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The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999

  • Add. MS 45143

    A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary papers, in three professional secretary hands, 32 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern quarter-vellum.

    Volume IV of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat.

    Evans, 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 287. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector.

    • RaW 627 ff. 10r-15r

      Copy, headed A politique dispute about ye happiest match for ye Noble prince Charles, subscribed W Rawley. c.1620s-30s.

      A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

  • Add. MS 45144

    A folio volume comprising The Severall Opinions of Sundrie Antiquaries, members of the Society of Antiquaries, concerning Parliament, in a single professional secretary hand, iii + 32 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum.

    Volume V of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat.

    Early 17th century.

    Evans (i.e. Sotheby's), 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 22282. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector.

    • CmW 74 ff. 21v-4r

      Copy.

      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
    • CtR 68 ff. 27r-8v

      Copy.

      A tract beginning As touching the nature of the Right Courte of Parliament, It is nothing else but the Kinges greate councell.... Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitie of Parliaments
    • CtR 335 ff. 29r-32r

      Copy.

      A tract beginning That we nowe agreeinge wth the Scottes doe name a Parliament.... Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Other Descriptions and occurrences of the Parliament

  • Add. MS 45145

    Copy of Bacon's speech on becoming Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Lord Chancellor's Speech, i + 17 folio leaves, in modern quarter-vellum.

    Volume VI of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Evans (i.e. Sotheby's), 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 22283. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector

    sale details correct?

    • BcF 336
      No description or publication history available.
      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • Add. MS 45580

    A quarto miscellany of lyrics of chiefly naval songs, compiled by Richard Blechynden (d.1822), Surveyor to of the East India Company, Calcutta, 60 leaves.

    1781.
    • DoC 25.5 ff. 27v-8v

      Copy.

      First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea ('To all you ladies now at land')

  • Add. MS 45718

    Autograph volume, in Freke's italic hand, written from both ends, inscribed (p. 11) Elizabeth Frek her book Given mee by my Cosen Sep: 1684, vi + 245 folio leaves, formerly in contemporary vellum boards, now in modern quarter red morocco.

    Entitled (f. 46v) Some Few Remembrances of my misfortuns [that] haue Attended me In my unhappy life since I were marryed: wch was November the 14: 1671, covering events from 1671 to 1713/14, including (ff. 3v-34v, 245v-121r rev.) numerous medical and culinary prescriptions and receipts, as well as miscellaneous memoranda, rental accounts, speeches, etc., some relating to 1658.

    c.1684-1714.

    Freke Papers Vol. I. Acquired from Edmund Kent, of East Winch Hall, Lynn, Norfolk. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

    Edited partly from this MS by editors. Facsimiles, with transcriptions, of pp. 120 and 121 in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 288-91.

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

      Published as Mrs. Elizabeth Freke her Diary 1671 to 1714, ed. Mary Carbery (Cork, 1913), and as The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714, ed. Raymond A. Anselment, Camden Society 5th Ser. 18 (Cambridge, 2001). Also discussed by Anselment in Elizabeth Freke's Remembrances: Reconstructing a Self, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 16/1 (Spring 1997), 57-75.

      Elizabeth Freke, The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke

  • Add. MS 45719

    Autograph volume, closely written in Freke's italic hand, comprising (ff. 3v-26r) a revised version of her Remembrances up to 5 May 1713, together with miscellaneous memoranda, rental accounts, receipts, etc., including (ff. 43v-6r) decrees of Chancery in 1655 and (f. 46r-v) an agreement dated 2 October 1656 Transcribed by mee Elizabeth Freke: 1712: out of the orginall Book of Pentney Sept 20:, ii + 53 tall folio leaves, in modern quarter red morocco.

    c.1684-1713.

    Freke Papers Vol. II. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

    Edited partly from this MS by editors.

    • *FrE 2
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Published as Mrs. Elizabeth Freke her Diary 1671 to 1714, ed. Mary Carbery (Cork, 1913), and as The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714, ed. Raymond A. Anselment, Camden Society 5th Ser. 18 (Cambridge, 2001). Also discussed by Anselment in Elizabeth Freke's Remembrances: Reconstructing a Self, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 16/1 (Spring 1997), 57-75.

      Elizabeth Freke, The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke

  • Add. MS 45720

    A quarto notebook, in a single hand, i + 349 leaves, in contemporary calf within modern quarter vellum.

    c.1669.

    Freke Papers Vol. III. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

    • *FrE 5 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      A notebook in Elizabeth Freke's italic hand throughout, comprising two sets of geographical and historical notes, the second (ff. 201v-339v) A Catalogue of the dukes, Marqueses, and Earls, that haue bin since the Conquest, and first with Arundell, based on Ralph Brooke's Catalogue and Succession (London, 1619).

      Elizabeth Freke, Notebook
    • CmW 13.143 ff. 1r-200r

      Extensive extracts and abridgement by Elizabeth Freke, headed A Catalogue of of [sic] the Shires and their Cheife places in them of England; and First I will begin with Cornwall as being the furthest place or parts in the West and soe pass over the other Countries, In ordor Imitateing strabo ptolomy and the most antient Geagraphers who allways begin their first from the first Meridian. Taken out of Camdens Britiania.

