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The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end

  • Add. MS 60284

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as Written by Sr Ro: Cotton, subscribed Finis: A: D: i622, ii + 16 quarto leaves, in paper wrappers within modern half-morocco.

    Volume XII of the Castle Ashby Manuscripts formerly owned by the Earl Compton. Christie's, 8 March 1978, lot 295.

    c.1622-30s.
    • CtR 390
      No description or publication history available.

      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 60391

    A folio composite collection of miscellaneous letters and papers, 338 leaves.

    • *MaA 559 ff. 33r-4v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Henry Thompson, 16 December 1675.

      Edited, with a facsimile, in Hilton Kelliher, Some Uncollected Letters of Andrew Marvell, British Library Journal, 5 (1979), 145-57.

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 61353

    A folio composite volume of correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, relating to Blenheim, in various hands, 257 leaves, in modern half-calf.

    Volume CCLIII of the Blenheim Papers.

    • VaJ 392.5 f. 1r

      Copy of a memorandum of an agreement with the Duke of Marlborough concerning stone, the original signed by Vanbrugh, 19 June 1705.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 35 ff. 3r-4r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from London, 22 June 1705.

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 229-30 (Appendix 1, No. 2).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 49 ff. 21r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from London, 25 July 1707.

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 232-3 (Appendix 1, No. 5).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 46 ff. 17r-18r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 15 July 1707.

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 231-2 (Appendix 1, No. 4).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 492 f. 40r
      Autograph

      Memorandum of James Thornhill's expenses, in a scribal hand and signed and subscribed by Vanbrugh, December 1716.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 79 ff. 40r-1r
      Autograph

      Letter signed by Vanbrugh (JV), to [?possibly Arthur Maynwaring], on two quarto leaves, from Blenheim, 8 July 1708.

      Edited in Works, IV, 22-3 (Appendix II, No. 13).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 80 ff. 42r-3v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [?possibly Arthur Maynwaring], on two folio leaves, from Blenheim, 8 July 1708.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 493 ff. 42r-3r

      Memorandum of James Thornhill's expenses, in a scribal hand and signed and subscribed by Vanbrugh, December 1716.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 83 ff. 46r-7v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 14 September 1708.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 26-7 (No. 16).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 96 ff. 52r-3r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Lord Godolphin], from Blenheim, 31 May 1709.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 27-8 (No. 17).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 97 ff. 54r-5v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [Lord Godolphin], from Blenheim, 31 May 1709.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 98 ff. 56r-v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [Lord Godolphin], from Blenheim, 31 May 1709.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 99 f. 58r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], 9 June 1709.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 28-9 (No. 18).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 100 ff. 60r-1v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], 11 June 1709.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 30-2 (No. 20).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 434 ff. 62r-3r
      Autograph

      Autograph signed memorandum on Reasons offer'd, for Preserving some Part of the old Manour, 11 June 1709.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 29-30 (No. 19).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • VaJ 435 ff. 64r-5r

      Copy of Vanbrugh's memorandum on Reasons offer'd, for Preserving some Part of the old Manour, 11 June 1709.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • VaJ 436 ff. 66r-7r

      Copy of Vanbrugh's memorandum on Reasons offer'd, for Preserving some Part of the old Manour, 11 June 1709.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 101 ff. 68r-9v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from London, 14 July 1709.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 33-4 (No. 22).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 437 f. 70r-v
      Autograph

      Memorandum about Blenheim Palace, in a professional hand, signed by Vanbrugh, 8 July 1709.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 32-3 (No. 21).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 102 ff. 72r-3v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [? Lord Ryalton], from Blenheim, 18 July 1709.

      Edited in Works, IV, 34-6 (No. 23).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 103 ff. 74r-5v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 25 July 1709.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 36-7 (No. 24).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 105 ff. 82r-3r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugj, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 1 November 1709.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 37-8 (No. 25).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 113 ff. 86r-7r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from London, 28 April 1710.

      Extract from Coxe's transcript edited in Works, IV, 39-40 (No. 27); edited complete from the original in Whistler, pp. 235-6 (Appendix I, No. 10).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 116 f. 88r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], [27 May 1710].

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 236-7 (Appendix I, No. 11).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 117 ff. 89r-90v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [the Duchess of Marlborough], [27 May 1710].

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 118 ff. 91r-2r

      Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to [the Duchess of Marlborough], 27 May 1710.

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 237-8 (Appendix I, No. 12).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 119 ff. 93r-4r

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [the Duchess of Marlborough], 27 May 1710.

      Edited from thence in Whistler, pp. 237-8 (Appendix I, No. 12).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 121 ff. 95r-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from London, 6 June 1710.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 40-1 (No. 28).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 123 ff. 97r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from London, 24 June 1710.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 41-2 (No. 29).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 124 f. 101r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 1 August 1710.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 42 (No. 30).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 125 f. 103r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from London, 31 August 1710.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 43 (No. 31).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 128 ff. 105r-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from London, 22 September 1710.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 43-4 (No. 32).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 243 ff. 110r-11v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Marlborough, from London, 10 November 1716.

      Edited in Works, IV, 85-6 (No. 72).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 137 ff. 111r-12v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from Oxford, 3 October 1710.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 48-9 (No. 34).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 138 ff. 113r-14r

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [the Duke of Marlborough], from Oxford, 3 October 1710.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 145 f. 119r-20v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from London, 10 October 1710.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 49-50 (No. 35).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 445 f. 121r
      Autograph

      Copy by Vanbrugh of a letter to him by J. Taylor, 6 October 1710.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 44-8 (No. 33).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 139 f. 122r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph copy by Vanbrugh. of his letter to the Treasury, giving An Account of what has passed with the Treasury relating to the Building at Blenheim since my Lord Godolphin was removed, 10 October 1710.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 47-8 (No. 33d), and 195.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 247 ff. 122v-3v

      Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to [Tilleman Bobart], London, 15 December 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 89 (No. 75).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 149 f. 125r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Arthur Maynwaring], from Chargate, 25 October 1710.

      Edited in Works, IV, 50-1 (No. 36).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 110 ff. 133r-4v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Samuel Travers, [Surveyor-General for Blenheim Palace], from Whitehall, 30 November [1709 or 1710].

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 38-9 (No. 26).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 152 ff. 135r-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Marlborough], [late 1710?].

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 238-40 (Appendix I, No. 13).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 442 f. 137r
      Autograph

      Autograph memorandum signed by Vanbrugh, about his salary and expenses, 10 February 17[09/]10.

      Edited in Downes, p. 536 (Appendix G, No. 1).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 156 ff. 139r-40r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from London, 23 February 1710/[11].

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 234-5 (Appendix I, No. 9).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 159 ff. 145r-6v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from London, 10 August 1711.

      Edited in part (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 51 (No. 37); edited complete in Whistler, p. 240 (Appendix I, No. 14).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 172 f. 151r
      Autograph

      Vanbrugh's autograph copy of a letter by him to [Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford], from London, 3 August 1712.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 52 (No. 39).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 175 ff. 153r-4r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Marlborough], 4 November 1712.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 52-3 (No. 40).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 177 f. 155r-v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Duke [of Marlborough], 4 November 1712.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 191 ff. 156r-7v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from London, 29 May 1714.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 58-60 (No. 48).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 199 ff. 158r-9v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], 16 January 1714[/15].

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 60-1 (No. 49).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 201 f. 160r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to an unidentified correspondent, with an enclosed warrant in a professional hand (f. 161), 9 February 1714/15.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 63 (No. 52).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 218 f. 167r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from Whitehall, 19 April 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 64-5 (No. 55).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 221 ff. 169r-70v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], 25 May 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 65 (No. 56).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 222 ff. 171r-2r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from Whitehal, 12 June 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 66-7 (No. 57).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 223 ff. 173r-4v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [the Duche ss of Marlborough], from Whitehall, 12 June 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 66-7 (No. 57).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 224 f. 175r-v

      Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from London, 19 June 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 67-8 (No. 58).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 225 ff. 177r-80r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 30 June 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 68-70 (No. 59).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 226 ff. 181r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from London, 10 July 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 70-2 (No. 60).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 227 ff. 183r-4r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from London, 13 July 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 72-3 (No. 61).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 228 ff. 185r-6v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 27 July 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 73-5 (No. 62).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 231 ff. 187r-91v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from London, dated by him Augt. 3d but postmarked 2 October 1716 and evidently sent then.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 75-7 (No. 63).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 232 ff. 195r-6v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from Castle Howard, 19 August 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 77-9 (No. 64).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 233 ff. 197r-8v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duchess of Marlborough, from Scarborough, 21 August 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 79-80 (No. 65).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 234 ff. 203r-4v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duchess of Marlborough, from Blenheim, 27 September 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 80 (No. 66).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 235 ff. 205r-6v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duchess of Marlborough, from London, 18 October 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 81 (No. 67).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 236 ff. 207r-8r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duchess of Marlborough, from Whitehall, 20 October 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 81-2 (No. 68).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 237 ff. 209r-10v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duchess of Marlborough, 6 November 1716.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 239 ff. 211r-12v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Duchess of Marlborough, 6 November 1716.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 240 f. 213r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duchess of Marlborough, from Whitehall, 8 November 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 84-5 (No. 71).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 241 f. 215r-v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Duchess of Marlborough, from Whitehall, 8 November 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 84-5 (No. 71).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 246 f. 221r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Tilleman Bobart], from London, 15 December 1716.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 89 (No. 75).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 248 f. 222r-3v
      Autograph

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [Tilleman Bobart], from London, 15 December 1716.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 255 ff. 224r-7r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Carlisle], [June 1717].

      Edited in Works, IV, 89-93 (No. 76, the addressee tentatively identified as Lord Godolphin, but see Whistler, p. 246).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 256 ff. 228r-33r

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [the Earl of Carlisle], [June 1717].

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 257 f. 234r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], 27 June 1717.

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 243-4 (Appendix I, No. 21).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 363 f. 250r

      Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to William Guidott, [the Duke of Marlborough's solicitor], 4 September 1724, sent by Guidott to Mr Waller of Lincoln's Inn on 15 September 1724.

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 245-6 (Appendix I, No. 24).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 61354

    A folio composite volume of papers relating to the building of Blenheim Palace, in various hands, 167 leaves, in modern half-calf.

    Volume CCLIV of the Blenheim Papers.

    • *VaJ 438 ff. 6v-18r
      Autograph

      Autograph Proposalls for Work to be done at Blenheim in 1709.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 455 f. 22r
      Autograph

      Autograph version of a memorandum of Work directed by the Duke of Marlborough to be done at Blenheim this year: 1711.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 454 f. 23r
      Autograph

      Autograph version of a memorandum of Work directed by the Duke of Marlborough to be done at Blenheim this year: 1711.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • VaJ 467 ff. 28r-9v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's Estimate of the Expence for Finishing the Works of Blenheim Castle in Woodstock Park, November 1714.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • VaJ 249 ff. 32r-3v

      Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to[the Duke of Marlborough], [1716], endorsed by the Duchess of Marlborough.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 250 ff. 34r-5v

      Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to[the Duke of Marlborough], [1716].

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 242-3 (Appendix I, No. 20).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 229 f. 35v

      An extract copied from Vanbrugh's letter to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from London, 19 June 1716.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 230 f. 35v

      Extract copied from Vanbrugh's letter to [the Duchess of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 27 July 1716.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 495.5 f. 42r

      Copy of a memorandum by Vanbrugh of James Thornhill's expenses at Blenheim, totalling £978, in a professional hand, December 1716.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • VaJ 495.8 f. 43r

      Memorandum of Vanbrugh's estimates for completing Blenheim, in an unidentified hand.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • VaJ 393 f. 97r

      Copy of an agreement between Vanbrugh, as agent for the Duke of Marlborough, and Benjamin Johnson and John Davie, the original signed by Vanbrugh, 9 July 1705.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • VaJ 474 ff. 122r-3r

      Copy of an agreement between Vanbrugh, as Marlborough's agent, and George Lowe for a cottage house [before 1715].

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 61356

    MS volume.

    • *VaJ 491 f. 33r
      Autograph

      Autograph memorandum by Vanbrugh, about the Duchess of Marlborough, endorsed by her, [after July 1716].

