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Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library

  • MS 810(2)

    Ten MS poems, in the hand of Pepys's secretary Paul Lorrain, on leaves bound, together with another related work, in Pepys's printed exemplum of Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680).

    Late 17th century.
    • RoJ 327 pp. 4-7

      Copy of the epilogue lines (174-201), here beginning All this wth. indignation have I hurl'd.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • RoJ 11 p. 23

      Copy of a version headed On Marriage and beginning Out of stark Love & errant Devotion.

      First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Marriage ('Out of mere love and arrant devotion')

  • MS 1038

    A small quarto volume of texts relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in a professional secretary hand, 78 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Early 17th century.
    • EsR 306 [II], ff. 1r-7v

      Copy.

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

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

  • MS 1490

    Notes and collections prepared by Pepys for his published history, in several hands, headed My Diary relating to the Commission constituted by King James the Second, Anno 1686, for the Recovery of the Navy, with a Collection of the Principal papers incident to and in Craigieclusive of the same, in an octavo volume, 445 pages.

    1685-6.

    Summarized and discussed in J.R. Tanner, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Navy Records Society 26-7, 36, 40 ([London], 1903-23), I, 66-97. Pages 7-73 of the MS edited, as Diary of the Special Commission 3 January-28 April 1686, in Pepys's Later Diaries, ed. C.S. Knighton (Stroud, Glos., 2004), pp. 179-202.

    • *PpS 2
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1690. Edited by J.R. Tanner (Oxford, 1906).

      Samuel Pepys, Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688

  • MS 1836-41

    Autograph diary, covering the period 1 January 1659/60 to 31 May 1669, largely in shorthand, c.3,100 unnumbered pages (plus blanks), in six bound volumes, the first octavo, the others quarto.

    The deciphered transcript of the Diary made in 1819-22 by the Rev. John Smith (d.1870) is preserved in 54 volumes, with annotations by Lord Braybrooke and others, also at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

    1660-69.

    Facsimile examples in H.B. Wheatley, Pepysiana (London, 1899), after pp. 74 and 76; in R.W. Ladborough, The Library of Samuel Pepys, History Today, 17 (July 1967), 476-82 (p. 479); in Geoffrey Trease, Samuel Pepys and his World (London, 1972), p. 86; in Latham & Matthews, I (1970), facing pp. xlii-xliii, xlv, xlviii, c-ciii; in Augustan Reprint Society Publications Nos. 145-6 (Los Angeles, 1970); in Richard Ollard, Pepys: A Biography (London, 1974), p. 51; in Petti, English Literary Hands (1977), No. 63, p. 120; in Robert Latham, The Illustrated Pepys (London, 1978), p. 16; and elsewhere.

    A facsimile of the deciphered transcript of the Diary made in 1819-22 is in Trease, op. cit., p. 44.

    • *PpS 14
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (about a quarter of the Diary), as Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, edited from the Rev. John Smith's deciphered transcript by Richard Neville, Lord Braybrooke, 2 vols (London, 1825). Edited by the Rev Mynors Bright (about four fifths of the Diary), 6 vols (London, 1875-9). Edited by Henry B. Wheatley (about nine tenths of the Diary), 10 vols (London, 1893-9). The first complete and unexpurgated edition by Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 vols (London, 1970-83).

      Samuel Pepys, Diary

  • MS 1999

    Fair copy of a poem in two cantos, with a lengthy title-page, The History of the Pestilence or the proceedinges of Justice and Mercy Manifested att the great Assizes holden about London, in the yeere 1625 wherein soe many were executed by that Plague…[&c.], a prose dedication to the King, and an introductory twenty-line poem beginning Our Aucthor, first wth God beginns, in a professional hand throughout, 93 folio pages.

    c.1626.

    Edited from this MS in Milton French, with facsimiles of pp. 4-5 after p. xxxvi. It has been doubtfully suggested (by Milton French and others) that the MS is autograph.

    • WiG 22
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as The History of the Pestilence (1625), ed. J. Milton French (Cambridge, Mass., 1932).

      George Wither, The History of the Pestilence ('The Storme is past and loe, wee now obteyne')

  • MS 2099

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, 233 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    • KiT 15 ff. 10r-25r

      Copy, in a professional cursive hand, headed in another hand A Letter of Tho: Killigrew's in his Travels Dated att Orleans the 7th of December new stile 1635.

      This MS collated in Lough and Crane.

      Letter, to Lord Goring, beginning Being thus far from London.... Published in European Magazine, 43 (1803), 102-6. Edited in J. Lough and D. E. L. Crane, Thomas Killigrew and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun: The Text of a Letter of 1635, Durham University Journal, 78 (1986), 259-68.

