Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 17000 through 17999

  • Add. MS 17017

    A folio composite volume of original letters, chiefly to Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, and his brother Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon, c.170 leaves.

    • *DrJ 312 f. 49r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, [c. August 1683?].

      Ward, Letter 10. Facsimiles in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical and Literary Manuscripts in the British Museum (1899), No. 101, and in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 22, p. 33.

      John Dryden, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 17018

    A tall folio composite volume of state papers and letters relating to affairs from 1675 to 1728, in various hands, 227 leaves, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards.

    Volume I of the papers of Laurence Hyde (1642-1711), first Earl of Rochester, politician.

    [1681].
    • HaG 43 ff. 201r-12r

      Copy in a professional hand, with printer's marks, being the printer's copy for the first edition, on twelve folio leaves, endorsed (f. 212v) by Rochester Observations on a late Libel call'd a Letter concerning the King's Declaration in ye time of King Charles ye. 2d.

      Edited from this MS in Brown. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark N. Brown, The Printer's Text of Halifax's Observations upon a Late Libel (1681), The Library, 5th Ser. 26 (1971), 259-63.

      First published, anonymously [in London, 1681]. Edited, and attributed to Halifax, by Hugh Macdonald (Cambridge, 1930). Brown, I, 150-69.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Observations upon a Late Libel
    • HuL 4 ff. 214r-17r

      Copy, in an accomplished professional hand, with full title, on four large folio leaves, inscribed (by Rochester?, on blank f. 213) Mrs Hutchinson's Answer to Mr Waller's Panegyrique to Cromwell.

      Edited from this MS in Norbrook, Seventeenth Century (1996).

      First published, and attributed to Lucy Hutchinson, in David Norbrook, Lucy Hutchinson versus Edmund Waller: An Unpublished Reply to Waller's A Panegyrick to My Lord Protector, The Seventeenth Century, 11/1 (Spring 1996), 61-86. The attribution supported in John Burrows and Hugh Craig, Lucy Hutchinson and the Authorship of Two Seventeenth-Century Poems: A Computational Approach, The Seventeenth Century, 16/2 (Autumn 2001), 259-82.

      Lucy Hutchinson, To Mr: Waller vpon his Panegyrique to the Lord Protector ('Whilst with a smooth but yet a servile Tongue')

  • Add. MS 17062

    A duodecimo diary recording the progress of the Royalist army from March to September 1644, in a small cursive mixed hand, 80 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    Compiled by Richard Symonds (1617-60), royalist soldier and antiquary.

    c.1644.
    • KiH 362 f. 80r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

      Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')

  • Add. MS 17325

    A quarto volume of state letters and tracts, in three or more secretary hands, 78 leaves, in 19th-century calf.

    • BcF 576 f. 23r-v

      Copy of two letters by Bacon, to the University of Cambridge, the first dated 12 April 1617.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 577 ff. 76v-9v

      Copy of a letter by Bacon, to James I, [1621].

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 17492

    A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials R N.

    Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

    c.1530s-40s.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

    Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

    • WyT 303 f. 2r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 189.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede'
    • WyT 28 f. 2v

      Copy of lines 13-30, untitled and here beginning O cruell causer of vndeserrved chaunge.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 3-4.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Alas the greiff, and dedly wofull smert'
    • WyT 195 f. 3r

      Copy, begun by an amanuensis and corrected and completed by Margaret Douglas (omitting lines 10-11), untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 13.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'My hert I gave the not to do it payn'
    • WyT 208 f. 3v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 190-1.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'My pen, take payn a lytyll space'
    • WyT 39 f. 4r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 129-30.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'At last withdraw youre crueltye'
    • WyT 359 f. 5r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 181.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'To wette your yee withoutyn teare'
    • WyT 135 f. 6r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 191.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'I love lovyd and so doithe she'
    • WyT 291 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Mary Shelton.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. Facsimiles of ff. 6v-7r in Powell, pp. 5-6.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 176-7.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Suffryng in sorrowe in hope to Attayne'
    • WyT 83 ff. 9v-10r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 192-3.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'ffarewell all my wellfare'
    • WyT 113 f. 11r

      Copy of lines 25-35, untitled and beginning Yf I had suffered this to you vnware, subscribed ffynys qd Wyatt.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 55-6.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain'
    • WyT 313 f. 11v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 193.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'The hart and servys to yow profferd'
    • WyT 42 f. 12r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffynys qd Wyatt.