      First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

      William Camden, Britannia

  • Add. MS 45721A

    Autograph memorandum, in Elizabeth Freke's italic hand (on ff. 1r-v, 2v), endorsed The Peculler of my Estate In West Bilney Church from King Edward the sixth Time his 2d Year of his Reigne 1547: May the 27: to this presentt yeare 1714: Novem: 29 took outt of the original by me, Eliz. Freke, together with (ff. 3r-7r) three letters to her, dated 12 April 1697, 29 November 1709, and 5 June 1710, and (ff. 8r-24r) papers, notes and illustrations relating to Freke collected by Mary, Lady Carbery, c.1901-17, in a tall folio guardbook in modern quarter-vellum.

    1714.

    Freke Papers Vol. IV. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

    • *FrE 4
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Elizabeth Freke, Memorandum

  • Add. MS 45721B

    A printed genealogy of the Freke family for near 200 years, first begun by Ralph Freke, of Hannington...reduced to this form by William Freke, of Hinton St. Mary, in the County of Dorset, Barrister of the Middle Temple, London, July ye 14th 1707, printed in 1825b by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector, with MS additions principally by Mary, Lady Carbery, including a note that the pedigree was apparently taken from a MS. book of Freke genealogies now in the possession of Mr. W[illiam] A[ubrey] Willes, of Astrop [d.1924], to whom it came by descent, 12 leaves, in a tall folio guardbook in modern quarter-vellum.

    1825-1900s.

    Freke Papers Vol. V. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

    • FrE 3
      No description or publication history available.
      Elizabeth Freke, Genealogy

  • Add. MS 45965

    Diary of the Rev. Oliver Heywood (1630-1702), Presbyterian minister of Coley Chapel, Halifax, Yorkshire, i + 143 duodecimo leaves.

    1665-73.

    Edited in The Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A. 1630-1702; His Autobiography, Diaries, Anecdotes and Event Books, ed. J. Horsfall Turner, 4 vols (Brighouse, 1881-5).

    • HrG 53.5 ff. 71r-2r

      Eighty-four lines of extracts, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 32-4.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

      George Herbert, The Church-porch ('Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance')
    • HrG 14.6 f. 72r

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

      George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram ('How well her name an Army doth present')
    • HrG 222.8 f. 72v

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 34.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 40.

      George Herbert, Redemption ('Having been tenant long to a rich Lord')
    • HrG 92.8 f. 72v

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 35.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 41-2.

      George Herbert, Easter ('Rise heart. thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise')
    • HrG 17.5 f. 73r

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 36.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 53.

      George Herbert, Antiphon (I) ('Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing')
    • HrG 130.8 f. 73r

      Copy of lines 25-40, here beginning give me my captive soul, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 36.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 52-3.

      George Herbert, The H. Communion ('Not in rich furniture, or fine aray')
    • HrG 209.8 f. 73r

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 35.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 51.

      George Herbert, Prayer (I) ('Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age')
    • HrG 2.5 f. 73r

      Copy of lines 65-6, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 46-8.

      George Herbert, Affliction (I) ('When first thou didst entice to thee my heart')
    • HrG 257.8 ff. 73v-4r

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 37.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 55.

      George Herbert, The Temper (I) ('How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rymes')
    • HrG 122.8 f. 74r

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 37-8.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 60-1.

      George Herbert, Grace ('My stock lies dead, and no increase')
    • HrG 42.5 f. 74v

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 38-9.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 66-7.

      George Herbert, The Church-floore ('Mark you the floore? that square & speckled stone')
    • HrG 219.5 f. 74v

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 39.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 69-70.

      George Herbert, The Quidditie ('My God, a verse is not a crown')
    • HrG 145.6 f. 75r

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 39-40.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 70-1.

      George Herbert, Humilitie ('I saw the Vertues sitting hand in hand')
    • HrG 158.5 f. 75v

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 41.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 95-6.

      George Herbert, Justice (I) ('I cannot skill of these thy wayes')
    • HrG 288.8 f. 75v

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 40.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 84.

      George Herbert, The World ('Love built a stately house. where Fortune came')
    • HrG 36.8 f. 76r

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 41.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 96-7.

      George Herbert, Charms and Knots ('Who reade a chapter when they rise')
    • HrG 140.8 ff. 76r-7r

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 42-3.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 107-9.

      George Herbert, Home ('Come Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick')
    • HrG 173.8 f. 77r

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 44.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 116.

      George Herbert, Love-joy ('As on a window late I cast mine eye')
    • HrG 148.8 f. 77r

      Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 43-4.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.

      George Herbert, Jesu ('Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name')
    • HrG 215.8 f. 77r

      Copy of lines 125-8, beginning Sometimes thou dost divide thy gifts to man, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

      Turner, III, 44.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 116-21.