      Thomas Killigrew, Letter about the possessed Nuns of Tours, from Orleans, 7 December 1635
    • HbT 27.5 ff. 84r-173v

      Copy, in one or possibly two professional hands, headed The Elements of Lawe Naturall and Politique By Mr Hobbs, 52 folio leaves.

      First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).

      Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

  • MS 2141

    Autograph draft, in shorthand, headed A Journall of ye King's Escape from Worcester, traken by mee this day in short-hand from ye King's owne mouth, on 22 quarto leaves (plus two blanks); together with a longhand transcript made by a clerk on 79 folio leaves; both October 1680; bound with other relevant documents collected by Pepys, and partly in his hand, including Notes from father Hurlston

    Edited from the longhand transcript by most editors. Both texts collated in Matthews, with facsimile examples after p. 86. Facsimile example also in Geoffrey Trease, Samuel Pepys and his World (London, 1972), p. 39. This MS discussed in A.N.G. Richards, The King Dictates, Cornhill Magazine, 171 (1959-61), 493-505. Extracts made in the early 18th century are among Lord Harwicke's MSS in the British Library (Add. MS 31955, ff. 2-9).

    • *PpS 1
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, edited by Sir David Dalrymple (London, 1766). Charles II's Escape from Worcester, ed. William Matthews (London, 1967), pp. 34-84.

      Samuel Pepys, An Account of the Preservation of King Charles II after the Battle of Worcester

  • MS 2191

    A partly autograph presentation copy, on 219 folio leaves, in brown velvet.

    For William Cecil (1520-98), Lord Burghley, Secretary of State; written in the accomplished hands of one or more of Howard's principal amanuenses; with a formal title-page (f. 1r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the illuminated arms of Cecil superscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by four autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and signed by him Tuæ D in perpetuum deuinctiss. H. Hwward (f. 1v); the Dedication To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie in italic script on ff. 2r-27r signed by Howard (f. 27r); the main text, in a predominantly secretary script, by one or more scribes, with variant styles of script for headings, sub-headings and sidenotes, on ff. 28r-219r; with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 125v) and third book (f. 154r); with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard throughout; the paste-down formed from pages of a 16th-century French book about Henri III printed in black letter.

    Late 16th century.

    The Dedication only bears Cecil's autograph annotations (occasional words flagging subject matter on ff. 10r, 11r, 12v, 13r-v, 14r, 15v, and 16r). Later owned by Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) and with his bookplates.

    • *HoH 80
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's railing invective against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign …; the main text, in three books, beginning It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge …, and ending … Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women

  • MS 2237

    Autograph notes, originally enclosed in a letter to Pepys, 21 August 1669.

    1669.
    • *EvJ 57
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Directors for improving a short visit to Paris, 1669

  • 2442, after p. 539.

    Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Samuel Pepys, 14 July 1699.

    1699.

    Ward, Letter 61.

    • *DrJ 357
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Dryden, Letter(s)

  • MS 2503

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands, 763 pages, in contemporary calf elaborately stamped.

    • EsR 307 pp. 469-71

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Manner of the death of Robert Earle of Essex, who was beheaded wthin the Tower of London vppon Ashewednesday, 1600, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

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

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

  • MS 2504

    Correspondence by Evelyn addressed to Samuel Pepys.

    January 1673/4.
    • *EvJ 97 item 649
      Autograph

      Autograph paper, headed A letter written to a Friend concerning the Interest of his Majestye and the nation in the Fishery and Duties appendant to it..., on 21 folio pages, sent to Samuel Pepys and docketed by him on the title-page Fishery. Mr Evelyn's second paper concerning the Fishery, 1673.

      Recorded in HMC, 70, Pepys (911), p. 267. Listed as item 8 (A discourse concerning ye duty of the Flag) in Evelyn's note of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).

      John Evelyn, Fishery (II)
    • *EvJ 96 item 673
      Autograph

      Autograph paper, headed A succinct but full deduction of his Majesties indubitable Title to the Dominion and Sovereignty of the British Seas, and consequently the Fishery and Duties appendant thereunto, incomplete, on fourteen folio pages, preceded by a memorandum about the work's suppression by the King just as it was carrying to the presse, sent by Evelyn to Samuel Pepys, January 1673/4. 1674.

      This paper partly incorporated in Evelyn's Navigation and Commerce (London, 1674). Recorded in HMC, 70, Pepys (1911), p. 267. Listed as item 7 (A discourse concerning the Fishery) in Evelyn's note of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).

