Folger Shakespeare Library
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Sir Ralph Verney, Bt., Claydon House

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    Copy of stanzas 24-90 with two additional stanzas, headed Faith and Reason by ye Earl of Rochester, with an introductory Argument, the first stanza beginning The greif of Astragon, and whence it springs, on six folio leaves, sent by John Verney to Sir Ralph Verney.

    [1675/6].

    Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 467. Discussed in Vivian de Sola Pinto, An Unpublished Poem Attributed to Rochester, TLS (22 November 1934), p. 824, and (6 December 1934), p. 875. Collated and the additional lines edied in Gibbs.

    A set of microfilms of the Verney Papers is in the British Library (M/636/1-60). For a letter by John Verney to Sir Ralph Verney, 23 March 1675/6, referring to this MS, see Gibbs, p. 431 (and microfilm M/636/29).

    • DaW 41
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 182-96. The poem originally intended to form part of Gondibert (see Gibbs, pp. lii et seq., 431).

      Sir William Davenant, The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian ('Before by death you newer knowledge gain')

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    MS.

    17th century.

    Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 508. A set of microfilms of the Verney Papers is in the British Library (M/636/1-60).

    • CoR 53 [unspecified item]

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

      Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).

      Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
    • CoR 626 [unspecified item]

      Copy, headed Bishop Corbett to the ladies of the new dress that weare gorgets and vailes downe to ther waste.

      First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

      This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.

      Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
    • GrJ 37 [unspecified item]

      Copy, headed The Ladys reply.

      An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

      John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'

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    Copy.

    Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 467

    • CtR 198
      No description or publication history available.

      Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

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    Copy, headed Considerations for the repressing of the increase of priests and Jesuits and recusants without drawing of blood, by Sir R. C.

    Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, part I (1879), Appendix, p. 509.

    • CtR 520
      No description or publication history available.

      Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads..., dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

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    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Ralph Verney, 21 August 1683.

    Edited in Greer & Hastings, p. 86.

    • *WhA 72
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Anne Wharton, Letter(s)

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    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Ralph Verney, 22 March 1684/5.

    1685.

    Edited in Greer & Hastings, p. 92.

    • *WhA 73
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Anne Wharton, Letter(s)

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    Autograph letter signed, [to ? Sir Henry Verney], from Paris, 4/14 April 1649.

    1649.

    Microfilm in British Library M/636/9. Edited in Jean Loiseau, Abraham Cowley, sa vie, son oeuvre (Paris, 1931), p. 91.

    • *CoA 220
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

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