in old black morocco gilt.
Volume XIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
Copies of two letters by Bacon to George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham.
A folio guardbook of ecclesiastical and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 939 pages, in half black morocco gilt.
Comprising mainly papers of William Laud (1573-1645), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A short note of sundry vnsound points of Doctrine at diurs delured By Mr Hooker in his publicke sermons
, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
These statements edited in Keble I, 59-60, and in Folger edition, p. 282.
Copy, in an italic hand, headed IHS. Some few notes found in a Common prayer booke wch Bp Andrewes used, written with his owne hand
.
This MS described and collated in LACT.
First published in William Nicholls, A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer (London, 1710). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 141-58.
Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, docketed probably in the italic hand of Archbishop Laud The Defence of Francis Ld Viscount Verula made by himself to the Lords
.
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.
Autograph letter signed by Vaughan, to the Commissioners of Sequestration in New Radnor, [1662].
1662.Edited in Martin, pp. 697-8.
A folio songbook, in at least two hands, 91 leaves (including numerous blanks), in calf gilt.
c.1640s-50s.Inscribed (f. 1r) Ann Blount
and The Lady Ann Blount
.
A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
First published in John Banister, New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678). Dobell, p. 124. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes
in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray
).
For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more
: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more
and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
Copy, in a musical setting by Charles Coleman, untitled.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
Copy of the dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman, untitled.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
A folio volume of 14th-century chronicles, in accomplished hands, with rubrication, in double columns, on vellum throughout, 123 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.
Variously owned by Nicholas Brigham (d.1558), officer of the Exchequer and antiquary; William Darell (d.c.1580), clergyman and antiquary; Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian; Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon (1638-1709), second Earl of Clarendon, politician; James Brydges (1674-1744), first Duke of Chandos, of Cannons, Middlesex, politician and patron of music; the Rev. Richard Widmore (1681-1764), historian and Librarian at Westminster Abbey; and (in January 1763) Thomas Secker (1693-1768), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Autograph marginal annotations by Bale on ff. 3v, 6r.
This MS recorded in McCusker, The Library (1935), 150-1 (No. 26).
A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?
This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.
Autograph, untitled but introduced In this Introduction ye pious Soul is Invited vnto Retiremt from ye World for ye better Introversion of Spirit to Considr & enioy those Divine Obiects heer prsented & delineated to it: For Everything Rests most Composedly in its Pper place & ye Soul of Man is not in its Pper place till it be sweetly disposed and Composed for Divine Enioyments
.
Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of f. 11r as Plate I on p. 4.
First published in Ross, I (2005), 3-43.
Autograph draft, starting with eight lines (beginning Christ died for ye whole World...
) and headed (f. 22r) A Sober View of Dr Twisses his Considerations. Wth a compleat Disquisition of Dr Hammonds Letter to Dr Sanderson. And a Prospect of all their Opinions Concerning GODs Decrees
, with many deletions and underlinings and with sidenotes.
Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of f. 44r as Plate II on p. 47.
First published in Ross, I (2005), 45-230.
An untitled draft version, in an unidentified hand, of the first two chapters, headed Cap. i Of GODS Kingdome: yt it is but one Monarchy, the Consisting of several Territories. A Digression concerning its Incomprhensibileness
, with deletions, revisions, sidenotes and much underlining in a second hand, inscribed See after 24 leavs
, being a false start to the treatise entered in full later (TrT 236), ff. 126r-8r a fragment on love added by Traherne.
Edited from this MS in Ross, pp. 555-64 (and textual emendations listed pp. 565-6), with a facsimile of ff. 125v-6r on p. 556.
First published in Ross, I (2005), 253-503.
Autograph draft, with a title-page, with many deletions and revisions.
Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of ff. 140v-1r as Plate III on p. 232.
First published in Ross, I (2005), 232-52.
A working manuscript of the whole treatise, in two unidentified hands or variant of Traherne's hand, in 42 chapters, with sidenotes, and with numerous autograph deletions, revisions, and underlining.
Edited from this MS in Ross, pp. 253-503, with textual emendations listed on pp. 504-53.
First published in Ross, I (2005), 253-503.
Autograph.
Untitled poem of fifteen octaves, at the end of Chapter XXVII of The Kingdom of God. First published
Autograph.
Untitled poem of five sestains, in the middle of Chapter XXVIII of The Kingdom of God. First published
Autograph.
Untitled poem of 102 lines at the end of Chapter XXII in The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 373-5.
Autograph.
Untitled poem of six lines near the end of Chapter XXXI of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 431.
Autograph.
Untitled poem of sixteen lines at the end of Chapter XXXIII of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 444.
Autograph.
Untitled poem of 33 lines at the end of Chapter XXXVII of The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 446-7.
Untitled poem of 93 lines, in Chapter ?? of The Kingdom of God. First published
Autograph.
Untitled poem of ten lines in the middle of Chapter XXXIX of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 477.
Autograph.