      John Evelyn, Fishery (I)

  • MS 2553

    A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages.

    c.1570-85.

    Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.

    A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).

    • DuW 77 p. 3

      Copy of lines 23-50, untitled and here beginning And lat fortoune wirk furthe hir rage.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 1-2. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203.

      Mackenzie, No. 10, pp. 26-7. Craigie, I, 380-2. Bawcutt, I, 109-10.

      William Dunbar, Meditatioun in Wyntir ('In to thir dirk and drublie dayis')
    • DuW 119 pp. 3-5

      Copy, untitled; imperfect.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 35, pp. 63-4. Craigie, I, 2-4. Bawcutt, I, 133-4.

      William Dunbar, Of Sir Thomas Norny ('Now lythis off ane gentill knycht')
    • DuW 121 pp. 5-6

      Copy, untitled; slightly imperfect.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 66, pp. 140-1. Craigie, I, 4. Bawcutt, p. 93.

      William Dunbar, Of the Changes of merche ('I seik about this warld unstabille')
    • DuW 94 pp. 6-7

      Copy, untitled; imperfect.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 5-6. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 67, pp. 141-2. Murdoch, II, 175-6. Ritchie, II, 159-60. Bawcutt, I, 77-8.

      William Dunbar, Of Covetyce ('Fredome, honour, and nobilnes')
    • DuW 145 pp. 7-8

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 6-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 11, pp. 27-8. Craigie, I, 6-7. Bawcutt, I, 196.

      William Dunbar, Quhone Mony Benefices Vakit ('Schir, at this feist of benefice')
    • DuW 3 p. 8

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 29, pp. 55-6. Craigie, I, 7. Bawcutt, p. 60.

      William Dunbar, Aganis the Solistaris in Court ('Be divers wyis and operatiounes')
    • DuW 167 pp. 8-9

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 12, p. 28. Craigie, I, 8-9. Bawcutt, I, 140-1.

      William Dunbar, To the King ('Off benefice, Schir, at everie feist')
    • DuW 38 pp. 9-10

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 53, p. 104, and in Craigie, I, 9. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 53, pp. 104. Craigie, I, 9. Bawcutt, I, 266.

      William Dunbar, Dunbar at Oxinfurde ('To speik of science, craft, or sapience')
    • DuW 25 pp. 10-11

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 5, p. 5; in Craigie, I, 10; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 5, p. 5. Craigie, I, 10. Bawcutt, I, 199.

      William Dunbar, Complaint to the King Aganis Mure ('Schir, I complane off injuris')
    • DuW 43 pp. 11-12

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 11-12. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 36, pp. 65-6. Ritchie, I, 87-8. Bawcutt, I, 111-12.

      William Dunbar, Epetaphe for Donald Owre ('In vice most vicius he excellis')
    • DuW 28 pp. 12-16

      Copy, untitled; imperfect.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 12-16, with a facsimile of p. 14. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 219-20. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 57, pp. 120-3. Murdoch, II, 312-15. Ritchie, II, 291-4. Bawcutt, I, 149-56.

      William Dunbar, The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis ('Off Februar the fyistene nycht')
    • DuW 23 pp. 16-18

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 19, pp. 39-41. Craigie, I, 17-19. Bawcutt, I, 67-8.

      William Dunbar, Complaint to the King ('Complane I wald, wist I quhome till')
    • DuW 140 p. 18

      Copy of lines 23-53, untitled and here beginning Schir lat It neuer In toume be tald.

      Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Edited in Craigie and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 22, pp. 46-8. Craigie, I, 19-20.

      William Dunbar, The Petition of the Gray Horse, Auld Dunbar ('Now Lufferis cummis with larges lowd')
    • DuW 48 pp. 53-4, 59-63, 69-70, 77-80

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 71-88. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 198-201, and in Bawcutt.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 6, pp. 5-20. Murdoch, III. 420-37. Ritchie, III, 44-62. Bawcutt, I, 200-18.

      William Dunbar, The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie ('Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild')
    • DuW 32 pp. 55-7

      Copy of a 13-stanza version, untitled and beginning Dremand me thocht that I did heir.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, pp. 238-9; in Craigie, I, 62-4; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 42, p. 76-9 (see pp. 238-9). Murdoch, III, 372-5. Ritchie, III, 1-4. Bawcutt, I, 250-7.

      William Dunbar, The Devillis Inquest ('This nycht in my sleip I wes agast')
    • DuW 187 pp. 57-8

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Airlie on als wodnisday.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 64-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 215. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 46, p. 84. Murdoch, III, 386-7. Ritchie, III, 14-15. Bawcutt, I, 180-1.

