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DG. 7/Lit. 1

A volume of state letters and tracts.
1st half 17th century.
Among the papers of the Finch family, of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.
- BcF 277 [unnumbered pages]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, VII, 105-10. Spedding notes (VII, 107) Basil Montagu's reference to an unspecified MS in the British Museum, but he could not find it.
  
  Francis Bacon, Short Notes for Civil Conversation
- BcF 714 [unnumbered pages]
  
  (Finch Papers) Spedding, VI, 595-7; discussed 592-4.
  
  Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth.... Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
  
  Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King
- BcF 722 [unnumbered pages]
  
  Copy.
  
  Spedding, VI, 600-4 (discussed p. 594).
  
  Francis Bacon, An Essay on Death
- BcF 727 [unnumbered pages]
  
  Copy.
  
  Spedding, VI, 597-600. Discussed pp. 592-4. (Finch Papers).
  
  An essay beginning That absolute prerogative according to the king's pleasure revealed by his laws.... Spedding, VI, 597-600 (discussed pp. 592-4). Probably by Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere.
  
  Francis Bacon, An explanation what manner of persons those should be, that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the King's Prerogative
DG. 7/Lit. 2

A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.

Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Burley MS: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.
A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.
- ToC 2 ff. 1r-2v
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, unascribed.
  
  This MS recorded in Nicoll, pp. 330-6 (but not seen by him).
  
  A character, beginning He came of a parent, that counselled the state into piety, honour and power..., and dedicated to Lady Theodosia Cecil. First published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton (Oxford, 1907), II, 487-9. Nicoll, pp. 259-63.
  
  Cyril Tourneur, The Character of Robert Earl of Salisbury
- WoH 303 ff. 82r-6r
  
  Copy of a series of anecdotes and sayings, evidently by Wotton, in the hand of William Parkhurst, with pencil markings in the margin, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS in Pearsall Smith. His Nos. 1-34, on ff. 255v-6r, are not by Wotton.
  
  First published in Pearsall Smith (1907), II, 489-500 (his Nos. 35-145).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, Table Talk
- BcF 491 ff. 90r-1v
  
  Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in William Parkhurst's 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
- RaW 710.25 ff. 92r-3v
  
  Copy, in William Parkhurst's hand, headed S^r Walter Raleghs Apologie for his last Actions att Guiana.
  
  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
- SiP 208 ff. 237r-41r
  
  Copy, in a single mixed hand, the order of some passages rearranged and the text occasionally abridged or slightly paraphrased, headed S^r Phillip Sydney to her Ma^tie Concerning Mounseur:.
  
  This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 29.
  
  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
- RaW 957 f. 250r-1v
  
  Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr, in William Parkhurst's hand.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
- OvT 27 ff. 255v-6r
  
  Extracts, in Parkhurst's hand.
  
  First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 47-169.
  
  Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters
- HoJ 78 ff. 257r-8r
  
  Copy, in William Pathurst's hand, headed The Parliament Fart.
  
  Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
  
  John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
- HoJ 266 ff. 258v-60r
  
  Copy, in William Parkhurst's hand.
  
  Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.
  
  John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')
- JnB 54 f. 260v
  
  Copy, in William Parkhurst's hand.
  
  First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Dreame ('Or Scorne, or pittie on me take')
- DrW 177.97 f. 270r
  
  Copy of a version headed Epitaphe and here beginning Vnciuill death w^ch wouldst not once confer, in William Parkhurst's hand.
  
  First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
  
  William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre')
- WoH 1 f. 278r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Pearsall Smith, II, 490.
  
  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).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
- DnJ 1472 f. 279r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Grierson.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
  
  John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
- DnJ 1483 f. 279v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
  
  John Donne, Hero and Leander ('Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground')
- DnJ 2658 f. 279v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
  
  John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe ('Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare')
- DnJ 2380 f. 279v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
  
  John Donne, Niobe ('By childrens births, and death, I am become')
- DnJ 529 f. 279v
  
  Copy, headed Nave arsa.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Nave arsa) and 10.
  
