The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999

Add. MS 10308

A folio volume of poems by Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638), in two hands, with corrections and corrections and emendations in the hand of his nephew Sir John Ayton, 23 leaves, in modern half blue morocco.

With Sir John's title-page (f. 1r): Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of S^r: Robert Ayton late Secretarye to the most Illustrious Anna and Henrietta Mary Queenes of greate Brittayne France and Ireland.
c.1660s.
- RaW 509 ff. 9v-10r
  
  Copy, with Sir John Ayton's emendations, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS in The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (Oxford, 1958), pp. 85-6. Collated in Gullans. Recorded in Latham, p. 116.
  
  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'
Add. MS 10309

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
c.1630.
The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed Margrett Bellasys, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed The pieces which I have extracted for The Specimens are, Page 91, 211, 265: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.
- HlJ 16 ff. 2r-39r
  
  Copy of nineteen Characterisms of Vice.
  
  First published in London, 1608. Wynter, VI, 89-125. Edited by Rudolf Kirk, together with Heaven vpon Earth (New Brunswick, N.J., 1948).
  
  Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices
- DrM 82 f. 32v
  
  Extracts from poems by Drayton incorporated in another poem.
  
  Cited in Hebel, V, 140, note 2.
  
  Michael Drayton, Extracts
- MrJ 61 f. 39v
  
  An anonymous copy, Latin only.
  
  John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
- MrJ 82 f. 42r
  
  Copy, headed Upon the Dukes goeing into Fraunce.
  
  John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce ('And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere')
- MrJ 30 ff. 42r-4v
  
  Copy, headed vpon his returne from thence.
  
  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
- SiP 52 f. 45v
  
  Copy of a six-line paraphrase of lines 30-4, untitled and beginning Sweet I cannot be from you.
  
  Edited from this MS in Ringler, p. 431.
  
  Ringler, pp. 154-5.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 25 ('When to my deadlie pleasure')
- HoJ 204 f. 47r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).
  
  John Hoskyns, On Dreames ('Yo^u nimble dreames w^th cob webb winges')
- PoW 16 ff. 47v-8v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- DnJ 457 f. 48v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
  
  John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
- DnJ 3926 ff. 50v-1r
  
  Copy of a five-stanza version, headed A Louers Testament dying for Loue and beginning Before I grone my last gaspe, let me breath.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
  
  John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
- DnJ 3861 ff. 53v-4v
  
  Copy of lines 1-23, 37-70, 77-82, headed An Elegie.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.
  Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.
  
  John Donne, Variety ('The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I')
- CwT 477 ff. 55r-6r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon y^e sending backe of his m^rs papers.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
  
  Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
- CwT 706 f. 57v
  
  Copy, headed To one that fear'd a discouery of her loue & affection.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
- JnB 37 f. 57v
  
  Copy of a version of lines 1-6, untitled.
  
  Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.
  
  Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former ('For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe')
- RnT 4 f. 59r-v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Deare, doe not yor fayre beauties wrong.
  
  First published, in a version beginning Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam ('Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong')
- CwT 896 f. 60v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
- HrJ 35 ff. 62v-3r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
  
  Sir John Harington, Against Swearing ('In elder times an ancient custome was')
- CwT 109 ff. 72r-3r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
- CmT 22 ff. 85v-6r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Davis, p. 498.
  
  First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 160.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Could my heart more tongues imploy'
- CmT 23 f. 94v
  
  Copy of an untitled version beginning Could my poore hart whole worlds of toungs employ.
  
  This MS collated in Davis, p. 480.
  
  First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 160.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Could my heart more tongues imploy'
- DnJ 2723 f. 95r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.
  
  John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis ('Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said')
- PeW 176 ff. 95v-6r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Walton Poole.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable ('Why should Passion lead thee blind')
- MiT 25 f. 96r
  
  Copy, headed On A purse-Taker.
  
  This MS recorded in Bullen, V, 168(n) (misprinted as Add. 10319).
  
  First published in London, 1652. Bullen, V, 117-235 (pp. 168-9). Edited by Robert T. Levine (Salzburg, 1975). Oxford Middleton, pp. 1078-1123 (pp. 1098-9).
  
  Thomas Middleton, The Widow, III, i, 22-37. Song ('I keep my horse, I keep my whore')
- DnJ 1142 f. 98v
  
  Copy of lines 1-6, headed An Epitaph.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
  
  John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford ('That I might make your Cabinet my tombe')
- JnB 588 f. 100v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
- BrW 193 f. 104v
  
  Copy, headed Epitaph on the Death of the Countesse of Pembroke.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- CoR 669 ff. 107v-8v
  
  Copy, headed vpon m^rs Mallett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
- HrJ 91.5 f. 108v
  
  Copy, headed Erat Quidam homo and here beginning It is not certaine, when, a certaine Preacher.
  
  The text followed by an answer headed Erat quedam mulier and here beginning That no man yet could in the Scripture finde.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')
- PeW 35 f. 109v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'If her disdain least change in you can move'
- PeW 105 ff. 109v-10r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ''Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain'
- PeW 73 f. 110r-v
  
  Copy, headed ffreindship's fledge, & flowne.
  
  This MS collated in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship ('Friendship on Earth we may as easily find')
- DrM 57 f. 112r
  
  Copy of lines 1-4, 12-15, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 147.
  
  First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.
  
  Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')
- CoR 640 ff. 112r-17r
  
  Copy, headed D^r Corbet to my L^d. Mordant vpon his returne from Scotland.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')
- JnB 445 f. 117r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Come sweet Cælia let vs proue.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson and in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.
  
  First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.
  
  Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Come my Celia let vs proue')
- JnB 545 f. 117v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.
  
  Ben Jonson, To the Same ('Kisse me, sweet: The warie louer')
- HrJ 79 f. 120r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning England (men say) of late is bankrupt growne.
  
  Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.
  
  Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed ('Men say that England late is bankrout grown')
- HoJ 54 ff. 123r-5r
  
  Copy, headed The Parliament Fart.
  
  Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
  
  John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
- PeW 17 f. 125r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  Edited from this MS in Krueger. Collated in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983), pp. 217, 231.
  
  Krueger, pp. 53-4, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts. Edited, as a Poem Possibly by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983).
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'Had I loved but at that rate'
- DnJ 3755 ff. 126r-7r
  
  Copy, headed Compasse. by D^r Dun.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
  
  John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
- DnJ 517 f. 127r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
  
  John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
- DnJ 2313 f. 132r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
  
  John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
- DaJ 177 f. 135r
  
  Copy, headed De Infante imatura morte perempto and here beginning As carefull Mothers to their beddes doe lay.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- NaT 3 ff. 135v-9v
  
  Copy, headed Gnash his valentine and here beginning In the merrie Moneth of ffebruary.
  