      William Dunbar, The Twa Cummeris ('Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday')
    • DuW 57 pp. 64-6, 73-6, 81

      Copy, imperfect.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 89-97. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 218-19. Collated in Bawcutt.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 56, pp. 112-19. Murdoch, IV, 995-1003. Ritchie, IV, 252-61. Bawcutt, I, 184-92.

      William Dunbar, The Goldyn Targe ('Ryght as the stern of day begouth to schyne')
    • DuW 185 pp. 81-96

      Copy.

      Libes 1-103 edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 47, pp. 85-97. Craigie, I, 98-115. Bawcutt, I, 41-55.

      William Dunbar, The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo ('Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis')
    • DuW 51 pp. 113-29

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 133-48. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 231-4.

      Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 93, pp. 182-95. Murdoch, IV, 1004-20. Ritchie, IV, 261-77.

      William Dunbar, The Freiris of Berwick ('At Tweidis mowth thair standis a nobill toun')
    • DuW 161 pp. 135-8

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 155-9. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 213. Collated in Bawcutt.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 40, pp. 71-4. Murdoch, III, 438-41. Ritchie, III, 62-6. Bawcutt, I, 89-92.

      William Dunbar, The Testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy ('I, Maister Andro Kennedy')
    • DuW 29 pp. 161-2

      Copy of lines 1-12, 109-20, untitled and prefixed to The Sowtar and Tailyouris War (DuW 154).

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 183.

      Mackenzie, No. 57, pp. 120-3. Murdoch, II, 312-15. Ritchie, II, 291-4. Bawcutt, I, 149-56.

      William Dunbar, The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis ('Off Februar the fyistene nycht')
    • DuW 154 pp. 162-5

      Copy, here beginning Syn till ane turnament fast thai hyit, prefixed by lines 1-12, 109-20 of The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis (DuW 29) and untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 183-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 220.

      Mackenzie, No. 58, pp. 123-6. Murdoch, II, 316-19. Ritchie, II, 295-8.

      William Dunbar, The Sowtar and Tailyouris War ('Nixt that a turnament wes tryid')
    • DuW 80 pp. 165-8

      Copy of lines 1-16, 33-120, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 188-91. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 221-2, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 63, pp. 134-7. Murdoch, IV, 822-6. Ritchie, IV, 87-91. Bawcutt, I, 101-5.

      William Dunbar, The Merle and the Nychtingaill ('In May as that Aurora did upspring')
    • DuW 97 pp. 168-70

      Copy, untitled and lacking lines 26-30.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 191-3. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203, and in Bawcutt.

      Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 8, pp. 23-4. Murdoch, II, 171-3. Ritchie, II, 156-7. Bawcutt, I, 122-4.

      William Dunbar, Of Deming ('Musing allone this hinder nicht')
    • HnR 23 pp. 176-8

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie. Collated in Wood and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 179-80. Ritchie, I, 68-71. Murdoch, II, 149-52. Craigie, I, 200-2. Stevenson, pp. 22-3. Fox, pp. 170-3.

      Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth ('Quhen fair flora, the godes of the flowris')
    • DuW 133 pp. 178-81

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 13, pp. 28-31. Craigie, I, 202-5. Bawcutt, I, 258-61.

      William Dunbar, Of the Warldis Instabilitie ('This waverand warldis wretchidnes')
    • DuW 142 pp. 186-7

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 65, pp. 139-40. Craigie, I, 210-11. Bawcutt, I, 162-3.

      William Dunbar, Quhen the Governour Past in France ('Thow that in hevin, for our salvatioun')
    • DuW 54 pp. 187-9

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 211-13. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 224-6, and in Bawcutt.

      Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 77, pp. 151-3. Murdoch, II, 162-5. Ritchie, II, 147-50. Bawcutt, I, 71-4.

      William Dunbar, A General Satyre ('Doverrit with dreme, devysing in my slummer')
    • DuW 72 pp. 189-92

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 214-17. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 202-3.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 7, pp. 20-3. Murdoch, II. 308-11. Ritchie, II, 287-91. Bawcutt, I, 94-7.

      William Dunbar, Lament for the Makaris ('I that in heill wes and gladnes')
    • DoG 1 pp. 192-3

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Bawcutt and in Craigie.

      First published in The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, ed. John Small (Edinburgh, 1874), I, 121-2. Bawcutt, pp. 135-7.

      Gavin Douglas, Conscience ('Quhen halie kirk first flurist in youthheid')
    • DuW 118 pp. 193-4

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 218-19. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 224, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 74, pp. 149-50. Murdoch, II, 127-9. Ritchie, II, 117-19. Bawcutt, I, 120-1.