  John Donne, A burnt ship ('Out of a fired ship, which, by no way')
- DnJ 1280 f. 279v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as Caso d'vn muro), and 10 (as Fall of a Wall).
  
  John Donne, Fall of a wall ('Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall')
- DnJ 1745 f. 279v
  
  Copy, headed Zoppo.
  
  First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.
  
  John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
- DnJ 1891 f. 279v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
- DnJ 2883 f. 279v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 89. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 10.
  
  John Donne, A selfe accuser ('Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you')
- DnJ 2256 f. 279v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in The Complete Poems of John Donne, ed. Roger Bennet (Chicago, 1942). Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 101. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 8 (as The Iughler).
  
  John Donne, Manliness ('Thou call'st me effeminat, for I love womens joyes')
- DnJ 162 f. 279v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care), 8 (as Antiquary), and 11.
  
  John Donne, Antiquary ('If in his Studie he hath so much care')
- DnJ 899 f. 279v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, Disinherited ('Thy father all from thee, by his last Will')
- DnJ 1917 f. 279v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.
  
  John Donne, The Lier ('Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers')
- DnJ 2595 f. 280r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, Phryne ('Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee')
- DnJ 2405 f. 280r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.
  
  John Donne, An obscure writer ('Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd')
- DnJ 1724 f. 280r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Rawlings so deeply hath vowed nere more to come.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.
  
  John Donne, Klockius ('Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come')
- DnJ 2272 f. 280r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.
  
  John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus ('Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury')
- DaJ 160 f. 280v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS in Grierson. Collated (from Grierson's edition) in Krueger.
  
  First published in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 437-8. Krueger, pp. 306-7.
  
  Sir John Davies, On his Love ('My Love doth flye with winges of feare')
- DnJ 3188 f. 281r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
  The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
  
  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
- DnJ 2844 ff. 283r-5v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded (but not seen) in Milgate.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
  
  John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
- DnJ 3421 ff. 285v-6r
  
  Copy, with a prose postscript.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.
  
  John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice ('After those reverend papers, whose soule is')
- CoH 108 f. 286r
  
  Copy, in William Parkhurst's hand.
  
  First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.
  
  Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady ('In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free')
- JnB 597 f. 288A^r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.
  
  First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
- JnB 419 f. 288A^r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, here beginning Was ever contract better driven by fate.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.
  
  Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')
- DnJ 4081 ff. 309r-15r
  
  Copy of ten Paradoxes, with (ff. 308v-9) a copy of a letter by Donne sending the Paradoxes to an unidentified person.
  
  This MS recorded (but not seen) by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 297-8.
  
  Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.
  
  John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
- SpE 26 ff. 317r-v, 319r-v
  
  Extracts, in a secretary hand, beginning at line 43.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.
  
  Edmund Spenser, The Ruines of Time ('It chaunced me on day beside the shore')
- SpE 19 ff. 318r-v, 320v
  
  Extracts, beginning at line 713, in a secretary hand.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 103-40.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale ('It was the month, in which the righteous Maide')
- SpE 30.5 f. 320r
  
  Extracts, in a secretary hand, beginning at line 517.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 59-79.
  
  Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses ('Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine')
- PlG 9 f. 320r
  
  Extract, in a secretary hand.
  
  First published in London, 1590. Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 231-43.
  
  George Peele, Polyhymnia ('Therefore, when thirtie two were come and gone')
- HrJ 179 f. 322r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
- JnB 643 ff. 325v-6r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.
  
  Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')
- BmF 94 ff. 332r-3r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed Uppon the death of the Lady Penelope Clifton.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.
  
  Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton ('Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see')
- DrW 117.4 ff. 333v-4v
  
  Copy, in William Parkhust's hand, untitled.
  
  Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.
  