      Edited in Whistler, p. 246 (Appendix I, No. 25).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • VaJ 490.5 ff. 37r-40v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's report to the Treasury, giving An Account of what has passed with the Treasury relating to the Building at Blenheim since my Lord Godolphin was removed (incorporating Vanbrugh's copies of his related letters to various bodies, [c.1714-15].

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • VaJ 198 ff. 37r-8r

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Lord Poulet, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of Vanbrugh's report to the Treasury.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 131.5 f. 38r-v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Robert Harley, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of Vanbrugh's report to the Treasury.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 143 ff. 39v-40r
      Autograph

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Treasury, 10 October 1710.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 61432

    A folio composite volume of Blenheim family papers, in several hands, 148 leaves.

    Volume CCCXXXII of the Blenheim Papers.

    • *VaJ 343 f. 128r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Henrietta Godolphin, second Duchess of Marlborough], from Winchester, 26 July 1722.

      Edited in Downes, pp. 408-9.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 61523

    A composite volume of letters, 251 leaves.

    Volume CCCCXXIII of the Blenheim Papers.

    • *VaJ 94 ff. 244r-5r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Thomas Hopkins, Under-Secretary of State], 5 May 1709.

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 233-4 (Appendix I, No. 7).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 61540

    A folio composite volume of correspondence.

    Vol XL of the Blenheim Papers.

    • *VaJ 432 ff. 35r-6r
      Autograph

      Report to Henry Howard, Earl of Bindon, Deputy Earl Marshal, in a professional hand, signed by Vanbrugh and other officers of arms, 29 November 1708.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 61605

    • *VaJ 272 ff. 179r-80v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Sunderland, 31 July 1718.

      Edited in Whistler, p. 244 (Appendix I, No. 22).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 496 f. 181r-v
      Autograph

      Copy of an Abstract of the new Regulations, at present State of the Board of His Majesty's Works, in a professional hand, endorsed in Vanbrugh's hand Copy of a Paper given to the King. From the Late Treasury…translated into French and given to the King by Mr Walpole, 8 February 1716/17.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 290 ff. 185r-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Newcastle, Tuesday Morning, with an enclosure dated 5 May 1719.

      Edited in Whistler, pp. 244-5 (Appendix I, No. 23).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 511 f. 187r

      Copy of a memorandum by Vanbrugh about an additional officer for the Establishment of the Board of Works [1719].

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 61619

    A volume of official documents, 221 leaves.

    Volume DXIX of the Blenheim Papers.

    • *VaJ 45 ff. 107r-9r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl of Sunderland, with an enclosed autograph memorandum recommending Mr Croxall, 11 July 1707.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 61638

    A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers, 1704-11.

    Volume DXXXVIII of the Blenheim Papers

    • *VaJ 419 f. 77r
      Autograph

      Report to Henry Howard, Earl of Bindon, Deputy Earl Marshal, in a professional hand and signed by Vanbrugh and by other officers of arms, 25 November 1707.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 61649

    • *VaJ 499 ff. 124r-5r
      Autograph

      Report to Henry, Earl of Suffolk, Deputy Earl Marshal, in a professional hand, signed by Vanbrugh and other officers of arms, 3 May 1717.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 61655

    A folio composite volume of correspondence and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 208 leaves.

    Volume DLV of the Blenheim Papers.

    • *VaJ 61 ff. 35r-7v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duchess of Marlborough, supporting the application of a very near Relation…for the Consulship of Lisbon, 9 January [1707-10].

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 61683

    A folio composite volume of state, literary and family papers and speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 93 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

    Papers principally of the Boteler family, of Biddenham, Bedfordshire, and of the family of John Hampden, MP (1595-1643), politician, of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire.

    Volume DLXXXIII of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.

    • BcF 454 ff. 36r-7r

      Copy of Bacon's submission, 22 April 1621, in a secretary hand, on folio leaves originally folded as a letter.

      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
    • WoH 88.4 f. 63r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed An ode vppon the Lady Elizab my Princesse and Mrs elected Queene of Bohemia, on one side of a folio leaf of verse once folded as a letter or packet, imperfect. c.1620s.

      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')
    • CmT 214.5 ff. 65r, 66r

      Copy of an eight-strophe version, in a secretary hand, untitled, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
    • CoR 6.8 f. 68r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, following (f. 67r) The Warlike kinge did wonder when he spide, on the third page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

      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 72.5 f. 69r-v

      Copy, in a professopnal secretary hand, headed An Eleagie on the death of E Howard Baron of Ethingham, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 ('I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue')
    • RnT 222 f. 76r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, imperfect and lacking a heading, on the first page of two heavily cut-down conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1620s.

      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')

  • Add. MS 61692

    Copy, in three predominantly secretary hands, untitled, 57 folio leaves, imperfect, lacking one leaf, formerly in contemporary vellum, in modern half red morocco.

    Volume DXCII of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.

    c.1584-1600s.

    Inscribed (f. ir) Thomas Edgerly and James Shirley (not the playwright).

    • LeC 12
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

  • Add. MS 61695

    Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Customaryy, Voluntary, and Necessary Warr. Written by Sr: Walter Rawleigh Knt:, i + 27 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

    Early 18th century.

    Volume DXCV of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.

    • RaW 612.5
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract beginning The ordinary theme and argument of history is war.... First published (in part), as The Misery of Invasive Warre, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War

  • Add. MS 61728

    A quarto volume of military and state tracts and extracts, in several hands, predominantly in a largely italic hand, iii + 194 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties.

    Early 17th century.

    Inscribed (f. 15r and elsewhere) John Rider his Book. Christie's, 30 January 1980, lot 102.

    • HoH 31 ff. 1r-44r

      Copy of the main text, lacking a title and dedicatory epistle to the Queen, in a formal small italic hand.

      An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth … to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).

      Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ …; the main text begins I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point …, and ends … to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish

  • Add. MS 61745

    A quarto miscellany, including a play, legal notes and verses with Welsh connections, in several secretary and italic hands, ii + 64 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, within modern half-morocco.

    c.1611-19.

    Formerly among the family archives of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, later owned by the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire. Sotheby's, 20 November 1973, lot 72, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

    • HyT 13 ff. 1r-46v

      Copy, in probably five secretary hands, subscribed Quae pfecta manent, strenuo pfecta labore Metra quid exornat lima, litura, labor / Morganus Evans: i.e. composed or partly copied by Morgan Evans, of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, member of the Inner Temple, imperfect at the beginning and lacking a title.

      Edited from this MS in Proudfoot, with facsimile examples. Also discussed in Richard Proudfoot, Richard Johnson's Tom a' Lincoln Dramatized: A Jacobean Play in British Library MS. Add. 61745, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 75-101.

      Doubtfully attributed to Heywood by P.J. Croft. Possibly written, at least in part, by Morgan Evans as an Inns of Court entertainment. Edited by G.R. Proudfoot, Malone Society (Oxford, 1992).

      Thomas Heywood, Tom a Lincoln

  • Add. MS 61821

    Copy of works by Sir Philip Sidney, in a probably professional secretary and italic hand, ii + 147 folio leaves, in contemporary brown calf gilt (rebacked).

    Formerly in the library of the Tollemache family, at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, and probably once owned by Sir Lionel Tollemache, first Baronet (1562-1612?), whose initials (S L T) are stamped in blind on the cover.

    Late 16th century.

    Sotheby's, 6 June 1961, lot 21. Booklabel of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale), lot 426.

    Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 61.

    • SiP 98 ff. 2r-140v

      Copy of the complete Arcadia, untitled, imperfect.

      This MS collated in Robertson and described p. xlii. Described in Ringler, pp. x-xii. Facsimile of f. 61r in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 6 June 1961, lot 21, and of f. 2r in Christie's sale catalogue, 12 June 1980, Plate 32.

      The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the Old Arcadia) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia
    • SiP 216 ff. 142v-6r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Robert Kimbrough and Philip Murphy, The Helmingham Hall Manuscript of Sidney's The Lady of May: A Commentary and Transcription, RD, NS 1 (1968), 103-19; collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten; recorded in Ringler, pp. x-xii.

      First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 21-32. The verse portions in Ringler, pp. 3-5.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Lady of May

  • Add. MS 61822

    A tall folio miscellany of verse and prose, including a series of Pithie sentences and wise sayinges, largely in a secretary hand, iv + 120 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary dark brown calf on wooden boards (rebacked), with remains of brass clasps.

    Compiled principally by William Briton (1564-1637), of Kelston, Somerset.

    c.1586-1605.

    Once owned by members of the Harington family, including John Harington, MP (d.1654). Acquired by Quaritch in 1932 and in their centenary sale catalogue (1947), item 198. Booklabel of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale), lot 427.

    • ElT 1 f. 84r

      Verse extracts.

      First published in 1531.

      Thomas Elyot, The Boke named The Governour
    • SaT 2 ff. 89v-90v

      Twenty-four extracts, transcribed from a edited edition.

      This MS recorded in The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William Ringler (Oxford, 1962), p. 541.

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

      Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex
    • SiP 3 ff. 91r-103r

      Copy of sonnets 1-23, 26-7, 29-34, 36, 38-9, 41-4, 47-108 (in an irregular order), headed Sonnetts wrytten by Sr Phillipp Sydney Knight.

      This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 540-2. Facsimile example in Christie's sale catalogue, 12 June 1980, Plate 33.

      First published in London, 1591. Ringler, pp. 163-237.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella

  • Add. MS 61842

    A quarto literary commonplace book, in several hands, ii + 175 leaves, including inserted printed matter, plus numerous blanks, in half-calf.

    c.1776.

    Bookplate of Jos. Coltman. Acquired on 8 August 1980 from Richard Hatchwell.

    • MnJ 10.5 ff. 76v-7r

      Copy of part of the poem.

      First published in Poems (1645).

      John Milton, L'Allegro ('Hence loathed Melancholy')

  • Add. MS 61903

    An octavo diary, commonplace book and parliamentary journal, chiefly in one hand, ii + 93 leaves, in contemporary brown leather.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Peter Le Neve Liber Anno Dom 1678: i.e. compiled by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.

    c.1678-85.

    Later owned by Henry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk and Yorkshire antiquary and manuscript collector (his MS 49). Purchased through Quaritch, March 1981.

    • MaA 150 ff. 65r-9r

      Copy, headed Introduction.

      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')

  • Add. MS 61944

    An ordnance book kept at the Tower of London from 1607 to 1617, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, v + 87 leaves, in long narrow ledger format.

    Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 35.

    • RaW 399.5 f. 76v rev.

      Copy, untitled, here beginning I: C: v. R: good: Monser Carr, struck through. 2 January 1615/16.

      Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 20 July 1981, lot 35, and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 278 (illus. 58).

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'

  • Add. MS 62134

    A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties.

    Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's imitator, who also reproduces King's initials HK in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem.

    c.1638.

    Iinscribed (f. ir) M. Hall / Gainsbro and Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.

    Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Houghton MS: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.

    • KiH 794 ff. 1r-2v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

      Henry King, The Woes of Esay ('Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous')
    • KiH 312 ff. 3r-4r

      Copy.

      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')
    • KiH 709 ff. 4v-5v

      Copy.

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

      Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')
    • KiH 786 f. 6r

      Copy.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 160-1.

      Henry King, The Vow-Breaker ('When first the Magick of thine Ey')
    • KiH 412 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy, untitled.

      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')
    • KiH 107 f. 7v

      Copy, untitled.

      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?')
    • KiH 666 f. 8r

      Copy, headed An Elegy.

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

      Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
    • KiH 355 f. 8v

      Copy.

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

      Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')
    • KiH 540 f. 9r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 May 1968, lot 339.

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

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
    • KiH 571 f. 9r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 May 1968, lot 339.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

      Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
    • KiH 631 p. 9v

      Copy.

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

      Henry King, Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')
    • KiH 604 f. 9v

      Copy.

      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')
    • KiH 28 f. 10r

      Copy.

      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')
    • KiH 588 f. 10v

      Copy.

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

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
    • KiH 517 f. 11r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Christie's sale catalogue, 14 June 1979, Plate 43.

      First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

      Henry King, Sic Vita ('Like to the Falling of a Starr')
    • KiH 423 f. 11r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of this MS in Christie's sale catalogue, 14 June 1979, Plate 43.

      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')
    • KiH 171 f. 11v

      Copy.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')
    • KiH 188 f. 12r

      Copy, headed An Elegy.

      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')
    • KiH 276 f. 12v

      Copy.

