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National Library of Ireland

  • MS 29

    Copy, in several professional predominantly italic hands, 158 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    Late 17th century.

    Bookplate of John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont, dated 1736. Purchased in October 1924 from Fred Hanna.

    • ClE 36
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme

  • MS 661

    Copy, in a single professional secretary hand but for a title dated Ano. Eliz. 39. [1596/7] (f. iir) in other hands, subscribed finis 1597 :E: S:, with addition phaps Edmund Spenser, iv + 100 quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum gilt.

    c.1597-1625.

    Inscriptions including (f. iir) Covel's writing, (f. ivr) Bartho: ?Tanham or ?Canham, ?J. C L, and ? yesecyke Anno: Domine / 1625. Later No. 74 in the library of the Rev. Dr Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary. Afterwards owned by John Henry Gurney, MP (1819-90), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker, politician and ornithologist.

    Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), p. 123. Collated in Variorum. Facsimile of the last page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 31 March 1936, lot 200.

    • SpE 60
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

      Spenser's authorship of this View is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr, ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

      Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

  • MS 2093

    An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an Index, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf.

    Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

    c.1680s.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.

    • RoJ 80 pp. 1-8

      Copy, headed An Epistolary Essay from J.N. to J.S. upon their mutuall poems. by. E. Rochestr for liberty of writeing.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
    • RoJ 292 pp. 9-24

      Copy, headed A Satyr against man, lines 174-221 separately headed A supplement to ye satyr Against Man. by ye E. of Rochestr.

      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 246 pp. 33-5

      Copy, headed My Ld. Rochesters answr to ye defence of satyr.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • DrJ 43.92 pp. 36-55

      Copy, subscribed in different ink Dryden.

      A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

      First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

      The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

      John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
    • DrJ 96.5 pp. 56-69

      Copy, ascribed to Dreyden.

      First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.

      The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

      John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
    • EtG 8 pp. 70-3

      Copy, subscribed in a different ink Rochester.

      First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

      Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
    • RoJ 610 pp. 74-7

      Copy, headed An heroicall Epistle in answer to Ephelia, subscribed in a different ink Rochester.

      First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
    • RoJ 167.5 p. 78

      Copy, ascribed to Rochester.

      Edited from this MS in Love.

      Love, pp. 92-3.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Lord Moulgrave's character. By Lord Rochester ('With Equall grace and force he walks and writes')
    • RoJ 477 pp. 79-90

      Copy, headed A Satyr, the subscription Rochester crossed out and Sr Ch: Sidley written above in faint ink.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')
    • RoJ 142 pp. 91-108

      Copy, headed Artemiza to Chloe, subscribed Rochester.

      First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
    • RoJ 240.8 pp. 109-11

      Copy, in double columns, subscribed Rochester (and indexed as by Ld Ro.).

      Edited from this MS in Love.

      First published in Love (1999), pp. 282-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Lady Mary Stewart who Eateing a honeycomb a Bee flew out and stung her neck ('This Bee alone of all his race')
    • DoC 279 pp. 117-19

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Sr Char: Sidley.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called The British Princes ('Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare')
    • RoJ 16 pp. 120-8

      Copy, subscribed Rochester.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
    • RoJ 52 pp. 129-30

      Copy, in double columns, here beginning As some old Admirall in former war, subscribed Rochester.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
    • RoJ 8 pp. 130-1

      Copy, headed Of Marriage, here beginning Out of stark Love and arrant Devotion, subscribed R.

      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 2326, p. 249, No. 1457

    Autograph letter signed by Denham, to Sir George Lane, 24 July 1662.

    1662.

    Summarized in HMC, 36, Ormonde NS III (1904), pp. 19-20.

    • *DeJ 134
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Denham, Letter(s)

  • MS 2454, ff. 263r-4r, 267r

    Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, to James Butler, second Duke of Ormonde, 5 November 1688.

    1688.

    Recorded in HMC, Ormonde, NS, Vol. VIII (1920), p. 8. Edited in Summers, I, ccvi., and V, 402.

    • *SdT 48
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Shadwell, Letter(s)

  • MS 2582

    Copy, in a rounded italic hand, unascribed, 34 sextodecimo leaves, in old calf.

    c.1608/9.
    • BcF 134
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, XI, 116-26.

      Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Plantation in Ireland

  • MS 7899

    A quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional cursive hand, 304 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

    Late 17th century.

    Sotheby's, March 1956.

    • ClE 37 pp. 1-263

      Copy.

      First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme

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