Untitled poem of 40 lines in the middle of Chapter XL of The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 484-5.
Autograph.
Untitled poem comprising fifteen lines, followed by Again he saith
and another fourteen lines (beginning The Angels who are faithfull while they view
), towards the end (chapter XLII) of The Kingdom of God. First published
Autograph, with a dedicatory epistle to Francis Russell (1526/7-85), second Earl of Bedford, dated from Canterbury, 6 July 1561, and an epistle to the reader, with ff. 1-2 marked up for intended (though not executed) printing by John Day (1521/2-84), iv + 44 quarto leaves, in a vellum wrapper (a recycled 13th-century document).
1561.Among the Fairhurst Papers: i.e. state and ecclesiastical papers, many once belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, acquired by John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar, and his executor Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), judge and writer, which were found and purchased c.1939 by James Fairhurst (d.1999), of Oxford.
Facsimile of the first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 15 October 1963, lot 495. Facsimile of f. 22r in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile III, p. 55.
Unpublished.
A folio guardbook of ecclesiastical letters and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 287 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.
Among the Fairhurst Papers: i.e. state and ecclesiastical papers, many once belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, acquired by John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar, and his executor Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), judge and writer, which were found and purchased c.1939 by James Fairhurst (d.1999), of Oxford.
Copy of a statement of doctrinal differences between Hooker and Walter Travers arising from a sermon delivered at The Temple in 1585, in an octavo booklet (occupying ff. 1r-31v, including blanks) almost entirely in a single secretary hand.
Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume V. One paragraph corresponds with the footnote in Keble, I, 61 (see HkR 45-6).
Yale, Vol. V, pp. 271-7.
Copy of Hooker's account of his sermon on 28 March 1585, untitled, docketed (f. 9r) in the hand of Archbishop Whitgift notes of Mr. Hookers sermon
, in an octavo booklet (occupying ff. 1r-31v, including blanks) almost entirely in a single secretary hand.
This MS is a version of the account printed in Keble, I, 60-4. This MS collated in Folger edition, Volume V, with a facsimile of f. 9r on p. 275.
Hooker's account of what he preached in his Temple sermons on Habakkuk, beginning I doute not but that god was mrcifull to thousandes of or fathers...
. Keble, I, 60-4.
Copy of an untitled passage by Hooker defending his doctrine and identifying some of his references in the Sermon on Justification (see HkR 3-5), beginning I have bene greuouslye vsed openly/secretly and for boulstringe of Heresye...
, in an octavo booklet (occupying ff. 1r-31v, including blanks) almost entirely in a single secretary hand.
Unpublished.
A folio guardbook of ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 224 leaves, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards.
Among the Fairhurst Papers: state and ecclesiastical papers, many once belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, acquired by John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar, and his executor Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), judge and writer, purchased c.1939 by James Fairhurst (d.1999), of Oxford.
Sotheby's, 15 October 1963, lot 502.
Copy of part of Book VIII, headed in the margin Lib. 8: v: 9. Eccle: pols:
.
First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's complete
edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.
Copy, in two or more professional secretary hands, iii + 34 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum wrapper within modern cloth boards.
[1592-1607].Inscribed (f. iir) Thomas Brudenell de Deen: 1607
: i.e. Thomas Brudenell (c.1583-1663), first Earl of Cardigan, who has also annotated the first page in brown ink, including inserting the word erroneous
between Certayne
and Observacons
in the heading.
Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 241.
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.
A folio volume comprising a collection of apothegms and anecdotes, in a single hand, 90 pages, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards.
Entirely in the hand of William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis, and editor.
c.1626-41.Formerly MS 1034.
Rawley's copies of some apothegmes possibly transcribed from Bacon's papers, as well as various anecdotes about him.
Selected apothegms edited from this MS in Spedding and in Kiernan, pp. 647-51.
A collection of Bacon's Apothegmes first published in London, 1625. An enlarged collection published in Resuscitatio, 2nd edition (London, 1661). Further enlarged in Spedding, VII, 111-86. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 209-78, 647-52.
Brief reported sayings and opinions of Donne on religious matters.
Brief notes on a sermon by Corbett.
A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and letters, in two or more professional hands, with a table of contents at the end, ii + 227 leaves, in modern cloth.
c.1630.Mostyn MS 139 (Old Catalogue MS 53), from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Hollywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 72, to Sumner.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 352.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written and directed vnto Kinge James the first yeare of his raigne 1602
, annotated by a reader (f. 1r) A Manuscript of Spaine Netherlands, &c.
and (f. 15v) The state of things is now much altered betweene ffrance, spaine, the netherlands and vs
[plus two heavily deleted lines].
A tract addressed to James I and beginning It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...
. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
A tract beginning By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled …
. Unpublished?
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Letter written by Sr Phillip Sidney to a brother of his touchinge the direction of his travell
.
A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...
. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.
A tall folio guardbook of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 208 leaves.