      First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

      Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
    • KiH 322 ff. 13r-14r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
    • KiH 13 f. 14v

      Copy, headed An Elegy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.

      Henry King, The Anniverse. An Elegy ('So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?')
    • KiH 467 f. 15r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.

      Henry King, On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave ('Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care')
    • KiH 396 ff. 15v-16r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.

      Henry King, A Letter ('I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend')
    • KiH 701 f. 16v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.

      Henry King, To his Freinds of Christchurch upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Artes, acted at Woodstock ('But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play')
    • KiH 98 f. 17r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.

      Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 ('At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use')
    • KiH 481 f. 18r

      Copy.

      First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.

      Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne ('Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes')
    • KiH 765 ff. 18v-19r

      Copy, headed An Elegy. Vpon the Death of my ever Desired Friend Dr Donne Deane of Paules.

      First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.

      Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind Dr. Donne Dean of Paules ('To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree')
    • KiH 561 f. 19v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite')
    • KiH 529 f. 19v

      Copy, headed Silence.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.

      Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet ('Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe')
    • KiH 659 f. 20r

      Copy, headed To Patience.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.

      Henry King, Sonnet. To Patience ('Downe stormy Passions, downe: no more')
    • KiH 490 f. 20r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 167.

      Henry King, The Pink ('Faire one, you did on mee bestow')
    • KiH 645 f. 20v

      Copy, headed The Double Rock.

      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 499 f. 20v

      Copy.

      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 404 f. 21r

      Copy.

      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')
    • KiH 372 f. 21r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 168-9.

      Henry King, The Forlorne Hope ('How long (vaine Hope!) dost thou my joyes suspend?')
    • KiH 226 ff. 21v-2v

      Copy.

      First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')
    • KiH 138 f. 23r-v

      Copy, headed An Elegy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 163-4.

      Henry King, The Departure. An Elegy ('Were I to leave no more than a Good Freind')
    • KiH 6 f. 24r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 164-6.

      Henry King, An Acknowledgment ('My best of Friends! what needes a Chaine to ty')
    • KiH 773 f. 25r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

      Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')
    • KiH 209 f. 25v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King ('Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust')
    • KiH 379 f. 26r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.

      Henry King, The Labyrinth ('Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and wee')
    • KiH 264 f. 26v

      Copy.

      First published in Hannah (1843), p. 127. Crum, p. 156.

      Henry King, Epigram ('To what serve Lawes where only mony reignes?')
    • KiH 270 f. 26v

      Copy.

      First published in Hannah (1843), p. 128. Crum, p. 156.

      Henry King, Epigram ('When Arria to her Paetus had bequeath'd')
    • KiH 259 f. 26v

      Copy.

      First published in Hannah (1843), p. 130. Crum, p. 156.

      Henry King, Epigram ('The fate of Bookes is diverse as man's Sense')
    • KiH 248 f. 26v

      Copy.

      First published in Hannah (1843), p. 129. Crum, p. 157.

      Henry King, Epigram ('He whose advent'rous keele ploughes the rough Seas')
    • KiH 254 f. 26v

      Copy.

      First published in The Gentleman's Magazine, 5 (July 1735), 380. The English Poems of Henry King, ed. Lawrence Mason (New Haven, 1914), p. 174. Crum, p. 157.

      Henry King, Epigram ('I would not in my Love too soone prevaile')
    • KiH 758 f. 27r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

      Henry King, Upon a Table-book presented to a Lady ('When your faire hand receaves this Little Book')
    • KiH 748 f. 27r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

      Henry King, To the same Lady Upon Overburye's Wife ('Madam, who understands you well, would sweare')
    • KiH 743 f. 27r

      Copy, headed To a Lady....

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

      Henry King, To the same Lady Upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy ('If in this Glasse of Humours you doe find')
    • KiH 753 f. 27r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.

      Henry King, Upon a Braid of Haire in a sent by Mris. E.H. ('In this small Character is sent')
    • KiH 686 f. 27v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.

      Henry King, To a Freind upon Overburie's Wife given to Hir ('I know no fitter Subject for your view')
    • KiH 696 f. 27v

      Copy, headed To A.R. in eandem.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.

      Henry King, To A.R. upon the same ('Not that I would instruct or tutor you')
    • KiH 625 f. 27v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 158-9.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Were thy heart soft, as Thou art faire')
    • KiH 736 f. 28r

      Copy of an early version, beginning Wee doe not give the Wine a Sparkling name.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 188-9, 243.

      Henry King, To One demanding why Wine sparkles ('So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss' eyes')
    • KiH 305 f. 28r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.

      Henry King, An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone ('This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone')
    • KiH 690 f. 28r

      Copy of the revised version; c.1638.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 178-9, 240.

      Henry King, To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed ('Lady, your art, or wit could nere devise')
    • KiH 385 ff. 28v-9r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.

      Henry King, The Legacy ('My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part')
    • KiH 143 f. 29v

      Copy.

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

      Henry King, The Dirge ('What is th' Existence of Man's Life?')
    • KiH 719 f. 30r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Jonsonus Virbius, or the Memorie of Ben Johnson Revived by the friends of the Muses, ed. Brian Duppa (London, 1638). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 87-8.

      Henry King, To my Dead Friend Ben: Johnson ('I see that Wreath, which doth the Wearer arme')
    • KiH 725 ff. 31r-2v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 83-7.

      Henry King, To my Noble and Judicious Friend Mr Henry Blount upon his Voyage ('Sir I must ever owne my self to be')
    • KiH 722 ff. 32v-3r

      Copy of lines 1-54, incomplete, subscribed Job.

      First published in George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 89-92.

      Henry King, To my honourd friend Mr. George Sandys ('It is, Sir, a confess'd intrusion here')

  • Add. MS 62135

    A composite collection of miscellaneous papers, now divided into two folio volumes (Part 1, ff. 1-199; Part 2, ff. 200-487), in various hands and paper sizes, originally in vellum, now each part in modern half-morocco.

    Volume I of the papers of the Wyatt family, of Allington Castle, Boxley, and Quex, Kent, including (ff. 332r-58v) quarto booklets of verse, in a rounded italic hand, possibly compiled, c.1630, by Sir Francis Wyatt (1575-1644), Governor of Virginia (although according to an uncertain note on f. 358v all the hand writing of Sr H Wiat).

    Later owned by Bradford Denne Hawkins, vicar of Rivenhall, Essex; by Lionel Oliver, of Hencham, King's Lynn; and then in 1872, by Charles Marsham (1808-74), third Earl of Romney. Formerly Loan MS 15/Part 2 (Wyatt Commonplace Book).

    • CvG 17 Part 1, ff. 96r-7v

      Extracts relating to Anne Boleyn.

      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
    • MoG 15 Part 2, f. 349v

      Copy, headed Vpon the death of King James.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • WoH 134 Part 2, ff. 350v-1r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Sr H. W..

      This MS collated in Dyce (1843), pp. 1-2, and in Hannah.

      First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth ('O faithless world, and thy most faithless part')
    • CwT 194 Part 2, ff. 352v-3v

      Copy, headed An Elegie on E.F., subscribed T. C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

      Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France ('Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did')
    • CwT 274 Part 2, f. 354r

      Copy, headed Vpon a fly lighting into his Mistres ey.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
    • CwT 385 Part 2, f. 354v

      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 156 Part 2, f. 355r

      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 426 Part 2, f. 355v

      Copy, subscribed T. C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

      Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse ('That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares')
    • WoH 63 Part 2, ff. 356v-7r

      Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled, here beginning You glorious trifles of the East, subscribed Sr H. W..

      Edited from this MS in Agnes Conway, A New Stanza to You Meaner Beauties of the Night, TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540. Also discussed by her in TLS (30 October 1924), p. 686. 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')

  • Add. MS 63054

    Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

    c.1670s.

    Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

    Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

    • *TrT 153 f. 7v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 3.

      Thomas Traherne, Human Abilitie ('What other Treasure can be more our Joy')
    • *TrT 4 f. 8r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 4. Ross, II, 38.

      Thomas Traherne, Abridgement ('His Nature is my sole & whole Delight')
    • *TrT 125 f. 9r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Ross, II, 45.

      Thomas Traherne, The Desolatness of Absence ('That Man is Poor & Desolat whose Lov')
    • *TrT 215 f. 9r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 5. Ross, II, 47.

      Thomas Traherne, Spiritual Absence ('Is not ye Greatest Death yt ere can be')
    • *TrT 5 f. 10v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 6. Ross, II, 52.

      Thomas Traherne, Abstinence ('If Abstinence becom it self a Way')
    • *TrT 6 f. 12r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 7. Ross, II, 63.

      Thomas Traherne, Abundance ('King Solomons Delights are mean & poor')
    • *TrT 7 f. 14r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 8. Ross, II, 75-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Abuse ('Will it not melt my Bowels to a flood')
    • *TrT 8 f. 15v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 9. Ross, II, 84.

      Thomas Traherne, Acceptance ('Acceptance too! doth yt Display a Beam')
    • *TrT 9 f. 17v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published, as [Accepted], in Chambers (1989), No. 10. Ross, II, 95-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Acceptance ('To be Accepted, & receivd to Bliss!')
    • *TrT 10 f. 19v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 11. Ross, II, 108.

      Thomas Traherne, Accesse ('Lord! Am I so Divine! And is ye Way')
    • *TrT 11 f. 22r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 12. Ross, II, 121-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Accident ('An Accident! is yt a Glorious Being?')
    • *TrT 12 f. 23v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 13. Ross, II, 132.

      Thomas Traherne, Account ('His Image! Lord what Hopes! So Great a King')
    • *TrT 13 f. 24v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 14. Ross, II, 138.

      Thomas Traherne, Accuratness ('Gird up thy Loyns O my Soul, & be')
    • *TrT 14 f. 27r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 15. Ross, II, 152-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Accusation ('Is Accusation then a Part of Bliss!')
    • *TrT 15 f. 28v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 16. Ross, II, 162.

      Thomas Traherne, Acknowledgement ('Foundations are unseen, & roughly laid')
    • *TrT 16 f. 30r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 17. Ross, II, 169.

      Thomas Traherne, Acquaintance ('O Rapture! May a Man Acquainted be')
    • *TrT 17 f. 33r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with extensive revisions, arranged in three pars, numbered I, II (But can an Act extend so, as to be) and III (A Soul in Act, is all yt ere can be).

      Edited from this MS in Chambers. Facsimile in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74. See also Facsimile XVI above.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 18. Ross, II, 185-7.

      Thomas Traherne, Act ('An Act! wt is an Act? An Act Acted')
    • *TrT 18 f. 34v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 19. Ross, II, 195-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Action ('Fair Leavs so pleasant in Eternity')
    • *TrT 19 f. 35v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 20. Ross, II, 201-2.

      Thomas Traherne, Activity [I] ('As hungry men lov feasts, as Greedy Gold')
    • *TrT 20 f. 36r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 21. Ross, II, 206-7.

      Thomas Traherne, Activity [II] ('Good God! What Bright & Active fire comes down')
    • *TrT 21 f. 37r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 22. Ross, II, 213.

      Thomas Traherne, Acuteness ('The Soul its Endless Bredth & Depth & Height & Length')
    • *TrT 23 f. 38v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 23. Ross, II, 220-1.

      Thomas Traherne, Adam [I] ('There was a Man two Children had most dear')
    • *TrT 24 f. 39v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 24. Ross, II, 225-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Adam [II] ('Amazing Sight! A Pile of Dust appeard')
    • *TrT 206 f. 41r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 25. Ross, III, 234-5.

      Thomas Traherne, The Second Adam ('A Second Adam, Greater then ye first!')
    • *TrT 26 f. 42v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers. Facsimile in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 26. Ross, II, 242-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Admiration ('What can I further, or wt more Desire')
    • *TrT 27 f. 44r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions and 24 lines in stanza 6 deleted.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 27. Ross, II, 250-4.

      Thomas Traherne, Adoration ('A Sacrifice! Wt Sacrifice O Lord')
    • *TrT 28 f. 45v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 28. Ross, II, 259-60.

