Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999

  • Add. MS 20059

    A 14th century MS Registrum brevium cancellariae, with colour and gold decoration, ff. 96v-7r occupied by later notes dated 1654-5, and ff. 97v-100r with verses in a formal 16th-century hand, 101 small octavo vellum leaves, in modern red morocco.

    Inscribed (f. 97r) Gabriell Wettenhall and Thomas Wetenhall. Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Bookplate of William Falconer, Chester. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 156.

    • SkJ 19 ff. 100v-1r

      Copy of three prayers, here untitled, namely to the father of Heauen (beginning O Radiant Luminary of lyght intermynable), To the Seconde Parson (beginning O Benygne Jesu, my souerayne Lord and Kynge), and To the Holy Gooste (beginning O Firy feruence, inflamed wyth all grace) written on the end-papers. Late 15th-early 16th century.

      This MS recorded in Canon.

      Canon, D54, p. 17, First published in Certaine bokes copyled by mayster Skelto (London, c.1545). Dyce, I, 139-40.

      John Skelton, [Prayers]

  • Add. MS 20723

    A folio guardbook of original letters, in varius hands, 65 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

    • *DaW 125 ff. 20r-1v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Prince Rupert, from Haleford, 13 June 1644.

      Facsimiles in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 79; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXVI; and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 92. Ciited in Nethercot, p. 213.

  • Add. MS 21070

    A duodecimo notebook of miscellaneous extracts and of memoranda relating to Pembroke College, Cambridge, compiled probably by Nathaniel Gibson.

    c.1650s.
    • FxJ 1.5 f. 37r et seq.

      Extracts.

      First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

      John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
    • FuT 4.5 ff. 37r et seq.

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1655.

      Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain

  • Add. MS 21094

    A tall folio formal miscellany of poems and prose on affairs of state, in several rounded hands, with (ff. ivr-vr) a Catalogue of titles, 186 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf within modern half-morocco.

    c.1700s.

    Bookplate of Basil Feilding (1668-1717), fourth Earl of Denbigh, dated 1703. Sold in 1834 by Thomas Thorpe. Owned by the Rev. Dr Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854), scholar, President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Sotheby's, 5 July 1855 (Routh sale), lot 178.

    • DrM 39.1 f. 54r

      Copy of the later version of lines 149-52.

      First published in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 147-52.

      Lines 149-52 (beginning Th' Arabian Bird, that never is but one) later published in a version beginning 'Tis the Arabian bird alone, attributed to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703), p. 191.

      Michael Drayton, King John to Matilda ('When these my Letters come into thy view')
    • DoC 66 ff. 12v-13r

      Copy, here beginning Of Chineas & Dametis.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel ('Of Clineas' and Dametas' sharper fight')
    • EtG 116 f. 42v

      Copy, headed Song. By Cha: Blount Esqr 1691.

      First published in Examen Miscellaneum (London, 1702). Thorpe, pp. 59-60.

      Sir George Etherege, Song ('Since Death on all lays his impartial hand')
    • HaG 29.5 ff. 48r-9r

      Copy of 33 Maxims, headed The following maxims were found by A Jew Amongst the papers of the Great Almazor....

      First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor… [&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor
    • DoC 198 f. 55v

      Copy, headed On the Countess of Dorchester. 1696 by E: Dorset.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')
    • MaA 177 ff. 68r-9r

      Copy, headed Royal Resolutions.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

      Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')
    • DrJ 226 f. 90v

      Copy, the poem dated 1689.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

      John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')
    • DoC 10 ff. 96v-7r

      Copy, headed Answer By Lord Dors-t.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers ('Damon, if thou wilt believe me')
    • DrJ 138 ff. 108v-9v

      Copy, as By Mr Dryden (1690).

      This MS collated in California.

      First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess')
    • DoC 116 ff. 120v-1r

      Copy, headed On the French K- by Lord Dorsett (1692).

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French ('In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms')
    • DoC 165 f. 122r

      Copy, headed A Madam, Madam B Beaute Sexagenaire, Lady Manchaster By Lord Dorset. 1693.

      Edited from this MS in Harris. Collated in POAS.

      First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester ('Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair')

  • Add. MS 21107

    A folio miscellany of extracts, in a single cursive hand, 351 leaves, in modern half brown morocco on marbled boards.

    c.1685-1700s.

    Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.

    • FuT 5.2 ff. 6r-14r

      Extracts, inscribed Fuller's holy War. Enfeild Feb: 17th - 85.

      First published in Cambridge, 1639.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
    • FuT 6 ff. 14v-23v

      Extracts, inscribed Fuller's holy state.

      First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).

      Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
    • FeO 101 ff. 34r-5v

      Extracts, inscribed Feltham's Resolves.

      Owen Felltham, Resolves
    • MaA 519.8 ff. 36r-42r

      Extracts from Marvels Rehearsall, 1st part and 2d part.

      First published (the first part) in London, 1672. The Second Part in London, 1673. Edited by Martin Dzelzainis and Annabel Patterson in The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell, 2 vols (Yale University, 2003), I, 41-203, 221-438.

      Andrew Marvell, The Rehearsal Transpros'd
    • FuT 4.4 ff. 41r-2r

      Extracts, inscribed Fuller's Andronicus or the unfortunate Politician.

      First published in London, 1646.

      Thomas Fuller, Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician
    • BeA 36 f. 52r-v

      Extracts.

      First published, as From the French [of B. Le Bovier de Fontenelle] Made English by Mrs. A. Behn, in London, 1688.

      Aphra Behn, A Discovery of New Worlds
    • HaG 23.5 ff. 52v-3v

      Extracts, inscribed Advice to a Daughter, by ye ld hallifax.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 379-424. Brown, II, 363-406.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter
    • TaJ 24 ff. 70r-2r

      Extracts, inscribed Taylor's holy living and dying.

      First published in London, 1650.

      Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
    • TaJ 23 ff. 70v-2r

      Extracts, inscribed Taylor's holy living and dying.

      First published in London, 1651.

      Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
    • SuJ 190 f. 133r

      Verse extracts, inscribed Sr John Suckling.

      John Suckling, Extracts
    • EtG 123.6 f. 159r-v

      Extracts, inscribed Sr Fopling.

      The drinking song. Thorpe, p. 28. Brett-Smith, II, 256-7.

      Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode. or Sir Fopling Flutter, Act IV, scene 1, lines 413-34. Song ('The pleasures of love and the joys of good wine')
    • WyW 8 f. 162v et seq.

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1677.

      William Wycherley, The Plain-Dealer
    • HbT 13.2 ff. 168r-9r

      Extracts, inscribed Hobs's Behemoth.

      First published, as The History of the Civil Wars of England, ([in London], 1679). Molesworth, English, VI, 161-418. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969), and reprinted with an introduction by Stephen Holmes (Chicago & London, 1990).

      Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth or The Long Parliament
    • EvJ 24.5 ff. 174r-5v

      Extracts, inscribed Mr Evelyn's Sylva.

      First published in London, 1663.

      John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees
    • DrM 71 ff. 208r-9r

      Extracts, inscribed Drayton's Epistles.

      First published in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 382.

      Michael Drayton, To the Reader ('The word LEGEND...')
    • DrJ 259.3 f. 211r-v

      Extracts, inscribed Dryden's Sebastian.

      First published in London, 1690. California, XV (1976), pp. 57-219.

      John Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal
    • HaG 22.8 f. 279 et seq.

      Extracts.

      First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry], in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer
    • BrT 5.2 ff. 290r-7r

      Extracts, inscribed Sr Tho: Brownes vulgar Errors.

      First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).

      Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths
    • BrT 14.5 ff. 297r-300v

      Extracts.

      First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
    • BrT 4.3 ff. 301r-2v

      Extracts, inscribed urn-burial.

      First published (viz. 13 tracts, edited by Archbishop Tenison) in London, 1683. Wilkin, IV, 115-250. Keynes, III, 1-120.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts

  • Add. MS 21422

    A folio volume of correspondence of Captain Adam Baynes, MP, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Northern Army.

    • *KiW 25 f. 40r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Captain Baynes, 19 April 1653.

      Motten, p. 333.

    • *KiW 26 f. 80r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Captain Baynes, 23 May 1653.

      Motten, pp. 333-4.

    • *KiW 27 f. 106r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to [Captain Baynes], from Kempton Park, 15 June 1653.

      Motten, p. 334.

    • *KiW 29 f. 125r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to [Captain Baynes], from Kempton Park, 25 June 1653.

      Motten, p. 336.

    • *KiW 30 f. 146r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to [Captain Baynes], 15 July 1653.

      Motten, pp. 336-7.

  • Add. MS 21423

    A folio volume of correspondence of Captain Adam Baynes, MP, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Northern Army.

    • *KiW 31 f. 80r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to [Captain Baynes], 29 March 1655.

    • *KiW 32 f. 85r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Captain Baynes, 7 April 1655.

      Motten, pp. 337-8.

    • *KiW 33 f. 139r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to [Captain Baynes], 16 September 1655.

      Motten, p. 338.

    • *KiW 34 f. 193r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to [Captain Baynes], 15 November 1655.

      Motten, pp. 338-9.

  • Add. MS 21425

    A folio volume of correspondence of Captain Adam Baynes, MP, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Northern Army.

    • *KiW 37 f. 173r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to [Captain Baynes], from Sterry, 1 November 1659.

      Motten, 340-1.

  • Add. MS 21426

    A folio volume of correspondence of Captain Adam Baynes, MP, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Northern Army.

    • *KiW 36 f. 166r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to [Captain Baynes], October [1659?].

      Motten, pp. 339-40.

    • *KiW 28.5 f. 167r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Captain Baynes, 23 June [1653?].

      Motten, p. 335

    • *KiW 28 f. 168r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Captain Baynes, 23 June [1653?].

      Motten, pp. 334-5.

  • Add. MS 21432

    Autograph quarto MS, imperfect (damaged in the 19th century by a corrosive substance).

    1595.

    Edited from this MS in Fitch and by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 265-76.

    Facsimile of f. 10v in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 16. Facsimile examples of f. 9r in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 245, and in DLB, vol. 167, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Third Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), p. 167. Facsimile page also in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 53. Discussed in Janet Ing Freeman, The Postmaster of Ipswich: William Fitch Stevenson, Antiquary and Thief (London, 1997), pp. 62, 77-79.

    • *PlG 1
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      No contemporary publication known. First published by William Stevenson Fitch (1792-1859), Suffolk antiquary [privately printed, 1835].

      George Peele, Anglorum Feriae ('Descende ye sacred daughters of King Jove')

  • Add. MS 21433

    A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco.

    Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

    Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

    • CwT 613 ff. 80r-2r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).

      Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 ('My soule the great Gods prayses sings')
    • RaW 442 ff. 82r-3r

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleighs Pilgrimage, transcribed from RaW 443, subscribed W: R:.

      This MS the Pickering MS collated in Hannah (1845), pp. 105-8. Recorded in Latham, pp. 141-3.

      First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

      This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage ('Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet')
    • KiH 437 ff. 84v-5r

      Copy, here ascribed to J:K:, transcribed from KiH 440.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

      Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
    • BrW 86 f. 85r-v

      Copy, transcribed from BrW 87.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail ('Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd')
    • BcF 15 ff. 87r-8r

      Copy headed Vppon ye miserie of Man Ld verulam viscoun St Albans, but subscribed Henry Harrington; transcribed from BcF 16.

      This MS the Pickering MS collated in Hannah.