  This MS not recorded by editors.
  
  Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.
  
  Thomas Nashe, The choise of valentines ('It was the merie moneth of Februarie')
- StW 1358 f. 140r
  
  Copy, headed Aenigma de osculo.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.
  
  William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse ('What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene')
- CoR 464 f. 140r
  
  Copy, headed On M^r Henry Boling.
  
  First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
  
  Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling ('If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit')
- HoJ 194 f. 140r
  
  Copy of a version headed Ep. D^ris ffletcher Epi Londi: and beginning Here lyes the first y^t gaue England to see.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XIX (p. 189).
  
  John Hoskyns, Of the B. of London ('I was the first that made Christendom see')
- RaW 32 f. 141r
  
  Copy, headed Nox ante obitum. S^r. W.R. 29 october. 1618.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
  
  First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
  This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
- DnJ 1657 ff. 141v-2r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
  
  John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
- HrJ 163.8 f. 142v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat ('A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed')
- RaW 418.5 f. 142v
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning There is a bow wherein to shoote I sue, followed by an Answer beginning Yo^u bended haue the bow wherein to shoot yo^u sue.
  
  First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I cannot bend the bow'
- ShW 8 f. 143r
  
  Copy, headed Spes Altera and here beginning When threescore winters shall besiege thy brow.
  
  Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.
  
  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 ('When forty winters shall besiege thy brow')
- CoR 141 ff. 145v-7r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon my Lady Harringtons death who dyed of the small poxe by D^r Corbet.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
- RaW 210 f. 147v
  
  Copy, headed A Prophecie.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
  
  First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice ('Beefore the sixt day of the next new year')
- HoJ 238 f. 148r
  
  Copy, headed Hosckins in the Tower to his little son Beniamin, here beginning My little Ben, now y^u art young.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
  
  John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
- HrJ 231 f. 148r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches ('Six of the weakest sex and purest sect')
- HrJ 305 f. 148v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning When doome of Death by Judgem^t fore-appointed.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).
  
  Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
- CoR 263 f. 150r
  
  Copy, headed Ad Authorem....
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
  The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
- CoR 239 ff. 150v-1r
  
  Copy, headed Ad Poetam exauctorata et emerita.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
- CoR 118 f. 152r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie on S^r Thos Ouerbury poysoned in the Tower 16i4 and as By D^r Corbet.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth')
- CoH 101 f. 152v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the virgin Mary.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.
  
  Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady ('In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free')
- StW 1347 f. 154v
  
  Copy, headed Aenigma de Zelotopia.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
  
  William Strode, On Jealousy ('There is a thing that nothing is')
- DrW 177.8 f. 155r
  
  Copy, headed Epitaph. In nuper Ang: Thes: qui morte obijt repentina and here beginning Immodest death....
  
  First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
  
  William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre')
- CoR 204 f. 155r
  
  Copy, headed Epi: vpon Tho: Jones Clarke of S^t Giles Parish.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 145.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Tho. Jonce ('Here for the nonce')
Add. MS 10422

A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco.
Early 17th century.
Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.
- SoR 244 f. 1r
  
  Copy, imperfect.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 2.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, To the Reader ('Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style')
- SoR 223 ff. 2r-8v
  
  Copy of a sequence of fourteen poems, imperfect.
  
  Poems xiii & xiv edited from this MS in Turnbull.
  
  Poems vi & xii first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Poems i-v, vii-xi first published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Poems xiii & xiv first published in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.B. Turnbull (London, 1856). Brown, pp. 3-12.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ ('Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude')
- SoR 15 f. 9r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce ('Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child')
- SoR 156 ff. 9v-10v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 13-15.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New heaven, new warre ('Come to your heaven you heavenly quires')
- SoR 9 f. 10v
  
  Copy, with corrections in two later hands.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 15-16.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The burning Babe ('As I in hoarie Winters night')
- SoR 161 f. 11r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 16-17.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New Prince, new pompe ('Behold a silly tender Babe')
- SoR 233 ff. 11v-12v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 17-18.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Sinnes heavie loade ('O Lord my sinne doth over-charge thy brest')
- SoR 22 ff. 12v-13r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs bloody sweat ('Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse')
- SoR 29 ff. 13r-14r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 19-21.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs sleeping friends ('When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest')
- SoR 83 ff. 14r-16r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 21-3.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Josephs Amazement ('When Christ by growth disclosed his descent')
- SoR 67 ff. 16r-17r
  
  Copy, headed Saint Thomas of Aquines hyme redd on Corpus xpi day. Lauda Syon Sal.
  
  First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 23-6.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A holy Hymne ('Praise, O Sion, praise thy Saviour')
- SoR 167 ff. 17v-19r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).
  
  First published as The Christians Manna in S. Peters Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalens Fvnerall Teares ([St Omers], 1616). Brown, pp. 26-8.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter ('In paschall feast the end of auncient rite')
- SoR 193 ff. 19v-21
  
  Copy.
  
  This version first published in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3. Brown, pp. 29-31.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaynte ('How can I live, that have my life deny'de?')
- SoR 186 f. 21r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, p. 31.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters afflicted minde ('if that the sicke may grone')
- SoR 151 ff. 21v-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 32-3.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalens blush ('The signs of shame that staine my blushing face')
- SoR 202 ff. 22r-3r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 33-5.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters remorse ('Remorse upbraids my faults')
- SoR 42 ff. 23v-4r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 35-6.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Davids Peccavi ('In eaves, sole Sparrowe sits not more alone')
- SoR 173 ff. 24r-6v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 36-40.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Phansie turned to a sinners complaint ('Hee that his mirth hath lost')
- SoR 251 ff. 26v-8v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 41-3.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A vale of teares ('A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades')
- SoR 178 ff. 29r-30r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke ('Disankerd from a blisfull shore')
- SoR 138 ff. 30v-1r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death ('Sith my life from life is parted')
- SoR 47 ff. 31v-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).
  
  First published in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 47-8.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Decease release. Dum morior orior ('The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please')
- SoR 78 ff. 32v-3r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).
  