      Thomas Traherne, Adultery ('Hide thou mine Eys O Ld from Vanitie!')
    • *TrT 29 ff. 46r-7r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, the poem ruled across on five occasions as if to break it into sections, also the last 59 lines (beginning My God, my Advocat, my friend, my King), set out after a break and the heading III.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 29. Ross, II, 262-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Advocate ('O God my God, remember on ye Tree')
    • *TrT 30 ff. 47v-8r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Chambers (1989), No. 30. Ross, II, 271-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Affairs ('The Weighty Affairs')
    • *TrT 31 ff. 53r-4r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, arranged in three parts, numbered I, II (The World was made, he gave us glorious Laws) and III (The World was made to be a Scene of Love).

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 31. Ross, II, 293-4, 296-8.

      Thomas Traherne, Affection ('Affections are ye Wings & nimble feet')
    • *TrT 32 ff. 54v-5r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with extensive revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 32. Ross, II, 301-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Affinity ('Wt Words are worthy to depicture thee')
    • *TrT 33 f. 56r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 33. Ross, II, 308-9.

      Thomas Traherne, Affliction ('Tremble at nothing els but Sin, my Soul')
    • *TrT 34 f. 62r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 34. Ross, II, 333-4.

      Thomas Traherne, Ages [I] ('Things great & Marvellous are said of thee')
    • *TrT 35 ff. 66r-7r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 35. Ross, II, 350-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Ages [II] ('An Island is a Spot, a Continent')
    • *TrT 36 f. 68v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 36. Ross, II, 361.

      Thomas Traherne, Air ('Poets are wont in overflowing Strains')
    • *TrT 41 ff. 69v-70r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 37. Ross, II, 367-70.

      Thomas Traherne, Allurement ('Awake my Soul, & soar upon ye Wing')
    • *TrT 42 f. 72r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with extensive revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 38. Ross, II, 379-80.

      Thomas Traherne, Almes ('Almes seen in clear divine & Heavenly light')
    • *TrT 43 f. 74r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, headed A Sweet & Sacred Reflexion.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 39. Ross, II, 390-1.

      Thomas Traherne, Almighty [I] ('How Great Almighty Power is to me!')
    • *TrT 44 f. 77r
      Autograph

      Autograph, after a deleted false start.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 40. Ross, II, 403-4.

      Thomas Traherne, Almighty [II] ('The Best of Fountains & ye Best of Ends')
    • *TrT 45 f. 77v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 41. Ross, II, 406.

      Thomas Traherne, Almighty [III] ('Almighty Power in its Greatness, is')
    • *TrT 40 f. 79r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published (in full) in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), UTQ, 53 (1983), 1-35 (pp. 28-9). Chambers (1989), No. 42. Ross, III. 413-14.

      Thomas Traherne, All Things ('Heaven! Lord is not yt an Endless Sphere')
    • *TrT 46 f. 81v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 43. Ross, II, 423-4.

      Thomas Traherne, Alone ('Lov! O thou Monster of Delights!')
    • *TrT 39 f. 82v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a few revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 44. Ross, III. 9-10.

      Thomas Traherne, Al-sufficient ('The floods ye Brooks ye Streams of Winy & Oyl')
    • *TrT 37 f. 84r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a few revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 45. Ross, III. 17.

      Thomas Traherne, All in one ('Lord to be silent unto thee is all')
    • *TrT 47 f. 87r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 46. Ross, III, 31-2.

      Thomas Traherne, Ambassadors ('God out of Zion shineth in Compleat')
    • *TrT 48 f. 90r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 47. Ross, III, 45-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Ambition ('Man is Ambitious yt he might Delight')
    • *TrT 49 f. 91v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 48. Ross, III, 54.

      Thomas Traherne, Amendment ('A Toad transformed to ye Whitest Dove')
    • *TrT 51 f. 91v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 49. Ross, III, 56.

      Thomas Traherne, Amisse ('A Man wld think yt nothing was Amiss')
    • *TrT 52 f. 92v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 50. Ross, III, 58-9.

      Thomas Traherne, Ancestor ('John Baptist was Prcursor to our Lord')
    • *TrT 54 f. 97v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a few revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 51. Ross, III, 79-81.

      Thomas Traherne, Angel ('Such is ye Nature wch abov we see')
    • *TrT 55 f. 100v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 52. Ross, III, 91.

      Thomas Traherne, Anger ('Lord, is thy favor gone for evermore?')
    • *TrT 56 f. 100v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 53. Ross, III, 92.

      Thomas Traherne, Annointed ('And am I Ld Annointed! Is thy Lov')
    • *TrT 58 f. 101r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), UTQ, 53 (1983), 1-35 (pp. 18-19). Chambers (1989), No. 54. Ross, III, 95.

      Thomas Traherne, Ant ('Bright Apprhensions & Angelical')
    • *TrT 59 f. 105v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 55. Ross, III, 113.

      Thomas Traherne, Antichrist ('And is it possible for Musick here')
    • *TrT 61 f. 107v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 56. Ross, III, 122-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Antiquitie ('Awake, awake O soul, & put on Strength')
    • *TrT 65 f. 108v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 58. Ross, III, 132.

      Thomas Traherne, Apostle ('A Friend is by his Messengers wth me')
    • *TrT 64 f. 109v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a few revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 57. Ross, III, 126-7.

      Thomas Traherne, Apostasie ('Ld is it possible to fall from thee')
    • *TrT 66 f. 110v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 59. Ross, III, 136.

      Thomas Traherne, Apparel ('The fertile Earth did willing Grain produce')
    • *TrT 67 f. 111r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 60. Ross, III, 140.

      Thomas Traherne, Appearance ('He yt to Angels shews himself in Glory')
    • *TrT 68 f. 116v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 61. Ross, III, 157-8.

      Thomas Traherne, Appetite ('Shall I to yt wch first was given to me')
    • *TrT 69 f. 119v-20r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 62. Ross, III, 167-8.

      Thomas Traherne, Application ('I Lord Apply my Soul unto thy Mind')
    • *TrT 72 f. 124r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 63. Ross, III, 181-2.

      Thomas Traherne, Apprehension ('Thou Quintessential Joy, or Melted Gem!')
    • *TrT 76 f. 125r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 64. Ross, III, 187.

      Thomas Traherne, Approbation ('When Thou O Lord Approvedst any Man')
    • *TrT 77 ff. 129v-30r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, headed A Poetical Reflexion.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74. Chambers (1989), No. 65. Ross, III, 204-7.

      Thomas Traherne, Aristotles Philosophie ('Philosophie! The Pagan makes me start!')
    • *TrT 78 f. 131r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 66. Ross, III, 211.

      Thomas Traherne, Arithmetick ('Arithmetick is a Diviner Queen')
    • *TrT 79 f. 133r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 67. Ross, III, 217-18.

      Thomas Traherne, Armour ('A Spectacle to Angels & to Men!')
    • *TrT 80 f. 134r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 68. Ross, III, 221-2.

      Thomas Traherne, Art ('They say, there is an Art not to be sold')
    • *TrT 81 ff. 137v-8r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 69. Ross, III, 234-5.

      Thomas Traherne, Article ('An Article. yt is a certain Point')
    • *TrT 82 f. 141v
      Autograph

      Autograph, arranged in three parts, numbered I, II (Nor must I thee O Christ my Ld forget) and III (O yn send down thy Spirit unto me).

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 70. Ross, III, 247-9.

      Thomas Traherne, Ascension ('Thy Ways O Ld are just & true to thee')
    • *TrT 83 f. 143r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 71. Ross, III, 253-4.

      Thomas Traherne, Aspect ('To see ye Stars in all their Glory shine')
    • *TrT 84 f. 144r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 72. Ross, III, 258-9.

      Thomas Traherne, Aspiration ('After ye Best of things my Soul aspire')
    • *TrT 85 f. 146r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 73. Ross, III, 265-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Assimilation ('An Eagle in ye Eg, a Little Bee')
    • *TrT 86 f. 148v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a few revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 74. Ross, III, 274-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Assistance ('My God is fixt in his Eternal Sphere')
    • *TrT 87 f. 152v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 75. Ross, III, 290-1.

      Thomas Traherne, Assumption ('My flesh now seated in ye Throne of Glory!')
    • *TrT 88 f. 156r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a few revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 76. Ross, III, 302-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Assurance ('Ambitious people ye aspire to Thrones')
    • *TrT 89 ff. 159v-60r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 77. Ross, III, 315.

      Thomas Traherne, Astrologie ('O God my God, my Life, my Joy, my Pleasure')
    • *TrT 90 ff. 161v-2r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 78. Ross, III, 321-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Astronomie ('Awake my Muse, & leav ye Narrow Cell')
    • *TrT 91 ff. 163v-4r
      Autograph

      Partly autograph, with revisions, the first six lines in Traherne's hand, the rest in that of an amanuensis, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (Breath after him my Soul, take leav to soar).

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 79. Ross, III, 329-32.

      Thomas Traherne, Atheist ('God is Invisible, & yt's ye Cause')
    • *TrT 91.5 f. 166r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Ross, III, 339.

      Thomas Traherne, Atom ('For he that lodgeth his whole Deitie')
    • *TrT 92 ff. 170r-2r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (Nor have we done as yet for Atoms shew).

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 80. Ross, III, 352-63.

      Thomas Traherne, Atom ('As Earthly Vapors by Celestial fire')
    • *TrT 93 ff. 175v-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 81. Ross, III, 374-5.

      Thomas Traherne, Atonement ('Atonemt Ld! And is there such a Thing!')
    • *TrT 94 f. 178r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 82. Ross, III, 384.

      Thomas Traherne, Attainment ('Attainmt Lord! And is there such a Creature!')
    • *TrT 95 f. 180r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 83. Ross, III, 392-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Attendance [I] ('O Sweet, Eternal, free & Glorious Choise!')
    • *TrT 96 f. 180v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 84. Ross, III, 393-4.

      Thomas Traherne, Attendance [II] ('If evry holy Soul abov be found')
    • *TrT 97 f. 181r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 85. Ross, III, 397-8.

      Thomas Traherne, Attention ('Lord whither shld I go but unto Thee?')
    • *TrT 98 f. 182v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a few revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 86. Ross, III, 404-5.

      Thomas Traherne, Attribute ('O great & never comprhended Lord!')
    • *TrT 102 ff. 184r-5r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a few revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (If this, my God, be Natures foul Diseas).

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 87. Ross, III, 411-16.

      Thomas Traherne, Avarice ('Hydropick Nature thirsteth after all')
    • *TrT 99 ff. 185v-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 88. Ross, III, 419.

      Thomas Traherne, Author ('The Author of ye World implies')
    • *TrT 101 f. 189v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 89. Ross, III, 432.

      Thomas Traherne, Authoritie ('Arme me O Ld wth all Authoritie')
    • *TrT 103 f. 190r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (Light is ye Promise, tis but Light to see).

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 90. Ross, III, 434-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Awake ('And O yt I at last cld thus awake')
    • *TrT 104 f. 191r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), UTQ, 53 (1983), 1-35 (p. 21). Chambers (1989), No. 91. Ross, III, 439.

      Thomas Traherne, Babe ('Give me ye Light & ye Simplicitie')
    • *TrT 105 f. 192r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 92. Ross, III, 441-3.

      Thomas Traherne, Babel ('A Spiritual Stroak upon ye Tongue')
    • *TrT 106 f. 192v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 93. Ross, III, 446. This poem is related to TrT 118.

      Thomas Traherne, Backsliding ('Come Holy Ghost, Eternal God inspire')
    • *TrT 107 f. 193r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 94. Ross, III, 448.

      Thomas Traherne, Balme ('Balme made for Wounds! It is a Nectar sure')
    • *TrT 148 ff. 194v-5r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with extensive revisions, including a deleted stanza.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 95.

      Thomas Traherne, The Glory of Baptism ('Baptizd! And made a Son of God! An Heir')
    • *TrT 108 f. 195v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 96. Ross, III, 458-9.

      Thomas Traherne, Barrenness ('Shall I my God be void of Fruit')
    • *TrT 109 f. 196v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a few revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 97. Ross, III, 464-5.

      Thomas Traherne, Baseness ('Thy Life & Kingdom are so Pure & Bright')
    • *TrT 2 f. 198r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with a revision, headed upon Abhorrence, on a small slip of paper.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 1. Ross, II, 14.

      Thomas Traherne, Abhorrence ('Is then Abhorrence so sublime a Treasure')
    • *TrT 3 f. 198v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with extensive revisions, headed upon Abilitie, on a small slip of paper.

      Edited from this MS in Chambers.

      First published in Chambers (1989), No. 2. Ross, II, 21.