      First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
    • CwT 954 f. 88r-v

      Copy, subscribed T.C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris ('Seeke not to know my love, for shee')
    • CwT 118 ff. 89v-90r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris ('Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke')
    • CwT 51 ff. 90r-1r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
    • BeJ 5 ff. 91v-3v

      This MS collated in Sell.

      copied from add 25303 and same j beaumont poems. check out.

      First published in Sell (1974), pp. 178-80.

      Sir John Beaumont, Against the desire of greatnesse, thoughte Mr John Beaumonts ('Thou woldst be greate and to that heighte wouldst rise')
    • RaW 460 f. 95r-v

      Copy, headed A Lady to her Louer, transcribed from RaW 461.

      First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'
    • BeJ 53 f. 95v

      Copy, here beginning To say to hym good Lorde I might refraine, subscribed J Beamont.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published (?) in Sell (1974), pp. 180-1.

      Sir John Beaumont, To my Lorde Marques of Buckingham ('To say to you my good Lord, I might refraine')
    • HrE 65 ff. 96v-7r

      Copy, the first two words centred as a heading, transcribed from HrE 66.

      This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

      First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll ('Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show')
    • JnB 235 ff. 97r-102v

      Copy, subscribed Ben Jonson, transcribed from JnB 236.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

      Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan ('Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire')
    • CwT 767 ff. 102v-3r

      Copy, headed Peregrine and here beginning In your faire cheekes two pits their lye.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 266.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
    • CoR 329 ff. 103r-4v

      Copy, headed To my Lord Admirall Mr Alisbury vppon ye Comett R Corbett, transcribed from CoR 331.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

      Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')
    • PoW 18 ff. 109v-10v

      Copy, headed Black haire, subscribed Ben Jonson.

      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'
    • StW 396 f. 112r

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman [playing on ye Lute added in another hand], transcribed from StW 397.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
    • RaW 326 f. 112v

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Passions are likened best to flouds and streames, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart which is subscribed Sr W. R: (see RaW 510), transcribed from RaW 328.

      This MS the Pickering MS printed in Hannah (1845), pp. 132-4; recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.

      First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

      For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
    • RaW 510 ff. 112v-13v

      Copy, prefixed by Passions are likened best to flouds and streames (RaW 326) and subscribed Sr W: R:, transcribed from RaW 513.

      This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

      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'
    • RaW 244 f. 113v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Sr. W: R:, transcribed from RaW 245.

      Edited from this MS in Hannah (1845), pp. 81-2, and in Rudick, No. 29C, p. 70. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • CwT 993 ff. 113v-14r

      Copy of lines 1-26, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 216.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
    • ShW 9 f. 114v

      Copy, headed Spes Altera, transcribed from ShW 10.

      This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.

      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')
    • CwT 429 ff. 114v-15v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.

      Thomas Carew, Loves Courtship ('Kisse lovely Celia and be kind')
    • WoH 17 ff. 115v-16r

      Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled, transcribed from WoH 18, with a marginal note in a later hand after line 6 saying 4 lines omitted here.

      This MS the Pickering MS collated in Hannah.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

      Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
    • ToA 53 f. 119r-v

      Copy, as by Earle of Pe:.

      This MS text collated in Brown.

      First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

      Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
    • PeW 18 ff. 119v-20r

      Copy, superscribed E: P:.

      This MS collated in Krueger and 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'
    • RnT 34 ff. 122r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS transcribed from RnT 35.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 92-3.

      Thomas Randolph, Ausonii Epigram 38 ('Shee which would not I would choose')
    • CwT 146 f. 123r-v

      Copy, subscribed T C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love ('I was foretold, your rebell sex')
    • CwT 368 ff. 123v-4

      Copy, subscribed T C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
    • CwT 1225 ff. 124r-5r

      Copy, subscribed T C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus')
    • CwT 1189 f. 125r-v

      Copy, subscribed T. C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • HeR 168 ff. 126r-31v

      Copy of a twenty-three-stanza version, headed Epithalamie, subscribed R. Her, transcribed from HeR 169.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.

      Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady ('What's that we see from far?')
    • CwT 1216 ff. 131v-2r

      Copy, subscribed T. C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 24-5.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon some alterations in my Mistresse, after my departure into France ('Oh gentle Love, doe not forsake the guide')
    • CwT 630 ff. 132v-6r

      Copy, subscribed T: C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
    • CwT 803 f. 136v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • CwT 1086 f. 137r-v

      Copy, subscribed T. C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

      Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence ('Though I must live here, and by force')
    • CwT 1043 ff. 137v-8r

      Copy, headed To his Mrs in Absence A shipp, subscribed T: C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

      Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate')
    • CwT 397 f. 138r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed T: C:.

      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 462 ff. 138v-40v

      Copy, subscribed T. C:.

      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 678 ff. 140v-1r

      Copy, subscribed T: C:.

      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 553 f. 141r-v

      Copy, subscribed T C.

      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')
    • ToA 29 ff. 142r-3v

      Copy, subscribed Aurelean Townsend.

      First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

      Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox ('There is no Lover, hee or shee')
    • CwT 876 f. 144v

      Copy, headed A Charming Beautie.

      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 492 ff. 144v-5r

      Copy, subscribed T. C:.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.

      Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse ('This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares')
    • HoJ 103 ff. 145v-7r

      Copy, headed Mr John Hoskins bewailing his owne his wifes his Mothers and his Childrens woefull case, ye one borne ye other yet vnborne.

      This MS recorded in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

      A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.

      John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
    • HoJ 239 f. 147r

      Copy, headed Ad filiolum Suum Beniamin, the English preceded by the Latin version beginning Dum pueres vant ne seiq incomoda vocis.

      This MS cited in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

      John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins ('Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge')
    • DnJ 1706 ff. 147v-8r

      Copy, transcribed from DnJ 1707.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.

      John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent ('Thou art not so black, as my heart')
    • CwT 1284 f. 149r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed T: C:.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published as On one Grace C. an Insatiate Whore in a 24-line version beginning Go shamefull Model of a Cursed Whore! in Latine Songs, With their English: and Poems. By Henry Bold (London, 1685). A 36-line version published in Minor Poems of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (Everyman Library, 1931). Dunlap. p. 191.

      Thomas Carew, To a Strumpett ('Hayle thou true modell of a cursed whore')
    • KiH 714 ff. 149v-51v

      Copy, transcribed from KiH 717.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

      Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')
    • KiH 674 ff. 151v-2v

      Copy, headed The mournefull parting of 2 Louers being caused by ye disproportion of Estates, transcribed from KiH 678.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

      Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
    • KiH 615 ff. 152v-3r

      Copy, transcribed from KiH 618.

      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 83 ff. 153r-4r

      Copy, headed On his Mrs being maskt and here beginning Read sweete Maid and know the heate, subscribed George Morley.

      George Morley, To his Mrs ('Read fayre Mayd, & know ye heate')
    • CwT 1239 ff. 155v-6r

      Copy, subscribed R:C:.

      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')
    • PeW 164 ff. 157v-8r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed R: Cl:.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (1639), p. 16. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 49. Poems (1660), p. 78, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by Richard Cleark.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Lover to his Mistris ('The purest piece of Nature is my choice')
    • StW 886 f. 158r

      Copy, subscribed W S., with a later note Qre W. Shakespeare.

      This MS transcribed from StW 887.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.

      William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
    • CwT 966.8 ff. 158v-9r

      Copy, headed On a Lady of exquisite Beautie but most execrable of disposition, here beginning Now is ye winter gone & the earth hath loste.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

      Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')
    • KiH 638 f. 161v

      Copy, headed To a Discouraged Sutor transcribed from KiH 641.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')
    • DnJ 3263 ff. 161v-2v

      Copy, transcribed from DnJ 3264.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.

      John Donne, To Mr R.W. ('If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be')
    • CwT 1271 ff. 162v-3r

      Copy, headed On a fair Lady yt woare in her Brest a wounded Heart carued in a Pretious stone and subscribed Hen: Blunt.

      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 98 ff. 163r-5r

      Copy, headed Loues Complement.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

      Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
    • BeJ 44 ff. 167r-8v

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 156-8.

      Sir John Beaumont, Upon the death of the most noble Lord Henry, Earle of Southampton, 1624 ('When now the life of great Southampton ends')
    • HrE 14 ff. 169r-70v

      Copy, headed SCH his Eligie, transcribed from HrE 15.

      This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

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

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince ('Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add')
    • CoR 142 ff. 172v-4v

      Copy, headed An Elegie on ye Lady Haddington, subscribed Ric Corbett, transcribed from CoR 143.

      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')
    • BmF 88 f. 175r-v

      Copy of lines 1-38, headed An Elegie on ye death of ye faire & verteous Lady Clyfton, transcribed from BmF 89.

      First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.

      Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton ('Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see')
    • CoR 415 ff. 177v-8r

      Copy, headed On Mr Beaumont's death, here beginning He that hath such greatness & such wit.

      First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

      Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death ('He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit')
    • FeO 17 f. 185r-v

      Copy, headed An Elegie of John Earle of Oxford who dyed in the Netherlands, subscribed Owen ffeltham.

      This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

      First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 9-10.

      Owen Felltham, Elegie on Henry Earl of Oxford ('When thou didst live and shine, thy Name was then')

  • Add. MS 21544

    A tall folio composite volume of verse and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, mounted on guards, 185 leaves, in modern half morocco.

    Purchased at H.B. Rays sale, 26 July 1856, lot 1033.

    • CgW 26 ff. 15r-16r

      Copy, in a neat probably professional hand, headed Albi nostrorum Sesmonum Candide Judex &c, subscribed in a different hand Augst ye 24th 1728, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed S:B: Augt: 24th:-1728. c.1728.

      First published, as Of Improving the Present Time, London, 1729. Summers, IV, 177-8. Dobrée, pp. 400-2. McKenzie, II, 486-8.

      William Congreve, Letter to Viscount Cobham ('Sincerest Critick of my Prose, or Rhime')
    • ShJ 148.5 f. 103r-v

      Copy.

      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')

  • Add. MS 21621

    A quarto volume of poems by Jane Barker, entitled (f. 3r) A Collection of Poems Refering to the times; since the King's accession to the Crown. Occasionally writ according to the circumstance of time and place, 55 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    In the hand of Barker's cousin Colonel William Connock, with a few minor autograph corrections by her, with (ff. 4r-6r) a prose dedication To his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, (f. 7r-v) a dedication To the Reader, and (ff. 8r-9v) a table of contents; the volume evidently prepared (if not actually used) as a presentation MS to James Francis Edward Stuart, the Jacobite Prince of Wales (later the Old Pretender).

    c.1700-1.

    Bookplate (engraved by Antoine Aveline (1691-1743)) of Anne-Charlotte de Crussol-Florensac, Duchesse d'Aiguillon, after her marriage on 12 August 1718 to Armand-Louis du Plessis-Richelieu (1683-1750). Sotheby's, 21 November 1856, lot 215.

    The MS discussed in King, Poems, passim. Also described in the online Perdita Project.

    • BarJ 14 ff. 10r-12v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in King, Poems.

      King, Poems, pp. 28-30.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia alone lamenting her parents lately dead, and her relations gone into the west against Monmoth ('How my poor heart's with grief and fear oppres'd')
    • BarJ 59 f. 13r-v

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, On the Victory at Sedgemore ('This night they say a battell has been fought')
    • BarJ 8 f. 14r-v

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, England's good Genius ('What mighty joy this victory has given')
    • BarJ 50 f. 15r-v

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, On Sedge-more victory by Lucifer and his Fiends ('Oh! what a loss, have we this night sustained')
    • BarJ 22 ff. 16r-18v

      Copy.