  First published in St. Peters Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 48-9.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye without desert ('If orphane Childe enwrapt in swathing bands')
- SoR 131 f. 33r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 49-50.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mans civill warre ('My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven')
- SoR 94 f. 34r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Life is but Losse ('By force I live, in will I wish to die')
- SoR 216 f. 35r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 52.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Seeke flowers of heaven ('Soare up my soule unto thy rest')
- SoR 72 f. 35v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye alive ('O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?')
- SoR 257 f. 36r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, What joy to live? ('I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy')
- SoR 100 ff. 36v-7r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life ('Who lives in love, loves least to live')
- SoR 3 ff. 37r-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 55-6.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, At home in Heaven ('Faire soule, how long shall veyles thy graces shroud?')
- SoR 108 f. 38r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 57.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Looke home ('Retyred thoughts enjoy their owne delights')
- SoR 239 ff. 38v-9r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Time goe by turnes ('The lopped tree in time may grow againe')
- SoR 113 ff. 39v-40r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies ('Shun delaies, they breede remorse')
- SoR 126 ff. 40v-1v
  
  Copy.
  
  Lines 1-48 first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Lines 49-76 published in 2nd edition (1595). Brown, pp. 60-2.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves servile lot ('Love mistris is of many mindes')
- SoR 88 ff. 41v-2v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lewd Love is Losse ('Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure')
- SoR 120 ff. 42v-3v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves Garden grief ('Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure')
- SoR 53 ff. 43v-4r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Fortunes Falsehoode ('In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie')
- SoR 59 ff. 44v-5r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, From Fortunes reach ('Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race')
- SoR 36 ff. 45r-6v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich ('I dwell in grace's courte')
- SoR 208 ff. 46v-7r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least ('Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong')
- SoR 196 ff. 47-64v
  
  Copy, complete with The Author to the Reader (beginning Deare eie that daynest to let fall a looke).
  
  First published London, 1595. Brown, pp. 75-100.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaint ('Launche foorth my Soul into a maine of teares')
- SoR 299 ff. 65r-82r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Trotman. Collated in Brown, Two Letters.
  
  Epistle, beginning In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty.... First published as An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)
- SoR 292.2 ff. 83r-4r
  
  Copy, headed A Letter writen to his brother.
  
  A draft letter, beginning Understanding that you were resolved upon a course which nearest toucheth the salvation of your soul.... Brown, Two Letters, pp. 99-100.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Another letter persuasory to the same [i.e. his father]
- SoR 292.6 ff. 84v-5r
  
  Copy, headed A Letter writen by P. B. to his Cosyn. W. R.
  
  A letter beginning I know not how to write, because I know not to whom to write, to my cousin or to a stranger.... Brown, Two Letters, p. 101.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Another letter written to one of his kinsmen
- SoR 323 ff. 86r-109r
  
  Copy, complete with dedicatory epistle, the Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville and the Latin epitaph, untitled.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Trotman.
  
  First published in London, 1595. Trotman, pp. 1-35.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Triumphs over Death
Add. MS 10449

Four playhouse plots.
- PlG 22 f. 3r
  
  The Plott of the Battell of Alcazar, made by a playhouse scribe, prepared for a revival of the play by the Admiral's Company, a large broadsheet.
  Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1640.
  
  The Plott first published by W. W. Greg in Henslowe Papers (London, 1907), pp. 138-41. Revised transcripts and facsimiles in Greg, Two Elizabethan Stage Abridgements: The Battle of Alcazar and Orlando Furioso, Malone Society (Oxford, 1922); in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 44-59, and II, Plate VI; and in Yoklavich, facing p. 280.
  
  First acted 1589. First published in London, 1594. Edited by John Yoklavich in Prouty, II, 294-347.
  
  George Peele, The Battle of Alcazar
- DkT 45.5 f. 5r
  
  The Plott of a version of Troilus and Cressida performed by the Admiral's Company, made by a playhouse scribe, a large broadsheet.
  
  Facsimile in Greg, Dramatic Documents (II, Plate V).
  
  A lost play, written by Dekker and Henry Chettle for the Admiral's men in 1599.
  
  Thomas Dekker, Troilus and Cressida
Add. MS 11044

A folio composite volume of letters and papers relating to John, first Lord Scudamore (1619-71).

Volume IV of the Scudamore Papers of Hom-Lacy and Ballingham, Herefordshire.
- *HbT 119 ff. 180r-1v
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to John, first Viscount Scudamore, from Paris, 2/12 April 1641.
  
  Edited in Perez Zagorin, Thomas Hobbes's Departure from England in 1640. An Unpublished Letter, Historical Journal, 21 (1978), 156-60. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 114-15, Letter 35.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
Add. MS 11055

A folio composite volume of letters by bishops and miscellaneous ecclesiastical papers, in various hands.

Volume XV of the papers of the Scudamore family, of Hom-Lacy and Ballingham, Herefordshire.
- *AndL 64 f. 9r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed, to Mr Field, 16 August 1605.
  
  Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)
- *AndL 65 f. 10r-11r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed, to Mr Field, 26 September 1605.
  
  Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)
- AndL 97 f. 12r
  
  Copy of Andrewes's last will and testament.
  
  Lancelot Andrewes, Will
Add. MS 11258

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in two or more hands, i + 41 leaves, in modern half-calf.
c.1735.
- CrR 199.5 f. 4r
  
  Copy, headed out of Martiall To an old Woman, subscribed Tr. by Rich^d. Crashaw.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 188.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Out of Martiall ('Foure Teeth thou had'st that ranck'd in goodly state')
Add. MS 11308

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 200 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.

Purchased from Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller, 11 February 1838.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 228 (No. 28).
- CtR 11 ff. 59r-77v
  
  Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, as Written by S^r: Robte Cotton Knight, and Barronett. c.1630s.
  
  A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace
- RaW 857 ff. 135r-42v
  
  Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife (the night before he was beheaded att Westminster) and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Add. MS 11388

A folio volume of heraldic and other treatises and papers, in several secretary hands, 191 leaves (plus 44 blanks), in modern quarter-morocco.

Collected by Francis Thynne (1545?-1608), Lancaster Herald and antiquary.

Bookplate with the Markham arms. A flyleaf inscribed F. J. Albers's. Purchased from Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller, on 31 March 1838.
- MrT 91 ff. 46v-63v
  
  Copy, headed The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore knight Written by Willm Roper Esquier, who maryed margarett Daughter of the sayd Thomas moore, This Willm dwelt at Elthame in kent and dyed aboute., subscribed Finis. 26 maij 1598:.
  
  This MS collated in Hitchcock and briefly described, p. xiii.
  
  First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).
  
  Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More
Add. MS 11405

A large folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 412 leaves, in 19th-century half red morocco.

Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.
- BcF 200.5 ff. 41r-5r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. Early 17th century.
  
  A tract beginning Inter magnalia regni, amongst the greatest and most haughty things of this kingdom.... First published in Briefe Collections out of Magna Charta (London, 1643) [Wing B4557]. Spedding, VII, 505-16.
  