      Thomas Traherne, Abilitie ('In wt fair Splendor wouldst thou chuse to see')

  • Add. MS 63075

    A duodecimo commonplace book of largely devotional verse and prose, in a single rounded hand, in black and red ink, i + 88 leaves, in contemporary brown calf gilt.

    Compiled by Henry Sturmy, who in November 1686 was bound apprentice to the London bookseller Richard Hunt.

    c.1696.

    Inscribed (inside front cover) Susanna Hayward her Booke.

  • Add. MS 63129

    An unbound folder of miscellaneous manuscript and edited papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 119 leaves.

    Volume LI of the collections of Thomas Sydney Blakeney (1903-76), collector, traveller and mountaineer.

    • CrR 232 ff. 14r-26r

      Copy, in the same mixed hand as the Bull MS (CrR Δ 4), entitled (in another hand, f. 1v) La Strage Degli Jnnocentj Poema del Cavalier Marino. Tradotta Inglese da R. C. and headed (f. 2), in the main hand Sospetto d' Herode Libro Primo, in an octavo sewn booklet. c.1630s.

      First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 109-26.

      Richard Crashaw, Sospetto d'Herode ('Mvse, now the servant of soft Loves no more')

  • Add. MS 63543

    Howard's occasionally autograph drafts, annotations or docketing in a collection of possibly his working papers as commissioner relating to cases involving Lady Arbella Stuart and her husband's grandfather, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, and also including some annotations by Sir Robert Cotton, 82 folio leaves in all.

    Sotheby's, 6 December 1984, lot 326.

  • Add. MS 63742

    A square-shaped folio miscellany of state letters and papers, largely in a single secretary hand, ii + 119 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Compiled by someone in the household service of Henry Stanley (1531-93), fourth Earl of Derby, possibly Martin Heton (1552-1609), subsequently Bishop of Ely.

    c.1583-9.

    Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary; by Nathaniel Booth, of Gray's Inn, in 1737, when it was also used by William Oldys (1696-1761), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary; by Thomas Thorpe (in his sale catalogue, 1820, Part I, item 2); and by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MSS 19 and 3602). Sotheby's, 30 November 1971, lot 527, and 27 June 1977, lot 4941. Owned in 1978 by A.G. Thomas, London bookseller. Purchased on 9 April 1986 from Pickering & Chatto.

    • RaW 133 f. 116r

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, in six quatrains beginning Fortune hathe taken away my love, with a lengthy marginal note by William Oldys.

      Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 15A, pp. 19-20. Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), prints the lines beginning In vain mine Eyes, in vain ye waste your tears (p. 154) as if a separate poem but reproduces a facsimile of this MS facing p. 157. Facsimile of the first two stanzas also in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 27 June 1977, p. 63.

      Six lines cited in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589). Latham, p. 9. The full text first published as a broadside in London, 1592 (?): see TLS (12 September 1968), p. 1032. This poem is related to the song Fortune my foe: see TLS, 30 May 1968, p. 553. Rudick, Nos 15A, 15B, 15C and 15D (four versions, pp. 19-22), followed by the Queen's answer (p. 23: see ElQ 38).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Fortune hath taken thee away my love'

  • Add. MS 63780

    A folio composite volume of letters and papers of Richard Graham (1648-95), first Viscount Preston, politician, in various hands, 358 leaves.

    Volume XXIX of the Preston Papers, formerly owned by Sir Charles Graham, Netherby Hall, Preston Papers, vol. 1688 Letters from England [etc.]. Sotheby's, 10 July 1986, lot 303, to Quaritch, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

    • *EtG 131 ff. 323r-30v
      Autograph

      Two letters by Etherege, to Richard Graham, Viscount Preston (Middleton's successor as Secretary of State for the Northern Department), and his secretary [Rowland] Tempest, the first letter in Hugo Hughes's hand and signed by Etherege, from Ratisbon, [17/27 December 1688 but docketed with date of receipt, 28 January 1688/9]; the second autograph, from Ratisbon, 24 December 1688/3 January 1688/9; and one autograph letter to Tempest, from Ratisbon, 24 December 1688/3 January 1688/9.

      Abridged versions edited in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Part I, Appendix, p. 428. The three letters edited in Bracher, pp. 262-5, from the texts in Letterbook No. 1 (EtG 153), and see also EtG 000. Facsimile of one page in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 63782

    A duodecimo commonplace book of largely devotional verse and prose, mainly in a single rounded hand, in black and red ink, i + 137 leaves, in contemporary black morocco gilt.

    Compiled by Henry Sturmy, who in November 1686 was bound apprentice to the London bookseller Ricard Hunt, and inscribed (f. 31r) Intended for my own meaditations.

    c.1696.

    Bookplate of Charles Lilburn. Sotheby's, 28 May 1986, lot 198.

    • BrT 5.93 ff. 134v-5v

      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

  • Add. MS 64060

    A small quarto miscellany of chiefly Restoration songs and ballads, many from plays, in one or more small hands, 48 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary brown calf.

    Folios 1r-32r copied c.1686-8 in a single hand; ff. 33v-48r copied c.1688-94 in four other hands.

    c.1686-94.

    Later owned by Sir Francis Freeling, first Baronet (1764-1836), postal administrator and book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 25 November 1836 (Freeling sale), lot 1156. Acquired from Leo S. Olschki, 6 November 1986.

    • DrJ 248.5 f. 1r-v

      Copy, headed Song in Granada. 1st pt.

      California, XI, 51-2. Song in Kinsley, I, 130-2. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 238-9. Songs first published in Westminster-Drollery (London, 1671).

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act II, scene i, lines 198-232. Song ('Beneath a Myrtle shade')
    • DrJ 250.8 ff. 1v-2r

      Copy, headed Song in Granada. 1st pt.

      California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 239-40.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song ('Wherever I am, and whatever I doe')
    • DnJ 256.5 f. 2r-v

      Copy, headed Song in Granada. 2d pt. In two parts.

      First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
    • SdT 29 ff. 2v-3r

      Copy of three songs, namely All Joy to fair Psyche in this happy Place (in Act III), Let old Age in its envy and malice take pleasure (in Act IV), and The Delights of the Bottle and the Charms of good Wine (bacchanal in Act V), each headed Song in Psyche.

      First published in London, 1675. Summers, II, 271-340 (pp. 311, 318, 338).

      Thomas Shadwell, Psyche
    • EtG 123.8 f. 3v

      Copy of the drinking song, headed Song in Sr Foppling Flutter.

      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')
    • DrJ 270.5 f. 4v

      Copy, headed Song in ye Indian Emperour.

      Kinsley, I, 41. California, IX, 83-4. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 96.

      John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, Act IV, scene iii, lines 1-16. Song ('Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past')
    • DrJ 259.8 ff. 4r-v

      Copy, headed Song in ye mock Astrologer.

      First published in London, 1671. California, X (1970), pp. 195-314 (p. 245). Kinsley, I, 125. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 221-2. This song first published in Merry Drollery, Complete (London, 1670).

      John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act II, scene i, lines 499-514. Song ('After the pangs of a desperate Lover')
    • LeN 7 f. 4v

      Copy of the Epithalamium to Borgia and Bellamira, headed Song in Cæsar Borgia.

      First published in London, 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 65-145 (p. 117). Musical setting of the epithalamium by Thomas Farmer first published in Choice Ayres and Songs…The Third Book (London, 1681).

      Nathaniel Lee, Caesar Borgia. Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth, Act IV, scene i, lines 1-12. Song ('Blush not redder than the Morning')
    • BeA 25 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy, headed Song in the Young King.

      First published in London, 1683. Summers, II, 105-93. Todd, VII, 83-151.

      Aphra Behn, The Young King: or, the Mistake
    • DrJ 262.5 f. 6r

      Copy, headed Song in ye Mock Astrologer.

      California, X, 270-1. Kinsley, I, 126. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 222-3.

      John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act IV, scene i, lines 47-70. Song ('Calm was the Even, and cleer was the Skie')
    • DrJ 265.5 f. 6r-v

      Copy, headed Song in ye mock Astrologer.

      California, X, 310-11. Kinsley, I, 126-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 223-4.

      John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act V, scene i, lines 504-33. Song ('Celimena, of my heart')
    • DrJ 294.5 f. 8v

      Copy of the song, headed Song in Troilus and Cressida.

      First published in London, 1679. Kinsley, I, 174. California, XIII, 217-353 (p. 300). Hammond & Hopkins, I, 366-7.

      John Dryden, Troilus and Cressida, or, Truth Found too Late, Act III, scene ii, lines 174-87. Song ('Can life be a blessing')
    • DrJ 286.5 f. 8v

      Copy of the song, headed Song in ye Spanish Fryer.

      First published in London, 1681. California, XIV (1992), pp. 97-203 (pp. 182-3). Scott-Saintsbury, VI, 393-523 (p. 500). Kinsley, I, 208. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 420-1.

      John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: or, The Double Discovery, Act V, scene i, lines 64-87. Song ('Farewell ungratefull Traytor')
    • DrJ 285.5 f. 9r

      Copy of the song, headed Song in Sr Martin Mar all.

      Kinsley, I, 110-11. California, IX, 272-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 204-5.

      John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feign'd Innocence, Act V, scene i, lines 173-202. Song ('Blind Love to this hour')
    • DrJ 278.5 f. 9r

      Copy of the song, headed Song in Marriage a la mode.

      California, XI, 285-6. Kinsley, I, 147. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 251-3.

      John Dryden, Marriage A-la-mode, Act IV, scene ii, lines 47-67. Song ('Whil'st Alexis lay prest')
    • BeA 23.7 f. 9v

      Copy of the song, headed Song in ye 2d pt of the Rover A Behn.

      First published in London, 1681. Summers, I, 115-213 (p. 188). Todd, VI, 228-98 (pp. 280-1). Also edited, as The Counsel. A Song. Set by Captain Pack, in Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 190-1.

      Aphra Behn, The Second Part of The Rover, Act IV, scene i. Song ('Ah pox upon this needless score')
    • BeA 20.5 f. 22v

      Copy, headed Song by Mrs Behn.

      First published as a broadside, London, 1681. Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 210-11. Todd, I, 97-8.

      Aphra Behn, Song. To a New Scotch Tune ('Young Jemmy was a Lad')
    • LeN 11 f. 26v

      Copy of the Eunuch's song, headed Song.

      First published in London, 1689. Stroup & Cooke, II, 147-227 (p. 157). Musical setting of the song by William Turner first published in Choice Ayres and Songs…The Fourth Book (London, 1683).

      Nathaniel Lee, The Princess of Cleve, I, i, 4-15. Song ('All other Blessings are but Toyes')
    • CnC 2.5 ff. 30v-2r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1689), pp. 76-81. Beresford, pp. 73-6. Buxton, pp. 31-5.

      Charles Cotton, The Angler's Ballad ('Away to the Brook')
    • SuJ 22 ff. 41r-3r

      Copy, headed A Parly betwean two West-Country men on Sight of a Wedding.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.

      John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding ('I tell thee Dick, where I have been')

  • Add. MS 64078

    Various extracts from the play, on ff. 47r-8r in a notebook containing notes chiefly in Latin on metaphysics and theology ascribed to Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621), mathematician and natural philosopher, ii + 48 oblong quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    The extracts, possibly derived from jottings in a pocket book made during a performance rather than from the edited quarto of 1598, apparently arranged for intended inclusion under topic headings in a commonplace book.

    c.1594-c.1603.

    Sotheby's, 18 December 1986, lot 14, with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue.

    This MS discussed, with facsimiles, in Hilton Kelliher, Contemporary Manuscript Extracts from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, EMS, 1 (1989), 144-81.

    • ShW 49.1
      No description or publication history available.
      William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I

  • Add. MS 64123

    Copy of the dedicatory epistle To the Queenes most excellent Matie only, iii + 52 folio leaves, in modern quarter-vellum marbled boards.

    In a professional hand (that of the imitator of the Feathery Scribe), with a formal title-page: An answere To The coppie of a rayling Invectiue agst the regement of woemen in genall with certein Mallepert excepcons to divers and sundrye matters of the state written vnto Queen Elizabeth by the right honorable Henrye Lo Howard late Earle of Northampton; the title docketed at the top with the initials G. D., in modern quarter-vellum on marbled boards.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Probably MS 43 in the collection of Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk and Yorkshire antiquary and manuscript collector. Item 155 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Sotheby's, 12-13 and 27 January 1987, lot 795.