      First published, in a 37-line version headed On the Difficulties of Religion, in Patch-Work Screen (1723) [Wilson, pp. 163-5]. Full 79-line version in Kissing the Rod, pp. 355-7.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia arguing with her self on the difficulty of finding the true Religion ('Oh wretched World, but wretched above all')
    • BarJ 24 ff. 19r-20r

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia having seen the Convent at St: James's ('If there be a terrestial Paradice')
    • BarJ 5 ff. 21r-4v

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, A discourse between Englands ill Genius and his companion ('O miserable wretch! what shall I do,?')
    • BarJ 18 ff. 25r-7v

      Copy, headed A Dispute between Fidelia and her Friend on her becoming a Catholick First Dialogue.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia and her friend on her becoming a Catholick first dialogue ('met how cou'd you thus leave in distres')
    • BarJ 64 ff. 28r-30r

      Copy, headed Second Dialogue between Fidelia and her Friend.

      Jane Barker, Second Dialogue ('Well have you thought on the advice I gave')
    • BarJ 20 ff. 31r-3r

      Copy, headed The third Dialogue between Fidelia & her friend.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia and her friend the third dialogue ('Well met Fidelia let me hear you rail')
    • BarJ 35 ff. 34r-5r

      Copy, headed Fidelia lamenting the King's departure at the Revolution.

      This MS collated in King, Poems.

      King, Poems, p. 31.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia weeping for the Kings departure at the Revolution ('Unhappy I, to live to see this day')
    • BarJ 6 ff. 36r-8v

      Copy, headed A discourse between Englands ill Genius and his Companion. on the Revolution.

      Jane Barker, A discourse between England's ill Genius and his Companion on the jubelee in Hell ('This night we have a jubile in Hell')
    • BarJ 16 f. 39r

      Copy, headed Fidelia & her friend, with on the Revolution added in Barker's hand.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia and her friend ('Well met Fidelia, how have you done of late')
    • BarJ 28 ff. 40r-1v

      Copy, headed Fidelia in France meets one of the Portsmouth officers.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia in France meets one of Portsmoth officers ('How little did I think to meet you here')
    • BarJ 31 f. 42r-v

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia meets her neighbour reading a letter ('Why are you sad, what news have you receiv'd')
    • BarJ 26 ff. 43r-6v

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia in a Convent garden the Abess comes to her ('I from my cell behelld you thoughtfull set')
    • BarJ 12 ff. 47r-9v

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, Englands ill Genius and his companion after the Battell of the Boyn ('Sure, sure, th' Almighty Tyrant of the skys')
    • BarJ 10 ff. 50r-1v

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, Englands good Genius and Philanthrophel his companion ('If I had in my nature any dross')
    • BarJ 33 ff. 52r-3v

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, Fidelia walking the Lady Abess comes to her ('The news is come, that Irland is quite lost')
    • BarJ 39 ff. 54r-5v

      Copy.

      Jane Barker, Hells Regret, for the peace & unity like to ensue the Duke of Anjou's accession to the Crown of Spain. spoken as by Lucifer ('What shall we do? we'r ruin'd lost undone')

  • Add. MS 21924

    Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, 12 folio leaves, in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

    Early 17th century.

    Purchased from Boone, 14 March 1857.

  • Add. MS 21947

    A folio composite volume of letters sent to Charles Stuart (1639-72), third Duke of Richmond and sixth Duke of Lennox, in various hands and paper sizes, 356 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    • *DeE 2 ff. 14r-15r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed (E Levingstone), to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, on two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed by the recipient, from Nocton, Lincolnshire, 25 April 1665.

    • *DeE 3 ff. 31r-2r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed (E Levingstone), to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, on two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed by the recipient, from Nocton, Lincolnshire, 11 May 1666.

  • Add. MS 21948

    A folio composite volume of letters sent to Charles Stuart (1639-72), third Duke of Richmond and sixth Duke of Lennox, in various hands and paper sizes, 478 leaves.

    • *DeE 4 ff. 5r-6v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed (E De-La-val), to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, on all four pages of two conjugate quarto leaves, 28 January 1670[/1].

    • *DeE 5 f. 22r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed (E Delaval), to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, on both sides of a single folio leaf, 10 February 1670/1.

    • *DeE 6 ff. 60r-1r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed (E Delaual), to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves, from Seaton Delaval, 25 April 1671.

    • *DeE 7 ff. 71r, 70v, 70r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed (E Delaval), to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, written in different directions on a folded broadsheet, 7 June 1671.

    • *DeE 8 ff. 75r, 74v, 74r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed (E De-La-Val), to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, written in different directions on a folded broadsheet, from Scarborough, 13 July 1671.

    • *DeE 9 ff. 101r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed (E Delaval), to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, 1 October 1671.

    • *DeE 10 ff. 136r-7r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed (E Delaval), to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves, 23 November 1671, endorsed as received on 16 December.

  • Add. MS 21993

    A folio volume of state tracts, papers and pariamentary proceedings, in professional hands, 295 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    Signed (f. 1r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. Purchased at Payne & Foss's sale, 30 April 1857, lot 130.

    • CtR 388.5 ff. 222v-30r

      Copy, in a professional mixed hand. c.1640.

      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 22022

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 94 leaves, slightly imperfect, in leather gilt.

    c.1596-early 17th century.

    Signature (f. 1r) of Sir Arthur Chichester (1563-1625), Lord-Deputy of Ireland in 1604-13. Payne & Foss's sale catalogues in 1843, item 219; 1845, item 154; and, 1 May 1857, item 349.

    This MS collated in Variorum.

    • SpE 48
      No description or publication history available.

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

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

      Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

  • Add. MS 22118

    An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt.

    Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode.

    c.1630s.

    Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.

    Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe MS: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.

    • HeR 344 f. 1r-v

      Copy, headed The apparrelling of Oberon king of ye Fayries.

      This MS 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')
    • HeR 183 ff. 1v-2v

      Copy, imperfect, lacking a heading and the first four lines.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

      Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')
    • StW 413 f. 3v

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman iniurd by ye Pox.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine')
    • RnT 549 f. 4r-v

      Copy, headed A lamentation vpon ye coflagration of ye muses habitation, or ye description of ye lamentable burning of a petty-schoole in ye parish of Bartley in westriding in Yorkshire.

      Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
    • StW 530 f. 4v

      Copy, headed On a Gentleman dying of ye small Pox.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.

      William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox ('Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd')
    • CwT 52 f. 5r

      Copy, headed Ad Amicam.

      This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.

      First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
    • PoW 19 f. 6r

      Copy, headed In ye prayse of a blacke Ladye.

      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'
    • RnT 208 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy, headed On 6 Cambridge Mayds, wch a Schollar saw washing ym selues by Q: Colledge.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.

      First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 138-40. Davis, pp. 56-62.

      Thomas Randolph, On six maids bathing themselves in a River ('When bashfull day-light now was gone')
    • StW 1068 f. 7v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

      William Strode, To a frinde ('Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play')
    • DnJ 81 f. 7v

      Copy, headed D. D. A Paradoxe on a foule woman.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
    • RnT 128 ff. 8v-9r

      Copy.

      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')
    • CrR 250 f. 10r-v

      Copy, headed Crosh: To ye Deane on occasion of sleeping chappell.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 183-5.

      Richard Crashaw, To the Morning. Satisfaction for sleepe ('What succour can I hope the Muse will send')
    • CrR 294 ff. 10v-12r

      Copy, headed Crosh: On ye new borne Prince a Panegyricke.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Voces votivae ab academicis Cantabrigiensibus (Cambridge, 1640). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 176-81.

      Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke ('Brittaine, the mighty Oceans lovely Bride')
    • CrR 139 f. 12r-v

      Copy, headed Crosh: on ye morning yt was Clowdye when he was to take a iourney.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 181-2.

      Richard Crashaw, On a foule Morning, being then to take a journey ('Where art thou Sol, while thus the blind-fold Day')
    • CrR 271 f. 12v

      Copy, headed Crosh: In sepulchru domini.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 93.

      Richard Crashaw, Vpon our Saviours Tombe wherein never man was laid ('How life and Death in Thee Agree?')
    • RnT 220 ff. 12v-13v

      Copy, headed T.R. on ye fall of ye Miter.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
    • BrW 53 f. 14r

      Copy, headed On ye death of a souldier.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 74.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Sir John Prowde ('After a march of twenty years and more')
    • CrR 129 ff. 15r-17r

      Copy, headed Fidicinis et Philomelae bellu musicum.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 149-53.

      Richard Crashaw, Musicks Duell ('Now Westward Sol had spent the richest Beames')
    • StW 1039 f. 18r

      Copy.

      Unpublished. Forey, p. 33.

      William Strode, A Souldier to Penelope ('Penelope the faire and chast')
    • StW 251 f. 18v

      Copy, headed On a Necklace.

      First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

      William Strode, A Necklace ('These Vaines are Natures Nett')
    • StW 625 f. 18v

      Copy, headed On ye death of a Twin.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.

      William Strode, On Twins divided by death ('Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke')
    • CrR 150 f. 18v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 183.

      Richard Crashaw, On Marriage ('I would be married, but I'de have no Wife')
    • StW 577 f. 19r

      Copy, headed On ye death of an old Gentleman.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

      William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham ('Meerely for death to greive and mourne')
    • StW 593 ff. 19v-20r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 82.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 80-2. Forey, pp. 116-18.

      William Strode, On the death of Lady Caesar ('Though death to good men be the greatest boone')
    • RnT 344 f. 20r-v

      Copy, headed Randolphe, when he heard one singe extemporanea, made these verses.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and 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')
    • StW 439 f. 21r

      Copy of an abridged version.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 35-7.

      William Strode, On a Glasse falling on the stones without breaking ('How can the Embleme of Mortality')
    • StW 125 ff. 21v-2r

      Copy, headed A Gentleman kissing his Mrs at his departure fro England, left some bloud on her lippe.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

      William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
    • StW 969 f. 22r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.

      MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye.

      William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye')
    • StW 196 f. 22r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

      William Strode, Justification ('See how the rainbow in the skie')
    • CoR 608 f. 22v

      Copy, headed Dr Corbitts uerses on ye Ladyes of [sic].

      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 24 ff. 22v-3r

      Copy, headed The Ladyes 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'
    • StW 243 f. 23r

      Copy, headed The Diuines Comendacions of a good Voyce.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1. Forey, pp. 109-10.

      William Strode, A Musical Contemplation ('O lett me learne to be a Saint on earth')
    • StW 1087 ff. 23v-4r

      Copy, headed To a Gentlewoman.

      This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 283.

      Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

      William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde ('Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye')
    • CrR 72 f. 24r

      Copy of lines 1-14, headed On taking Physicke.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published (lines 15-46 only) in Leonard Leys, Hygiasticon…done into English, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1634). Published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted, as Temperance, Or the Cheap Physitian Vpon the Translation of Lessivs, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 156-8 (and later version pp. 342-4).

      Richard Crashaw, In praise of Lessius his rule of health ('Goe now with some dareing drugg')
    • KiH 54 f. 27v

      Copy, headed Her answer to ye blacke boye and here beginning Blacke youth complayne not yt I flye.

      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')
    • CrR 260 f. 27v

      Copy, headed Crosh: on ye Picture of Bishoppe Andrewes before his booke.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI Sermons, 2nd edition (London, 1641). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 163-4.

      Richard Crashaw, Vpon Bishop Andrewes his Picture before his Sermons ('This reverend shadow cast that setting Sun')
    • CrR 52 ff. 27v-8r

      Copy, headed On Nanus.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 161.