      This MS collated (and lines 42-8 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 36-7.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'At moost myschief'
    • WyT 380 ff. 12v-13r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys qd Wyatt.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 193-4.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'What menythe thys when I lye alone?'
    • WyT 242 f. 13v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys qd Wyatt.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 29. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Patience, though I have not'
    • WyT 422 f. 14r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys qd Wyatt.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 194-5.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Ys yt possyble'
    • WyT 203 ff. 14v-15r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys qd Wyatt.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 48-50.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'My lute, awake! perfourme the last'
    • WyT 26 ff. 15v-16r

      Copy, untiitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 195-6.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Alas, poor man, what hap have I'
    • WyT 186 f. 16v

      Copy, in double columns, untitled, subscribed ffynys qd Wyatt.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 38-9.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Marvaill no more, all tho'
    • WyT 36 f. 17r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys qd Wiat.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 272.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 196-7.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'An wylt thow leve me thus?'
    • WyT 305 f. 17v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 184-5.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'That tyme that myrthe dyed stere my shypp'
    • WyT 326 f. 18r

      Copy of the three 7-line stanza version, untitled, subscribed ffynys qd Wyatt.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      First published (in a three 7-line stanza version) in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 197-8.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'The restfull place, Revyver of my smarte'
    • WyT 384 f. 19r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffynys qd Wyatt.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 34.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'What no, perdy, ye may be sure!'
    • WyT 331 f. 19v

      Copy, headed To my and here beginning Was neuer yet fyle half so well fyled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 14.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'There was never ffile half so well filed'
    • WyT 37 f. 20r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 198-9.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'As power and wytt wyll me Assyst'
    • WyT 293 f. 20v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 199-200.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Sum tyme I syghe, sumtyme I syng'
    • WyT 239 f. 21r

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 200-1. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Pacyence of all my smart'
    • WyT 404 f. 21r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 201.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Who would haue euer thowght'
    • WyT 8 f. 22v

      Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published (in this form) in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 41-2.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'A Robyn'
    • WyT 315 f. 23r-v

      Copy, untitled, preceded (f. 22v) by a false-start version of lines 1-4 in the same hand.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 183-4.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'The knott that furst my hart dyd strayn'
    • WyT 9 f. 24r-v

      Copy (not in the same hand as WyT 8), untitled.

      This MS collated (and lines 17-20 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published (in this form) in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 41-2.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'A Robyn'
    • WyT 159 f. 24v-5r

      Copy of lines 1-13 (not in the same hand as WyT 158), untitled.

      This MS recorded (but not collated) in Muir & Thomson (p. 202).

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 201-2.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'It was my choyse, it was no chaunce'
    • WyT 158 f. 30v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 201-2.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'It was my choyse, it was no chaunce'
    • WyT 289 f. 31r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 42.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Suche vayn thought as wonted to myslede me'
    • WyT 276 f. 32r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 202-3.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'So vnwarely was never no man cawght'
    • WyT 316 f. 33r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 183-4.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'The knott that furst my hart dyd strayn'
    • WyT 147 f. 34v

      Copy of lines 1-12, 17-26, 17-36, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in The Court of Venus [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 32-3.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'If fancy would favour'
    • WyT 328 f. 35v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 34.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'The wandering gadlyng in the sommer tyde'
    • WyT 322 f. 36v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 35.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'The lyvely sperkes that issue from those Iyes'
    • WyT 339 f. 37v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 42-3.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain'
    • WyT 280 f. 38v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 44.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Some tyme I fled the fyre that me brent'
    • WyT 378 f. 39v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 46-7.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'What deth is worse then this'
    • WyT 350 f. 40r

      Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 203-4.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Thy promese was to loue me best'
    • WyT 139 ff. 40v-1r

      Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 204-5.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'I se the change ffrom that that was'
    • WyT 354 f. 42r-v

      Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 181-3. Attributed to Sir Francis Bryan in A. Stuart Daley, The Uncertain Author of Poem 225, Tottel's Miscellany, SP, 47 (1950), 485-93.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'To my myshap alas I fynd'
    • WyT 118 f. 43r

      Copy of lines 1-34, 47-52, 59-62, in double columns, in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 119).

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 205-7.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'How shulde I'
    • WyT 104 ff. 47v-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 237.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Hart oppressyd with desp'rat thought'
    • WyT 274 ff. 49r-50v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 79-82.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'So feble is the threde that doth the burden stay'
    • WyT 93 f. 51r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 207-8.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'fful well yt maye be sene'
    • WyT 296 ff. 51v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 208-9.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Synes loue ys suche that, as ye wott'
    • WyT 167 f. 52v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 209-10.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Lo! how I seke and sew to haue'
    • WyT 201 f. 53r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 210.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'My loue ys lyke vnto th'eternall fyre'
    • WyT 297 f. 53r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 210.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Synes so ye please to here me playn'
    • WyT 415 f. 53v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 70.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Yf in the world ther be more woo'
    • WyT 227 f. 54r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 211.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Now must I lerne to lyue at rest'
    • WyT 90 f. 54v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 211-12.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'fforget not yet the tryde entent'
    • SuH 45 f. 55r-v

      Copy, in the hand of Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), untitled.