      William Dunbar, Of Manis Mortalitie ('Memento, homo, quod cinis es!')
    • DuW 174 pp. 194-5

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 18, pp. 38-9. Craigie, I, 220-1. Bawcutt, I, 197-8.

      William Dunbar, To the King That He war Johne Thomosunis Man ('Schir, for your grace, bayth nicht and day')
    • DuW 135 pp. 195-6

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 75, pp. 150-1. Craigie, I, 221. Bawcutt, I, 139.

      William Dunbar, Of the Warldis Vanitie ('O wreche, be war! this warld will wend the fro')
    • DuW 148 pp. 196-8

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 17, pp. 36-8. Craigie, I, 222-4. Bawcutt, I, 222-4.

      William Dunbar, Remonstrance to the King ('Schir, ye have mony servitouris')
    • DuW 158 pp. 199-203

      Copy, subscribed ane confessioun generale.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 224-9. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 227. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 83, pp. 163-7. Murdoch, II, 43-8. Ritchie, II, 42-7. Bawcutt, I, 267-73.

      William Dunbar, The Tabill of Confession ('To The, O mercifull Salviour, Jesus')
    • DuW 128 pp. 203-7

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 80, pp. 155-9. Craigie, I, 229-34. Bawcitt, pp. 34-8, as Ane Ballat of the passioun.

      William Dunbar, Of the Passioun of Christ ('Amang thir freiris, within ane cloister')
    • DuW 11 pp. 212-13

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 239-40. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 2, pp. 2-3. Murdoch, II, 329-30. Ritchie, II, 308-9. Bawcutt, p. 86.

      William Dunbar, Ane His Awin Ennemy ('He that hes gold and grit riches')
    • DuW 83 pp. 221-2

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 249-50. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 223-4, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 73, pp. 148-9. Murdoch, II, 279-80. Ritchie, II, 259-60. Bawcutt, I, 61-2.

      William Dunbar, No Tressour Availis without Glaidnes ('Be mirry, man! and tak nocht far in mynd')
    • DuW 2 pp. 225-6

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie.

      Mackenzie, No. 72, pp. 147-8. Murdoch, III, 383-4; Ritchie, III, 11-13; Bawcutt, I, 118-19.

      William Dunbar, Advice to Spend anis Awin Gude ('Man, sen thy lyfe is ay in weir')
    • DoG 2 pp. 226-56

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Bawcutt and in Craigie, with a facsimile of p. 288 facing p. 256.

      First published in Ancient Scotish Poems, never before in print, ed. John Pinkerton (London, 1786), I, 3-43. Bawcutt, pp. 139-70. Craigie, pp. 254-85.

      Gavin Douglas, King Hart ('King Hart, in to his cumlie castell strang')
    • DuW 101 pp. 259-60

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 289-90. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 204, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 14, pp. 31-3. Murdoch, II, 165-7. Ritchie, II, 150-2. Bawcutt, I, 142-3.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Asking ('Off very asking followis nocht')
    • DuW 105 pp. 260-1

      Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Asking (DuW 101).

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 290-2. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 204-5, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 15, pp. 33-4. Murdoch, II, 167-9. Ritchie, II, 152-4. Bawcutt, I, 144-6.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Geving ('To Speik of gift or almous deidis')
    • DuW 108 pp. 261-2

      Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Geving (DuW 105).

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 292-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 205, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 16, pp. 35-6. Murdoch, II, 170-1. Ritchie, II, 154-5. Bawcutt, I, 147-8.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Taking ('Eftir Geving I speik of taking')
    • DuW 36 pp. 290-2

      Copy, subscribed Dumbaris dirige to ye king.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 337-41, and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 209-10.

      Mackenzie, No. 30, pp. 56-9. Murdoch, II, 292-6. Ritchie, II, 271-5. Bawcutt, I, 274-7, as Dumbaris Dirige to the King.

      William Dunbar, The Dregy of Dunbar ('We that ar heir in hevins glory')
    • DuW 66 pp. 294-5

      Copy, here beginning Off women now this I say for me.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 345. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 215, and in Bawcutt.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 45, pp. 83-4. Murdoch, IV, 809-10. Ritchie, IV, 75-6. Bawcutt, I, 135.

      William Dunbar, In Prais of Wemen ('Now of wemen this I say for me')
    • DuW 172 pp. 295-6, 309

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 346-8; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 20, pp. 41-3. Murdoch, II, 271-4. Ritchie, II, 251-4. Bawcutt, I, 225-8.

