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ACC/1360/528

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine).
c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
- CoR 361.5 ff. [1r-2r]
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
- DnJ 3859.8 ff. [5v-6v]
  
  Copy, headed M^r. Nicholas Hare's Elegie.
  
  First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.
  Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.
  
  John Donne, Variety ('The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I')
- BrW 32.5 ff. [9r-10r]
  
  Copy, headed Elegye Funerall.
  
  First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy ('Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws')
- KiH 345.8 ff. [10r-11v]
  
  Copy, headed An Exequie by M^r. H. Kinge on his wife.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
  
  Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
- CoR 107.5 f. [15r-v]
  
  Copy, headed D^r: Corbett on the Queenes death.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne ('Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you')
- KiH 181.5 f. [16r]
  
  Copy, headed On Prince Henryes death.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')
- KiH 204.5 f. [17v]
  
  Copy, headed On S^r: water Raughlye beheaded. 1619.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
- DnJ 1561.8 f. [18r-v]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.
  
  John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany ('In what torne ship soever I embarke')
- WoH 165.8 f. [19r-v]
  
  Copy, headed A Himne made by S^r. H. W. in the nights of a painfull sicknes.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory')
- StW 518.5 ff. [19v-21r]
  
  Copy of the sequence, here arranged as An Eligie on. (Sleepe pretty one...), The Epitaph (Happie graue...), and Consolatio ad Parentes (Let her Parents...).
  
  Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.
  
  William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge ('Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I')
- RaW 304.5 ff. [21v-2r]
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Nature that washt his hands in milke.
  
  First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs ('Nature that washt her hands in milke')
- B&F 146.6 f. [22v]
  
  Copy, headed Of Malenchollye.
  
  Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
  For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
- StW 762.5 f. [26v]
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning I saw faire Clora walke alone.
  
  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')
- MoG 73 f. [28r]
  
  Copy, headed On the Nightingale Mr. G. M.
  
  George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
- ShW 14.5 f. [28v]
  
  Copy, headed Spes altera.
  
  Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.
  
  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 ('When forty winters shall besiege thy brow')
- DnJ 1876.5 f. [30r-v]
  
  Copy, headed Elegie by the L. Herbert.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
  
  John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens ('Here where by All All Saints invoked are')
- DnJ 2951.5 f. [30v]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')
- DnJ 2309.5 f. [31r]
  
  Copy, headed Songe: i. x.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
  
  John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
- DnJ 312.9 f. [31r-v]
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
  
  John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
- DnJ 199.5 f. [31v]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
  
  John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
- DnJ 515.8 f. [32r]
  
  Copy, headed Songe. 3.
  
  Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
  
  John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
- DnJ 1815.8 f. [33v]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
  
  John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
- DnJ 3479.5 ff. [33v-4r]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
  
  John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
- DnJ 1471.8 f. [34v]
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  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 2933.8 ff. [34v-5r]
  
  Copy, headed Songe. 7.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
- DnJ 3997.5 f. [35r-v]
  
  Copy, headed 8. [i.e. Songe. 8.].
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
  
  John Donne, Womans constancy ('Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day')
- DnJ 2063.5 ff. [35v-6r]
  
  Copy, headed Loues Dyett D^r Dunn.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
  
  John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
- DnJ 3924.5 f. [36r-v]
  
  Copy, headed The Will: Dr. Dunn:.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
  
  John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
- DnJ 1375.5 f. [37r]
  
  Copy, headed Du: the flea.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
  
  John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
- DnJ 452.8 f. [37v]
  
  Copy, headed Du Sonnett.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
  
  John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
- CoR 221.5 ff. [38r-9v]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
  An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of D^r Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
- EaJ 28.5 ff. [40r-2r]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear')
- KiH 418.5 ff. [45v-6r]
  
  Copy, headed with the Spanish epigram (here rendered as Cor mala muger at remedio / Mucha Tietra por et medio).
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.
  
  Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice ('I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect')
- KiH 127.5 f. [46v]
  
  Copy, headed The Answer and subscribed J. K.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
  
  Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
- BrW 173.5 ff. [47v-8r]
  
  Copy, headed Vppon one drownd in a Snowe.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
- JnB 537.5 ff. [1v-2r rev.]
  
  Copy, headed Ben. Johnson to the L. Treasorer.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.
  
  Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram ('If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state')
- CoR 200.5 f. [2r rev.]
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the Deane of Paules: D.D. and subscribed R. Corbett.
  