      Richard Crashaw, 'High mounted on an Ant Nanus the tall'
    • BcF 54.7 f. 36r-v

      Copy, headed An Elegye vpon ye Duke of Lenox who dyed ye same day hee should haue gone to Parliament.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

      Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
    • CrR 215 ff. 28r-9r

      Copy, headed Psalme. 23. a Periphrastique.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 102-4.

      Richard Crashaw, Psalme 23 ('Happy me! ô happy sheepe!')
    • CwT 244 f. 29r

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on a flye.

      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')
    • CrR 363 ff. 29v-30r

      Copy of lines 1-38, headed Epitaphium Gulielmi Herisij socij Aulae Pemb: Crosh.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 164-6.

      Richard Crashaw, Epitaphium in Dominum Herrisium ('Siste te paulum (viator) ubi Longum Sisti')
    • StW 995 f. 30v

      Copy, headed On 2 Gamsters.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

      First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
    • RaW 485 f. 31r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Latham snd in Rudick, No. 51, p. 124.

      First published in Latham (1929). Latham (1951), p. 52. Rudick, No 51, p. 124.

      Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, pp. 145-6, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A songe made by Sir Water Rawley ('What teares (Deare Prince) can serue to water all')
    • RaW 140 f. 34r

      Copy of a two-stanza version, headed To his Mistresse and here beginning Yr Face, yr Tongue, yr witt.

      This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit'
    • HrJ 138 f. 34v

      Copy, headed A Ladyes answer to her husband.

      First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
    • CwT 614 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy, headed A Version on ye 104 Psalme, subscribed mr Tho: Carew.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).

      Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 ('My soule the great Gods prayses sings')
    • CoR 6 f. 36v

      Copy, headed On ye Parleament 1627.

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

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

      Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')
    • WoH 83 f. 37r

      Copy of a six-stanza version, headed On ye Queene of Bohemia, subscribed Sr Henry wootton.

      This MS recorded in Leishman.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • HeR 9 ff. 37v-8r

      Copy, headed On a dresse of hayre wth Jewells in it and here beginning Seeest thou those rubies wch shee weares.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

      Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
    • CwT 554 f. 38r

      Copy, headed A Sigh, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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 994 ff. 39r-40r

      Copy, headed His Counsaile to his Mistresse, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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 1067 f. 40r

      Copy, subscribed Tho Carew.

      This MS collated 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 179 f. 40r-v

      Copy, headed His Mistresse her perfection, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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 335 f. 40v

      Copy of an eight-line version, headed His perplexed loue and here beginning If shee 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 119 ff. 40v-1r

      Copy, headed His loue neglected and here beginning Wee reade of Gods & Kings…, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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 932 f. 41r

      Copy of the second and third stanzas, headed To his false Mistresse and here beginning A fayrest hand yn thyne shall Cure, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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 856 f. 41r

      Copy, headed The Qualitye of his loue, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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 463 ff. 41v-2v

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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 804 f. 42v

      Copy, headed On a Ladye singing to her Lute in Arundel Garden, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • CwT 1074 f. 43r

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.

      Thomas Carew, To Mris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse ('White innocence that now lies spread')
    • CwT 398 f. 43r

      Copy, headed A pleasinge strife, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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 1135 f. 43r-v

      Copy, headed To a gentlewoman like his Caelia, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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 504 f. 44r

      Copy, headed The retyred bloud exhorted to returne into ye cheekes of ye pale Sisters Mrs Katherine & Mrs Marye Neuile, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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 1190 f. 44r-v

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      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')
    • CwT 317 f. 44v

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

      Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid ('When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see')
    • CwT 1115 ff. 44v-5v

      Copy, subscribed Tho: Carew.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

      Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
    • RnT 273 ff. 45v-8r

      Copy, imperfect.

      This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.

      Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship ('Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet')
    • RnT 289 f. 48v

      Copy, headed A Madrigall.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.

      Thomas Randolph, A Pastoral Ode ('Coy Coelia dost thou see')
    • RnT 120 ff. 48v-9r

      Copy, imperfect.

      This MS collated 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')

  • Add. MS 22147

    A small octavo volume, comprising three Cambridge academic orations, in a single italic hand, 12 leaves (plus numerous blanks), all now on guards.

    Mid-17th century.

    Puttick & Simpson, 9 December 1857, lot 433.

    • ClJ 239 ff. 1r-6r

      Copy.

      Oration, beginning Quanta & quam divina, sit vestra benefaciendi Indoles.... Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 155-64.

      John Cleveland, Oratio gratulatoria Johannis Clevelandi, Prælectoris Rhetorici, ad Magistros

  • Add. MS 22263

    A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings.

    Among papers of the related families of Wentworth, Earls of Strafford, and Johnson.

    • ClE 99 ff. 4r-23r

      Copy.

      Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

  • Add. MS 22467

    A folio miscellany, including a parliamentary journal for 1670-73, in two hands, 136 leaves, in modern brown leather gilt.

    Late 17th century.

    Puttick & Simpson's, 12 June 1858, lot 1630.

    • BrT 5.3 ff. 5r-14v

      Extracts, headed Pseudoxia Epidemica: Enquirye into Vulgar Errours: Dr Browne.

      First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).

      Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths

  • Add. MS 22473

    A tall folio volume of state papers, in probably a single professional rounded hand, 84 leaves, in modern half-calf on marbled boards.

    Mid-17th century.

    Purchased from Messrs Waller, 7 July 1858.

    • CoR 35 ff. 79v-82r

      Copy, headed A graue Parod as it was presented in Latin by certaine Diuines by way of Interlude before his Maiestie in Cambridge....

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

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

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

  • Add. MS 22563

    A square-shaped folio volume of state letters, in a single hand, 52 leaves.

    A transcript, according to Malone, taken from one made by Robert Sterne Tighe Esq from the originals [at Longleat] by the permission of Thomas, the 2nd Marquis of Bath.

    Mid-18th century.

    With (f. 2r) a lengthy note by Mr Malone [presumably Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector], and (f. 1r) a copy of it by Samuel Weller Singer, FSA (1783-1858), literary scholar, dated 1833. Purchased at the Singer sale, 3 August 1858, lot 219.

    • BcF 578 f. 39r-v

      Copy of a letter by Bacon, to Lord Henry Howard, [3 December 1599].

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 22582

    A quarto miscellany of verse and medical and household prescriptions, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, written from both ends, 117 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

    • JnB 162 f. 2r-v

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman Sittinge to hav hir Picktur Drawne.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
    • StW 182 ff. 4v-5r

      Copy, headed On ye Comendation of Musicke, imperfect.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

      William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
    • CoR 760 f. 12r

      Copy, subscribed R Clark.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 97, 164.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 97.

      Richard Corbett, To a Lady whose Husband was jealous of her cares of his Visits ('When too much zeale doth fire devotion')
    • ShJ 63 f. 19r

      This MS collated in Armstrong.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6.

      James Shirley, Presenting his Mistris with a Bird ('Walking to taste the welcome Spring')
    • ShJ 89 ff. 19v-20v

      Copy, headed To A Limner preparinge to Draw Mris WC., subscribed James Shirley.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 3-4.

      James Shirley, To the Painter preparing to draw M.M.H. ('Be not too forward, Painter: 'tis')
    • CwT 778 f. 25r

      Copy, headed To A Lady and here beginning In yor fair cheeks two pits doe lye.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye')
    • StW 287 f. 41r

      Copy.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

      William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
    • MyJ 14 f. 41v-2v

      Copy, headed On Thee Most Vartious & Ingeios Lady Mis: Anne Fitz:.

      Unpublished?

      Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
    • PeW 223 f. 43v-4r

      Copy of a short version, headed A Denyall and here beginning Nay phew, nay pish, begon & will you fye.

      Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

      A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • CwT 270 f. 44r-v

      Copy, headed On a Flye in his Mis: her Eye.

      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')
    • KiH 55 ff. 56v-7r

      Copy, headed His Ansur.

      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')

  • Add. MS 22583

    A quarto volume of verse and dramatic works, in Latin and English, in three hands, one italic hand predominating, 102 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

    Inscribed in pencil as poems by William Gager, of Christ Church, Oxford, and Chancellor of Ely.

    c.1590-early 17th century.

    Later owned by The Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 122.

    • OxE 12 f. 95v

      Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

      First published in John Mundy, Songs and Psalmes composed into 3. 4. and 5. parts (London, 1595). May, Poems, No. 16 (p. 37). May, Courtier Poets, p. 281. EV 28428.

      Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'Weare I a kinge I coulde commande content'

  • Add. MS 22587

    A quarto volume of state papers, in several hands, one small secretary hand predominating, 73 leaves, all now mounted on guards, in modern red half-morocco.

    c.1630.
    • RaW 860 f. 3r-v

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 710.7 ff. 5r-7r

      Copy, headed Sr walter Rawleighes short Apologye.

      Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana
    • RaW 861 ff. 8r-10v

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 680 ff. 11r-16r

      Copy of chapters I-IX, headed Sir Walter Rawleigh to his sonne.

      This MS discussed and the accompanying letter edited in Agnes Latham, Sir Walter Ralegh's Instructions to his Son, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1969), pp. 199-218 (pp. 206-8). However, the letter is probably independent of the Instructions: see Fred B. Tromly, Sir Walter Ralegh Instructs his Son, Twice, N&Q, 254 (December 2009), 616-19.

      A treatise in ten chapters, beginning There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends.... First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Instructions to his Son and to Posterity
    • RaW 862 ff. 16v-17v

      Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his son and to his wife, 1603.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 863 f. 37r-v

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • BcF 204.2 ff. 41r-4v

      Extracts.

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

      Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

  • Add. MS 22591

    A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde.

    c.1640s.

    Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 140.

    This MS discussed in Van Strien.

    • BcF 725 ff. 30r-v

      Spedding, VI, 597-600; discussed 592-4

      An essay beginning That absolute prerogative according to the king's pleasure revealed by his laws.... Spedding, VI, 597-600 (discussed pp. 592-4). Probably by Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere.

      Francis Bacon, An explanation what manner of persons those should be, that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the King's Prerogative
    • CmW 73 ff. 115r-16r

      Copy, headed in the margin The Antiquity of parlyamts writte by Mr W: Camden.

      A tract beginning That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here.... First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

      William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England
    • BcF 263 f. 217r

      Copy of Pleas of the Crowne Offices of Sh[e]riffs Escheators...written by ye right honoble ffrauncis lo: Verulam viscount st Albon at ye request of the Earle of northa:) when he was Sollicitor Ano Dom: 1608, inscribed in the margin cases of Highe Treason.

      A discourse beginning Your Majesty's desire of proceeding towards the union of this whole island.... First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 731-43 (and see p. 775 et seq.).

      Francis Bacon, A Preparation for the Union of Laws
    • BcF 729.5 ff. 220v-1v

      Copy.

      Spedding, VII, 778-81 (discussed pp. 773-4). An adaptation of part of Sir John Doddridge, History of the Principality of Wales, possibly used by Bacon and printed with works by him in Cases of Treason (London, 1641).

      Francis Bacon, Of the jurisdiction of Justices itinerant in the principality of Wales
    • BcF 78 ff. 256r-7v

      Copy.

      First published in Cases of Treason (London 1641). Spedding, VII, 745-54.

      Francis Bacon, Answers to Questions touching the Office of Constables
    • BcF 335 ff. 258r-65r, 268r-71r, 274r-9v

      Copies of nine speeches by Bacon, chiefly 1612-17, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • BcF 75.1 ff. 265v-7r

      Copy.

      Written c.January 1611/12. First published in Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 265-70. Spedding, XI, 249-54.