      George Herbert, Providence ('O sacred Providence, who from end to end')
    • MaA 448.3 f. 77v

      Copy of the envoy To the King, beginning Great Charles who ful of mercy wouldst command, subscribed this was put into the kings private closet at the keyhole about Nov 29 1673.

      Turner, III, 44-5.

      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')

  • Add. MS 46172

    A large guardbook of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 195 leaves.

    • *HuL 10 ff. 93r-6v
      Autograph

      Four quarto leaves detached from an autograph manuscript of the Memoirs, here beginning hour he told him he came to take possession of the house....

      Given by Mrs Anne. D.B. Montagu, in 1854, to Dinah Maria Mulock (later Craik) (1826-87), novelist. Afterwards in the collection of Alan Park Paton (d.1905). Formerly National Library of Scotland, MS 3218, ff. 78-81).

      First published, edited by Julius Hutchinson, London, 1806. Edited by James Sutherland (London, New York & Toronto, 1973). See also David Norbrook, But a Copie: Textual Authority and Gender in Editions of The Life of John Hutchinson, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 109-30.

      Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

  • Add. MS 46366

    Volume I of the Harington Papers, i + 126 leaves (including blanks), in modern calf gilt, Prose N° I stamped on the spine.

    Late 16th century.
    • HrJ 340 The MS as a whole

      A folio volume of state tracts and papers, chiefly relating to Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, in two or three secretary hands.

      This MS briefly discussed by Hughey in The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 399-400 et passim, and in McClure, p. 11 (n).

      Sir John Harington, Miscellany
    • SiP 191 ff. 100r-6r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

      Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 276 (No. 10), with a facsimile of f. 100r on p. 123.

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

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

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

  • Add. MS 46367

    A MS volume owned by Sir John Harington (and probably also by his father), comprising letters chiefly by Sir John Cheke (1514-57), with some by Sir Christopher Hatton and others, and extracts from Seneca's Epistles, written mainly in three scribal hands, with some additional matter probably in later hands, including a Dialogue of Plato, Prose N° II stamped on the spine, imperfect, now comprising 140 leaves (some original leaves probably extracted by the printers of Nugae Antiquae).

    Volume II of the Harington Papers.

    Late 16th century.

    Portions printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae. This MS briefly discussed by Hughey in The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 399-401 et passim.

  • Add. MS 46368

    A quarto MS, largely autograph, with deletions and revisions, some pages in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe and at least one addition in the hand of Harington's brother Francis, being the printer's copy for the first edition, i + 60 leaves, imperfect, in 19th-century half calf.

    Volume III of the Harington Papers.

    1596.

    Inscribed (f. 60v) Ric Bancroft.

    This MS collated in Donno. Described in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (pp. 403-4).

    • *HrJ 317
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).

      Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax

  • Add. MS 46369

    A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers largely relating to Ireland, in several hands, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Volume IV of the Harington Papers.

    c.1599-1609.
    • *HrJ 342 The volume as a whole
      Autograph

      A notebook, chiefly in the hands of amanuenses, partly in Harington's hand, entitled on the cover Sr John Harringtons own MSS relating to the war in Ireland 1599; containing copies of state letters and documents relating to Ireland in 1597-1600 and reports of events at that time; including (f. 20r) a copy of letters of Captain MacDermon to the Constable of Boyle, 15 August 1599, in Harington's hand; (ff. 21r-3r) a Report on my Jorney into the North to Justice Cary. In Ierland in Harington's hand); and (ff. 41r-3v) The chiefe causes of the wante of reformation of Irelande.

      Some texts in this MS (notably the Report…to Justice Cary and Harington's letters) edited in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae.

      Sir John Harington, Miscellany
    • *HrJ 315.5 ff. 7r-18r
      Autograph

      Copy, with sidenotes throughout in Harington's hand.

      Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 7r, in Miller.

      An account of the Irish expedition of the Earl of Essex, different from the Report concerning…Essex's Journeys attributed (probably incorrectly) to Harington in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 268-93: see Timothy G. A. Nelson, Sir John Harington — A Mistaken Attribution, N&Q, 214 (December 1969), 457. The Journal here is edited in R. H. Miller, An Unpublished journal of Essex's Munster Campaign of 1599, ELR, 10 (1980), 96-119.

      Sir John Harington, A Journal of my lords Jorney, beginning the 9. of May. 1599
    • HrJ 4 ff. 18v-9v

      Copy of Harington's translation of Psalms 42 and 50.

      Harington's complete Psalter, intended for publication just before his death, but unpublished.

      Sir John Harington, Metrical Paraphrases of the Psalms ('Right happie hee that neither walked hath')
    • HrJ 354 ff. 21r-3r

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to Justice Cary, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, headed Report of my Jorney into the North to Justic Cary. In Ierland, [October 1599].

      McClure, No. 10, pp. 76-9, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • HrJ 353 ff. 45r-8v

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to Thomas Combe, [from Ireland, 24/31 August 1599].