    • HoH 73
      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 64875

    A folio composite volume of state letters, in various hands, 171 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

    Volume VI of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State.

    Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.

    • GrF 6 ff. 168r-71v

      Sir John Coke's autograph draft of his letter to Sir Fulke Greville (in response to Greville's letter of 4 September on ff. 166r-7v) in which Coke quotes from and comments on Greville's (now lost) Latin verse epitaph on Sidney, on four folio leaves, endorsed by one of Coke's sons To Sr F G. Sent by my father Sept. 16 1615.

      Formerly in Melbourne Hall, Cowper (Coke) MSS, packet 15.

      This MS edited (with errors) in Norman Farmer, Jr, Fulke Greville and Sir John Coke: An Exchange of Letters on a History Lecture and Certain Latin Verses on Sir Philip Sidney, HLQ, 33 (1969-70), 217-36. See also Joan Rees, Fulke Greville's Epitaph on Sidney, RES, NS 19 (1968), 47-51. Edited in Wilkes, II, 549-53.

      Unpublished Latin verses.

      Fulke Greville, [Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney]

  • Add. MS 64900

    A folio composite volume of state papers. and correspondence, in various hands, 136 leaves.

    Volume XXXI of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State.

    1629-30.

    Recorded in HMC, 12th Report (Earl Cowper), I, 398.

    • HrE 119.5 ff. 44r-5v

      Autograph draft by Sir John Coke of his critique of Herbert's treatise, addressed to Your Lordship and endorsed Memorial for the Lord Harbert Castl Isle.

      Latin version (Expeditio in Ream Insulam) first published in London, 1656, edited by Timothy Baldwin. English version first published by the Philobiblon Society in London, 1860, edited by Lord Powis.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé
    • HrE 119.8 ff. 46r-8r

      Autograph fair copy by Sir John Coke of the final version of his critique of Herbert's treatise.

      Latin version (Expeditio in Ream Insulam) first published in London, 1656, edited by Timothy Baldwin. English version first published by the Philobiblon Society in London, 1860, edited by Lord Powis.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé
    • HrE 145.5 f. 50r

      An autograph memorandum, headed I find that 7 Manners in generall are found, for opposinge an enemie, endorsed in Coke's hand collected by the Ld Herbert.

  • Add. MS 64912

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers for 1636, in various hands, 93 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

    Volume XLIII of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State.

    1636.
    • *HlJ 115 ff. 44r-5v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Sir John Coke, 2 May 1636.

      Formerly owned by the Marquess of Lothian, at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire. Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix II (1888), p. 116.

      Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 68942

    Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Mother Hubbards tale, dated (f. 1r) 5 die Junij 1607, iv + 16 folio leaves, formerly in half-morocco marbled boards (detached).

    1607.

    Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 207. Afterwards owned by Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827-99), literary scholar and theologian, and by Dr Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar. Booklabel of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 11-12 June 1980 (Houghton sale), lot 439, with a facsimile of the first page in the sale catalogue, Plate 39. Purchased from Quaritch, 19 January 1989.

    Collated in The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 9 vols (privately edited, 1882-4), III, 148-52: see Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 688.

    • SpE 18
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 103-40.

      Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale ('It was the month, in which the righteous Maide')

  • Add. MS 69376

    An unbound bundle f miscellaneous papers.

    Volume CCCXXXIX (Series II) of the Dropmore Papers: papers of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister, of Dropmore House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and associated families.

    • TaJ 12 f. 16r

      A formal copy of four lines of verse, untitled, beginning Let god give friends to me for my reward, subscribed Winnifred Barrington, in (pp. 13-16) a series of moral sentences dated 13-27 September 1675, on an oblong octavo-size page.

      Verses headed in the published discourse of 1657 Mutual Friends.

      First published, as Mutual friends and dedicated to Katherine Philips, in London, 1657. Eden, I, 69-98.

      Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of Friendship

  • Add. MS 69394

    A tall folio volume of state and historical tracts, letters and speeches, largely in a single rounded hand, ff. 35v-6r in an italic hand, with (f. 92v) a later index, ii + 92 leaves, frayed and damp-stained, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Volume CCCLVII (Series II) of the Dropmore Papers: papers of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister, of Dropmore House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and associated families.

    c.1620s-40s.

    Inscribed on the rear cover the name of Sir Henry Anderson, Bt (d.1653).

    • CtR 391 ff. 1r-10v

      Copy, headed A shorte View of Henrie the Thirde and his raigne cum ceteris, unascribed.

      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
    • RaW 873 ff. 17r-v, 62v-8r

      Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to his wife., to Sir Robert Carr, to James I (2), and to Winwood.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • BcF 311.5 ff. 33v-6r

      Copy of speeches by the Squire, the Hermit (2), the Soldier, and the Secretary, headed The Earle of Essex his deuice one the Queens day before he was to run at Tilte: the 17th Nobr. 34 Eliz.

      First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.

      Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595
    • RaW 816.5 ff. 59r-61r

      Copy, headed A Memoriall of what passed concerninge Sr Wa: Raleighs execusion, whoe was beheaded in the ould Pallace at Westminster October the 29. 1618, subscribed Write by Mr. Al: S. to the L. A.: i.e. possibly by Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Bt (1579/80-1658), patron of mathematics, to Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, whom Aylesbury served as secretary.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 38.2 f. 62r

      Copy, headed By Sr Walter Raleigh a little before he was ledd from the Gatehouse.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • RaW 549.5 ff. 68v-81r

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Raleyghs Apologie.

      A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
    • RaW 710.17 ff. 81v-4r

      Copy, headed An addition to Sr Walter Raleyghs Apologie.

      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

  • Add. MS 69396

    A quarto composite volume of state tracts, speeches and sermons, in various hands, 141 leaves, unbound.

    Volume CCCLIX (Series II) of the Dropmore Papers: papers of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister, of Dropmore House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and associated families.

    • EsR 115 Item 1

      Copy, in a professional italic hand, with corrections in another hand, in a sewn quarto booklet of 25 leaves, the first leaf imperfect.

      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.

  • Add. MS 69823

    A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, written with the volume turned sideways as oblong, with (f. 86v) an index in another hand, 86 leaves (including blanks) in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked).

    This volume is a companion volume to British Library Egerton MS 669, which is signed by D: Frown[?] and was once owned by Charles Trumbull, D.D. (1646-1724) and Ralph Trumbull (c.1640-1708), brothers of Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), lawyer and government official.

    c.1667.

    Inscribed on the first page Mr: Mathews, Bbinder, D. Mar. 16. --67/o.o.o.6. [i.e. ? the bookseller Thomas Mathews (fl.1650s-60s)]. Bookplate of Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Purchased from Quaritch, October 1989.

    • OrR 7 ff. 15r-17r

      Copy, headed To Mr Cowly on his Davideis by ye Ld Brohill.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1669) [apparently unique existing exemplum in Folger C6681.5].

      Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, To Mr. Cowley on his Davideis ('When to the World thy Muse thou first didst show')
    • DoC 287 ff. 18v-19r

      Copy, headed A Copy of Verses supposd to be made by ye Ld. Buckorth and here beginning Phillis Though Phillis your preuailing charms.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Harris, pp. 69-71. Authorship of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, suggested in Arthur Mizener, Though, Phyllis, Your Prevailing Charms, MLN, 56 (1941), 529-30. Not, however, included in Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, ed. Robert D. Hume and Harold Love, 2 vols (Oxford, 2007).

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Phyllis ('Phyllis, though your powerful charms')
    • MaA 331 ff. 19v-25r

      Copy, headed A Second Advise to a Painter, with a marginal note in a different hand Edited 8vo. 1667 mihi - Sr J. Denham Direct. to Painter &c.

      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')
    • DrJ 7 ff. 33r-63v

      Copy, without the dedication, with a marginal note in a different hand Edited Lond 1667 - 8vo - mihi - P., deleted in pencil.

      See also DrJ 244 and Introduction.

      First published in London, 1667. Kinsley, I, 52-105. California, I, 47-105. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 110-201.

      John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666 ('In thriving Arts long time had Holland grown')
    • DrJ 244 ff. 64r-5v

      Copy, headed Verses to her Highnesse ye Dutchesse on ye Victory gaind by ye Duke against ye Dutch June 4 1665 & another carried afterwards into ye North - By John Dryden Esquire.

      See also DrJ 7 and Introduction.

      First published in the dedication to Annus Mirabilis (London, 1667). Kinsley, I, 49-51. California, I, 57-8. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 126-9.

      John Dryden, Verses to her Highness the Dutchess, on the memorable Victory gain'd by the Duke against the Hollanders, June the 3. 1665. and on Her Journey afterwards into the North ('When, for our sakes, your Heroe you resign'd')
    • MaA 402 ff. 65v-9r

      Copy, with a marginal note in a different hand Edited 8vo. 1667 Direct to Painter Sr J. Denham p. 29, deleted in pencil.

      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 372 ff. 69v-80v

      Copy, with a marginal note in a different hand Edited 8vo 1667 - Sr J. Denham &a at p. 13 &c mihi, deleted in pencil.

      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')

  • Add. MS 69847

    A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 80 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco.

    Presented by Carew Reynell.

    • RaW 159.5 f. 5r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, with corrections, on one side of a folio leaf, heavily damp-stained, imperfect and lacking a heading.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

      This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')

  • Add. MS 69883B

    A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 82 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

    Volume XVIB (Series II) of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, and his family.

    Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.

    • DaS 15.5 f. 66r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, with a correction, untitled, here beginning If greatnes Wisdome polisie or state, with other verses, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 189.

      Samuel Daniel, 'If greatnes, wisedome pollicie of state'
    • PeW 14 f. 66r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, with other verses, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      Krueger, p. 57, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts. Also in online Early Stuart Libels.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Epitaph on Robert, Earl of Salisbury ('You that read in passing by')

  • Add. MS 69961

    A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers, dated 1702-18, in various hands, 264 leaves.

    Volume XXVI (Series III) of the Coke Papers.

    • *VaJ 387 f. 218r
      Autograph

      Autograph memorandum by Vanbrugh on Expences in Building and Gardening at Hampton Court Kensington and St James's, Sence the Revolution, on the first page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, sent to Thomas Coke, Vice Chamberlain, endorsed Richardson's bill, undated.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 69968A

    A large folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 160 leaves, mounted on guards.

    Volume XXXIIIA (Series III) of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, and his family.

    Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.

    • WoH 204.5 f. 30v

      Copy.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')
    • CgW 52 ff. 52r-3r

      Copy, untitled, on a single sheet, endorsed in the hand of Thomas Coke, minister of Queen Anne, Mr. Congreves verses on Mrs Hunt.

      First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 7-9. Dobrée, pp. 222-4 (as on Mrs. Arabella Hunt, Singing. Irregular Ode). McKenzie, II, 300-2.

      William Congreve, Upon a Lady's Singing. Pindarick Ode, By Mr. Congreve ('Let all be husht, each softest Motion cease')
    • MaA 328.5 ff. 70r-5r

      Copy, on rectos only of six folio leaves, untitled.

      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')
    • DeJ 7.3 f. 115r

      Extracts, headed out of Coopers Hill, three lines beginning As Court make not Kings but kings the Court, and twelve lines, headed pag. 3d, beginning Under his proud sarvey the City lies, on one side of a folio leaf of verse.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

      Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill ('Sure there are Poets which did never dream')
    • DoC 23.5 ff. 116r-17r

      Copy, in an accomplished professional hand, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

      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 70001

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers.

    Volume I of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland. Formerly Loan MS 29/202.

    • *DnJ 4115 f. 124r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Harley, 7 April 1613.

      Edited in Hayward, pp. 464-5.

      John Donne, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 70012

    A folio composite volume of letters to Sir Edward Harley, for 1673-78, in various hands, 313 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Volume XII of the Harley Papers. Formerly Loan MS 29/182.

    • *MaA 545 ff. 58r-9v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Edward Harley, from London, 3 May 1673.

      Margoliouth, II, 328-9. Facsimile of the first page in Kelliher, p. 109.

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)
    • *MaA 565 ff. 247r-8v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter by Marvell, to Sir Edward Harley, lacking signature, 17 July 1677.

      Margoliouth, II, 353-4.

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)
    • *MaA 566 ff. 249r-50v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Edward Harley, lacking signature, 7 August 1677.