      Francis Bacon, Advice to the King touching Sutton's Estate
    • NaR 3 ff. 290r-305v

      Copy, with a title-page.

      This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

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

      Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
    • WoH 268 ff. 306r-11r

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
    • MrJ 32 f. 315r-v

      Copy, quoted in a brief tract about Buckingham and the disastrous Isle de Rhé expedition.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
    • FeO 76 ff. 320r-3v

      Copy, headed Three Monthes Obseruations of ye lowe countryes especialy Holland.

      First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

      Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries
    • CtR 501 ff. 338r-45r

      Copy, headed Consideracons ffor the Repressing of ye increase off preists Jesuites and Recusants without drawing of Bloode. Written by Sr Robt Cotton, Knight and Barronett.

      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?

  • Add. MS 22601

    A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in one or possibly two hands, in varying secretary and italic scripts, 107 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court.

    c.1605.

    Owned in 1845 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), with his inscription of Andrews Bristol 1845 at the enormous Price of 6.6.0. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 189.

    • DaJ 113 ff. 40r-3r

      Copy of a series of twelve poems, no general heading.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger. Collated in Doughtie, pp. 597-601.

      First published as Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

      Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis ('Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while')
    • DaJ 292 ff. 49r-51r

      Copy of 38 lots, headed A lottery proposed before supper at ye Lo: Chief Justice his house in ye First Entrance: to hir Matie, Ladies, Gentlewomen & Straugers, dated in the margin 1602.

      Edited from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the time of James I, Percy Society (London, 1845), (pp. 5-10). Collated and lots 35-9 edited in Krueger, pp. 207-14.

      The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.

      Sir John Davies, An Entertainment at Harefield
    • HrJ 80 f. 60v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning England, men say of late, is bankrupte growne.

      Printed from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the time of James I, Percy Society (London, 1845), p. 37.

      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')
    • HrJ 306 ff. 60v-1r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning When doome of death by iudgmts force appointed.

      Printed from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the time of James I, Percy Society (London, 1845), p. 38.

      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')
    • RaW 497.8 f. 63v

      Copy of the 20-line version.

      Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Rudick, p. 187.

      A version first published as the first two stanzas in a twenty-line poem edited in Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the Time of James I, ed. James Orchard Halliwell, Percty Society 15 (1845). The long version in Rudick, p. 187. The two-stanza version (conflated to four lines) in Rudick, No. 58, p. 137.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Water thy plants with grace devine, and hope to live for aye'
    • DaJ 285 ff. 66r-70v

      Copy of an early version, irregularly arranged, headed A Dialogue betwene the Mayde, the Wife, & the Widow for the defence of their Estates.

      This MS collated in Krueger.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Krueger, pp. 216-24.

      Sir John Davies, A Contention betwen a Wife, a Widowe and a Maide for Precedence at an Offringe ('Widow well met, whether goe you to daye?')
    • RaW 3 f. 71r

      Copy, headed To A. Vaua.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 110.

      First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660). Latham, pp. 14-15. Rudick, No. 18, pp. 27-8.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Advice ('Many desire, but few or none deserve')
    • SoR 212 f. 71v

      Copy of lines 1-18.

      This MS recorded in Brown, p. 152. See also SoR 241.

      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 241 f. 71v

      Copy of lines 7-12, untitled, beginning The sea of fortune doth not ever flowe, added as the concluding stanza to a copy of the first three stanzas of Scorne not the least (SoR 212).

      This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.

      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')
    • RaW 434 ff. 104r-6r

      Copy of a version in 19 stanzas.

      This MS collated, and the additional stanzas printed, in Doughtie, pp. 504-10; recorded in Latham.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). The first and last stanzas were a song in Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece (London, 1608). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 171. Edited in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 156-7. Ralegh's possible authorship also discussed and largely supported in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), p. 161; in Lefranc (1968), pp. 78-9, 83; and in Michael West, Raleigh's disputed Authorship of A Description of Loue, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 92-9.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Now what is Loue, I praie thee tell'
    • HoJ 322 ff. 106r-7v

      Copy, headed Exprience & examples dailie proue that my man can be well aduised & loue.

      This MS cited in Osborn.

      Osborn, p. 301.

      John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob ('Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood')

  • Add. MS 22602

    A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather.

    c.1640s.

    Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.

    • EaJ 39 ff. 1r-2v

      Copy, subscribed mr Earles. Merton.

      Unpublished. Discussed, and Earle's authorship rejected, in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 496-7).

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, In Cladem Rhenensem ('Thus sick men feare their Cure, and startle move')
    • JnB 453 f. 2v

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

      Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes')
    • RnT 47 ff. 3r-5v

      Copy, headed A Complaint of Cupid.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.

      Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love ('How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine')
    • RnT 73 f. 6r-v

      Copy, headed A Dialogue betweene Thyrsis & Lalage, subscribed T. Randolph.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 84-5.

      Thomas Randolph, A Dialogue. Thirsis. Lalage ('My Lalage when I behold')
    • RnT 91 f. 7r-v

      Copy, headed To his Mrs incensed vpon a Mistake, subscribed T. Randolph.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 95-6.

      Thomas Randolph, An Elegie ('Heav'n knowes my Love to thee, fed on desires')
    • RnT 117 f. 7v

      Copy, headed On Mr. Warre, subscribed Idem [i.e. T. Randolph].

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 56.

      Thomas Randolph, An Epitaph upon his honour'd freind Mr. Warre ('Here lyes the knowing head, the honest heart')
    • KiH 118 f. 8r

      Copy, headed A Louer to one dispraising his mistresse.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

      Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
    • StW 221 f. 8v

      Copy, headed A letter to his Mistresse, subscribed T. Randall.

      Edited from this MS in Parry.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

      William Strode, A Letter impos'd ('Goe, happy paper, by commande')
    • CoR 330 f. 9r-v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

      Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')
    • CoR 264 f. 10r

      Copy, headed Vpon Dr Price his Anniursary, subscribed Dr Corbett.

      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 609 f. 10v

      Copy, headed On Ladies Veiles, subscried Dr Corbet.

      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 25 ff. 10v-11r

      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'
    • StW 659 f. 11r

      Copy, subscribed W Stroad.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

      William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
    • RnT 98 ff. 11v-12r

      Copy, headed On his Chast Mistresse, subscribed T. Randall.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.

      Thomas Randolph, An Elegie ('Love, give me leave to serve thee, and be wise')
    • RnT 129 ff. 12v-13r

      Copy, headed T. Randall to his Adopted father Ben. Johnson.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury, pp. 177-8.

      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')
    • StW 138 f. 13v

      Copy, headed On a Gentleman yt kissing his Mrs at his departure from England, left blood vpon her.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

      William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
    • CaW 24 ff. 14v-15r

      Copy, headed On Gentlewomeans black hoods, subscribed T. Cartwright.

      This MS collated in Evans.

      First published in Works (1651), pp. 232-4. Evans, pp. 483-4.

      William Cartwright, On a Gentlewomans Silk-hood ('Is there a Sanctity in Love begun')
    • WaE 92 f. 15v

      Copy, headed To a Gentlewoman with a Rose, subscribed Ed. Waller.

      First published, as On the Rose, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Edmund Waller, 'Go, lovely Rose'
    • WaE 369 f. 16r

      Copy, headed Upon a Staggs Horns, subscribed Ed Waller.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

      Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')
    • StW 1137 f. 16v

      Copy, as by W. Stroad.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 330.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 88. Forey, p. 198.

      William Strode, To his Sister ('Lovinge Sister, every line')
    • CwT 1203 f. 17r

      Copy, headed Vpon a Ribbond giuen him by his Mistresse.

      This MS recorded in Powell, p. 293.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
    • PoW 104 f. 17v

      Copy, headed To a lady upon ye Jewells in her Eare.

      First published, as anonymous, in Henry Huth, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies (1870).

      Walton Poole, To a Ladie which desired him to make her a copy of verses ('Faire Madam, cast these diamonds away')
    • DyE 79 f. 19r

      Copy, headed A Louer.

      This MS text collated in Sargent.

      First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
    • PeW 224 f. 19v

      Copy of a short version, headed A Gentlewoman, while a Gentleman Courted her and here beginning Nay pish, nay pew, in faith but will you? fye.

      Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

      A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
    • EaJ 49 ff. 20v-1v

      Copy, headed On ye death of Will: Earle of Pembroke Ann. 1630, subscribed J. Earles.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death ('Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse')
    • MoG 89 ff. 21v-2r

      Copy, headed Vpon drinking in ye Crowne of a Hatt.

      George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth')
    • RnT 194 ff. 22r-4r

      Copy, headed T. Randolph to his Creditors. Or The Cambridge dunn.

      This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

      Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes ('Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell')
    • CaW 39 ff. 26v-7r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Works (1651), pp. 188-9. Evans, pp. 445-7.

      William Cartwright, On the Imperfections of Christ-Church Buildings ('Arise thou Sacred Heap, and shew a Frame')
    • CaW 11 ff. 27v-8r

      Copy, headed To ye most Hopefull Charles Prince of Wales and here beginning But turne wee now to You, as some there bee.

      This MS collated in Evans.

      First published in Works (1651), pp. 190-1. Evans, pp. 447-8.

      William Cartwright, A Continuation of the same to the Prince of Wales ('But turn we hence to you, as some there be')
    • CwT 1280 f. 29r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Dunlap.

      First published, as To Clarinda: On Her Perfection, in Thomas Jordan, Claraphil and Clarinda: In a Forrest of Fancies (1650?), sig. B1r-v. Dunlap (1949), p. 193.

      Thomas Carew, Of his Mistresse ('I will not Saint my Coelia, for shee')
    • RaW 327 f. 30v

      Copy, headed Sr. Walter Ralegh to ye Queen, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 511).

      Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick, No. 39A, pp. 106-8. Recorded in Gullans.

      First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

      For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
    • RaW 511 ff. 30v-1r

      Copy, prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (RaW 327).

      Printed from this MS in Latham; collated in Gullans.

      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'
    • HrG 301 f. 32r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Hutchinson.

      First published, from a small quarto volume of MS. Latin poetry, in J. Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda (Bristol, 1816). Hutchinson, p. 209. The authorship discussed in Fram Dinshaw, A Lost MS. of George Herbert's Occasional Verse and the Authorship of To the L. Chancellor, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 423-5.

      George Herbert, To the Right Hon. the L. Chancellor (Bacon) ('My Lord. A diamond to mee you sent')
    • HrG 304 f. 32r

      Copy, subscribed G. Herbert.

      This MS collated in Hutchinson.

      First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 437. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 170-1.

      George Herbert, Aethiopissa ambit Cestum Diuersi Coloris Virum ('Qvid mihi si facies nigra est? hoc, Ceste, colore')
    • DaW 14 f. 32v

      Copy, headed On Newyeeres day for Mrs Porter, subscribed W. Dauenant.

      This MS collated in Gibbs.

      First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

      Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day ('Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present')
    • CoR 764 f. 33r-v

      Copy, headed To Brontes &c: Bell-Founder, subscribed D. Corbett.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 165.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 98-100.

      Richard Corbett, To the Bell-Founder of Great Tom of Christ-Church in Oxford ('Thou that by ruine doest repaire')
    • WaE 523 f. 34v

      Copy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 83.

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Amoret! the Milky Way')
    • WaE 293 f. 35r

      Copy, here beginning The Signe or Chance makes Others wiue.

      First published, as On the two Dwarfs that were marryed at Court, not long before Shrovetide, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 92.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs ('Design, or chance, makes others wive')
    • ClJ 181 f. 36r

      Copy, headed On the Earle of Strafford. 1641.