      McClure, No. 9, pp. 71-6, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • HrJ 352 f. 49r-v

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir Anthony Standen, [from Athlone, 7 Augu st1599], in a secretary hand.

      McClure, No. 8, pp. 68-70, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • HrJ 355 f. 51v

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir Anthony Standen, [from Kelston, 20 February 1599/1600], in a secretary hand.

      McClure, No. 11, pp. 79-80, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 46370

    Copy of an early version, in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, with some italic headings in Harington's hand, a tipped-in leaf at the end in another hand, untitled, ii + 62 quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking various leaves.

    Volume V of the Harington Papers.

    1607-8.

    This MS discussed in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to the Yeare 1608: Composition and Text, SB, 30 (1977), 145-61. Facsimile example in R.H. Miller, Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 105).

    • *HrJ 329
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England, edited by John Chetwind (London, 1653). Edited by R.H. Miller (Potomac, 1979).

      Sir John Harington, A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to ye Yeare 1608

  • Add. MS 46371

    An octavo volume, comprising two tracts by Sir John Harington, iii + 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Volume VI of the Harington Papers.

    c.1597-1600s.
    • HrJ 336 ff. 1r-30r

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, headed Of Play.

      Edited probably from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1775). Briefly described in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (p. 402).

      First published (from this MS) in Nugae Antiquae, (1775), pp. 3-38. Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 186-232.

      Sir John Harington, A Treatise on Playe
    • HrJ 315 ff. 31r-45v

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis.

      Edited probably from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1775). Briefly described in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (p. 402).

      First published in Nugae Antiquae (1775), pp. 39-56. Nugae Antiguae (1804), II, 281-304.

      Sir John Harington, A Discowrse shewing that Elyas must personally come before the Day of Judgment

  • Add. MS 46372

    Copy of Psalms 1-6, 8-148, chiefly in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, with corrections and annotations in Harington's hand, untitled, imperfect.

    Volume VII of the Harington Papers.

    Late 16th century.

    With additional notes by John Harington, MP (d.1654).

    This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 551-2.

    • SiP 76
      No description or publication history available.

      Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

  • Add. MS 46373A

    A folio volume of transcripts of documents relating to lands formerly belonging to Sir James Harington of Brierley from the time of their forfeiture in 1485 until the grant of their reversion to John Harington of Stepney in 1570, compiled by Sir John Harington of Kelston apparently for Sir Henry Hobart and inscribed The booke of Haryngtons Lands for Sr Henry Hubbert [his] Maties attorney general, chiefly in the hands of amanuenses, with Harington's autograph annotations and with some pages or substantial additions in his hand (notably ff. 25r, 26v, 33r, 35v-6r, 37v-8r), 44 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Volume VIII of the Harington Papers.

    c.1606-12.
    • *HrJ 343
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Miscellany

  • Add. MS 46373B

    A folio composite volume of chiefly 17th-century papers, both MSS and printed, relating to the Harington family, 40 leaves.

    Volume IX of the Harington Papers.

    • *HrJ 414 f. 1r
      Autograph

      Autograph pedigree of the Harington family from the 13th to 16th century by Sir John Harington.

      Sir John Harington, Document(s)
    • HrJ 416 f. 2r

      An abstract of Sir John Harington's claim to lands formerly owned by Sir James Harington of Brierley.

      Sir John Harington, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 46382A

    A folio composite volume of papers of Henry Harington (1727-1816), composer and physician, 75 leaves.

    Volume XX of the Harington Papers.

    • HrJ 398 ff. 1r-2v

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to Prince Henry, [from Kelston, 14 June 1608].

      McClure, No. 52, pp. 132-4, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 46382B

    A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous papers of the Harington family, 15 + 24 leaves.

    18th-19th century.
    • HrJ 359 f. 3v

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [1600].

      McClure, No. 14, p. 84, edited from a family transcript.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • HrJ 360 f. 4r

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir John Stanhope, [20 November 1600].

      McClure, No. 15, pp. 84-5, edited from a family transcript.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • HrJ 361 f. 4r

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified lady, [8 December 1600].

      McClure, No. 16, p. 85, edited probably from this family transcript.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • HrJ 362 f. 4r-v

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [1600].

      McClure, No. 17, p. 85, edited from a family transcript.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • HrJ 402 f. 12r

      Copy of part of Harington's letter to Prince Henry, [1609], in a neat 18th-century hand, on a broadsheet.

      McClure, No. 54, pp. 135-7, edited in full from Nugæ Antiquæ.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
    • HrJ 263.5 f. 12r

      Quoted in the copy of Harington's letter to Prince Henry (HrJ 402).

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

      Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')
    • HrJ 369.5 f. 13r

      Copy of a letter by Harington, to his wife Lady Mary Harington, [7/27 December 1602], here dated Decembr 20th 1602, in a neat 18th-century hand, on a single broadsheet.

      McClure, No. 27, pp. 96-100, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 46410

    A large folio composite volume of papers chiefly relating to the Court of Chancery, in various professional secretary hands and paper sizes, ix + 355 leaves, once in a recycled ?15th-century vellum document, now in modern half red morocco.