  William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
- WoH 62 f. 336v
  
  Copy of a four-stanza version, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed The Lady Eliza: Queene of Bohemia.
  
  First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
- DnJ 1593 f. 341r-v
  
  Copy, including Donne's prefatory epistle, in the hand of William Parkhurst.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.
  
  John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton ('Whether that soule which now comes up to you')
- RaW 274 f. 342v
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Pankhurst, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 441. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- RnT 393 f. 344v
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed A lost finger.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more')
- BrW 217 f. 345v
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, the second stanza apparently added by him at a different time.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- StW 1128 f. 346r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed On a knife to a Valentine.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.
  
  William Strode, To a Valentine ('Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand')
- StW 622 f. 346v
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed On a fountayne and here beginning The Dolphins….
  
  First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.
  
  William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason ('These Dolphins, twisting each on others side')
- StW 548 f. 347r-v
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.
  
  William Strode, On the Bible ('Behold this little Volume here inrold')
- HeR 19 f. 348r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, here beginning Seest thou those iewells w^ch she weares.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
  
  Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
- StW 819 f. 350r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed Vppon a Gentlewoman walking where it snowed.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
  
  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
- StW 1331 f. 350r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.
  
  First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
- RaW 529 f. 351r
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).
  This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
- HrJ 152 f. 351v
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.
  
  First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
- RnT 563 f. 357v
  
  Copy, headed A lamentation for the burning of a petty school.
  
  Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
- RnT 231 f. 358r-v
  
  Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed Hospitiu Mytræ cadul Cantab.
  
  First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
DG. 7/Lit. 3 (Box 4974)

A collection of unbound papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.
- *HaG 45 [unnumbered item]
  Autograph
  
  Autograph draft, on seven pages of two pairs of large conjugate folio leaves.
  
  Edited from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile of the first page facing p. 296. Recorded in Brown, HLQ (1972), p. 151.
  
  First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea
- HaG 53 [unnumbered item]
  
  Copy, in a professional hand, on twelve folio pages.
  
  This MS collated in Brown, I, 309-14.
  
  First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea
DG. 7/Lit. 4 (Box 4974)

Two autograph rough drafts of a character of Halifax's maternal aunt, Lady Dorothy Pakington, partly in pencil, untitled, on fifteen leaves of different sizes (plus blanks), the first draft on thirteen leaves, the second an incomplete draft on two leaves, also including two inserted pages of Misc[ellanies].
c.1680-95.
Edited from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile of the first page facing II, 454.
- *HaG 60
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Brown (1989), II, 453-79.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Character of Lady Pakington
DG. 7/5/14

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to his mother, Mrs Vanbrugh, from Vincennes, [30 October]-9 November 1691.
1691.
Edited in HMC, 71 Finch III (1957), 293-4, and in Downes (1977), p. 249 (Appendix B, No. 1).
- VaJ 20
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
DG. 7/Lit. 5 (Box 4975)

An autograph commonplace book, containing observations on political, historical, legal, philosophical and miscellaneous subjects, the entries alphabetically arranged, written chiefly in columns on 37 folio pages (out of a total of 178 pages in the volume, all alphabetically lettered), together with a few loosely inserted leaves of Misc[ellanies], the vellum cover later inscribed (inaccurately) 7. Common Place Book of Daniel. 2^nd Lord Nottingham.
Late 17th century.
Among papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

Selections from this MS in Brown, III, 310-14.
- *HaG 69
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies
DG. 7/Lit. 6 (Box 4975)

A commonplace book, containing observations by Halifax on political, historical, legal, philosophical and miscellaneous subjects, the entries alphabetically arranged, written chiefly in the hand of Halifax's chaplain and amanuensis Alexander Sion (1654-1730), with some entries in Halifax's own hand, entered in double columns on 220 folio pages (out of 290 pages in the volume), the vellum cover later inscribed 8 Ex. 1785 Miscellanys.
Late 17th century.
Among papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

Edited from this MS in Brown, III, 36-310, with a facsimile of the first page facing III, 36.
- *HaG 70
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies
DG. 7/Lit. 7/1-171, 175 (Box 4975)

A large unbound collection of autograph notes, memoranda and aphorisms, on historical, political, philosophical and miscellaneous subjects (including HaG 44), many written in two or more columns, on c.400 pages of loose sheets (plus blanks), chiefly folio, a number lettered for subsequent arrangement (Ab:, Ba:, &c.).