      This MS collated in Padelford and in Hughey, Harington of Stepney. Edited by Helen Baron in Mary Fitzroy's Transcript of Surrey's Poem, RES, 45 (August 1994), 314-5, and discussed in Raymond Southall, Mary Fitzroy and O Happy Dames in the Devonshire Manuscript, ibid, pp. 316-17.

      Facsimile example in Jesse Childs, Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (London, 2006), facing p. 77.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 21, pp. 71-2. Jones, pp. 21-2. Edited, and tentatively attributed to John Harington (1520?-82), in Hughey, Harington of Stepney, pp. 131-2, 286-9.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'O happy dames, that may embrace'
    • WyT 231 f. 58v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 212.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'O myserable sorow withowten cure!'
    • WyT 98 f. 61v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 16-17.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Goo burnyng sighes Vnto the frosen hert!'
    • WyT 51 f. 64r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 212-13.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Blame not my lute, for he must sownd'
    • WyT 211 f. 65v

      Copy of lines 1-4 in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled, with a smudged copy of lines 1-2 in another hand on f. 66r.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 164-5.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'MyghtI as well within my songe belaye'
    • WyT 352 f. 69r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 58.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'To cause accord or to aggre'
    • WyT 31 f. 69r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 214.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'All yn thi sight my lif doth hole depende'
    • WyT 47 f. 69v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 1.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Behold, love, thy power how she dispiseth!'
    • WyT 344 f. 69v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 16.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Thou hast no faith of him that hath none'
    • WyT 337 ff. 69v-70r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 27.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'
    • WyT 57 f. 70r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 2.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Caesar, when that the traytour of Egipt'
    • WyT 144 f. 70v

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 50-1.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'If chaunce assynd'
    • WyT 254 ff. 70v-1r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 170-1.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Perdy I sayd hytt nott'
    • WyT 247 f. 71r

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 29-30. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Patiens for my devise'
    • WyT 132 f. 71v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 51-2.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'I have sought long with stedfastnes'
    • WyT 222 f. 71v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 51.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Nature, that gave the bee so feet a grace'
    • WyT 362 f. 71v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 43-4.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'To wisshe and want and not obtain'
    • WyT 236 f. 71v

      Copy of lines 1-8.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 47-8.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Ons as me thought fortune me kyst'
    • WyT 264 f. 72r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 18.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Resound my voyse, ye woodes that here me plain'
    • WyT 310 f. 72r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 214.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'The fructe of all the seruise that I serue'
    • WyT 299 f. 72v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 54-5.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Syns ye delite to knowe'
    • WyT 367 f. 72v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First pub in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 57-8.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene'
    • WyT 153 f. 72v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 53-4.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'In eternum I was ons determed'
    • WyT 178 f. 7r

      This MS collated (and edited in part) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 52-3.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Lyke as the Swanne towardis her dethe'
    • WyT 417 f. 73r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 214.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Yf with complaint the paine might be exprest'
    • WyT 65 f. 73r

      Copy of an early version, untitled, here beginning Cruell desire my mr & my foo.

      & my foo.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 57.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Desire, alas, my master and my foo'
    • WyT 270 f. 73r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 40.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'She sat and sowde that hath done me the wrong'
    • WyT 397 f. 73r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 32.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Who hath herd of suche crueltye before?'
    • WyT 409 f. 73v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated (and lines 1-23 edited) in Muir & Thomson. Lines 24-39 collated in Harrier.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 30-1.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Ye know my herte, my ladye dere'
    • WyT 272 f. 73v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 215.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Sins you will nedes that I shall sing'
    • WyT 237 ff. 73v-4r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 47-8.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Ons as me thought fortune me kyst'
    • WyT 60 f. 74r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 56-7.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Comfort thy self my wofull hert'
    • WyT 379 f. 74r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 46-7.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'What deth is worse then this'
    • WyT 109 f. 74r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning I am not ded altho I had a fall (agreeing with the uncorrected state of the poem in WyT 108).