      Margoliouth, II, 354-6.

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)
    • *MaA 567 f. 254r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Edward Harley, lacking signature, 17 November 1677.

      Margoliouth, II, 256-7.

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 70028

    A folio guardbook of correspondence of the Harley family, from July to December 1711, in various hands and paper sizes, 353 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Volume XXVIII of the Harley Papers among the Portland Papers.

    • *VaJ 170 f. 336r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to an unidentified correspondent (? Harley), from Whitehall, 27 Deceember 1711.

      Abstract in HMC, Portland V (1899), p. 132; edited in Works, IV, 51-2 (No. 38).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 70030

    A folio guardbook of correspondence of the Harley family, from October 1712 to June 1713, in various hands and paper sizes, ii + 268 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Volume XXX of the Harley Papers among the Portland Papers.

    • VaJ 183 f. 266v-r

      Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh, to an unspecified relation, 2 April 1713, sent by one J. S. from Liverpool, 26 June 1713, to Robert Harley, to expose Vanbrugh's treacherous Principles.

      Edited in HMC, Portland V (1899), p. 299, and in Works, IV, 55 (Nos 43-4).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 70044

    A folio composite volume of naval papers, in various hands and paper sizes, ii + 458 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco marbled boards.

    Volume XLIV of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

    Formerly Loan MS 29/215.

    • HaG 51 ff. 189r-94r

      Copy, in a professional hand (the same as in HaG 49 and HaG 50), with a few corrections in another hand, on six folio leaves.

      Edited from this MS in HMC, Portland X (1931), 20-8. Collated in Brown, I, 309-14.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea

  • Add. MS 70046

    A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers relating to the Office of Works, particularly St Paul's Cathedral, ii + 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Volume XLVI of the Portland Papers.

    Formerly Loan MS 29/217.

    • *VaJ 129 f. 84r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Robert Harley, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710.

      Edited in HMC, Portland X (1931), p. 136. Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 46 (No. 33b) and 193-4.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 154 f. 85r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Robert Harley], 12 February 1710[/11].

      Edited in HMC, Portland X (1931), pp. 136-8, and in Whistler, p. 234 (Appendix I, No. 8).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 449 f. 86r
      Autograph

      Copy of a memorandum of Work directed by the Duke of Marlborough to be done at Blenheim this year: 1711, in a professional hand and signed by Vanbrugh, sent to Robert Harley, 15 June 1711.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 462 ff. 93r-4r
      Autograph

      Memorandum on money Due to Severall Workmen and Artificers for Worke pform'd by them at the Building of Blenheim, in a professional hand, signed by Vanbrugh, by Nicholas Hawksmoor and by Henry Joynes, July-October 1712.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 450 f. 98r
      Autograph

      Report to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, about marble delivered to Blenheim, in a professional hand, signed by Vanbrugh and by Christopher Wren, at Whitehall, Office of Works, 29 June 1711.

      Edited in HMC, Portland, X (1931), p. 138.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 176 ff. 101r-2v
      Autograph

      An autograph copy by Vanbrugh of a letter by him to the Duke [of Marlborough], 4 November 1712, sent to Robert Harley.

      Edited in HMC, Portland X (1931), pp. 139-40. Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 52-3 (No. 40).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 132 f. 104r

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [the Duke of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, and signed by Vanbrugh, as part of Vanbrugh's report sent by him to the Treasury.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 44 (No. 33).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 479 ff. 104r-6v
      Autograph

      Copy of Vanbrugh's report to the Treasury on 10 October 1710, giving An Account of what has passed with the Treasury relating to the Building at Blenheim since my Lord Godolphin was removed (incorporating Vanbrugh's copies of his related letters to various bodies), this copy in a professional hand, signed twice by Vanbrugh, and sent to Robert Harley, [c.1714-15].

      Edited in HMC, Portland X (1931), pp. 140-3.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • VaJ 134 ff. 104r-v

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Lord Poulet, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of Vanbrugh's report sent by him to the Treasury.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 45-6 (No. 33a).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 136 ff. 105r

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Robert Harley, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of Vanbrugh's report sent by him to the Treasury.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 46 (No. 33b) and 193-4.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 140 ff. 105v-6r
      Autograph

      Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Treasury, 10 October 1710, signed by Vanbrugh, as part of Vanbrugh's report to the Treasury, and sent to Robert Harley.

      Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 47-8 (No. 33d), and 195.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 178 f. 109r
      Autograph

      Autograph copy by Vanbrugh of his letter to the Mayor of Woodstock, from Whitehall, 26 January 1712[/13], sent to Robert Harley.

      Edited in HMC, Portland X (1931), pp. 144-5. Edited in Works, IV, 53-4 (No. 42, misdated 25 January).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • VaJ 179 f. 111r-v

      A scribal copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Mayor of Woodstock, from Whitehall, 26 January 1712/13.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 181 ff. 112r-13v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford], 21 February 1712/13.

      Edited in HMC, Portland X (1931), p. 145, and in Whistler, p. 128 (Appendix I, No. 15, p. 240).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 184 f. 116r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford], from Whitehall, 14 April 1713.

      Edited in HMC, Portland X (1931), p. 147, and in Whistler, p. 129 (Appendix I, No. 17, p. 241).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 70368

    A tall folio guardbook of papers of Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet and diplomat, largely in his hand, partly in that of his secretary Adrian Drift, iii + 193 leaves of various sizes, in modern black morocco gilt.

    c.1700s.

    Volume CCCLXVIII of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland. Formerly Loan MS 29/336.

    • DoC 87 f. 101r

      Copy, in Prior's hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      Edited from this MS in Wright & Spears. Collated in Harris.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971), II, 777-8 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity). Harris pp. 93-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Epitaph on Mrs. Lundy ('Here lies little Lundy a yard deep or more')
    • DoC 203 f. 101v

      Copy, in Prior's hand, untitled, on the second page of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      This MS collated 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')
    • DoC 335.1 f. 102r-v

      Copy, in Prior's hand, untitled, on the third and fourth pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      Edited in Harris (1940), pp. 152-3. Discussed in Harris (1979), p. 188. Unlikely to be by Dorset.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Revolution in 1688 ('Of a splenetic nation I sing')

  • Add. MS 70499

    A folio guardbook of letters and papers, in various hands, i + 358 leaves.

    Volume CCCCXCIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland. Formerly Loan MS 29/235.

    • *HbT 55 ff. 73r-83r
      Autograph

      Autograph manuscript, entitled A second most secret instruction Gallo-britanno-batauian, giuen to Fredericke the V. Translated out of Low Dutch into Latine, and diuulged for the most publique good. At Hague, by permission of ye Senate. 1626.

      Edited from this MS in Malcolm, with a facsimile of f. 74r facing p. 22.

      Translation of the political pamphlet Altera secretissima instructio Gallo-Britanno-Batava Friderico V data, ex belgica in latinam versa, et optimo publico evulgata (The Hague, 1626). First published in Noel Malcolm, Reasons of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes (Oxford, 2007), texts of the translation and original Latin on pp. 124-99.

      Thomas Hobbes, Hobbes's Translation of Altera secretissima instructio
    • *HbT 103 ff. 172r-3r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, from London, 26 January[/5 February] 1633/4.

      Substantially edited in HMC, Portland II (1893), p. 124. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 19-20, Letter 10.

      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
    • *HbT 108 ff. 184r-5v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, [to the Earl of Newcastle]. from Paris, 15/25 August 1635.

      Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 28-9. Letter 16.

      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
    • *HbT 110 ff. 202r-3v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to the Earl of Newcastle, from Paris, 13/23 June 1636.

      Substantially edited in HMC, portland II (1893), p. 128. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 32-3, Letter 18.

      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
    • *HbT 111 ff. 210r-11v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, from Paris, 29 July/8 August 1636.

      Substantially edited in HMC, Portland II (1893), pp. 128-9. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 33-4, Letter 19.

      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
    • *HbT 112 ff. 212r-13r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, from Byfleet, 16[/26] October 1636.

      Substantially edited in HMC, Portland II (1893), pp. 129-30. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 37-8, Letter 21.

      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
    • *HbT 113 ff. 214r-15v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, from Byfleet, 25 October/[5 November] 1636.

      Substantially edited in HMC, Portland II (1893), p. 130. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 39, Letter 22.

      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
    • *HbT 114 ff. 216r-17v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, from Byfleet, 25 December 1636/[4 January 1637].

      Substantially edited in HMC, Portland II (1893), p. 130. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 41, Letter 24.

      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
    • *SuJ 187 f. 244r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Newcastle, from London, 8 January [1640/1?].

      Edited in Clayton, p. 152. Facsimile example in Berry, p. 114.

      John Suckling, Letter(s)
    • *CvM 3 ff. 259r-98v
      Autograph

      A series of twenty-one affectionate autograph letters by Margaret Cavendish, all but one signed (Margaret Lucas or M. L.), to her future husband William Cavendish, then Earl of Newcastle, almost entirely on pairs of conjugate folio leaves, addressed to Cavendish on the fourth page, many with remains of red wax seals, some with remains of pink or red silk ties.

      Facsimile of f. 265r in Douglas Grant, Margaret the First (London, 1957), opposite p. 84.

  • Add. MS 70501

    A folio composite volume of letters, 1696-1708, in various hands and paper sizes, 260 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Vere & Cavendish Papers, recorded in HMC, PortlandII, pp. 110-235.

    • *CgW 117 ff 133r-4v
      Autograph

      Agreement for the Duke of Newcastle to have free access to the new Haymarket Theatre, in a professional hand, signed and subscribed by Vanbrugh, also signed by William Congreve, 8 May 1704 (endorsed 9 May).

      Recorded in HMC, 13th report, Appendix, Part II: Portland II (1893), p. 185. Register, No. 1768.

      William Congreve, Document(s)
    • *VaJ 390.5 ff 133r-4v
      Autograph

      Agreement for the Duke of Newcastle to have free access to the new Haymarket Theatre, in a professional hand, signed and subscribed by Vanbrugh, also signed by William Congreve, 8 May 1704 (endorsed 9 May).

      Recorded in HMC, 13th report, Appendix, Part II: Portland II (1893), p. 185. Register, No. 1768.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 70516

    A large folio guardbook of medieval and 16th-century fragments, in paper and vellum, in various hands and folio sizes, iv + 90 leaves.

    • ElQ 2 f. 52r

      Copy, inscribed lengthways, in three columns, along the margin of a cropped quarto-size leaf otherwise comprising a formal copy of a late medieval Latin text.

      Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth 3, pp. 28-30. Bradner, pp. 8-10, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 11, pp. 305-6.

      Queen Elizabeth I, 'Now leave and let me rest. Dame Pleasure, be content'

  • Add. MS 70518

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state letters and papers, in various hands, viii + 390 leaves, in dark blue morocco gilt.

    Volume DXVIII of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

    Formerly Loan MS 29/240.

    Recorded in HMC, Portland, II, 5-64.

    • ElQ 117 f. 83r-v

      Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand, with deletions, untitled, docketed at the top in January 1558 in the hand of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 84v) 1558 Thanswer of the Quenes matie followed in Burghley's hand To ye Plement howse, requiring...hir to Marry.

      First published in Richard Grafton, An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England (London, 1563), 179v-80.

      Version I. Beginning As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks.... Hartley, I, 44-5. Collected Works, Speech 3, pp. 56-8 (Version 1).

      Version II. Beginning In a thing which is not much pleasing unto me.... Collected Works, pp. 58-60 (Version 2).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Speech before Parliament, February 10, 1559

  • Add. MS 70519

    An unbound collection of copies of royal letters and papers, in various hands.

    Volume DXIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland.

    • ElQ 136 No. XLIX

      Copy, in a cursive hand, headed The Queens speech in ye Parlamt uttered by ye Ld Keeper Apr. X. 1563. Being ye Queens own M.S., on two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, endorded on the forth page The Queens Speech to ye Parlamt vpon a message concerning her marriage & ye succession.

      First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

      Beginning Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words.... Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon
    • ElQ 211 No. LVII

      Copy of Version II, in a cursive hand, headed Her Maties most Gracious answer delivered by her self verbally to ye Petitions of ye Lords & Commons, being ye estates of Parlament Nov. 12. 1586. A Copy corrected by her own hand. It toucheth ye Queen of Scots, & ye Treason plotted against herself, on two conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

      Version I. Beginning When I remember the bottomless depth of God's great benefits towards me.... Hartley, II, 254-8 (Text ii, a summary) and II, 261 (cited only, as Text iv). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 186-90 (Version 1).