Copy, in two professional secretary hands, on twelve folio leaves, frayed and slightly imperfect.
One in a group of papers here relating to Essex and his rebellion bought at Sotheby's, 20 February 1978, lot 137.
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.
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 259 leaves, in later brown morocco gilt.
Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury.
Formerly in the College of Arms, MS Talbot K.
Copy of the farewell speech of Place, in a professional secretary hand, headed Place attired in black giues the Queene these at farewell
, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed The Copie of a Speeche deliuered to her Matie at her departure from Haruile the L: Keepers house
, once folded as a letter or packet and sent by Sir George Savile to the Earl of Shrewsbury, August 1602.
Edited from this MS in Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, Biography and Manners, 2nd edition (London, 1838), No. ccciii, pp. 560-1.
The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment
in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands.
Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury.
Formerly in the College of Arms, MS Talbot L.
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, from the Savoy, 29 September 1604.
Edited in Collected Works, II, 296-7 (No. XV), and also in Margaret P. Hannay, Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (pp. 183-4).
A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, [from Greenwich, July 1602].
McClure, No. 25, pp. 94-5, where it is edited from Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, 3 vols (London, 1791), II, 552-4.
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury. Undated.
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, 11 March 1603/4.
Craig, pp. 49-50.
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, 12 March 1603/4.
Craig, pp. 50-1.
A summary of a law suit involving Harington, in a professional hand.
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, [31 March 1604].
McClure, No. 36, p. 112, where it is edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.
Autograph letter signed, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, from the Fleet Prison, 9 February 1607[/8]. on one folio leaf.
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the Fleet Prison, 9 February 1607[/8].
Facsimile of this letter in Grundy, frontispiece.
A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 160 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
Volume O of the Talbot papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.
Autograph letter signed, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, [1608], on two conjugate quarto leaves.
Lodge (1838), II, 498.
Autograph letter signed, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, from France, [1608], on a single folio leaf.
Lodge (1838), II, 499.
An octavo volume of theological works, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 189 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.
Mid-17th century.Later owned by David Baxter. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 3. Formerly Cambridge University Library MS Add. 7976.
Copy of notes on the scriptures, in Latin, unascribed.
Unpublished.
Copy of six sermons, probably preached at Court before Queen Elizabeth between 1588 and 1603.
Unpublished.
Copy of twelve lectures on the Elements and Grounds of Religion, probably preached to schoolboys at Westminster when Andrewes was Dean there between 1601 and 1605.
Unpublished.
A folio composite volume of mathematical, theological, and other tracts and papers, in several hands, ff. 235r-67r in a single formal secretary hand, 267 leaves, in old half-calf marbled boards.
c.1616-28.Formerly in the library of Sion College, London.
Copy of a version with two new introductory stanzas beginning Thirsil (poore ladd) whose Muse yet scarcely fledge
.
Edited from this MS in Seaton, with a facsimile of f. 235r as the frontispiece. Facsimile of f. 235r also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 136.
First published, as Brittain's Ida, ascribed to Edmund Spenser, [London], 1628. Boas, II, 343-63. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 305-24.
Edited from this MS in Seaton.
First published in Seaton (1926), pp. 21-9.
Copy, headed Non invisa Cano
.
Edited from this MS in Seaton, pp. 30-2.
First published in The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633). Boas, II, 233-5.
Copy, headed Ecloga. Thelgon. Chronis
.
Edited from this MS in Seaton, pp. 33-41.
Boas, II, 192-8.
Copy, headed Ecloga. Thomalin. Thirsil
and here beginning A gentle boye whoe never knew his peere
.
Edited from this MS in Seaton, pp. 42-54.
Boas, II, 205-12.
Copy of stanzas 5-25, headed Ecloga. Thomalin. Thirskill
and here beginning Thirsil what wicked Chaunce or luckeles starre
.
Edited from this MS in Seaton, p. 55-64.
First published in The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633). Boas, II, 180-6.
Copy, headed Ecloga. Algon. Daphnis. Nicaea
.
Printed from this MS in Seaton, pp. 65-76.
Boas, II, 199-204.
Milton's faltering post-blindness autograph signature (John Milton
) on his Marriage Licence Allegation declaring his intended third marriage to Elizabeth Minshull, 11 February 1662/3.
Edited, with a facsimile tracing of the signature, in Masson, VI, 475. Edited in Columbia XVIII, 421. Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IIId, after p. xxi.
Inscribed presentation volume.
Exemplum of the printed edition of 1624 inscribed by Wotton to George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the blank page facing the title-page, To the Most Reverend Father in God / the ArchBishop of Caunterburie / his Grace &c / I humbly present this poore / pamphlet with the Authors / long and true deuotion. / Henry Wotton
; also with the errata on p. 123 crossed out and the relevant corrections made in ink in the text, including on p. 88 a twelve-line Note omitted in the presse
added in the margin in a small neat hand.
First published in London, 1624.