Items 128-39 have been missing since 1977.
Late 17th century.
Among papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

Most MS pages edited in Brown, under various headings: I, 243-5 and 291; II, 26-68, 72-111, 135-78, 258-332, 407-18, with facsimiles of ff. 33r and 56r facing II, 90 and 180; and III, 25-335, 315-454, with facsimiles of ff. 153r and 83r facing III, 26 and 316.
Photocopies supplied by M.N. Brown are preserved. Facsimile of f. 100r in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXI, after p. xxiv.
- *HaG 71
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies
DG. 7/Lit. 7/172-4

A first autograph draft, headed Tar[paulins], incomplete, on three folio leaves.
c.1693.
Among papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

This MS collated in Brown, I, 309-14, with a facsimile page facing p. 310. Recorded in Brown, HLQ (1972), p. 151.
- *HaG 44
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea
DG. 7/Lit. 8 (Box 4975)

A collection of unbound papers of the Finch family, of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.
c.1690s.
Among the papers of the Finch family, of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.
- HaG 38 [unnumbered item]
  
  Copy of 33 maxims, on the first two pages of a conjugate pair of folio leaves.
  
  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.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor
- HaG 39 [unnumbered item]
  
  Copy of 33 maxims, on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
  
  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.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor
DG 7, Box 4985, Bundle XII

Letter, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by More and other fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Sir John Finch, [October 1682].
1682.
Edited in HMC, 71, Finch II (1922), pp. 179-181.
- *MoH 22
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Henry More, Letter(s)
DG. 9/2405-2421

Legal and financial documents relating to Robert Herrick.

Including papers signed by his father, Nicholas (d.1592), and his uncle and guardian, Sir William Herrick (1562-1653).
- *HeR 432 DG. 9/2419
  Autograph
  
  The sixteen-year-old poet's indenture of apprenticeship to his uncle, on vellum, bearing the poet's earliest known signature (Robert Hericke), 25 September 1607.
  
  Edited in F.W. Moorman, Robert Herrick: A Biographical & Critical Study (London, 1910), pp. 331-2. Facsimiles in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 15 December 1988, lot 15, p. 24, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 169.
  
  Robert Herrick, Document(s)
DG. 9/2796

An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet.
c.1630[-1700s].
Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.

This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.
- DnJ 284 pp. 12-14
  
  Copy, headed In commendation of declineing Beautie.
  
  First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
  
  John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
- DnJ 1879 pp. 18-19
  
  Copy, headed A Lettre written by S^r: Henrye Goodier: & John Dunne: altornis vicibus.
  
  First published in The Poems of John Donne, ed. E.K. Chambers (London, 1896). Grierson, I, 433-4. Milgate Satires, pp. 76-8. Shawcross, No. 135.
  
  John Donne, A Letter written by S^r H: G: and J: D: alternis vicibus ('Since ev'ry Tree beginns to blossome now')
- BeJ 25 pp. 22-3
  
  Copy, headed By y^e: Duke att y^e Kings coming to Burley.
  
  First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 139-40.
  
  Sir John Beaumont, My Lord of Buckinghams welcome to the King at Burley ('Sir, you have ever shin'd upon me bright')
- BmF 22 pp. 24-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
  
  Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')
- HrJ 53 p. 33
  
  Copy, headed Of Fortune.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 29. McClure No. 30, p. 160. Kilroy, Book I, No. 56, p. 113.
  