  Francis Bacon, Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell
Add. MS 11492

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single mixed hand, entitled Essayes for attaineing ffrench in six Bookes,133 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

Another title-page (f. 110r): English Verse Turned into ffrench Verse, for my owne improvement in the ffrench Tongue. The English Verse is cheifely M^r: Cowley's. Done by me Ol. Salusbury.
c.1700.
Signed Ol. Salusbury also on f. 1r. A copy of the will of Edward Ward, 20 June 1731, added on f. 133. Cochran's catalogue for 1837, item 511. Evans's (Sotheby's), 27 July 1838, lot 1348.
- CoA 269 ff. 117v-31v (versos only)
  
  Copy of portions of 12 poems by Cowley, as well as a copy of Spratt's Life of Cowley on ff. 77v-109v (versos only).
  
  Abraham Cowley, Extracts
Add. MS 11513

Copy of Sir George Etherege's Letter Book, 1685-8, 202 quarto leaves, in half-morocco.

Acquired from the bookseller Wilkes, 3 December 1838.
- *EtG 151 The MS as a whole
  Autograph
  
  A quarto volume of copies of over 225 letters by Etherege (some abridged), from Ratisbon, 19/29 November 1685 to 1/11 March 1687/8 (ff. 1-171), together with a verse satire on Etherege [by Hughes] (f. 172r-v), transcripts of fourteen letters sent to Etherege by correspondents (ff. 173r-86v), his accounts (f. 187r-v), Sir Georg^s acc^t. of the Feast on the B[irth] of y^e P[rince] of W[ales] (ff. 188r-91v, A Catalogue of Sr. George's Bookes (f. 192r), and An acc^t. of S^r G^s. life, & manner of living, writt in severall Letters, from Ratisbonne (ff. 192v-200r), all in the hand of Etherege's secretary Hugo Hughes, and (according to his note at the beginning) begun on 5/15 March 1686/7.
  
  Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as L 2. Edited complete in Rosenfeld (1928), with a facsimile of part of f. 66v facing p. 170. Selected letters printed in Bracher; also discussed by Bracher in HLB, 15 (1967), 238-45. The Catalogue of S^r. George's Bookes on f. 192 reproduced and discussed, with a facsimile, in Peter Beal, The most constant and best entertainement: Sir George Etherege's Reading in Ratisbon, The Library, 6th Ser. 10/2 (June 1988), 122-44.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Letterbook(s)
- DrJ 2.4 f. 1v
  
  Extract.
  
  Quoted in California, II, 413.
  
  First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 450-532.
  
  John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ('In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin')
- EtG 21 ff. 5v-6r
  
  Copy in the hand of Hugo Hughes, headed Ratisbonne 9/19 Jan. 1685/6 To my Lord Middleton with the following Copie of Verses.
  
  Edited from this MS in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 22-3.
  
  First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.
  
  Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')
- EtG 44 ff. 15r-16r
  
  Copy in the hand of Hugo Hughes, the poem dated 19/29 April 1686.
  
  Edited from this MS in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 32-4.
  
  First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')
- EtG 60 f. 43r
  
  Copy, in the hand of Hugo Hughes, written before a letter of 31 December 1686.
  
  Edited from this MS in Rosenfeld, in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 78-9.
  
  First published in Rosenfeld (1928), p. 129. Thorpe, p. 13.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Song ('Garde le secret de ton Ame')
- DrJ 204 ff. 174r-5r
  
  Copy in the hand of Hugo Hughes, untitled, subscribed Thought to be writen by M^r. Dryden & sent to S^r. G by my Ld Middleton.
  
  Edited from this MS in California, in Rosenfeld, and in Bracher.
  
  First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.
  
  John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')
- DrJ 314 f. 179r
  
  Copy of a letter by Dryden to Sir George Etherege, from London, 16 February 1686/7.
  
  Ward, Letter 13. Also edited from this MS in The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 355-7, and in Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1974), pp. 276-7.
  Other copies of this letter, not given separate entries, are in the other copies of Etherege's letterbook: EtG 000.
  
  John Dryden, Letter(s)
Add. MS 11600

A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, written from both ends, 287 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of a most important collection of ancient manuscripts (1839), item 184. Purchased 8 June 1839.
- RnT 424.5 ff. 4r-9v
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in another hand The Pedlar, unascribed.
  
  First published (with Aristippus) in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 35-50.
  
  Thomas Randolph, The Conceited Pedlar
- RaW 739.1 ff. 21r-2r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, headed S^r Walter Rawleigh his speech at his death who was beheaded in the Pallace of Westm^r the 27^th of October 1618. betweene the howres of 8 and 9 in the morning these lordes being present there...And also many K^ts and gent. of rank....
  
  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)
- RaW 858 f. 22r-v
  
  Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, 1603, in a secretary hand.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
- CtR 500 ff. 22v-35r
  
  Copy, in several secretary hands, headed S^r Robert Cottons speech 1628. Against recusants in defence of the oath of allegiance or execucons of consideration of repressing of the increase of Papists.
  
  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?
- BcF 574.5 ff. 73r-81v, 85r-102r
  
  Copies of numerous letters by Francis Bacon, to Elizabeth I, Burghley, Essex, Robert Cecil, James I, Sir John Davies, Northampton, Ellesmere, Tobie Matthews, Buckhurst, Lancelot Andrewes, Bodley and others.
  
  Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
- BcF 176.3 ff. 81v-4v
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand.
  
  First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.
  
  Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
- CtR 151 ff. 102r-6r
  
  Copy, in a 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
Add. MS 11602

A folio composite volume of naval papers, in various hands, iii + 406 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Produced or collected by Richard Gibson (1635-c.1712), naval official.
- PpS 7 ff. 302r-11r
  
  Copy, in a professional hand, untitled. c.1666.
  
  First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.
  
  Samuel Pepys, The Pursers Employ Annatomized and both Advantages & disadvantages therein discovered and also A Proposall of comitting the Victualling accompt to the care and management of each Comander. Presented as a New yeares guift to S^r: William Coventry by Samuel Pepys Esqr in 1665
Add. MS 11743

A folio composite volume of verse, written by or relating to members of the Fairfax family, in various hands and paper sizes, 156 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

In Cochran's sale catalogue for 1837. Purchased from H. Bohn, 26 September 1840.
- FaE 2 ff. 5r-6v
  
  Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed Ecloga Octava Ida and Opilio, on two folio leaves. Early 17th century.
  
  Edited from this MS in Greg and in Lea & Gang.
  
  First published in W.W. Greg, Fairfax Eighth Eclogue, MLQ, 4 (1901), 85-91, and additional notes in 6 (1903), 73-4. Reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), 29-43. Lea & Gang, pp. 676-89.
  