    Formerly MS Claudius B. 8 in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, first Baronet (1571-1631), antiquary and politician, and his signature (Robertus Cotton Bruceus) on f. 3r. Inscribed (f. iiv), by Mr Deaues (?Charles Deaves of Lincoln's Inn) This Book must be delivered to Mr. Mitford. Bookplate and note of John Freeman-Mitford (1748-1830), first Baron Redesdale, Lord Chancellor or Ireland and Speaker of the House of Commons. Also annotated by Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Sotheby's, 28 July 1947, lot 177.

    • BcF 239.5 ff. 279r-87r

      Copy of 101 ordinances, as made by Frauncis lord Verulam lord high Chancellor of England...1616. c.1620s-30s.

      First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

      Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

  • Add. MS 47111

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

    c.1646-9.
    • MoG 61 f. 4r-v

      Copy, headed On a Nightingall whose singinge rauished A gentleman from his rest.

      George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
    • StW 48 f. 4r-v

      Copy, headed In praise of gray eyes.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

      William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies ('Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night')
    • CoR 442 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy, headed Dr Corbet on the second castinge of the great bell at Christchurch caled great Tom.

      First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).

      Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
    • RnT 507 f. 6r-v

      Copy.

      First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

      The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
    • WoH 87 f. 7r-v

      Copy of a six-stanza version, headed Sr H. Wootton on the Lady crownd Q of Bohemia and here beginning Yee glorious trifles of the East. A Latin version appears on f. 24v.

      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')
    • LoR 34 ff. 7v-8r

      Copy, headed Captaine Louelace in prison to his Althea.

      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')
    • BrW 158 f. 10v

      Copy, headed On A woman lost in the snow.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
    • DrM 59 f. 11r

      Copy, headed On Tantalized by his Mris..

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

      Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')
    • B&F 127 f. 11r-v

      Copy, headed On Malancholy, omitting the first stanza and here beginning Welcom folded armes and fixed eye.

      Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

      For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
    • RnT 492 f. 11v

      Copy.

      Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

      Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton ('Do pious marble let thy readers know')
    • DkT 14 ff. 11v-12r

      Copy, headed On Queene Eliz..

      First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

      Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall ('The Queene was brought by water to White Hall')
    • CwT 668 f. 12r

      Copy, headed The worldly felicity.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.

      Thomas Carew, The second Rapture ('No worldling, no, tis not thy gold')
    • PoW 86 f. 12r-v

      Copy, here beginning Can Christendoms great monarch sink away.

      First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.

      Walton Poole, On the death of King James ('Can Christendoms great champion sink away')
    • StW 792 f. 12v

      Copy, headed On Cloris.

      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')
    • DaW 15 f. 15r

      Copy, headed On Endimion Porters wife.

      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')
    • ClJ 51 ff. 15v-16r

      Copy, headed A rapture on his mistris and here beginning Be dum be ye beggars of the riminge trade, incomplete.

      First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 50-3.

      John Cleveland, The Hecatomb to his Mistresse ('Be dumb ye beggers of the rhiming trade')
    • ClJ 147 f. 16r-v

      Copy, headed Sonnet, incomplete.

      First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 1-2.

      John Cleveland, Upon the death of M. King drowned in the Irish Seas ('I like not tears in tune; nor will I prise')
    • PeW 91 f. 17v

      Copy.

      Poems (1660), pp. 38-9, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 32, among Pembroke's Poems. Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in G.C. Moore Smith, Thomas Randolph (Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 18 May 1927), Proceedings of the British Academy, 13 (1927), 79-121 (pp. 115-16).

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet ('Dear leave thy home and come with me')
    • ShJ 54.5 f. 21r

      Copy, headed To her absent childe sicke of the Smalpox.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 12.

      James Shirley, A Mother hearing her child was sick of the Small-Poxe ('What hath my pretty child misdone?')
    • PeW 289 f. 21r-v

      Copy, headed Sonnet.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), p. 75, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Henry Reynolds.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet ('So glides a long the wanton Brook')
    • KiH 550 f. 21v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
    • SuJ 58 f. 22r

      Copy, headed Sonnet, subscribed Sr. P.S..

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.

      John Suckling, Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?')
    • KiH 142.8 f. 23r-v

      Copy, headed On the fragility of man, subscribed D. H. K.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 177-8.

      Henry King, The Dirge ('What is th' Existence of Man's Life?')
    • KiH 597 ff. 23v-4r

      Copy, headed The despayringe louer.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
    • HeR 290.5 f. 25r

      Copy, headed Sonet.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 10-11. Patrick, p. 18.

      Robert Herrick, The Wounded Heart ('Come bring your sampler, and with Art')
    • KiH 317 ff. 25v-6v

      Copy, headed On A prison.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

      Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison ('A Prison is in all things like a Grave')
    • CoR 265 f. 27r

      Copy, headed On the Anauersy of Mr Price who writt on the death of Prince Henery D:C..