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 45.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'He is not ded that somtyme hath a fall'
    • WyT 199 f. 74v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 45-6.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'My hope, Alas, hath me abused'
    • WyT 187 f. 74v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 215-17.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Me list no more to sing'
    • WyT 85 f. 75r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Nowe farewell love and thye lawes forever.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 12-13.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Ffarewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever'
    • WyT 89 f. 75r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 14.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'ffor to love her for her lokes lovely'
    • WyT 357 f. 75r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 217.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'To Rayle or geste ye kno I vse it not'
    • WyT 196 f. 75v

      Copy, omitting line 10, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 13.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'My hert I gave the not to do it payn'
    • WyT 314 f. 75v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 217-18.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'The Joye so short, alas, the paine so nere'
    • WyT 78 f. 75v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 11.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise'
    • WyT 250 f. 75v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 218-19. Considered of doubtful authorship by H. A. Mason in Sewanee Review, 84. ii (1976), 679-80.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Payne of all payne, the most grevous paine'
    • WyT 162 f. 76v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 219-20.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Lament my losse, my labor, and my payne'
    • WyT 386 f. 77r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 220-1.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'What shulde I saye'
    • WyT 119 f. 77r-v

      Copy of lines 1-22, 29-62, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 118).

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 205-7.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'How shulde I'
    • WyT 101 f. 77v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 221-2.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Gyve place all ye that doth reioise'
    • WyT 76 f. 77v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 222-3.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Dyvers doth vse as I have hard and kno'
    • WyT 320 f. 77v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 223.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'The losse is small to lese such one'
    • WyT 284 f. 78r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 223-4.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Spight hath no powre to make me sadde'
    • WyT 100 f. 78v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 224-5. Authorship discussed in Richard Leighton Greene, A Carol of Anne Boleyn by Wyatt, RES, NS 25 (1974), 437-9.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Grudge on who list, this ys my lott'
    • WyT 91 f. 78v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 225.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'ffortune dothe frowne'
    • WyT 5 f. 78v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 129.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'A! my harte, A! what aleth the!'
    • WyT 106 f. 78v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 145.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Hate whome ye lyste, I care not'
    • WyT 99 f. 79r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 225-6.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Greting to you bothe yn hertye wyse'
    • WyT 210 f. 79v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 227.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'My love toke skorne my servise to retaine'
    • WyT 304 ff. 79v-80r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 227-8.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Tanglid I was yn loves snare'
    • WyT 163 f. 80r

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 228-9.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Lengre to muse'
    • WyT 174 f. 80v

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 161-2.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Love hathe agayne'
    • WyT 406 f. 81r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 185-6.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Wythe seruyng styll'
    • WyT 225 f. 81r-v

      Copy, in double columns, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 230-1.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Now all of chaunge'
    • WyT 70 f. 81v

      Copy of lines 1-7, untitled, here beginning Dryven bye desire I dede this dede.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

      Lines 1-7 first published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1575). Muir & Thomson, pp. 139-40.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Dryven to Desire I dyd this Dede'
    • WyT 120 f. 81v

      Copy of lines 1-7, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 231.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'I abide and abide and better abide'
    • WyT 15 ff. 81v-2r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 231.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Absens absenting causithe me to complaine'
    • WyT 127 f. 82r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonnettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 20-1.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'I fynde no peace and all my warr is done'
    • WyT 245 f. 82v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 232. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Patiens, for I have wrong'
    • WyT 376 ff. 82v-3r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 232-3.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Whan that I call vnto my mynde'
    • WyT 353 f. 83r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 233-4.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'To make an ende of all this strif'
    • WyT 405 f. 84r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 234-5.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Wyll ye se what wonders love hathe wrought?'
    • WyT 63 f. 84v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this collated in Muir & Thomson.

      First published in The Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (London, 1578). Muir & Thomson, pp. 235-6.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Deme as ye list vpon goode cause'
    • WyT 121 f. 85r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated and lines 1-18 edited in Muir & Thomson.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 148-50.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'I am as I am and so wil I be'
    • WyT 216 ff. 85v-7r

      Copy of lines 1-27, 31-103, untitled.

      This MS collated and lines 1-27, 31-52 edited in Muir & Thomson. Collated in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 88-91.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know'
    • WyT 206 f. 87v

      Copy of lines 1-18, untitled.

      This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 91-5.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'My mothers maydes when they did sowe and spynne'

  • Add. MS 17940A

    A map, possibly drawn for Ralegh by Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), the names in which appear to be in Ralegh's own hand.

    c.1595.

    Facsimiles of this map appear in T.N. Brushfield, A Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh Knt. (Exeter, 1908), p. 29; in Geographical Journal, 44 (1914), facing p. 181; in Ralegh, Selections, ed. G.E. Hadow (Oxford, 1917), after p. 200; in John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), p. 172; on large folded leaves, in Richard Hakluyt, Principal Navigations of the English Nation (Glasgow edition, 1903-5), X, after p. 384; and in Ralegh, The Discoverie of...Guiana, ed. V.T. Harlow (London, 1928), facing p. 1, and in Joyce Lorimer's edition of this work (Aldershot, 2006), p. 282.

    • *RaW 1031
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Walter Ralegh, Map(s) of Guiana

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