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  • DD/AH/51/1

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands including that of the Feathery Scribe, 209 leaves (including blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

    Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

    Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 350. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 261 (No. 105), with facsimile examples on pp. 144-5.

    • SiP 211 ff. 48r-60v

      Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, with a title-page The Coppye: Off a Lre wrytten by Sr: phillipp. Sidnye, to Queene Elizabeth, Touchinge the Marryage, wth Mounsieur, &c.

      This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 261 (No. 105.1) and p. 280 (No. 33), No. 33, with facsimiles of ff. 51v-2r on pp. 144-5.

      First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

      This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

  • DD/AH/51/2

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, largely that of the Feathery Scribe, 248 leaves (including blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

    Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

    Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 350. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 261-2 (No. 106).

    • CtR 93 ff. 1r-11r

      Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, as Collected By Sr Robte Cotton knight, and Barronett.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 261 (No. 106.1).

      Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire.... First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-79 [i.e. 89].

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...

  • DD/AH/51/3

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 121 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

    Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

    • BcF 512 ff. 34r-5r

      Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • CtR 191 ff. 38r-41v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with alterations in another secretary hand, unascribed.

      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

  • DD/AH/51/4

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands including the Feathery Scribe, 155 leaves, in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

    Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

    • BcF 411 ff. 1r-24r

      Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalisation of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • DD/HN/4/6/1

    An octavo miscellany, including sermons, largely in two hands, written from both ends, in contemporary calf.

    c.1694-1717.

    Inscribed names of Elizabeth and Thomas Kent.

    • DaS 39.7 pp. 1-66

      Copy, in a small italic hand.

      First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

      Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England

  • DD/MI 18/81

    Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Ralph Winwood, May 1618, in two cursive secretary hands, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

    c.1620s.

    Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

    Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

    • RaW 981
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • DD/MI 18/82/[1]

    Copy, in two secretary hands, imperfect, lacking the beginning, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed Sir Walt: Ralegh his speech at his dea[th] the 29th october 161[8].

    c.1620s.

    Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

    Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

    • RaW 804
      No description or publication history available.

      Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

  • DD/MI/18/82/[2]

    Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I, in an italic hand, on the first page of two otherwise blank conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in pencil as being His Speech before Execution...1618.

    c.1620s.

    Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

    • RaW 982
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • DD/MI 18/88

    Copy of an early 78-line version, untitled and beginning with the first two stanzas of the last book of Cynthia, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

    c.1620.

    Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

    This MS edited and discussed in Pierre Lefranc, Une Nouvelle Version de la Petition to Queen Anne de Sir Walter Ralegh, Annales de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines de Nice, 34 (1978), 57-67. Edited in Rudick, No. 32, pp. 72-5. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

    • RaW 294
      No description or publication history available.

      In three versions, first published in 1833, 1928, and 1978 respectively.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Petition to the Queen ('My dayes delight, my spring tyme ioyes foredun')

  • DD/MI/18/96

    A sewn folio booklet of parliamentary speeches, in one or more professional secretary hands, twelve leaves, in a paper wrapper.

    c.1640.

    In a bundle among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

    Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 596.

    • RuB 133 f. [1r-v]

      Copy, headed Sir Beniamin Rudyards Speech in parliament.

      Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

      Speech beginning There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good.... Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640
    • ElQ 302 f. [11r-v]

      Copy of Version II, headed Queene Elizabeths speech in Parliamt.

      First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

      Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate.... Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

      Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me.... Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

      Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent.... Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

      Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved.... Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

  • DD/MI Bx 19

    State papers.

    The documents signed by Wither cited in Allan Pritchard, George Wither and the Sale of the Estate of Charles I, MP, 77 (1979-80), 370-81.

    • *WiG 55 No. 67
      Autograph

      An order signed by Wither and other Commissioners for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, addressed to Carew Mildmay, Groom of His Majesty's Jewels and Plate, demanding the delivery up certain goods, books and papers in his custody, 25 September 1649.

      George Wither, Document(s)
    • *WiG 56 No. 73
      Autograph

      An order signed by Wither and other Commissioners for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, addressed to Carew Mildmay, Groom of His Majesty's Jewels and Plate, demanding the delivery up certain goods, books and papers in his custody, 21 January 1649/50.

      George Wither, Document(s)
    • *WiG 57 No. 105
      Autograph

      An order signed by Wither and other Commissioners for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, addressed to Carew Mildmay, Groom of His Majesty's Jewels and Plate, demanding the delivery up certain goods, books and papers in his custody, 19 Otober 1651.