      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')
    • CaW 97 f. 44r

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      Henry Lawes's musical setting of the first six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.

      William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song ('Come from a Dungeon to the Throne')
    • CoA 3 ff. 68r-9r

      Copy of the two poems, headed respectively Hope. Nichols Trin. Coll. and Answer. Crashaw. Pe. house Camb..

      A pair of poems comprising Against Hope by Cowley and the answer For Hope (Dear hope! earth's dowry, & heaun's debt!) by Richard Crashaw, both first published as On Hope, By way of Question and Answer, betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw in Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Published separately as Hope and M. Crashaws Answer For Hope in Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). The Poems…of Richard Crashaw, ed. L. C. Martin, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1957), pp. 143-5 and 344-6.

      Cowley's poem only also published separately in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 109-10. Sparrow, pp. 107-8. Collected Works, II, No. 3, pp. 23-5. See also Clarence H. Miller, The Order of Stanzas in Cowley and Crashaw's On Hope, SP, 61 (1964), 64-73.

      Abraham Cowley, Against Hope ('Hope, whose weak Being ruin'd is')

  • Add. MS 47112

    An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in two italic hands, i + 12 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    Compiled (ff. 1r-8r) by Sir Philip Perceval, second Baronet (1656-80), and (ff. 8r-12r) by Sir John Perceval, third Baronet (1660-86). Volume CXCIII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

    c.1670s.
    • BrW 199 f. 8r

      Copy in the hand of Sir John Perceval, third Baronet, headed A Ladyes Epitaph ex libris Miscelan. Fratris.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')

  • Add. MS 47128

    A folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, partly under headings, labelled on the spine Adversaria, in at least three hands, one predominating, with (ff. 178r-86v) an index, 186 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

    Compiled by John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont, politician. Volume CCIX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

    c.1730.
    • MaA 264 f. 132v

      Copy, headed in the margin On Bloods stealing the Crown.

      First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

      This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
    • DoC 187.5 f. 133r

      Copy, headed in the margin Dorcester Countess of (Sidley).

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) ('Proud with the spoils of royal cully')
    • DoC 217.5 f. 135r

      Copy, headed in the margin On James the Second.

      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')
    • BrW 198.5 f. 136v

      Copy of lines 1-6, headed in the margin Sidney C. of Pembroke her Epitaph.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
    • DoC 198.5 f. 147r

      Copy, headed in the margin On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to k. James the 2. by the E. of Dorset 1680.

      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')

  • Add. MS 47177

    A tall folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical papers, largely in one small secretary hand, ii + 196 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

    Compiled by Nicholas Charles (1582-1613), Lancaster Herald.

    Charles's papers were purchased after his death by William Camden. They include two other of Charles's heraldic and genealogical collections: a quarto volume of 36 leaves (British Library, Add. MS 47178) and a folio volume of 135 leaves (British Library, Add. MS 47179). The three volumes constitute Volumes CCLVIII-CCLX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

    • *CmW 143 passim
      Autograph

      Various autograph notes and drafts by Camden, including entries on ff. 54r, 61r, 64v, 66v (on the dukedom of Buckingham), and 77r.

      William Camden, Collectanea

  • Add. MS 47354

    Autograph signature, on an indenture appointing Isaac Hunt his attorney for the sale of land in Bethersden and Halden to Richard Hulse, 20 March 1642/3.

    1643.

    Discussed, with a facsimile of the signature, in James Roberts Brown, Richard Lovelace and Bethersden, Archæologia Cantiana, 23 (1898), 337-8. Recorded in Wilkinson (1925), I, xviii, and (1930), p. xix.

    • *LoR 54
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Richard Lovelace, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 48020

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, x + 363 leaves, in contemporary vellum with ties.

    Late 16th century.

    Yelverton MS 21, among the papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council, descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 40.

    • WyT 443 ff. 131r-3v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A declaracon made by Sr Thomas Wiatt knight of his Innocencye beinge in the Tower vpon the accusacon of Doctor Bonarde Byshopp of London made vnto the Councell the yere of or Lorde, undated.

      This MS collated in The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, ed. George F. Nott, 2 vols (London, 1815-16).

      Wyatt's declation to the Privy Council while in the Tower after his indictment in early 1541. First published by Horace Walpole in Miscellaneous Antiquities (1772), II, 21-54. Muir, pp. 178-84.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, Wyatt's Declaration of Innocence
    • WyT 445 ff. 134r-43v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed To the Judges after the Indictement and the evidence.

      Wyatt's speech composed for his defence c.January-March 1540/1. Muir, pp. 187-209.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, Wyatt's Defence

  • Add. MS 48023

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, some relating to Thomas Norton, in various hands, iv + 390 leaves.

    Yelverton MS 26, among the papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council, descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    • SaT 2.5 f. 359v

      An anonymous courtier's eyewitness report of the first performance of Gorboduc at the Inner Temple, Christmas 1561/62, in a secretary hand, among a series of memoranda on events between 1548 and 1562.