      William Dunbar, To the King ('Schir, yit remembir as of befoir')
    • HnR 3 pp. 296-7

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 351-2. Collated in Wood.

      Wood, pp. 195-6. Ritchie, I, 50-2. Fox, pp. 156-8.

      Robert Henryson, The Abbay Walk ('Allone as I went up and doun')
    • DuW 91 p. 307

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No.70, pp. 144-5. Craigie, I, 366-7. Bawcutt, I, 169-70.

      William Dunbar, Of Content ('Quho thinkis that he hes sufficence')
    • DuW 68 pp. 308, 311

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 368-70; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 28, pp. 53-5. Murdoch, II, 296-8. Ritchie, II, 275-7. Bawcutt, I, 106-8.

      William Dunbar, 'In secreit place this hyndir nycht'
    • HnR 6 pp. 309-10

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 348-50. Collated in Wood and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 215-16. Murdoch, II, 182-4. Ritchie, II, 165-7. Fox, pp. 163-5.

      Robert Henryson, Aganis Haisty Credence of Titlaris ('Ffals titlaris now growis up full rank')
    • DuW 116 p. 310

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 76, p. 151. Craigie, I, 350. Bawcutt, I, 162.

      William Dunbar, Of Lyfe ('Quhat is this lyfe bot ane straucht way to deid')
    • DuW 98 pp. 313-14

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 372-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203.

      Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 8, pp. 23-4. Murdoch, II, 171-3. Ritchie, II, 156-7. Bawcutt, I, 122-4.

      William Dunbar, Of Deming ('Musing allone this hinder nicht')
    • DuW 191 pp. 314-15

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 374-5, and in Bawvcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 214.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 43, pp. 79-80. Murdoch, II, 160-2. Ritchie, II, 145-7. Bawcutt, I, 39-40.

      William Dunbar, Tydingis fra the Sessioun ('Ane murlandis man of uplandis mak')
    • DuW 122 p. 315

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 376, and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222.

      Mackenzie, No. 66, pp. 140-1. Craigie, I, 4. Bawcutt, p. 93.

      William Dunbar, Of the Changes of merche ('I seik about this warld unstabille')
    • DuW 4 p. 316

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 377-8. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 209.

      Mackenzie, No. 29, pp. 55-6. Craigie, I, 7. Bawcutt, p. 60.

      William Dunbar, Aganis the Solistaris in Court ('Be divers wyis and operatiounes')
    • DuW 146 p. 316

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, and in Craigie, I, 376-7.

      Mackenzie, No. 11, pp. 27-8. Craigie, I, 6-7. Bawcutt, I, 196.

      William Dunbar, Quhone Mony Benefices Vakit ('Schir, at this feist of benefice')
    • DuW 9 p. 317

      Copy, subscribed quhone he drank to ye Dekynnis ffor amendis to ye bodeis of thair craftis.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 378-9. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 220, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 59, pp. 126-7. Murdoch, II, 319-21. Ritchie, II, 298-300. Bawcutt, I, 157-8.

      William Dunbar, The Amendis to the Telyouris and Sowtaris for the Turnament Maid on Thame ('Betuix twell houris and ellevin')
    • DuW 39 pp. 317-18

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 379-80; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 53, pp. 104. Craigie, I, 9. Bawcutt, I, 266.

      William Dunbar, Dunbar at Oxinfurde ('To speik of science, craft, or sapience')
    • DuW 76 pp. 318-19

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 10, pp. 26-7. Craigie, I, 380-2. Bawcutt, I, 109-10.

      William Dunbar, Meditatioun in Wyntir ('In to thir dirk and drublie dayis')
    • DuW 7 pp. 319-20

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 382-3. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 223, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 71, pp. 145-6. Murdoch, II, 131-2. Ritchie, II, 121-2. Bawcutt, I, 159-60.

      William Dunbar, All Erdly Joy Returnis in Pane ('Off lentren in the first mornyng')
    • DuW 164 p. 320

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 49, p. 99. Craigie, I, 383-4. Bawcutt, I, 235.

      William Dunbar, To a Ladye ('Sweit rois of vertew and of gentilnes')
    • DuW 168 pp. 321-2

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 385-6; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 12, p. 28. Craigie, I, 8-9. Bawcutt, I, 140-1.

      William Dunbar, To the King ('Off benefice, Schir, at everie feist')
    • DuW 144 pp. 322-3

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 50, pp. 99-100. Craigie, I, 386-7. Bawcutt, I, 125-6.