  First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee')
- MyJ 8 ff. [7r-8v rev.]
  
  Copy, headed On D^r Donnes death, subscribed Jasper Mayne.
  
  First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633), p. 393. Grierson, I, 382-4.
  
  Jasper Mayne, On Dr. Donnes death: By Mr. Mayne of Christ-Church in Oxford ('Who shall presume to mourn thee, Donne, unlesse')
- CwT 217.5 f. [8v rev.]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
- StW 1369.5 ff. [8v-9r rev.]
  
  Copy, headed A Blush.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie ('Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke')
- HeR 19.5 f. [9r rev.]
  
  Copy, headed A Phansie.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
  
  Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
- MyJ 24 ff. [9r-10v rev.]
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a Gentlewomans Tablebookes of Pictures drawne by her selfe with a Siluer penn.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
- DaW 57.5 ff. [10v-11r rev.]
  
  Copy, headed An Incitation to M^r: Endymion Porter's Morning Muse and subscribed S^r William Dauenant.
  
  First published in Herbert Berry, Three New Poems by Davenant, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 317-21.
  
  Sir William Davenant, To a Gentleman at his uprising ('Soe phoebus rose, as if he had last night')
- EaJ 6.5 ff. [11r-12v rev.]
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the Death of Bea^ument by J Earles.
  
  First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. K1^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.
  
  John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont ('Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have')
- JnB 182.5 ff. [13v-14r rev.]
  
  Copy, headed The Body. On M^ris. V. S sitting to be drawne.
  
  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 220.5 ff. [14r-15v rev.]
  
  Copy, headed The Minde. On the same and subscribed Ben Johnson.
  
  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')
- CwT 863.8 ff. [15v-16r rev.]
  
  Copy, subscribed T. Carew.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
- CwT 697.5 f. [16r rev.]
  
  Copy, subscribed T. C.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
- ShJ 130.5 f. [16v rev.]
  
  Copy, headed On his M^ris.
  
  First published, as a Song, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.
  
  James Shirley, 'Would you know what's soft?'
- CwT 1144.5 ff. [16v-17r rev.]
  
  Copy, headed To a Ladie that had a resemblance of his M^ris and subscribed T. C.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
- CwT 411.5 f. [17v rev.]
  
  Copy, headed Whether his M^ris. eyes or lips did add and subscribed T. C.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
  
  Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
- CwT 1093.5 ff. [17v-18r rev.]
  
  Copy, subscribed T. C.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.
  
  Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
- CwT 1200.5 f. [18r-v rev.]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
- CwT 568.5 ff. [18v-19r rev.]
  
  Copy, subscribed T. C.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
  
  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
- CwT 472.5 ff. [19r-20v rev.]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
  
  Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
- RnT 133.5 ff. [21r-2r rev.]
  
  Copy, headed To M^r Beniamin Johnson.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son ('I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare')
- HeR 95.5 f. [22r rev.]
  
  Copy, headed To a false louer.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
  
  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
- DaW 24.5 f. [22v rev.]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.
  
  Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')
- RnT 412.5 f. [23r rev.]
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho. Randolph.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Ad Carolum Cotton, amicu ('Dic vbi canities tua sit? guaue arte capillos?')
- JnB 428.2 f. [23r-v rev.]
  
  Copy, headed On a Woman.
  
  First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the Truest Version of Ben Jonson's A Satyricall Shrubb, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, Ben Jonson and Rochester's Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, A Satyricall Shrub, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub ('A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in')
- KiH 79.5 f. [28v rev.]
  
  Copy, headed A young mans answer to a Blackamoore, with a cross-referencing note vid. pag. supra ab hinc decimâ sextâ.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
  
  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
- CwT 819.5 ff. [30v-1r rev.]
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- JnB 253.5 ff. [32r-3v rev.]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon w^th Inigo Iones ('Mr Suruey^r, you y^t first begann')
- JnB 494.5 f. [34r rev.]
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.
  
  Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary ('But cause thou hearst y^e mighty k. of Spaine')
- JnB 480.5 f. [34r-v rev.]
  
  Copy, headed To a freind P.K.D. An Epigram of him and subscribed Ben Johnson.
  
  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.
  
  Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him ('S^r Inigo doth feare it as I heare')
- HrE 38.5 ff. [34v-7r rev.]
  
  Copy, headed The L. Herbert.
  