  Edward Fairfax, Eclogue the Eighth. Ida and Opilio ('Bright may this riseing beame on Ida shine!')
- SpE 9 f. 25r
  
  Extracts, in an italic hand, untitled, including Book III, Canto IX, stanza 20, here beginning And Philomell y^t knowes full well. Early-mid-17th century.
  
  Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.
  
  Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- FaE 3 f. 26r
  
  Copy of Canto I, lines 14-21, the description of Gabriel descending from Heaven, here beginning Of silver wings he tooke a shining pair.
  
  This MS recorded in Charles C. Bell, A History of Fairfax Criticism, PMLA, 62.1 (1947), 644-56 (p. 645).
  
  Six verses, unpublished.
  
  Edward Fairfax, To my noble frend m^r huntington ('Godfrey of Bulloigne & his great wonders')
Add. MS 11811

A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one G. Broughton on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco.
c.1630s [-1733].
G. Broughton is possibly William (Gulielmus) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Tweedye MS: CwT Δ 10.
- WoH 184 f. 2r
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph.
  
  First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
  This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
- StW 786 f. 2v
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman walking in y^e snow.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
  
  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
- SuJ 46 ff. 2v-3r
  
  Copy, subscribed S^r John suckling.
  
  Edited from this MS in Clayton.
  
  First published in Minor Poets of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (London, 1931). Clayton, p. 36.
  
  John Suckling, On King Richard the third, who lies buried under Leicester bridge ('What meanes this watry Canop'bout thy bed')
- CoR 607 f. 3r
  
  Copy, headed Bishop Corbet to y^e ladies of y^e new dresse.
  
  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 23 f. 3r-v
  
  Copy, headed The Answer.
  
  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'
- JnB 416.5 f. 3v
  
  Copy, headed On y^e vnion of England and Scotland, here beginning Was ever contract driven by better fate.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.
  
  Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')
- CwT 969 f. 4r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
- CwT 875 f. 4v
  
  Copy, headed On his Mistresse, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
- CwT 992 ff. 4v-6r
  
  Copy, headed His counsell to his Mistresse, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS collated in Hazlitt, pp. 2-5.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
  
  Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
- CwT 1066 f. 6r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 5. Dunlap. pp. 129-30.
  
  Thomas Carew, To his mistresse retiring in affection ('Fly not from him whose silent miserie')
- CwT 178 f. 6r-v
  
  Copy, headed His M^ris. her perfections, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 6.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris ('In natures peeces still I see')
- CwT 117 f. 6v
  
  Copy, headed His loue neglected, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 8.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- CwT 334 f. 6v
  
  Copy of an eight-line version, headed His perplexed loue and here beginning If she must still denye.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 7, and in Dunlap, p. 234.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.
  
  Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
- CwT 855 f. 7r
  
  Copy, headed The quality of his loue, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 30.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
- CwT 931 f. 7r
  
  Copy of the second and third stanzas, headed To his false Mistresse and here beginning A fairer hand then thine shall cure, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 18.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris ('When thou, poore excommunicate')
- CwT 552 f. 7r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Sigh, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 13.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
  
  Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
- CwT 461 ff. 7v-9r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
  
  Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
- CwT 1114 f. 9r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 34.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
- CwT 802 f. 10r
  
  Copy, headed On a lady singing to her lute in Arundel garden, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- CwT 396 f. 10r-v
  
  Copy, headed A pleasing strife, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 6.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
  
  Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
- CwT 1134 ff. 10v-11r
  
  Copy, headed To a gentle-woman like his Celia, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 33.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
- CwT 243 f. 11r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- CwT 1073 f. 11r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.
  
  Thomas Carew, To M^ris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse ('White innocence that now lies spread')
- CwT 503 ff. 11v-12r
  
  Copy, headed The retired blood exhorted to return in y^e cheekes of y^e pale sisters M^ris Katherine, and M^ris Mary Nevill, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 269.
  
  First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 113.
  
  Thomas Carew, On Mistris N. to the greene sicknesse ('Stay coward blood, and doe not yield')
- CwT 1026 f. 12r-v
  
  Copy, headed To Ben: Jonson, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 84.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.
  
  Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (''Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand')
- CwT 316 ff. 12v-13r
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 31.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.
  
  Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
- CwT 1188 f. 13r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 36.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
- RnT 382 f. 14v
  
  Copy, headed On y^e losse of a finger in a fray, subscribed Thomas Randolph.
  
  This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more')
- RnT 288 ff. 14v-15r
  
  Copy, headed A Madrigall, subscribed Thomas Randolph.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 586.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Pastoral Ode ('Coy Coelia dost thou see')
- RnT 315 f. 15r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his mistresse praysing y^e reflection of her beautye in a looking glasse, subscribed Thomas Randolph.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 600.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 99-100.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To one admiring her selfe in a Looking-Glasse ('Faire Lady when you see the Grace')
- RnT 119.5 ff. 15v-16r
  
  Copy, subscribed Thomas Randolph.
  
  This MS cited in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1875), II, 661. Thorn-Drury, pp. 156-7 (erroneously citing on p. 187, as his copy-text the Harflete MS (Bodleian MS Firth e. 4: Δ 2), p. 120, evidently confusing his reference with that for RnT 18 since the Epithalamium does not appear in that MS).
  
  Thomas Randolph, An Epithalamium ('Bliss court thee sweetest soule, and fall soe thicke')
- RnT 185 f. 16r
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1875), pp. 661-2. Thorn-Drury, pp. 169-70.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On a maide of honour seene by a schollar in sommerset garden ('As once in blacke I disrespected walkt')
- RnT 343 ff. 16r-17v
  
  Copy, headed On a woeman of an excellent voice and bad face, subscribed Tho: Randolph.
  
  This MS collated in Davis.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')
- RnT 126 ff. 17v, 18r, 19v
  
  Copy, headed A gratulatory to Ben Jonson for his adoption, the last ten lines repeated in a different hand (on f. 18v), subscribed Tho: Randolph.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son ('I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare')
- HeR 343 ff. 18v, 20rr
  
  Copy, headed The Fairy King, subscribed S^r Simeon Steward.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 476-7; collated in Farmer.
  
  First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.
  
  Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene')
- KiH 613 f. 20r
  
  Copy, heared On his coy mistresse and subscribed S^r Simeon Steward.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')
- MoG 9 f. 29v
  
  Copy, headed On King James.
  
  A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
  Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.
  
  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
- ToA 28 ff. 30v-1r
  
  Copy, subscribed Au: Townsend.
  
  This MS recorded in Brown.
  
  First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.
  
  Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox ('There is no Lover, hee or shee')
- JnB 278 f. 31r
  
  Copy, headed Of the sand running In an hower glasse.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
- WoH 139 ff. 31v-2
  
  Copy, headed His M^rs Constancie, subscribed S^r Hen Wotton.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth ('O faithless world, and thy most faithless part')
- KiH 50 f. 33r
  
  Copy, headed The fayer boyes answere.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
  
  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
- PoW 17 f. 33v
  
  Copy, headed On black hayre & eyes, subscribed W: P:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Grierson.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- KiH 51 f. 35r
  
  Copy, headed the faier Boyes Answere.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
  
  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
- DaW 34 f. 36v
  
  Copy, headed To the lady hopkins Singing, subscribed S: Will: Dau.
  
  This MS collated in Berry and in Gibbs.
  
  First published in Herbert Berry, Three New Poems by Davenant, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 275-6. A variant version, beginning Sing fair Clorinda, published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Gibbs, pp. 303-8.
  
  Sir William Davenant, On his mistris Singing ('Singe gentle Lady till you move')
- HeR 330 f. 37r
  
  Copy, subscribed Ro herrick.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; edited in part in Patrick.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.
  
  Robert Herrick, His Mistris to him at his farwell ('You may vow Ile not forgett')
- CwT 1270 f. 39r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.
  
  Thomas Carew, The mistake ('When on faire Celia I did spie')
- CwT 1054 f. 41v
  
  Copy, headed A Song.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.
  
  Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')
- SuJ 137 f. 42v
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning I do'nt belieue you can soe guilty bee.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.
  
  John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) ('I know your heart cannot so guilty be')
Add. MS 12047

Copy of Psalms 1-26, 51, 58, 68-71, 73-8, 80, 83-6, 88-9, 91, 93, 96, 98-100, 102, 104-5, 108-13. 117, 120-7. 129-34, 137-8, 142-3, 147, 149, 150 (in an irregular order), with second versions of Psalms 75, 89 and 122, untitled, on 95 quarto leaves, in black leather gilt.

In the secretary hands of Harington's servant Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis, with Harington's occasional autograph corrections and insertions largely in italic.
Late 16th-early 17th century.
Covers stamped Bibliotheca Butleriana: i.e. the library of Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield. Booklabel of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 550.
- SiP 74
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David
Add. MS 12048

Copy of Psalms 1-150, in a probably professional roman hand, with a few alterations in a different ink, the title-page and pages towards the end faded, 148 quarto leaves, in modern half red morocco.
Early 17th century.
Sotheby's, 6 June 1793 (Dr Taylor's sale). Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

This MS described in Ringler, pp. 549-50.
- SiP 75
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David
Add. MS 12049

A quarto volume of texts principally by Sir John Harington, including (p. c) Latin and English verses by Francis Harington; (pp. 195-201) Latin exercyses (with translations) by Harington's son, John; (and pp. 203-5) more Latin and English verses, followed by an index to the volume and a Latin epigram on tobacco, with a translation, the MS probably originally prepared as a presentation MS, with (pp. iv-v) a dedication to Prince Henry dated 19 June 1605, 268 pages, imperfect, lacking pp. 11-12, in contemporary calf elaborately gilt.
c.1605.
Inscribed (p. [i]) R. Joyner[?] Sandwich.
- *HrJ 388 p. e
  Autograph
  
  Autograph draft of a letter by Harington, to Prince Henry, [1606].
  For the letter actually presented to Prince Henry, see HrJ 21.
  
  McClure, No. 46, p. 126.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
- HrJ 20 pp. 1-254
  
  Copy of 409 Epigrams, in the neat italic hand of one of Harington's amanuenses and in the hand of his brother Francis, ncluding (pp. [256]-266) the English and Latin verses for Harington's new yeeres guifte to King James in 1602/3; with a gilt drawing of the lantern, Harington's welcome to King James and to Queen Anne; and his verses Musa jocosa meos solari assueta dolores.
  
  The epigrams in this MS collated in McClure and in Kilroy. Four previously unpublished epigrams edited from this MS in R.H. Miller, Unpublished Poems by Sir John Harington, ELR, 14 (1984), 148-58. Extracts also edited from this MS by EU. HOOD (i.e. Joseph Haslewood) in Gentleman's Magazine, 97, ii (1827), pp. 191-21, 128, 392. The verses on pp. [256]-266 in Kilroy, pp. 252-8, and Additional material edited from this MS on pp. 295-309.
  Facsimiles of p. 27 of the MS in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(d), and of pp. 132-3 in McClure, facing p. 298.
  
  Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).
  
  Sir John Harington, Epigrams
- SuH 38 p. 150
  
  Copy, headed A translation of the Earl of Surreys out of Martiall directed by him to one Maister Warner and here beginning Warner the things for to attayn.
  
  Edited from this MS (together with Harington's own appended epigram to John Davies of Hereford) by EU. Hood [i.e. Joseph Haslewood] in The Gentleman's Magazine, 97, ii (November 1827), 392.
  
  First published at the end of Book III in William Baldwin, A treatise of Morrall phylosophye (London, 1547/8). Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 41, p. 94. Jones, pp. 34-5.
  The texts discussed in J.M. Evans, The Text of Surrey's The Meanes to Attain Happy Life, N&Q, 228 (1983), 409-11; in W.D. McGaw, The Text of Surrey's The Meanes to Attain Happy Life -- A Reply, N&Q, 230 (December 1985), 456-8; and in A.S.G. Edwards, Surrey's Martial Epigram: Scribes and Transmission, EMS, 12 (2005), 74-82.
  
  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'Marshall, the thinges for to attayne'
- *HrJ 386 p. 194
  Autograph
  
  Autograph draft of a letter by Harington, to Richard Langley, [3 December 1602].
  
  McClure, No. 26, pp. 95-6.
  
  Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Add. MS 12097

A folio composite autograph album, 34 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
- *RaW 713 f. 13r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph, eight-line culinary receipt, beginning eyght stone of beef rostad, & when it is cold take out the bones..., headed in another hand To keepe beefe at sea, written on a single small quart-size leaf, bearing on the verso a correspondent's address To my hono^ble; and mutche respected frend S ^r walter Raleighe knight these, and inscribed in yet another hand Autographum Walt. Ralegh. in Turri Londinensi don. d^r. Kileigrew.
  
  This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 681. See also RaW 723 (concerning Sir Robert Killigrew (1579-1633)).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts
Add. MS 12101

A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands.
- *TaJ 54 f. 10r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], 15 May 1657.
  
  Sotheby's (Evans), 13 February 1833, lot 187.
  Edited in Bray, II, i, 172-3. Eden, I, lxiv-lxv. Wheatley, III, 237-8.
  
  Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
Add. MS 12112

Two letters, the second by Matthew Prior.