      William Dunbar, Quhone he List to Feyne ('My hartis tresure, and swete assured so')
    • DuW 63 pp. 323-4

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, and in Craigie, I, 388-9. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 9, pp. 24-6. Murdoch, II, 178-80; Ritchie, II, 162-3. Bawcutt, I, 87-8.

      William Dunbar, How Sall I Governe Me? ('How sould I rewill me or in quhat wys')
    • DuW 125 pp. 324-5

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 390-1, and in Bawcutt. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (p. 217).

      Mackenzie, No. 48, pp. 97-8. Murdoch, IV, 762-3. Ritchie, IV, 30-1. Bawcutt, I, 238-9.

      William Dunbar, Of the Ladys Solistaris at Court ('Thir ladyis fair, That makis repair')
    • DuW 138 p. 326

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 78, p. 154. Craigie, I, 393. Bawcutt, I, 193.

      William Dunbar, Ane Orisoun ('Salviour, suppois my sensualitie')
    • HnR 33 pp. 327-8

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie. Collated in Wood and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 205-7. Murdoch, II, 157-9. Ritchie, II, 142-4. Craigie, I, 394-5. Fox, pp. 182-4.

      Robert Henryson, The Thre Deid Pollis ('O sinfull man, in to this mortall se')
    • DuW 85 pp. 331-3

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 401-3, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 21, pp. 44-6. Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 234-6. Ritchie, II, 215-17 (with a facsimile of f. 84v). Bawcutt, I, 171-3.

      William Dunbar, None May Assure in this Warld ('Quhom to sall I compleine my wo')
    • DuW 60 pp. 333-4

      Copy of lines 1-20, 26-50.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 404-5. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 197, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 4, pp. 3-4. Murdoch, II, 327-8. Ritchie, II, 306-7. Bawcutt, I, 248-9.

      William Dunbar, How Dumbar wes Desyrd to be Ane Freir ('This nycht, befoir the dawing cleir')
    • DuW 21 pp. 334-5

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 405-7, and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 213.

      Mackenzie, No. 39, pp. 70-1. Murdoch, III, 375-7. Ritchie, III, 4-5. Bawcutt, I, 114-15.

      William Dunbar, The Birth of Antichrist ('Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht')
    • DuW 195 pp. 335-7

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 407-9. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (p. 208). Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 27, pp. 51-3. Murdoch, II, 330-3. Ritchie, II, 309-11. Bawcutt, I, 245-7.

      William Dunbar, The Wowing of the King quhen he was in Dumfermeling ('This hindir nycht in Dumfermeling')
    • DuW 16 p. 337

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 410-11. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 69, pp. 143-4. Murdoch, II, 281-2. Ritchie, II, 260-1. Bawcutt, I, 79-80.

      William Dunbar, Best to be Blyth ('Full oft I mus and hes in thocht')
    • DuW 113 p. 339

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 33, pp. 61-2. Craigie, I, 413. Bawcutt, I, 236.

      William Dunbar, Of James Dog, Kepar of the Quenis Wardrop ('The wardraipper of Venus boure')
    • DuW 131 pp. 339-40

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 34, pp. 62-3. Craigie, I, 414. Bawcutt, I, 237.

      William Dunbar, Of the Said James, Quhen he had plesett him ('O Gracious Princes, guid and fair')
    • DuW 87 pp. 340-1

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 32, pp. 60-1. Craigie, I, 415-16. Bawcutt, I, 233-4.

      William Dunbar, Of a Dance in the Quenis Chalmer ('Sir Jhon Sinclair begowthe to dance')
    • DuW 89 pp. 341-2

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 37, pp. 66-7. Craigie, I, 416-17. Bawcutt, p. 113.

      William Dunbar, Of Ane Blak-Moir ('Lang heff I maed of ladyes quhytt')
    • DuW 178 p. 342

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie.

      Mackenzie, No. 31, pp. 59-60. Craigie, I, 417-18. Bawcutt, I, 116-17.

      William Dunbar, To the Quene ('Madam, your men said thai wald ryd')

  • MS 2591

    A folio volume of music compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 169 leaves, in contemporary black morocco gilt.

    c.1680-93.
    • DaW 109 ff. 6r-7r

      Copy of Solyman's declamation, in a musical setting by Morelli.

      This MS discussed in Macdonald Emslie, Pepys' Shakespeare Song, SQ, 6 (1955), 159-70 (pp. 160-1). Facsimiles of f. 6r (erroneously said to be Pepys's setting) in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. H.B. Wheatley (London, 1920), V, facing p. 165, and in Geoffrey Tease, Samuel Pepys and his World (London, 1972), p. 69.

      Dramatic Works, III, 350-1.