      First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

      John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')
    • DaJ 118 f. 36v

      Copy of poem 2 (The Divine), headed A Parson to his diocese heart and beginning My calling is divine.

      First published as Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

      Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis ('Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while')
    • RnT 274 ff. 37r-40r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury. Collated in Davis.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.

      Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship ('Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet')

  • Add. MS 22603

    An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather.

    Probably compiled by one H.S., a Cambridge man.

    c.1640s-50s.

    Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.

    • WaE 245 f. 2r

      Copy, headed On the Lady Thinne playing on the Lute.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

      Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')
    • BmF 120 ff. 7v-8r

      Copy, headed On Mrs. Fowler.

      First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

      Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her ('Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me')
    • StW 788 ff. 8v-9r

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman walkinge in ye 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')
    • RnT 221 ff. 9v-10v

      This MS in the same hand as RnT 220.

      This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
    • HoJ 205 ff. 10v-11r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

      John Hoskyns, On Dreames ('You nimble dreames wth cob webb winges')
    • CoA 136 ff. 11r-12r

      Copy.

      First published, in Sylva, in Poeticall Blossomes, 2nd edition (London, 1636). Waller, II, 50-2. Sparrow, pp. 12-13. Collected Works, I, pp. 74-5.

      Abraham Cowley, A Poeticall Revenge ('Westminster-Hall a friend and I agree')
    • KiH 418 ff. 12r-13r

      Copy, headed On one that got him an vgly wife.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.

      Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice ('I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect')
    • CoA 194 ff. 13r-14v

      Copy.

      First published, in Sylva, in Poeticall Blossomes, 2nd edition (London, 1636). Waller, II, 48-50. Sparrow, pp. 9-12. Stanzas 9-11 (beginning This only grant me, that my means may lye) reprinted in the essay Of My self, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 456-7. Collected Works, I, pp. 70-1.

      Abraham Cowley, A Vote ('Lest the misconstring world should chance to say')
    • LoR 32 ff. 16r-v

      Copy, headed His beinge in Prison; the text followed (ff. 16v-17r) by The Answer (beginning When Cynthia's wrapt within my arms).

      Edited from this MS (with the Answer) in Wilkinson, I, 51-2. Collated in Clayton.

      First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

      Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
    • CoA 124 ff. 18r-19r

      Copy.

      First published in Sylva in Poeticall Blossomes, 2nd edition (London, 1636). Waller, II, 46-7. Collected Works, I, pp. 68-9.

      Abraham Cowley, On his Majesties returne out of Scotland ('Great Charles: there stop you Trumpeters of Fame')
    • CoA 64 ff. 19r-20r

      Copy, headed On the death of Jo. Littleton Esqr who was drowned leapinge into ye water to saue his Brother. 1636.

      First published, in Sylva, in Poeticall Blossomes, 2nd edition (London, 1636). Waller, II, 55-6. Collected Works, I, pp. 78-80.

      Abraham Cowley, An Elegie on the Death of John Littleton Esquire ('And must these waters smile againe? and play')
    • LoR 14 f. 25r-v

      Copy, headed The Mutable Louer; this MS in the same hand as LoR 13. The text is followed (ff. 25v-6) by The Reply (beginning Yes, yes, I say you are foresworne).

      First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 24. (1930), pp. 26-7. A musical setting by Thomas Charles published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Richard Lovelace, The Scrutinie. Song ('Why should you sweare I am forsworn')
    • MyJ 15 ff. 27v-9r

      Copy, headed On Ms Anne King's Tablebooke of Pictures: by Ja. Mayne.

      Unpublished?

      Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
    • HeR 362 ff. 30v-2r

      Copy, headed Herickes Farewell to Poetrie.

      This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.

      First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.

      Robert Herrick, Mr Robert Hericke his farwell vnto Poetrie ('I have behelde two louers in a night')
    • HrJ 37 f. 32v

      Copy, headed On Swearinge.

      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')
    • HeR 269 ff. 37r-8v

      Copy, headed The time expired, he Welcomes his Mrs (Sacke) as followeth.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

      Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
    • CoR 355 ff. 39v-41r

      Copy, headed Dr Corbets lr to ye D. of Buck: beinge in Spaine.

      Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

      Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
    • HeR 202 ff. 41v-3r

      Copy, headed Mr Herickes Charge to his Wife and here beginning Goe and wth this partinge Kisse.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.

      Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled ('Go hence, and with this parting kisse')
    • PeW 273 f. 43r

      Copy, headed Cloras Epitaph.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song ('Draw not too near')
    • CoR 36 ff. 43v-5v

      Copy, headed A graue Poeme... [&c.].

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

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

      Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
    • JnB 281 f. 49r-v

      Copy, headed On an houre-glasse, subscribed B. J.

      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')
    • KiH 197 ff. 49v-50r

      Copy, headed On ye Death of Sr W. Rauley.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
    • HrJ 193.5 f. 50r

      Copy of a version headed On a Puritan and beginning A Puritan of late, and eke a holy Sister, imperfect.

      First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

      Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister ('I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten')
    • HrJ 174 ff. 52v-3r

      Copy, headed A reformed Taylor.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
    • HeR 10 ff. 57v-8r

      Copy, headed A Songe and here beginning Seest thou those Jewells wc she weares.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

      Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
    • CmT 154 f. 58v

      Copy of lines 1-2, 5-6, headed Of Corrina her Lute.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 492.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. vi. Davis, pp. 28-9.

      Thomas Campion, 'When to her lute Corrina sings'
    • HeR 193 ff. 59r-61r

      Copy, headed King Oberons his Pallace and without the preliminary lines, subscribed Hericke.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning After the Feast (my Shapcot) see, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.

      Robert Herrick, Oberons Palace ('Full as a Bee with Thyme, and Red')
    • HeR 184 ff. 61r-2r

      Copy, headed King Oberons his feast and without the preliminary lines, subscribed Herricke.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

      Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred')
    • HeR 345 ff. 62r-3r

      Copy, headed K. Oberons his Apparrell, subscribed Sr Edmond Steward.

      This MS 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')
    • WrM 36 f. 64v

      Copy.

      Twenty-six lines of verse by Lord Denny fiercely attacking Wroth's published romance and prompting her verse retaliation (WrM 4). First published in Josephine A. Roberts, An Unpublished Literary Quarrel concerning the Suppression of Mary Wroth's Urania (1621), N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 532-5.

      Lady Mary Wroth, To Pamphilla from the father-in-law of Seralius ('Hermophradite in show, in deed a monster')
    • BrW 239 f. 69v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 8-9. Goodwin, II, 213-14.

      William Browne of Tavistock, A Round ('Now that the Spring hath fill'd our veins')
    • CrR 282 f. 70v

      Copy of lines 1-30, headed An Elegie on a Scholler.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 166-7.

      Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of a Gentleman ('Faithlesse and fond Mortality')

  • Add. MS 22606

    Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 69 leaves (46 x 72 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt (rebound).

    A presentation MS to Walter Balcanquall (1586-1645), Master of the Savoy, London, and later Dean of Rochester and of Durham, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in a small Roman script throughout, with some decoration.

    27 June 1617.

    Later owned by Archer Ryland (1814); by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 201.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 51 (pp. 78-9).

    • *InE 53
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576.

      Esther Inglis, [Quatrains de Pybrac] Les six vingts et six quatrains de Guy de Faur, Sieur de Pybrac, escrits par Esther Inglis ce xxvii de Juin, 1617

  • Add. MS 22608

    A quarto miscellany of extracts from plays and historical works, with comments on them, entitled Excerpta quædam per A. W. Adolescentem, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 119 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco.

    Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

    c.1640.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright (Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.

    For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.

    • BcF 215.8 ff. 31r-6v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

      Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
    • CmW 6.38 ff. 43r-68v

      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
    • JnB 734 ff. 69r-70v, 72v

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments on f. 72v printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 256).

      First published in London, 1631. Herford & Simpson, VI, 271-382.

      Ben Jonson, The Staple of News
    • JnB 556 ff. 70v-2v

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (pp. 256-7).

      First published in London, 1631. Herford & Simpson, VI, 1-141.

      Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair
    • ShJ 193 ff. 72v-4r

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments here (f. 74) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

      First published in London, 1635. Gifford & Dyce, II, 95-187. Edited by John Stewart Carter (London, 1965). The play was licensed on 4 May 1631 for performance at the Phoenix Theatre.

      James Shirley, The Traitor
    • WeJ 3 ff. 74r-5v

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257), and in James G. McManaway, Excerpta quaedam per A.W. adolescentem, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), 279-91 (p. 287).

      First published in London, 1623. Lucas, II, 229-372. Cambridge edition, II, 75-166.

      John Webster, The Devil's Law-Case
    • ShJ 138 ff. 75v-6r

      Extracts, with a comment on the entertainment.

      Wright's comment here (f. 75v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

      First published in London, 1633. Gifford & Dyce, VI, 287-314.

      James Shirley, A Contention for Honour and Riches
    • ShJ 179 ff. 76r-8v

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments here (f. 78v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

      First published in London, 1630. Gifford & Dyce, II, 1-93.

      James Shirley, The Grateful Servant
    • ShJ 137 ff. 78v-9v

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments here (f. 79v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

      First published in London, 1632. Gifford & Dyce, II, 269-364.

      James Shirley, Changes, or Love in a Maze
    • ShJ 189 f. 80r-v

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments here (f. 80v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

      First published in London, 1631. Gifford & Dyce, I, 1-97.

      James Shirley, The School of Compliment
    • ShJ 205 ff. 81r-2r

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments here (f. 82) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

      First published in London, 1629. Gifford & Dyce, I, 363-450.

      James Shirley, The Wedding
    • ShJ 135 ff. 82r-3r

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments here (f. 83) edited in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

      First published in London, 1633. Gifford & Dyce, II, 365-455.

      James Shirley, The Bird in a Cage
    • ShW 71 ff. 83v-4v

      Extracts Out of ye Tragedy of Othello by Shakespeare, with comments on the play.

      These extracts and comments edited in James G. McManaway, Excerpta quaedam per A.W. adolescentem, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), 279-91 (pp. 286-9), and in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

      Facsimiles of ff. 83v-4v in Parnassus Biceps or Severall Choice Pieces of Poetry by Abraham Wright 1656, ed. Peter Beal (Scolar Press, 1990), pp. 184-9.

      First published in London, 1622.

    • ShW 44 f. 85r-v

      Extracts Out of ye Tragedie of Hamlet ye Prince of Denmark. by Will: Shakespeare, with comments on the play.

      These extracts and comments printed in James G. McManaway, Excerpta quaedam per A. W. adolescentem, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), 279-91 (pp. 286-9), and in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (pp. 257-8).

      Facsimiles of f. 85r-v in Parnassus Biceps or Severall Choice Pieces of Poetry by Abraham Wright 1656, ed. Peter Beal (Scolar Press, 1990), pp. 190-3.

      First published in London, 1603.

    • B&F 44 ff. 85v-86v

      Extracts Out of ye Elder brother. A Comedie by John ffletcher. Beaumonts fellow poet, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments (f. 86r-v.) edited in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, Modern Philology, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 258).

      Facsimile of f. 85v in Parnassus Biceps or Severall Choice Pieces of Poetry by Abraham Wright 1656, ed. Peter Beal (Scolar Press, 1990), pp. 192-3.

      First published in London, 1637. Dyce, X, 197-292. Bullen, II, 1-100, ed. W.W. Greg. Bowers, IX, 469-545, ed. Fredson Bowers.

    • ShJ 180 ff. 86v-7r

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments here (f. 87) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 258).

      First published in London, 1637. Gifford & Dyce, II, 457-541.