  Sir John Harington, The Author, of his own fortune ('Take fortune as it falles, as one aduiseth')
- HrJ 226 p. 34
  
  Copy, headed Of Blessinge and here beginning A Preist in hast was riding on ye waye.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse ('A Priest that earst was riding on the way')
- HrJ 249 p. 34
  
  Copy, headed Of plaine dealings and here beginning My writings still displease thee, what the matter?.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 59. McClure No. 60, p. 170. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). Kilroy, Book II, No. 8, p. 133.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Plaine dealing ('My writings oft displease you: what's the matter?')
- HrJ 248 p. 35
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 65. McClure No. 66, pp. 172-3. Kilroy, Book I, No. 5, pp. 95-6.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of one that vow'd to dis-inherit his sonne, and giue his goods to the poore ('A citizen that dwelt neere Temple-barre')
- DnJ 1769 p. 35
  
  Copy, here beginning I can not sitt, nor stand, y^e beggar cryes.
  
  First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.
  
  John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
- DnJ 1768 p. 35
  
  Copy, here beginning I am not able yonder beggar cryes.
  
  First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.
  
  John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
- JnB 182 pp. 38-40
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
  
  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
- JnB 220 pp. 40-45
  
  Copy, headed The Minde.
  
  Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.
  
  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
- CoR 156 p. 50
  
  Copy of the last 42 lines, headed On the pox in the Face.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
- CwT 204 pp. 54-5
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on a virtuous woman.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 55.
  
  Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady S. Wife to Sir W.S. ('The harmony of colours, features, grace')
- DnJ 2974 p. 56
  
  Copy of a version beginning Lye still my deare, why dost thou rise.
  
  First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
- KiH 296 pp. 59-60
  
  Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorsett.
  
  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
- MoG 37 pp. 62-4
  
  Copy.
  
  A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
  Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.
  
  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
- RaW 275 p. 67
  
  Copy, headed Of mans Life.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- DnJ 2154 pp. 68-72
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
  
  John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
- BmF 77 pp. 72-7
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
  
  Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
- CaE 26 [unspecified page numbers]
  
  Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place.
  
  This MS recorded in Akkerman.
  
  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
  
  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
Finch MSS, Box 4948, Box IV, Bundle 12

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Blathwayt, Secretary of State for War, from The Bastille, Paris, 26 August (NS) 1692, and sent on to Daniel Finch, Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State.
1692.
Edited in Albert Rosenberg, New Light on Vanbrugh, PQ, 45 (1966), 603-13 (pp. 604-5), and in Downes (1977), pp. 249-50 (Appendix B, No. 2).
- *VaJ 21
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Uppingham DE 1784/1

The Parish Register of Uppingham - 1571-1656, in which the occasional page is signed Jeremy Taylor Rector Ecclesiae.
1638-42.
- *TaJ 103
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Document(s)
Uppingham DE 1784/17

The Churchwarden's Accounts 1633-1727, in which a series of entries are made by Taylor, notably on ff. 27r, 30v-1v, 35v and 37r.
c.1638-42.
Illustration of f. 31v and f. 32r (the latter in a different hand) in Stranks, facing p. 165.
- *TaJ 104
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Document(s)

Leicestershire Record Office

DG. 7/Lit. 1

DG. 7/Lit. 2

DG. 7/Lit. 3 (Box 4974)

DG. 7/Lit. 4 (Box 4974)

DG. 7/5/14

DG. 7/Lit. 5 (Box 4975)

DG. 7/Lit. 6 (Box 4975)

DG. 7/Lit. 7/1-171, 175 (Box 4975)

DG. 7/Lit. 7/172-4

DG. 7/Lit. 8 (Box 4975)

DG 7, Box 4985, Bundle XII

DG. 9/2405-2421

DG. 9/2796

Finch MSS, Box 4948, Box IV, Bundle 12

Uppingham DE 1784/1

Uppingham DE 1784/17

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