      This MS edited and discussed, with a facsimile (location erroneously cited as Add. MS 40823), in Norman Jones and Paul Whitfield White, Gorboduc and Royal Marriage Politics: An Elizabethan Playgoers's Report of the Premiere Performance, ELR, 26/1 (Winter 1996), 3-16, and see also Henry James and Greg Walker, The Politics of Gorboduc, EHR, 110 (1995), 109-21.

      First published in London, 1565. Edited by Irby B. Cauthen, Jr (University of Nebraska Press, 1970).

      Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex

  • Add. MS 48027

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, many relating to Mary Queen of Scots, some concerning the proposed Anjou marriage, in various hands and paper sizes, 711 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with ties.

    Collected and annotated by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council. Including (ff. 152r-95v) a printed exemplum of Stubbs's banned tract A Gaping Gulf (1579).

    c.1580s-90s.

    Yelverton MS 31, among Beale's papers descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 41.

    • HoH 19 ff. 197r-215r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, inscribed by Beale An answer made to Mr Stubbes his booke, by the l. Henry Howard as it was thought or by Francis Throgmorton [i.e. Francis Throckmorton (1554-84), Catholic conspirator] who was afterwardes executed.

      Edited from this MS in Berry.

      An untitled rebuttal of John Stubbs's tract The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf (1579) which attacked the proposed Alençon marriage. Beginning Dutiful affection to my native country enforceth me at this present to disclose my opinion and conceit … and ending … to perform agreeable service to Her Majesty and the state I would rest, with sword in hand, ready to make adventure of the loss of my life. First published in John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf with Letters and Other Relevant Documents, ed. Lloyd E. Berry (Charlottesville, 1968), pp. 153-94.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Answer to John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf
    • SiP 192 ff. 230r-5v

      Copy in a professional secretary hand, headed The copie of a Lre written to the Queen by Mr P.S., this heading later extended in Beale's hand after wards called Sr Philipp Sidney, concrning the mareage wth Monsr d'Aniou, on twelve folio pages.

      Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 276 (No. 11), with a facsimile of f. 230r on p. 120.

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

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

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
    • PtG 3 ff. 451r-76r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, with Beale's supplied title A discours concerning the Just Execution of ye Scotishe Queen and his note in the margin It is thoght that this book was made by George Putteham.

      Recorded (as the Calthorpe MS) in Willcock & Walker, p. xxiii.

      A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning There hath not happened since the memorie of man…. First published, as A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.

      George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown

  • Add. MS 48041

    A composite folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 612 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Yelverton MS 31, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    • ElQ 260 ff. 307r-9v

      Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand, in a parliamentary journal and introduced ...her Matie begann thus to answer herselfe, viz.

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

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

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

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

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

      Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
    • DaJ 262.5 ff. 520r-606r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as by Sr John Dauies knight.

      A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely.... First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

      Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

  • Add. MS 48044

    A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, ii + 380 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties.

    Yelverton MS 49, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    • SiP 192.5 ff. 240r-6v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A letter Written to Queene Elizabeath against the Match wth: Monseieur, on fourteen folio pages, part of a single unit (ff. 215r-50v) of papers dating up to 1623. c. 1623-30s.

      This MS cited in H.R. Woudhuysen, A crux in the text of Sidney's A Letter to Queen Elizabeth, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 172-3. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 12.

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

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

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
    • BcF 453 ff. 295r-6v

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

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

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • BcF 239.8 ff. 297r-301r

      Copy of ordinances 1-58, 73-6 only, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

      Edited from this MS in G.W. Sanders, Orders of the High Court of Chancery (London, 1845), Part i, pp. 109-22, 129-31.

      First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

      Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

  • Add. MS 48062

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 430 leaves, in contemporary calf, with ties.

    In various hands, including early items docketed by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council.

    Yelverton MS 68, including papers of Beale descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43. Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 228-9 (No.33).

    • BcF 281.2 ff. 300r-16r

      Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 229 (No. 33.1).

      First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.

      Francis Bacon, A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain
    • HoH 7 ff. 323r-4v

      Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe. c.1620s-30s.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 229 (No. 33.4).

      A tract beginning By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled …. Unpublished?

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt
    • RaW 659 ff. 370r-85r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, dated 1602. c.1620s-30s.

      A tract addressed to James I and beginning It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands.... First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands

  • Add. MS 48063

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 263 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties.

    In various hands, including the Feathery Scribe.

    Yelverton MS 69, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43.

    • CtR 280 ff. 28r-57v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page in a roman handunascribed. c.1620s-30s.

      Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates.... First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200 [i.e. 202].

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
    • BcF 734 ff. 151r-87r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Of the lately erected Service called the Office of Compositions for Alyenations, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

      A tract, beginning All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England.... Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

      Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
    • CtR 38 ff. 221r-6r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed 1626, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

      Tract beginning What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.

      Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men
    • EsR 114 ff. 238r-51v

      Copy, in three secretary hands. Early 17th century.