      James Shirley, Hyde Park
    • WeJ 4 ff. 87r-8v

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 258).

      First published in London, 1623. Lucas, II, 1-210. Cambridge edition, I, 467-575.

      John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
    • WeJ 12 ff. 88v-9r

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 258).

      First published in London, 1612. Lucas, I. Cambridge edition, I, 139-254.

      John Webster, The White Devil
    • ShJ 207 ff. 89r-90r

      Extracts, with comments on the play, headed ye young Admirall tragicomedie.

      Wright's comments here (f. 90r) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 258).

      First published in London, 1637. Gifford & Dyce, III, 93-181.

      James Shirley, The Young Admiral
    • DaW 102.6 ff. 90v-1v

      Extracts, headed Out of ye Platonick louers Tragicomedy By Will: Dauenant, with comments on the play.

      See Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (pp. 258-9).

      First published in London, 1636. Dramatic Works, II, 1-105.

      Sir William Davenant, The Platonick Lovers
    • DaW 119 ff. 91v-3r

      Extracts, headed Out of ye witts. A Comedie by Will. Dauenant, with comments on the play.

      First published in London, 1636. Dramatic Works, II, 107-244.

    • MsP 30 f. 93v

      Brief extract, with comment on the play.

      Printed from this MS in Edwards & Gibson, II, 378-9.

      First published in London, 1633. Edwards & Gibson, II, 293-377.

      Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts
    • B&F 154 ff. 93v-4v

      Extracts, headed Out of Philaster, or loue lies bleeding, A Tragicomedie by ffrancis Beaumont, and John ffletcher, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments (f. 94v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

      First published in London, 1620. Dyce, I, 197-310. Bullen, I, 115-242, ed. P.A. Daniel. Bowers, I, 398-481, ed. Robert K. Turner.

    • B&F 62 f. 95r-v

      Excerpts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments (f. 95v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

      First published in London, 1619. Dyce, II, 231-347. Bullen, I, 243-354, ed. R.W. Bond. Bowers, II, 182-281, ed. George Walton Williams.

    • B&F 110 ff. 95v-6v

      Excerpts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments (f. 96v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

      First published in London, 1619. Dyce, I, 311-424. Bullen, I, 1-114, ed. P.A. Daniel. Bowers, II, 28-124, ed. Robert K. Turner.

    • B&F 166 ff. 96v-8r

      Excerpts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments (f. 98) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

      First published in London, 1616. Dyce, III, 1-113. Bullen, I, 355-473, ed. R.W. Bond. Bowers, II, 464-545, ed. Cyrus Hoy.

    • B&F 46 ff. 98r-9v

      Excerpts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments (f. 99r-v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

      First published in London, 1610. Dyce, II, 1-121. Bullen, III, 1-110, ed. W.W. Greg. Bowers, III, 489-583, ed. Cyrus Hoy.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess
    • ShJ 182 ff. 99v-101v

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments here (f. 101v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

      First published in London, 1637. Gifford & Dyce, IV, 1-100. Edited by Ronald Huebert (Manchester, 1986).

      James Shirley, The Lady of Pleasure
    • FuT 5.21 ff. 101v-10v

      Extracts.

      First published in Cambridge, 1639.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
    • ShJ 188 ff. 113v-14r

      Extracts, with comments on the play.

      Wright's comments here (f. 114) edited in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).

      First published in London, 1638. Gifford & Dyce, IV, 101-88.

      James Shirley, The Royal Master
    • JnB 766 ff. 115r-16r

      Extracts from various of Jonson's plays, masques and poems.

      Ben Jonson, Extracts

  • Add. MS 22629

    A double-folio-size album of separate mounted letters, in various hands, 239 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

    Volume V of the letters belonging to Henrietta Hobart (1681-1767), Countess of Suffolk.

    Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer.

    • DoC 215 f. 215r

      Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

      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')

  • Add. MS 22640

    A folio volume of chiefly poems and prose on affairs of state, in several hands, one predominating, 165 leaves, in old reversed calf.

    Compiled by John Greene, of King's Lynn, Norfolk (probably the John Greene who was Mayor there in 1709).

    c.1720.

    Sotheby's, 23 December 1958, lot 224.

    • LeN 1 ff. 47r-8r

      Copy of the 65-line version, headed On ye Marriage of the Prince & Princess of Orange and beginning Hail happy Warrior Whose arms have Won.

      First published, possibly as a broadside, 1677 [no exemplum known]. 85-line version in Examen Poeticum: being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1693), pp. 168-74. Stroup & Cooke, II, 553-4. Earlier, 65-line version, headed On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange and beginning Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won, published in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Stroup & Cooke, II, 555-6.

      Nathaniel Lee, To the Prince and Princess of Orange, upon Their Marriage ('Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won')
    • DoC 225 f. 91r

      Copy of lines 26-30, headed 1715 and here beginning Protect us Mighty Providence.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')
    • DrW 117.19 f. 105r

      Copy.

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

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • DoC 126 f. 113v

      Copy, headed ye E-l of Dors-ts opinion of ye Tories 1716.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')
    • DrJ 227 f. 116v

      Copy, headed Verses 1715.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

      John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')
    • JnB 634.5 f. 162r

      Copy, headed An Invitation att ye Devils arse of Peake 1671.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest')

  • Add. MS 22919

    A folio composite volume of letters to Sir George Downing, first Baronet (1623-84), diplomat.

    • *MaA 527 ff. 14r-15v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to George Downing, from The Hague, [25 March 1659].

      Margoliouth, II, 308. Facsimile of the first page in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LVII.

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)
    • *MaA 526 f. 78r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to George Downing, from Whitehall, 11 February 1658/9.

      Later owned by Dawson Turner, FSA (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859, lot 146.

      Margoliouth, II, 307-8. Facsimiles in Kelliher, p. 75 and back cover, and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 60.

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 22959

    A small quarto diary, in a single secretary hand, 89 leaves, bound with a separately acquired continuation or companion MS (ff. 90r-153r, now Add. MS 28640), in modern half-morocco.

    Compiled by the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, and relating, retrospectively, chiefly to public events and to literary texts in circulation in 1625-42.

    c.1625-42.

    Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 7 June 1859, lot 253. The second MS purchased at Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (library of the bookseller Joseph Lilly).

    The first MS edited in full in Diary of John Rous, incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society No. 66 (1856).

    • CtR 152 ff. 16r-18v

      Copy of a Contracted version, as by Robertu Cotton.

      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
    • MrJ 33 ff. 22v-3v

      Copy, subscribed These verses came forthe, as I did heare, soon after the returne from Rees; in which, whether any more be sette down then vulgar rumor, which is often lying, I knowe not... [c.26 June 1628].

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')
    • MrJ 62 f. 25v

      Copy, docketed Received Sept. 16 [1628], from Will. Crosse.

      Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), p. 26. Green, p. 26.

      John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
    • CoR 15 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy, headed I had these verses deliuered me and subscried Doctr Kerbie B: Ox, dated 6 August 1629.

      Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), pp. 42-3. This publication recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82, 152.

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

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

      Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')
    • CoR 528 f. 41v

      Copy, untitled, dated 27 June 1630.

      Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), pp. 54-5. Reprinted from this publication in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

      Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')
    • CoR 629 ff. 48v-9r

      Copy, headed D.C. To the Gentlewomen of the Newe Dresse, dated 1 April 1633.

      Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), pp. 71-2. This publication recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 159.

      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 26 f. 49r

      Copy, headed The Ladies and Gentlewns Answer, dated 1 April 1633.

      Green, pp. 71-2.

      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'
    • StW 1274 f. 54r

      Copy, in double columns, headed These following verses came to men's hands in these times [i.e. about 1634 & 1635].

      Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), p. 80.

      First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')
    • ClJ 20 ff. 68v-9v

      Copy.

      Green, pp. 101-3.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

      John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')
    • RuB 143 ff. 72r-4r

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Ruddierds speech.

      Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
    • ClJ 182 f. 84v

      Copy, headed On the Earle of Strafford.

      First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

      John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')

  • Add. MS 23070

    A folio notebook, largely in a single small cursive hand, 93 leaves, in half-calf.

    Compiled by George Vertue (1684-1756), engraver and antiquary, constituting Volume 3 of his collections.

    c.1713-54.

    Bought from Vertue's widow, 22 August 1758, by Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician and patron, and with his bookplate. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1842, in item 524. Afterwards owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 9 June 1859, lot 517.

    • JnB 250 ff. 29r-30v

      Copy, transcribed from a MS source.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.

      Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon wth Inigo Iones ('Mr Surueyr, you yt first begann')
    • JnB 490 ff. 30v-1r

      Copy, transcribed from a MS source.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.

      Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary ('But cause thou hearst ye mighty k. of Spaine')
    • JnB 476 f. 31r

      Copy, subscribed Ben. Jonson, transcribed from a MS source.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.

      Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him ('Sr Inigo doth feare it as I heare')

  • Add. MS 23123

    A large folio composite volume of correspondence for 1665 of the Earl and Duke of Lauderdale, in various hands, 282 leaves, in 19th-century calf.

    • *HuA 1 f. 280r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Anna Hume, in her rounded italic hand, to Lord Lauderdale, on one side of a single folio leaf, undated.

      Anna Hume, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 23147

    A small folio 12th-century MS on vellum, inscribed (f. 1v) Liber Willi: Browne.

    Early 17th century.

    Annotated on f. 42r by John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian. Owned in 1756 by Alexander Grant and Robert Leith.

    Edwards, No. 1. Possibly the MS cited by Browne at the very beginning of Britannia's Pastorals as a manuscript copy of [William of] Malmesbury…belonging to the Abbey of S. Augustine in Canterbury…in the hands of my very learned friend M. Selden (Goodwin, I, 17).

    • *BrW 269
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Browne of Tavistock, William of Malmesbury. De gestis Regum Anglorum

  • Add. MS 23216

    A folio composite volume of some 150 autograph letters signed by Henry More, to Anne (née Finch), Lady Conway, as well as five by him to her husband, Edward, Lord Conway, and two to Mrs Elizabeth Foxcroft.

    1650-79.

    Edited, with related Conway letters from other sources, in Nicolson, with a facsimile of More's letter of 18 April [1653] after p. 80. Three of More's letters to Lady Anne, on ff. 302r-7v, which were omitted from Nicolson are edited and discussed in Alan Gabbey, Anne Conway et Henry More: Lettres sur Descartes (1650-51), Archives de Philosophie, 40 (1977), 379-404.

    • *MoH 4
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Henry More, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 23229

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco.

    Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS book of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19).

    Early-mid-17th century.

    From the Conway Papers belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.

    Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Conway MS: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).

    • DnJ 988 ff. 10r-14v

      Copy, complete with the 11-poem Epithalamion, in Goodyer's hand, on ten pages of three pairs of conjugate folio leaves, imperfect.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

      John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 ('Unseasonable man, statue of ice')
    • HoJ 55.5 f. 15r-v

      Copy, untitled, in two italic hands, imperfect, lacking the ending.

      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')
    • HoJ 56 ff. 16r-17v

      Copy, untitled, but inscribed down the central fold The Parliament Libell and endorsed on a blank leaf (f. 18v) The farte.

      This MS cited in Osborn.

      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')
    • SuJ 123 ff. 24r, 25r

      Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, with two staves of music, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 88-9.

      John Suckling, Love and Debt alike troublesom ('This one request I make to him that sits the clouds above')
    • SuJ 123.5 f. 26r

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 88-9.

      John Suckling, Love and Debt alike troublesom ('This one request I make to him that sits the clouds above')
    • CwT 1070 f. 34r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, subscribed Tho: Carewe, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 78-9.