      Sir William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, Part II, iv. Song ('Beauty, retire! Thou dost my pity move!')
    • ShW 47 ff. 37r-40r

      Copy of Hamlet's soliloquy To be, or not to be, that is the question (III, i, 56-88), in a musical setting by Morelli.

      Edited from this MS in Macdonald Emslie, Pepys' Shakespeare Song, SQ, 6 (1955), 159-70.

      First published in London, 1603.

    • JnB 561 ff. 41r-3v

      Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.

      This MS discussed in MacDonald Emslie, Three Early Settings of Jonson, N&Q, 198 (November 1953), 466-9.

      Ben Jonson, Catiline, I, i, 73-97 ('It is decree'd. Nor shall thy Fate, o Rome')
    • CoA 7.5 ff. 53r-6r

      Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.

      First published in The Visions and Prophecies concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland, of Ezekiel Grebner (London, 1661 [i.e. 1660]). Waller, II, 343-5.

      Abraham Cowley, 'Ah, happy Isle, how art thou chang'd and curst'

  • MS 2802

    A folio volume of music by Cesare Morelli.

    Late 17th century.
    • BcF 39.8 ff. 48r-51r

      Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.

      First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
    • HeR 95.8 ff. 54r-6r

      Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.

      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')

  • MS 2803

    A folio songbook compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 113 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1680-93.
    • CoA 9.5 ff. 27r-8v

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 50. Sparrow, p. 49.

      Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680].

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. I. Love ('I'll sing of Heroes, and of Kings')
    • BcF 40 ff. 95r-7v

      Copy in a musical setting.

      First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
    • JnB 562 ff. 108v-11v

      Copy in a musical setting (? by Samuel Pepys and John Hingston).

      This MS discussed in Emslie.

      Ben Jonson, Catiline, I, i, 73-97 ('It is decree'd. Nor shall thy Fate, o Rome')
    • DaW 110 ff. 111v-12v

      Copy, in a musical setting by Samuel Pepys.

      Pepys records in his diary completing his setting on 6 December 1665. This MS discussed in Emslie, loc. cit. Facsimile in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham & William Matthews, VI (London, 1972), between pp. 320 & 321. The song is shown in the portrait of Pepys in the National Portrait Gallery.

      Dramatic Works, III, 350-1.

      Sir William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, Part II, iv. Song ('Beauty, retire! Thou dost my pity move!')

  • MS 2804

    A folio volume of music compiled by Cesare Morelli for Samuel Pepys, 135 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.late 1670s.
    • CoA 10 ff. 59r-60v

      Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio transposed by Morelli.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 50. Sparrow, p. 49.

      Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680].

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. I. Love ('I'll sing of Heroes, and of Kings')
    • CoA 7 p. 199

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      First published in The Visions and Prophecies concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland, of Ezekiel Grebner (London, 1661 [i.e. 1660]). Waller, II, 343-5.

      Abraham Cowley, 'Ah, happy Isle, how art thou chang'd and curst'

  • MS 2866

    Notes and collections prepared by Pepys partly for his history.

    Notes and collections prepared by Pepys partly for his history, in several hands, with Pepys's autograph corrections and additions, in a folio volume of 465 pages (including 77 blanks).

    20 July 1680-28 February 1695/6.

    Calendared in J.R. Tanner, Samuel Pepys's Naval Minutes, Navy Records Society 28 ([London], 1926). Some extracts also edited in Charles Derrick, Memoirs of the Rise and Progress of the Royal Navy (London, 1806), passim.

    • *PpS 3
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1690. Edited by J.R. Tanner (Oxford, 1906).

      Samuel Pepys, Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688

  • 2874

    A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, Volume VI of Pepys's naval and historical collections, in the hands of clerks.

    Late 17th century.
    • PpS 14.8 pp. 385-504

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Knighton.

      First published, as The Brooke House Journal 3 January-21 February 1670, in Pepys's Later Diaries, ed. C.S. Knighton (Stroud, Glos., 2004), pp. 9-34.

      Samuel Pepys, A Journal of what passed between the Commissioners of Accounts and Myself

  • 2881

    The first of two volumes, of The Book of Mornamont comprising documents relating to the accusation against Pepys by Colonel John Scott in 1679, 723 pages (some excised), including an index.

    • PpS 14.5 pp. 45-77

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Knighton.

      First published, as The King's Bench Journal 20 May 1679-30 June 1680, in Pepys's Later Diaries, ed. C.S. Knighton (Stroud, Glos., 2004), pp. 42-63.

      Samuel Pepys, A Journal of the Principal Passages relating to the Commitment of Sir Anthony Deane and Mr Pepys

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