  First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 61-6.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, An Ode upon a Question moved, Whether Love should continue for ever? ('Having interr'd her Infant-birth')
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/145

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [19 November 1602].
1602.
Evans, p. 215.
- *HrJ 369
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/146

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [4 June 1606].
1606.
Evans, p. 216.
- *HrJ 387
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/147

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [June 1607].
1607.
Evans, p. 217.
- *HrJ 389
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/148

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [July 1607].
1607.
Evans, pp. 221-2.
- *HrJ 390
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/149

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [22 July 1607].
1607.
Evans, pp. 218-19.
- *HrJ 391
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/150

Autograph letter signed, to Sir William Smith, [31 July 1607].
1607.
Evans, pp. 219-20.
- *HrJ 392
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/151

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [4 June 1608].
1608.
Evans, p. 226.
- *HrJ 397
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/153

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [13 November 1607].
1607.
Evans, pp. 225-6.
- *HrJ 395
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/154

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [13 June 1608].
1608.
McClure, No. 51, pp. 130-1, edited from Philip Bearcroft, Thomas Sutton (London, 1737), p. 23. Evans, pp. 227-8.
- *HrJ 399
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/155

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [from Bath, 5 September1608].
1608.
McClure, No. 53, pp. 134-5, edited from James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (London, 1803). Evans, pp. 229-30.
- *HrJ 400
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/156

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [21 December 1608].
1608.
McClure, No. 56, p. 139 (here dated 21 December 1609), edited from James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (London, 1803). Evans, pp. 230-1.
- *HrJ 401
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/157

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [5 February 1609/10].
1610.
McClure, No. 57, p. 140, edited from Harington's rough draft (HrJ 405). Evans, pp. 232-3.
- *HrJ 406
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/317

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [17 September 1607].
1607.
Evans, pp. 223-4.
- *HrJ 393
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F5/42

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 23 November 1609.
1609.
Craig, p. 54.
- *HrJ 404
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
COL/CC/O1/030

A double-folio-size civic register of entries, in the professional hands of clerks, with numerous signatures by others, 402 leaves (including blanks), in modern vellum.

Formerly Corporation of London Records Office, Journal 29.
- *HeR 434 f. 28r
  Autograph
  
  A statement in Latin, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Herrick (Robert Hearicke), acknowledging receipt of money from his uncle, 19 March 1612/13.
  
  A negative microfiche of this document also in London Metropolitan Archives, COL/AC/19/188. Discussed in Mark Eccles, Herrick's Inheritance, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 74-8.
  
  Robert Herrick, Document(s)
CLC/297/MS 00094

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and civic papers relating to London, in several hands, 311 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

Formerly Guildhall Library MS 94.
- EvJ 116 ff. 50r-3v
  
  Copy of Evelyn's revised version (as sent to Henry Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society, 22 December 1666), in a rounded italic hand, subscribed JEvelyn, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Early 18th century.
  
  Edited from this MS in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 3rd Ser. 27 (1919-20), 463-70. Reprinted in E.S. de Beer's edition (Oxford, 1938) [see Keynes, p. 255].
  
  John Evelyn, London Revived Consideration for its rebuilding in 1666
CLC/267/MS 017561756

A volume of materials relating to the Woodford family of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, in several hands, 33 pages, in remains of a contemporary vellum wrapper.
c.1510-18.
Notes on f. 1r by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Formerly Guildhall Library, MS 1756.
- MrT 2.5 ff. 3v-12v (versos only)
  
  Copy of lines 53-193, comprising The wordes of ffortune to the pepull and To them that trusteth yn Fortune, in a secretary hand.
  
  This MS edited and discussed in A.S.G. Edwards and M.T.W. Payne, A New Manuscript of Thomas More's Fortune Verses, RES, NS 60 (September 2009), 578-87.
  
  The Fortune Verses first published, in a 313-line version, including a Prologue beginning As often as I consydre, these old noble clerkes; The wordes of Fortune to y^e people beginning Myne high estate power & auctoryte; To them that tristith in ffortune beginning Thow that arte prowde of honour, shape or kynne, and To them that seketh ffortune beginning Who so deliteth to prove & assay, in The Boke of the fayre Gentylwoman...Lady Fortune (London, [1556?]). Yale, Vol. 1, pp. 31-43. The texts of this poem are also discussed in Hubertus Schulte Herbrüggen, Sir Thomas Mores Fortuna-Verse, Lebende Antike Symposion für Rudolf Sühnel (Berlin, 1967), 155-72.
  