      George Wither, Document(s)
    • *WiG 59 No. 114
      Autograph

      An order signed by Wither and other Commissioners for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, addressed to Carew Mildmay, Groom of His Majesty's Jewels and Plate, demanding the delivery up certain goods, books and papers in his custody, 23 November 1652.

      George Wither, Document(s)
    • *WiG 60 No. 115
      Autograph

      An order signed by Wither and other Commissioners for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, addressed to Carew Mildmay, Groom of His Majesty's Jewels and Plate, demanding the delivery up certain goods, books and papers in his custody, 30 November1652.

      George Wither, Document(s)

  • DD/PH/211

    A tall folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 89 items, 249 leaves, in 19th-century black leather.

    Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.

    • BcF 513 f. 213r

      Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1620/1, in a secretary hand, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

  • DD/PH/215

    Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, on 34 quarto leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco gilt.

    c.1624-8.

    Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 286.

    • BcF 174
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain

  • DD/PH/221

    A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 70 items, 139 leaves.

    Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.

    Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 58.

    • HlJ 138 ff. 66r-7v

      Copy of an undated four-page epistle by Hall, headed The Bishop of Exceter his Apology vpon a Report that went of him to bee a fauourer of Puritans Written to a frind of his liuing at the Kings Court and beginning But can it bee thus? What? That a Divine of my Diocesse should so defile his owne nest…, in an italic hand.

      Joseph Hall, Letter(s)
    • BcF 210 ff. 68r-9r

      Copy of Three Essayes of Revendge. Aduersitie [and] Innouations by the Lord St Alban, in the cursive italic hand of Sir Robert Phelips (1586?-1638), politician, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

      Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
    • HrE 18 f. 96r-v

      Copy, in the cursive italic hand of Sir Robert Phelips (1586?-1638), politician, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed Sr. Ed Herbert of the prin[ce].

      First published among Sundry Funeral Elegies appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince ('Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add')

  • DD/SAS/C/795/SX/28

    Copy, in a single professional predominantly italic hand, iv + 87 small quarto pages, in contemporary limp vellum gilt.

    c.1630s.

    Inscribed in a 19th-century hand (f. ir) Found at Poundisford Park to which it was brought by the Daughter of Robert Tristram Esq Merchant of Barnstaple who died about the year 1700, Tristram's daughter Jane being married in 1737 to Isaac Welma (b.1710) of Poundisford Park.

    • NaR 32
      No description or publication history available.

      Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

      Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

  • DD/SF/7/1/11/1

    Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed Sr Walter Rawleigh his speech at his death, who was beheaded in the ould [ ? ] at Westminster the 29th of October 16i8 betweene 8 and 9 of the cloke in the morn, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

    c.1620.

    Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, box 1, and in DD/SF/ 4514.

    • RaW 805
      No description or publication history available.

      Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

  • DD/SF/10/5/1

    An octavo commonplace book of verse and prose, in two or more secretary hands, 41 leaves, in a recycled illuminated vellum music document.

    Inscribed (ff. 1r, 2r) Samuell Watts.

    Early 17th century.

    Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF 3970.

    • LyJ 0.2 ff. 3 r-v, 5r-v, 6v, 8r, 19r-v, 24v, 28r-v, 29v, 30v-1r, 35v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1578. Bond, Vol. I. Edited by Leah Scragg, in Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England (Manchester, 2003), pp. 25-150.

      John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
    • JnB 568.8 f. 4r

      Extract.

      First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, IV, 1-184.

      Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
    • SpE 7.9 f. 4v

      Copy, headed In Dominam.

      Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 221-2.

      Edmund Spenser, Amoretti. Sonnet LXIIII. ('Coming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found)')
    • JnB 692.5 ff. 5r-6r

      Extracts from Ovid's speeches at the end of Act I, scene i (beginning The suffering plowshare or the flint may wear), and Act V, scene ii.

      First published in London, 1602. Herford & Simpson, IV, 185-325.

      Ben Jonson, The Poetaster
    • GrR 3.5 ff. 6v, 24r, 27r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1590. Grosart, VIII.

      Robert Greene, Greenes Never too late
    • RaW 540.5 ff. 20v-1r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Wronge not sweet Empresse of my hart.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

      This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
    • MrC 2.8 ff. 25v, 35r, 38r

      Copy of lines 184 (beginning Love deeply grounded hardly is dissembled), 175-6, 199-208, 223-4, 513-16.