Among collections of Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield.
- DrJ 360 ff. 1r-2v
  
  Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to [Charles Montagu], [c.October 1699].
  
  Ward, Letter 65. Facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 107. Facsimile examples in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 67, and (rearranged) in Frederick G. Netherclift, The Hand-Book of Autographs (London, 1862).
  
  John Dryden, Letter(s)
Add. MS 12453

A folio volume of tracts, chiefly relating to the Office of Arms and dueling, the greater part in one professional secretary hand, a second hand on ff. 66v-7r, with (f. 1v) a list of contents in another hand, 83 leaves.
c.1630.
Inscribed on a preliminary blank leaf From Canon Newling's collection / Purchased at Rodd [i.e. Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller] 12^th Mar 1842.
- HoH 59 ff. 29r-56r
  
  Copy, as written by y^e Lo: Henry Howard Earle of Northampton.
  
  A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to my very good Lord, beginning Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter …, the tract beginning The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed …. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.
  
  Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Duello Foiled
Add. MS 12497

A large folio composite volume of state and legal papers, in various hands, 486 leaves, in half brown morocco.

Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.

Sale of Julius Caesar's MSS, December 1757, lot 73. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 155.
- BcF 333 f. 7r-v
  
  Copy of a speech by Bacon in the Star Chamber, 14 February 1618/19, endorsed (f. 8v) by Caesar.
  
  Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
- LyJ 3 ff. 233r, 253r-62v, 281r-v
  
  Copies of parts of the entertainment: ff. 253r-62v, in a cursive secretary hand, on quarto leaves, endorsed by Caesar The 2. speeches dialogue wise to Q. Elizabeth at my howse at Mitcha 13. Sept. 1598; f. 233r, in a professional secretary hand, endorsed (f. 234v) in another hand A copy of the supplication deliuered to her Ma^ty At D. Cæsars howse, 12. Septeb. 1598; f. 281r, Greek and Latin verses in a roman hand, endorsed by Caesar (f. 281v) The dite of the greak song, before the Q^s ma^ty at mine howse at Mitcha.
  
  Edited from these MSS in Hotson.
  
  An entertainment, on 12 September 1598, just possibly by Lyly. First published in Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment at Mitcham, ed. Leslie Hotson (New Haven, 1953).
  
  John Lyly, The Entertainment at Mitcham
Add. MS 12503

A folio volume of state letters and papers.

Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.
- *PeM 23 ff. 39r, 40v
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed, to Sir Julius Caesar, 14 July 1603.
  
  Edited in Collected Works, II, 295, and also in Margaret P. Hannay, Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (p. 173).
  
  Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)
- *PeM 24 ff. 42r, 45v
  Autograph
  
  Letter by the Countess of Pembroke, with her autograph signature, to Sir Julius Caesar, from Greenwich, 6 September 1603.
  
  Edited in Collected Works, II, 295-6, and also in Margaret P. Hannay, Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (pp. 174-5).
  
  Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)
- *PeM 21 ff. 150r, 153v
  Autograph
  
  Letter by the Countess of Pembroke, in the hand of an amanuensis, with her autograph signature, to Sir Julius Caesar, from Windsor, 4 July 1603.
  
  Edited in Collected Works, II, 293-4, and also in Margaret P. Hannay, Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (pp. 170-2).
  
  Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)
- *PeM 22 f. 151r, 152v
  Autograph
  
  Letter by the Countess of Pembroke, in the hand of an amanuensis, with her autograph signature and postscript, to Sir Julius Caesar, from Burham, 8 July 1603.
  
  Edited in Collected Works, II, 294-5, and also in Margaret P. Hannay, Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (p. 172). Facsimile in W. W. Greg et al., English Literary Autographs, 1550-1650, 3 vols (Oxford, 1925-32), No. XLII(b-c).
  
  Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)
Add. MS 12504

A folio composite volume of state and legal papers, in various hands, i + 393 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.
- CtR 388 ff. 47r-57r
  
  Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, unascribed, with a letter (f. 46v) in the same hand, signed Wal: Jeffes, sending this tract to Caesar because it is soe well written.
  
  Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Add. MS 12506

A folio composite volume of state letters.

Comprising papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.
- *PeM 14 f. 235r
  Autograph
  
  Letter in the hand of an amanuensis, with the Countess of Pembroke's autograph signature, to Julius Caesar, from Wilton, 1 June 1596.
  
  Edited in Collected Works, II, 287.
  
  Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)
Add. MS 12511

A folio composite volume of political speeches and tracts, in various professional hands, 108 leaves, in old vellum.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum Umfreville 1740: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 86.
- EsR 160 ff. 38r-45v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The late Earle of Essex his Advice to the Earle of Rutland in his Trauailes, dated from Greenwich the 4^th of Jan: 1596, with the postscript. c.1630.
  
  The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state....
  First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
  Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
Add. MS 12513

Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, 46 folio leaves, in marbled boards.

In the hand of the Feathery Scribe; with a title-page: An: Aunswere:, To, the; Coppye of a Rayleinge Invectyve, (Against the Regym^te: of Woemen in generall) w^th: Certayne Malliparte dyceptions to dyvers and sundrye, matters of the State, Wrytten To Queene Elizabeth, By the Right honno^ble: Henrye Lord Howarde, Late Earle of North^ton.
c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 2r) Sum EUmfreville: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron of the arts. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 91.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 228 (No. 30).
- HoH 70
  
  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
Add. MS 12515

A small quarto commonplace book of extracts, in a single mixed hand, 83 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Early 17th century.
Later scribbling (f. 15r) including names Joseph England, Tho Denton and Joseph Dixon.
- HoH 71 ff. 15v-16r
  
  Extracts from the treatise, headed A short Tractate of womens Gounment, beginning Howsoeu^r y^e ffrenchmen oppose them selues against womens goun^mt, as Bodin theire Countreyman hath of late streched out y^e strength of his witt..., and ending ...do shew Doct^r. Ridley in his view of y^e Ciuill, & Ecclecall Law. Pag. 98. 99.
  
  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
- SiP 106 ff. 17r-24r
  
  Prose extracts and parts of lines 1-6 of poem No. 77, transcribed from a printed source; variously headed S^r Phillip Sidney's discourse: vpo Atheism (beginning Cecropia to Pamela. devotion is indeed y^r best bond... and ending ...& shalt onely greiue him to haue beene a Creator in thy destruction. Arcadia. fol: 129. 130); S^r P. Sidney of selfe murther (f. 20v); S^r P. Sidney of Death (f. 21r-v); A Sonet of Death. by. S^r. P.S., beginning Since nature's work's bee good (f. 22r, largely torn away); S^r P. Sidneys discourse of Princes Conspireinge in another Princes land (ff. 22v-3r, imperfect); S^r. P. Sidney, of Dauids. Psal. (f. 23v); and S^r P. Sidney of Learninge (f. 24r).
  