      First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

    • RaW 1085 ff. 253r-60r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page Keymers Booke of observacons..., subscribed John Keymer. c.1620s-30s.

      A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past.... First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.

      Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, Who is the author of the tract intitled Some observations touching trade with the Hollander?, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander

  • Add. MS 48066

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 374 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, with ties.

    Yelverton MS 72, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family, including papers descending from Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council.

    • CvG 16 ff. 90r-165v

      Copy, the heading (Thomas Wolseyes the Cardinalls liffe and deathe written by George Candishe his gent vsher) and first six lines of the prologue in the hand of Robert Beale, the rest in one or more professional secretary hands; followed (ff. 175r-82v) by notes in a similar hand, entitled by Beale The Supplementes or defectes in the booke of Cardinall Wolseys life and fall made by Georg Candish. Late 16th century.

      Sylvester, No. 10.

      First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

      George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
    • MrT 73 ff. 319r-73r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

      This MS collated and briefly described(as in the possession of the Calthorpe family) in Hitchcock & Chambers, p. xvii.

      First published, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, as The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England...by Nicholas Harpsfield (EETS, London, 1932).

      Sir Thomas More, Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More

  • Add. MS 48088

    A quarto volume of state papers and tracts, in a single professional secretary hand associated with Robert Beale, with additions at the end in a later hand, 62 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, with green silk ties.

    Yelverton MS 96, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family, including papers descending from Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council.

    c.1600.
    • CtR 79 ff. 2r-5r

      Copy, headed Precedency of England in respect of the antiquitie of the Kingdome, incomplete, unascribed.

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

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

  • Add. MS 48095

    Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, headings in italic, with a title-page An answere made by Sr Robert Cotton Knight, and Barronet...1628, xvii + 153 octavo leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Yelverton MS 104, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    c.1628.
    • CtR 12
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

      Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

  • Add. MS 48101

    A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, c.410 leaves, in a recycled vellum document, now disbound.

    Yelverton MS 110, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    • RuB 111 f. 47r

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Ruddiers.

      A speech beginning There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record.... Variant versions include one beginning That there have been many publique censures and recantacions.... See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9
    • RuB 112 ff. 70v-1r

      Copy.

      A speech beginning There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record.... Variant versions include one beginning That there have been many publique censures and recantacions.... See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9
    • CtR 468 ff. 141r-62r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

      Tract beginning To search so high as the Norman Conquest.... First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.

      Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611
    • CtR 502 ff. 215r-49r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Considerations for the repressinge of the increase of Preists Jesuits and Recusants without draweinge of bloud collected by Sr Ro: Cotton. c.1620s-30s.

      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 48102A

    A folio composite volume of state, parliamentary and antiquarian tracts and papers, in several professional hands, i + 366 leaves, originally in a recycled vellum indenture (now detached), in modern quarter-calf.

    Yelverton MS 111, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    • CmW 74.5 ff. 25v-9r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Antiquity of Parliaments, subscribed William Camden. c.1630.

      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
    • CtR 69 ff. 30r-1v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1630.

      A tract beginning As touching the nature of the Right Courte of Parliament, It is nothing else but the Kinges greate councell.... Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitie of Parliaments
    • CtR 336 ff. 31v-5r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1630.

      A tract beginning That we nowe agreeinge wth the Scottes doe name a Parliament.... Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Other Descriptions and occurrences of the Parliament
    • CtR 345 ff. 319r-29r

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, with a title-page, as written by Sr. Robert Cotton. c.1624-30s.

      Tract, addressed to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ... [27 April 1624]

  • Add. MS 48114

    A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 236 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with ties.

    Yelverton MS 129, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    • RaW 384.2 f. 44r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Heere lies ye worthy Warrior, yt nevr bloudied sworde, quoted in a copy of Richard Verstegan's A declaration of the great troubles...1592 (occupying ff. 30r-49v), in a small cursive secretary hand.

      First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester ('Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword')

  • Add. MS 48116

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, c.380 leaves, in a recycled ?15th-century vellum document.

    Yelverton MS 131, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    • BcF 281.5 ff. 251r-6r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

      First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.

      Francis Bacon, A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain

  • Add. MS 48155

    A folio volume of legal and state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, 92 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, with remains of green silk ties.

    Yelverton MS 166, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

    c.1620s.
    • BcF 753 ff. 46r-59r

      Copy, headed A briefe and Compendious abstract of the Summe of the Common Lawe of England.

      A discourse beginning The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things.... Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.

      Francis Bacon, The Use of the Law
    • RaW 1086 ff. 66r-71v

      Copy.

      A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past.... First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.

      Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, Who is the author of the tract intitled Some observations touching trade with the Hollander?, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander

  • Add. MS 49381

    Portion of an autograph letter signed by Burton, to John Smyth of Nibley, Gloucestershire, 7 August 1635.

    1635.

    Formerly in the library at Crewe Hall. Sotheby's, 22 October 1956, lot 43, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

    For another portion of the letter, see BuR 8.

    • *BuR 7
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Robert Burton, Letter(s)

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