  Sir Thomas More, Fortune Verses
CLC/522/MS03738

Shakespeare's signature on a conveyance of the Blackfriars Gatehouse, on a membrane of vellum, 10 March 1612/13.
1613.
Formerly in the Guildhall Library.

Unfolding facsimile in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), pp. 221-2. Facsimiles also in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 220; and elsewhere.
- *ShW 126
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  William Shakespeare, Document(s)
CLC/539/MS09384

A folio composite volume of legal, civic and parliamentary tracts relating to London, in several professional hands, i + 192 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2898. Formerly Guildhall Library, MS 9384.
- BcF 201.8 ff. 1r-9v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Breife Treatise or discourse of y^e vallidity, Strength, and Extent of the Charter of Bridewell, and how farr, Repugnant both in Matter, sence, and meaninge to the great Charter of England / Worthily Composed by M^r Serieant ffleetwood Somtymes Seriant at Lawe. c.1630s.
  
  A tract beginning Inter magnalia regni, amongst the greatest and most haughty things of this kingdom.... First published in Briefe Collections out of Magna Charta (London, 1643) [Wing B4557]. Spedding, VII, 505-16.
  
  Francis Bacon, Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell
COL/AD/01/026

A double-folio-size civic register of entries, in the professional hands of clerks, with numerous signatures by others, vi + 368 vellum leaves (plus 21 blanks), in modern vellum.

Formerly Corporation of London Records Office, Letter Book AB.
- *HeR 435 f. 189v
  Autograph
  
  A statement in Latin, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Herrick (Robert Hearick), acknowledging receipt of money from his uncle, 19 March 1612/13; together with similar or related statements signed by his brothers Thomas Heyrick, Nicholas Hericke, and William Hericke, and by his sister Mercie Hericke, 19 March 1612/13.
  
  A negative microfiche of this document is also in London Metropolitan Archives, COL/AC/19/187. Discussed in Mark Eccles, Herrick's Inheritance, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 74-8.
  
  Robert Herrick, Document(s)
MDR/Middlesex Land Register 1719/6, No. 323

Copy of Vanbrugh's lease of the Haymarket Theatre to James and Thomas Yarburgh, 16 March 1718/19, in an official abstract of deeds.
c.1719.
Register, No. 2910.
- VaJ 508
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
P69/DUN/B/011/MS02968/003

Churchwarden's account book for St Dunstan in the West, 1628-44.

Formerly Guildhall library MS 2968/3.
- *WtI 17 f. 602r
  Autograph
  
  Walton's autograph signature as a Vestryman in approval of the Churchwardens' accounts, 28 June 1641.
  
  These accounts recorded in Nicolas, I, clix-clxi.
  
  Izaak Walton, Document(s)
St Paul's Cathedral archive, CF 56 (uncatalogued)

One leaf of what was originally two conjugate folio leaves bearing copies of five letters by Donne, in a single mixed hand.

Formerly St Paul's Cathedral, Donne file in safe, and in Guildhall Library, Gh CF56. The other leaf is now in the library of Robert S Pirie, [Donne letters].
c.1620s-30s.
Puttick & Simpson's, 19 December 1855, lot 1436. Owned before 1879 by J.H. Anderdon. Owned at some time by Miss Mary Donne of Chester.
- DnJ 4129 item 1
  
  Copy of a letter by Donne, to an unnamed lady probably in the suite of the Queen of Bohemia, from St Paul's house, 1 February 1623/4.
  
  Edited in Gosse, II, 206.
  
  John Donne, Letter(s)
- DnJ 4116 item 2
  
  Copy of a letter by Donne, to an unnamed correspondent, From my Hospital, 17 July 1613.
  
  Edited in Gosse, II, 16-17.
  
  John Donne, Letter(s)
- DnJ 4105 item 3
  
  Copy of a letter by Donne, to Sir Henry Goodyer, 23 February 1601/2.
  
  Edited in Gosse, I, 109-10.
  
  John Donne, Letter(s)

London Metropolitan Archives

ACC/1360/528

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/145

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/146

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/147

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/148

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/149

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/150

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/151

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/153

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/154

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/155

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/156

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/157

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/317

Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F5/42

COL/CC/O1/030

CLC/297/MS 00094

CLC/267/MS 017561756

CLC/522/MS03738

CLC/539/MS09384

COL/AD/01/026

MDR/Middlesex Land Register 1719/6, No. 323

P69/DUN/B/011/MS02968/003

St Paul's Cathedral archive, CF 56 (uncatalogued)

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