      First published in London, 1598. Bowers, II, 423-515 (p. 448). Tucker Brooke, pp. 485-548 (p. 507). Gill et al., I, 175-209. For George Chapman's continuation of the poem, see ChG 3-4.

      Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander ('On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood')
    • RaW 285.5 f. 26v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • LoT 15.5 f. 29r-v

      Extracts of verse, beginning Of all chaste birds the Phoenix doth excel.

      Gosse, I, p. 27.

      First published in London, 1590. Gosse, Vol. I, last item.

      Thomas Lodge, Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie
    • ShW 35.5 ff. 33r-4v

      Copy of lines 17-18 (beginning Here, come and sit where never serpent hisses), 125-32, 161-8, 209-10, 215-16, 407-8, 229-40, 575-6, 755-6, 767-8, 809-10, 799-804, 833-4, 1007-8.

      First published in London, 1593.

      William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis ('Even as the sun with purple-coloured face')
    • BaR 0.5 f. 38r

      Extract, lines 264-5.

      First published in London, 1594. Grosart, pp. 1-55.

      Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepheard ('Of all the kindes of common countrey life')
    • ChG 4.5 f. 38r

      Copy of the Third Sestiad, lines 35-6, beginning Joy, graven in sense, like snow in water wastes.

      Chapman's continuation of Marlowe's poem (Sestiads III-VI). First published in London, 1598. Bartlett, pp. 132-70.

      George Chapman, Hero and Leander
    • SpE 9.9 f. 38r-v

      Copy of Book 5, Canto 8, stanza 1, and Book 6, Canto 11, stanza 1.

      Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.

      Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

  • DD/SF/12/43/3

    An indenture signed by both Rochester and his wife Elizabeth, 21 August 1672.

    With other family documents.

    1672.

    Formerly DD/SF 990.

  • DD/SF/18/2/5

    A bundle of unbound poems and songs, in various hands and paper sizes.

    Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, Box 1 and DD/SF 4516.

    • DrW 117.48 item 1

      Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, headed The Senses, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

      Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • RaW 411 item 2

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

      First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
    • CoR 14 item 3

      Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled but headed Docter Corbett, on one side of a single folio leaf.

      First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

      Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

      Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')
    • CoR 52 item 4

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, in double columns, headed A Grave poem...[etc.], unascribed, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

      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')
    • HoJ 228 item 6

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untited, here beginning Greate Verulame is very lame ye goute of gorout feeling, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

      John Hoskyns, Sr Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount St Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling')
    • KiH 133 item 13

      Copy of lines 1-8, in a mixed hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse, once folded as a letter or packet.

      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?')

  • DD/TB/11/14

    A bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers.

    Late 17th century.

    Among the papers of the Carew family, of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

    • MaA 353 [1st item]

      Copy, in an italic hand, on all ten pages of five quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking half the second leaf.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

      The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')

  • DD/TB/18/24

    A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1628-9, in a single small mixed hand, 44 leaves, in a paper wrapper.

    c.1630.

    Among the papers of the Carew family, of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

    • RuB 51 f. [13r-v]

      Copy, headed Sr. Beniamine Ruddierds Speech the 9th day of Aprill 1628

      Speech beginning The best thanks we can return his Matie for his gracious and religious answer....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628
    • RuB 79 ff. [14r-15r]

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Ruddierds Speech the Eight and twentieth day of Aprill 1628.

      Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628

  • DD/WO/53/3/26

    Copy.

    Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, here beginning here lyes hobblenole our Sheapeard whileare, with other verses on Cecil, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, in a bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers.

    Early 17th century.

    Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families.

    • RaW 374.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

      Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')

  • DD/WO/53/5/13

    A pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a secretary hand, in a bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers.

    c.1620s.

    Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families

    • HoJ 269 pp. [1-2]

      Copy, in double columns, endorsed in another hand (p. [4]) Latine verses made at A Philosophicall Banquet.

      Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.

      John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')
    • DrW 117.49 p. [2]

      Copy, in double columns, headed The fiue Sences.

      Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')

  • DD/WO/56/9/14.2

    Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a quarto leaf, imperfect, lacking all the right half of the page, in a bundle of unbound verse and miscellaneous papers.

    Late 16th-early 17th century.

    Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families.

    • RaW 496.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes'

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