  This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 554.
  
  The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, The New Arcadia
Add. MS 14015

A folio composite volume of Spanish state papers, relating to the affairs of Spain in 1613-19, in various hands and paper sizes, 256 leaves, in modern half-leather.
- RaW 813 ff. 134r-5r
  
  Copy of the speech in a Spanish translation, in a roman hand, with corrections or alterations in a different ink, headed La suma de lo que dixo Don Gualtero Ralegh estando sobre el cadahalso antes que le degollassen, on three pages of two folio leaves.
  
  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)
Add. MS 14047

A quarto miscellany of plays (by George Wilde, of St John's College, Oxford) and English and Latin verse, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford, written over a period from both ends, 158 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco.
c.late 1630s-late 17th century.
- RnT 127 ff. 2r-3r
  
  Copy, headed Randolph to his adopted father Ben: Johnson.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son ('I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare')
- BrW 157 f. 4v
  
  Copy, headed An epitaph on a Gentleman who was founde dead in y^e snow and afterwardes buryed, subscribed W: B:.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
- CwT 708 f. 5r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his mistris and here beginning Thinke not (dear harte!) that ile reveale.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
- CwT 1243 f. 5v
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris ('To her whose beautie doth excell')
- CwT 138 f. 111v rev.
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
- DrJ 28 f. 117v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed An Epilogue to y^e Univ^rsity at y^e same time.
  
  First published (in two versions) in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 373-4. California, I, 153-4. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 291-2.
  
  John Dryden, Epilogue To Oxford Spoken by Mrs. Marshal ('Oft has our Poet wisht, this happy Seat')
- DrJ 161 f. 118v-r rev.
  
  Copy, headed Another Prologue: by y^e Kings House, subscribed J D.
  
  First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 372-3. California, I, 151-2. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 289-91.
  
  John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford, 1674. Spoken by Mr. Hart ('Poets, your Subjects, have their Parts assign'd')
- DrJ 167 ff. 119r-18v rev.
  
  Copy, headed A Prologue to y^e University by y^e Kings House.
  
  First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 369-70. California, I, 146-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 277-9.
  
  John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxon. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman ('What Greece, when Learning flourish'd, onely Knew')
- RoJ 307 ff. 130r-127r rev.
  
  Copy, headed A Satyr on Man: By y^e L^d Roch:.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
  
  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 61 f. 130v rev.
  
  Copy, headed By my L^d Buckhurst:.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
  
  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')
Add. MS 14410

A large folio composite volume of heraldic and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 112 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf.

Collected by Thomas Lloyd, London wine merchant and collector of genealogical materials. His library sale (final portion), at Sotheby's, 14 October 1843, lot 193, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller. Purchased from him 14 October 1843.

This MS recorded in Edwards.
- CvG 3 ff. 100r-2v
  
  A three-leaf fragment of a MS copy of the work, comprising verses 2279-2425, in the hand of Thomas Lloyd, headed An Epitaph on our late Queen Mary and here beginning Descend from hevyn O muses Melpomene, subscribed Finis et compile le xxiiij jour de Junij a^s. regnor philip Rex et Reg Mariæ iiij & 5 p le Auctor GC, transcribed from Egerton MS 2402, on three quarto leaves. Early 19th century.
  
  This MS recorded in Edwards and in his The Text of George Cavendish's Metrical Visions, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 2.1 (Winter, 1978), 3-62 (pp. 59-60).
  
  A series of poetical lamentations, comprising 2425 lines, on the deaths (the majority by execution) of Cardinal Wolsey, George, Viscount Rochford, Sir Henry Borris, sir Francis Weston, Sir William Brereton, Mark Smeaton, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell, Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, Henry Pole, Baron Montague, Catherine Howard, her lover Culpeper, Viscountess Rochford, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Henry VIII, Thomas Seymour, Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Sir Thomas Arundel, Sir Michael Stanhope, Sir Ralph Vane, Sir Miles Partridge, Edward VI, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey, and Queen Mary.
  First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (London, 1825). Metrical Visions by George Cavendish, ed. A.S.G. Edwards (Columbia, SC, 1980).
  
  George Cavendish, Metrical Visions ('In the monyth of Iune / I lyeng sole alon')
Add. MS 14416

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, chiefly copies, relating to State Affairs, 73 leaves.
- CmW 6.37 ff. 1r-4r
  
  Extracts.
  
  Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.
  
  William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
Add. MS 14854

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 201 leaves, in old calf gilt.

Purchased from Joseph Lilly, 20 February 1844.
- ShJ 147 f. 104v
  
  Copy of the dirge, untitled, on a small slip of paper.
  
  Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
  
  James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
- DoC 214 f. 139r
  
  Copy, untitled, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper, endorsed On the succession.
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden ('When Israel first provoked the living Lord')
- DoC 243 f. 178r
  
  Copy, headed To the Lords assembled...The Petition of Tho Brown, on one side of a single quarto leaf.
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Flying Post (23-25 November 1697). Harris, pp. 99-100.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Pindaric Petition to the Lords in Council ('Humbly Sheweth / Should you order Tom Brown')
Add. MS 14874

A small quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Welsh bards, in several hands, with an index of contents, 302 leaves, in modern calf.
Mid-17th century.
Donated by Governors of the Welsh School, 1844.
- PoW 85 ff. 48v-9r
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy on the death of kinge James, here beginning Can Christendoms great monarch passe away, subscribed by M^r Strowd.
  
  First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.
  
  Walton Poole, On the death of King James ('Can Christendoms great champion sink away')
Add. MS 14929

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, correspondence, and verse, in Welsh and English, in various hands and paper sizes, 241 leaves.
Mid 18th-century.
Assembled and partly written by Lewis Morris (1701-65), poet, scholar and cartographer. Donated by the Governors of the Welsh School, 1844.
- PsK 282.5 f. 106r-v
  
  Copy, in a neat hand, as Wrote by M^rs Catherine Philips of Porth Einion near Cardigan town, on a single quarto leaf.
  
  Recorded in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, pp. 47-8.
  
  First published in Poems (1667), pp. 131-2. Saintsbury, pp. 580-1. Thomas, I, 202-3, poem 86.
  
  Katherine Philips, On the Welch Language ('If honour to an ancient name be due')
Add. MS 14954

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as By his Ma^ties: Attorney Generall. of Ireland, 94 folio leaves, in old calf gilt.
c.1620s-30s.
Presented by the Governors of the Welsh School, 1844.
- DaJ 261
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely.... First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
  
  Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

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