      Thomas Carew, To Master W. Mountague ('Sir, I arest you at your Countreyes suit')
    • CwT 746 f. 36r

      Copy of a four-stanza version, in a cursive rounded hand, untitled and here beginning Ask me no more where Jove bestowes, on one side of a folio leaf.

      Edited from this MS in Dunlap, p. 263, and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), pp. 522-3.

      First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).

      For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
    • KiH 652 f. 40r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Sonnett 1, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.

      Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock ('Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n')
    • KiH 504 f. 40r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Sonnett 2, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.

      Henry King, The Retreit ('Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind')
    • KiH 407 f. 40v

      Copy, in a mixed hand, subscribed Doctor Kinge, headed Sonnett 3, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 169.

      Henry King, Love's Harvest ('Fond Lunatick forbeare. WHy dost thou sue')
    • DeJ 53 f. 41r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Make roome for the best of Poets Heroicke, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

      First published, as Vpon the Preface, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 3-4. Banks, p. 313.

      Sir John Denham, On Gondibert The Preface, being Published before the Booke was Written, Upon the Preface ('Room Room for the best of Poets heroick')
    • StW 789 f. 46r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      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')
    • CwT 1148 f. 47r

      Copy, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, headed to a lady resembleing my Mrs on one side of a single quarto leaf.

      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')
    • HoJ 164 f. 50r

      Copy, in a cursive italic hands, on one side of a quarto leaf.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).

      John Hoskyns, Epitaph On Sr Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning ('If Any aske, who here doth lye')
    • PeW 36 f. 52v

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Verses Made by the Earle of Pembrooke, with other verses on a folio leaf.

      This MS collated 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 106 f. 52v

      This MS collated in Krueger.

      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'
    • CwT 979 f. 53r

      Copy, in an italic hand, headed Of the springe, on one page of a pair of once conjugate folio leaves of verse.

      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')
    • GrJ 93 f. 53v

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on one page of a pair of once conjugate folio leaves of verse.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in Poems (1660), pp. 55-6, superscribed R.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'Why do we love these things which we call Women'
    • PeW 57 f. 54r

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on one page of a pair of once conjugate folio leaves of verse.

      This MS collated in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), p. 28, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 29, among Pembroke's Poems.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'Muse get thee to a Cell; and wont to sing'
    • RaW 512 f. 54r-v

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse.

      This MS 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'
    • PeW 98 f. 54v

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on one page of a pair of once conjugate folio leaves of verse, imperfect, lacking the ending.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 36-7, superscribed P. Krueger, pp. 30-1, among Pembroke's Poems.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, That he will still persevere in his Love ('Nay, I must love thee still')
    • DnJ 2248 f. 55r

      Copy of lines 1-22, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

      John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love')
    • DeJ 57 f. 56r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, addressed pn the fourt page To the right hoble. the Lord Conway, and folded, sealed and sent as a letter.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 111-12.

      Sir John Denham, On Mr. Tho. Killigrew's Return from his Embassie from Venice, and Mr. William Murray's from Scotland ('Our Resident Tom, From Venice is come')
    • CwT 478 f. 61r-v

      Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      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')
    • WoH 84 f. 62v

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed Vpon the Queene of Bohemia, one one page of three folio leaves of verse.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • CwT 1126 ff. 63v, 64v

      Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed [ ] Entertainement [ ] am written by T:C: on two pages of three folio leaves of verse, imperfect at the top.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

      Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
    • BmF 33 ff. 65r-6r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed An Elegie on the Death of the Countess of Rutland, subscribed F. B., on two folio leaves, imperfect.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep')
    • BmF 61 f. 66v

      Copy of lines 1-36, headed An Eligie on the Death of the Lady Marcum, imperfect, lacking the ending.

      First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

      Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham ('As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds')
    • BeJ 40 ff. 67r-8r

      Copy, in the italic hand of Sir Henry Goodyer's, subscribed J B, endorsed An Elegye of my La Clifton, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in Sell.

      First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 154-6.

      Sir John Beaumont, To the immortall memory of the fairest and most vertuous Lady, the Lady Clifton ('Her tongue hath ceast to speake, which might make dumbe')
    • DnJ 1426 ff. 76r, 77r

      Copy, untitled, on two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

      This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

      John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ('Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this')
    • *JnB 512 f. 87r
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy, untitled, on the first page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in Epigrammes (xci) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 58.

      Ben Jonson, To Sir Horace Vere ('Which of thy names I take, not onely beares')
    • WrM 6 ff. 91r-2v

      Copy of an early version, apparently in the hand of George Garrard, headed Penshurst Mount.

      This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 153.

      First published in The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (London, 1621). The First Part of the Countesse of Montgomeries Urania, ed. Josephine A. Roberts (Binghamton, NY, 1995), pp. 133-4. Roberts, Poems, [U9] (pp. 151-3). Pritchard, pp. 135-7.

      Lady Mary Wroth, 'Sweete solitarines, joy to those hearts'
    • DnJ 2841 f. 95r-v

      Copy of lines 203-44, here beginning ffeathers and dust, wherewth they fornicate, in the same accomplished roman hand as DnJ 2818, on two pages of a quarto booklet of five remaining leaves, imperfect, lacking lines 1-202.

      This MS recorded in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

      John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
    • DnJ 2873 ff. 96r-8r

      Copy, in the same accomplished roman hand as DnJ 2852, on five pages of a quarto booklet of five remaining leaves.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

      John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
    • DrW 117.2 ff. 99r-100r

      Copy, in a hand similar to that of Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

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

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')
    • RaW 317 f. 107r

      Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, untitled, on one side of a quarto-size leaf.

      Printed from this MS in Latham.

      First published in Latham (1929), p. 102. Latham (1951), p. 49. Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne ('Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace')
    • SuJ 42 f. 126r-v

      Copy of an untitled six-stanza version, in an italic hand, on both sides of a single quarto leaf.

      This MS collated and the last two stanzas edited in Clayton.

      First published, as Song, in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 50-1.

      John Suckling, Love's Sanctuary ('The crafty Boy that had full oft assay'd')
    • DnJ 3154 f. 132r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled, on one side of a folio leaf of verse.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 317. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 161.

      John Donne, To E. of D. with six holy Sonnets ('See Sir, how as the Suns hot Masculine flame')
    • DnJ 3368 f. 132r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare')
    • DnJ 3348 f. 132r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('At once, from hence, my lines and I depart')
    • DnJ 3269 f. 132v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

      First published in Gosse (1899), I, 318. Grierson, I, 207. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 118.

      John Donne, To Mr R.W. ('Zealously my Muse doth salute all thee')
    • DnJ 3267 f. 132v

      Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin R W.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

      First published in Grierson (1912), I, 207-8. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 119.

      John Donne, To Mr R.W. ('Mvse not that by thy mind thy body is led')
    • DnJ 3236 f. 132v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.

      John Donne, To Mr C.B. ('Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine')

  • Add. MS 23722

    A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, 79 leaves (plus an index), in modern black leather gilt.

    Including eleven poems in the Marvell canon (plus further apocryphal poems).

    c.1680.

    Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 9 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 389. Purchased from Boone, 9 June 1860.

    Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Turner MS: MaA Δ 4. The Marvell poems recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

    • MaA 234 f. 2r-v

      Copy, headed Vpon Sr Robt Viners setting up the Kings Statue in Woolchurch Markett.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')
    • MaA 163.6 ff. 5r-10v

      Copy.

      A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

      Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')
    • MaA 437 ff. 11r-12v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')
    • MaA 478 f. 13r-v

      Copy, headed A new Advice to ye Painter and the poem dated in different ink 1674.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

      Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter ('Painter once more thy Pencell reassume')
    • MaA 281 f. 15v

      Copy, headed On Clarendons Grandchildren.

      This MS recorded in Margoliouth.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children ('Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post')
    • RoJ 347 f. 16r-v

      Copy, headed By ye Lord Rochester 1675.

      This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
    • RoJ 104.9 f. 17r-19v

      Copy.

      See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')
    • MaA 139.4 ff. 20r-2v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Mengel.

      First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

      First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

      Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue ('When Hodge had number'd up how many score')
    • DoC 40 ff. 23v-5v

      Copy, the poem dated 1679.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
    • MaA 142 ff. 29r-31v

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')
    • MaA 101 ff. 34r-7r

      Copy, headed A Dialogue between Britannia & Sr Walter Rawleigh.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

      Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')
    • MaA 316 ff. 37v-41v

      Copy, the poem here dated 1665.

      This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

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

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

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight')
    • MaA 362 ff. 42r-8v, 55v

      Copy, the poem dated 1666, separated from the envoy To the King (f. 55v), which is inscribed as belonging to ye 3d advice and placd page 96.

      This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love')
    • MaA 84.7 f. 49r-v

      Copy.

      Sometimes called Upon the cutting of Sr John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from Marvell's writing). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors ('I sing a woeful ditty')
    • RoJ 10 f. 51v

      Copy, headed By ye E. of Rochester.

      Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Marriage ('Out of mere love and arrant devotion')
    • RoJ 62 f. 52r-v

      Copy, the poem here dated 1675.

      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')
    • MaA 390 ff. 56r-8r

      Copy, the poem here dated 1668.

      This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')
    • MaA 424 ff. 58v-9r

      This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter ('Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?')
    • MaA 127 ff. 60r-2r

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

      Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand')
    • DrJ 43.73 ff. 66r-70r

      Copy, the poem dated 1679.

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

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

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

      John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
    • DoC 226 f. 77v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')

  • Add. MS 24652

    A formal presentation copy, for a member of the Heneage family, 239 folio leaves, in modern leather gilt.

    In the accomplished italic and secretary scripts of one or possibly two of Howard's principal amanuenses, with a formal title-page (f. 2r) including an autograph quotation in Latin by Howard from Daniel 13.57, twelve lines of autograph Latin verse by him, followed by illuminated arms of the Heneage family, subscribed by ten more autograph lines of Latin verse signed Tibi in perpetuum / Leuinctissimus / H. Hwward (f. 2v), a Dedication To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie in italic script (ff. 3r-29r), subscribed by Howard (f. 29r) Your Maiesties most loyall / and humble subiecte till / death / H: Hwward, the main text then in secretary script, after an unnumbered blank leaf, on ff. 30r-238r, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 132v) and third book (f. 162r), and with some of the sidenotes also in Howard's hand.

    Late 16th century.

    Scribbled names on f. 1*v of henry Dull and John Poole. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 17 May 1862.

    • *HoH 72
      Autograph
      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 24706

    A composite volume of verse collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave.

    Mid-17th century.
    • CoR 738 f. 110r-v

      Copy, headed A mess of non-sence, and here beginning Like to the tone...

      First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

      Richard Corbett, Nonsence ('Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches')

  • Add. MS 24844

    A small quarto volume of legal documents and precedents.

    Early-mid-16th century.
    • HyJ 22.5 ff. 38v-9r

      A contemporary copy of the grant to Heywood of Haydon Manor in 1521.

      Edited in Robert W. Bolwell, The Life and Works of John Heywood (New York, 1921), p. 159.

      John Heywood, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 24863

    A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary speeches 1640-c.1660, in various hands, 91 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

    • RuB 144 ff. 8r-9r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Sr Beniamin Ruddiers speech in Parliamt anno 1640, 7 Nov added later in pencil, on 3 pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1640s.

      Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
    • ClJ 21 f. 86r-v

      Copy, in a neat mixed hand, headed A Dialogue betwixt two Zelotts Concerning &c. in the new Oath, on two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

      John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')

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