      Version II. Beginning The bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almighty.... Hartley, II, 247-53 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 190-6. Autograph Compositions, pp. 67-72 (Version 2). Selected Works, Speech 8, pp. 61-9.

      Version III. Beginning My lords and gentlemen, I cannot but accept with much kindness this your petition, wherein I perceive the great love you bear towards me.... Hartley, II, 259-60 (Text iii).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586
    • ElQ 222 No. LVII

      Copy of Version II, headed The Queens second speech to ye Parlamt, Nov. 24. 1586. Corrected by her own hand, touching ye Queen of Scots, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

      Version I. Beginning I perceive you have well considered of my last message.... Hartley, II, 266-71 (2 versions). Hartley, II, 271 (cited only, as Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 196-200 (Version 1).

      Version II. Beginning Full grievous is the way whose going on and end breed cumber for the hire of a laborious journey.... Hartley, II, 266-70 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 200-4 (Version 2). Autograph Compositions, pp. 73-8. Selected Works, Speech 9, pp. 70-6.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Second Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 24, 1586
    • ElQ 261 No. LXX

      Copy of Version III, with a lengthy heading, Her Maties most Princely Answer, Delivered by her self at the Court at Whitehall ye last day of November 1601...The same being taken Verbatim in writing by A.B. as neer as hee could possibly set it down, on both sides of a large quarto leaf.

      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
    • ElQ 73 No. LXXIII

      Copy, headed A Prayer made by her Majesty ye 15th of August being then in Bristow in hir progress, on two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

      Beginning I render unto thee, O merciful and heavenly Father, most humble and hearty thanks.... Collected Works, Prayers 29, pp. 310-11. Selected Works, Prayer 1, pp. 246-8.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Prayer at Bristol, August 15, 1574

  • Add. MS 70636

    A small quarto volume of chiefly parliamentary speeches and sermons, in several hands, two predominating, ii + 44 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

    Owned and probably compiled in part by Knightley Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, student of Lincoln's Inn (in 1623), whose name is inscribed on the cover, as is that of Jane Chetwode.

    c.1626.

    Later in the family papers of Sylvester Douglas (1743-1823), Baron Glenbervie, politician.

    • RaW 754.5 ff. 14r-17v

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed Words spoke by Sr. Walter Rawleigh at his death.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 730.2 ff. 17v-18r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, subscribed Wa: Rawleigh.

      Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley.... First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note
    • RaW 38.5 f. 18r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'

  • Add. MS 70639

    A small quarto journal of proceedings in Parliament from 20 January to 2 March 1628/9, with additional verses, in three hands, ii + 87 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    c.1629-30s.

    Inscribed (f. 3r) Arth: Langford his booke the first of may 1629; (ff. 3r, 84v) John Slaughter; (f. 86r) Francis Webb and Robert Thurketil. Subsequently in the papers of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 51.

    Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 232, and 13 December 1990, lot 11. Facsimile example in the sale catalogues. Acquired 22 March 1991.

    • RaW 412 f. 65r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sr: Walter Rawleigh to my Lady Bentbowe.

      Listed but not edited in Latham, pp. 173-4.

      First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'I cannot bend the bow'
    • RaW 453.5 f. 65r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed at the side Answare.

      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'
    • CwT 738 f. 66r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed verses on ye Queene of Bohemia.

      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')
    • DaW 12 f. 66v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

      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')
    • MsP 7 f. 67r

      Copy of a 32-line prologue for a performance of The Maid of Honour at the Cockpit early in c.January-April 1630, in a secretary hand.

      Edited from this MS in Beal. See also Donald S. Lawless, On the Dating of Massinger's The Maid of Honour, N&Q, 231 (September 1986), 391-2, where this MS is used as evidence for dating the first performance of the play to 1630 rather than its then being a revival.

      First published in Peter Beal, Massinger at Bay: Unpublished Verses in a War of the Theatres, Yearbook of English Studies, 10 (1980), 190-203. The verses reprinted and discussed in Massinger: The Critical Heritage, ed. Martin Garrett (London & New York, 1991), pp. 59-68 (and see also pp. 4-7).

      Philip Massinger, Prologue to ye Mayde of honour ('To all yt are come hither, and haue brought')
    • DaW 79.5 ff. 67v-8r

      Copy, prefaced by a brief prose address to Carew, in a secretary hand.

      Edited from this MS in Beal.

      First published, and tentatively attributed to Davenant, in Peter Beal, Massinger at Bay: Unpublished Verses in a War of the Theatres, Yearbook of English Studies, 10 (1980), 190-203. The verses reprinted and discussed in Massinger: The Critical Heritage, ed. Martin Garrett (London & New York, 1991), pp. 59-68 (and see also pp. 4-7)

      Sir William Davenant, To my honored ffriend Mr Thomas Carew at Sr: Richard Leightons house in Boswell Court these ('Soe the rude Carpenter or Mason may')
    • MsP 1 ff. 68v-70v

      Copy of a 150-line satirical poem, in a secretary hand, subscribed Phillip Massinger.

      Edited from this MS in Beal. Facsimiles of f. 68v in Sotheby's sale catalogues, 14 December 1989, lot 232, and 13 December 1990, lot 11.

      First published in Peter Beal, Massinger at Bay: Unpublished Verses in a War of the Theatres, Yearbook of English Studies, 10 (1980), 190-203. The verses reprinted and discussed in Massinger: The Critical Heritage, ed. Martin Garrett (London & New York, 1991), pp. 59-68 (and see also pp. 4-7).

      Philip Massinger, A Charme for a Libeller ('I'me in my Circle & I haue thee here')
    • MrJ 34.8 ff. 70v-2r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')

  • Add. MS 70949

    A folio composite volume of autograph letters.

    Volume II of the Charnwood Autograph Collection, formed by Dorothea Mary Roby Benson (d.1942), wife of Godfrey Rathbone, first Baron Charnwood.

    Formerly Loan MS 60/2.

    • *MaA 551 ff. 1r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Henry Thompson, 1 December 1674.

      Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 288a.

      Lady Charnwood, An Autograph Collection and the making of it (London, 1930), pp. 74-5. Margoliouth, II, 333-4. Facsimile of the first page in an unspecified Maggs sale catalogue [1920s?], item 454, Plate XIX.

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)
    • *WaE 821 f. 23r-v.
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, [to John Evelyn], from Beaconsfield, 30 August 1652.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
    • *DrJ 374 f. 25r
      Autograph

      An autograph note signed by Dryden, authorizing his wife to receive £75 due to me as Poet Laureat.

      Formerly among the Egerton-Warburton MSS, recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291. Sotheby's, 16 March 1937, lot 485. Formerly Loan MS 60/2, item 5 (1). Facsimile in Hilton Kelliher, Dryden Attributions and Texts from Harley MS. 6054, BLJ, 25/1 (Spring 1999), 1-22 (p. 2).

      John Dryden, Document(s)
    • *CgW 90 f. 44r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from London, 30 April 1706.

      Hodges, No. 23. McKenzie, III, 165 (Letter 33). Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 16 March 1937, lot 479.

      Formerly British Library, Loan MS 60/2, item 7(5).

      William Congreve, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 71245

    A large folio guardbook of miscellaneous letters and documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 31 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    • *LoR 64 L.
      Autograph

      Lovelace's autograph signature, as witness to an agreement for a survey by Robert Warcupp of land at Goldor and Easington, leased by Magdalen College, Oxford, 26 March 1655.

      Sotheby's, 13 December 1993, lot 14 (unsold), with a facsimile of the signatures in the sale catalogue, and 19 July 1994, lot 20.

      Richard Lovelace, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 71549

    Autograph fair copy, on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in two hands On Mr Crashaw By Mr Cooly., one of these hands being that of George Lane (1620-83), later Viscount Lanesborough, when he was secretary to the Duke of Ormonde.

    c.1649.

    Formerly among poems presented to, or owned by, James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Formerly Loan MS 37/6, pp. 145-7. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 270.

    Edited from this MS, with a facsimile example, in Hilton Kelliher, Cowley and Orinda. Autograph Fair Copies, BLJ, 2 (1976), 102-8. Facsimile of the first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue. Also recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix VII, Ormonde I (1895), p. 115.

    • *CoA 127
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 48-9. Sparrow, pp. 46-8.

      Abraham Cowley, On the Death of Mr. Crashaw ('Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given')

  • Add. MSS 71689-71692

    Copies of letters to Cotton and references to him, including hasty copies of some sixteen letters by Boothby to Cotton, as well as one to Cotton's daughter Catherine. They also include numerous references to the Cotton family and to their neighbours and cousins, the Fitzherbert family.

    In four volumes, comprising a diary and three letterbooks, compiled by Sir William Boothby (c.1638-1707), of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, partly in his hand, partly in the hands of secretaries, over 1,100 octavo and folio pages in all, in calf and vellum.

    1676-1688.

    Formerly among the Boothby family papers at Fonmon Castle, co. Glamorgan, and on deposit in the Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff. Sotheby's, 24 July 1995, lot 29, with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue.

    Discussed and partly edited, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, My Books are the Great Joy of my Life: Sir William Boothby, Seventeenth-Century Bibliophile, The Book Collector, 46/3 (Autumn 1997), 350-78; reprinted in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of The Book Collector, An Anthology (London, 2003), pp. 284-304.

    • CnC 206
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Miscellaneous

  • Add. MS 72270

    A folio composite volume of state papers of Dudley Carleton (1574-1632), Viscount Dorchester, for the period 1614-18 while he was Ambassador at The Hague, lx + 117 leaves, bound with Add. MS 72269.

    Volume XXIX of the Trumbull Papers.

    • *CwT 1291 ff. 26r-7v
      Autograph

      A letter by Dudley Carleton, signed by him, to William Trumbull, the text in the hand of Thomas Carew as his secretary, 13/23 July 1616.

      Facsimile in Sotheby's catalogue The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 13 (p. 45).

      Thomas Carew, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72337

    A composite folio volume of official letters and papers of William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 1605-8, 182 leaves.

    Volume XCVI of the Trumbull Papers.

    • *LoT 18 f. 122r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 13 April 1607.

      HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 24-5. Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 26, p. 62.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)
    • *LoT 19 f. 123r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 23 April 1607.

      HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), p. 94.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)
    • *LoT 20 f. 185r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 20 February 1608/9.

      Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 26, p. 65.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72338

    A composite folio volume of official letters and papers of William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 1608-9, 169 leaves.

    Volume XCVII of the Trumbull Papers.

    • *LoT 21 f. 59r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 25 February 1608/9.

      HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 249-50 (misdated 23 February 1609/10).

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)
    • *LoT 22 f. 69r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 20 April 1609.

      HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 92-4.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)
    • *LoT 23 f. 99r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 2 July 1609.

      HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 112-13.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)
    • *LoT 24 f. 102r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 12 July 1609.

      HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 114-15.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)
    • *LoT 25 f. 125r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 21 September 1609.

      HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), p. 140. Edited in Houppert, p. 122.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)
    • *LoT 26 f. 144r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 22 November 1609.

      HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 189-90. Edited in Houppert, pp. 121-2.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72344

    A composite folio volume of official letters and papers of William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 112 leaves.

    Volume CIII of the Trumbull Papers.

    1613.
    • *LoT 28 f. 52r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 7 October 1613.

      HMC, [75], Downshire, IV (1940), p. 215.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72346

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 127 leaves.

    Volume CV of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.

    • *DnJ 4120 f. 57r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Donne, to William Trumbull, 10 September 1614.

      Facsimile in Sotheby's catalogue The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), lot 15.

      John Donne, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72350

    A folio collection of unbound letters, chiefly for 1617, 138 leaves.

    Volume IX of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.

    • RaW 874 ff. 47r-8r

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Ralph Winwood, in a secretary hand, on three pages of two conjugate large folio leaves, folded as a letter, addressed on the last page (f. 48v) to William Trumbull in Brussels, with traces of a red wax seal and Trumbull's docketing.

      Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Misc MS VIII, No. 37.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72351

    A composite folio volume of official letters and papers of William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 1617, 136 leaves.

    Volume CX of the Trumbull Papers.

    1617.
    • RaW 875 f. 100r

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, 14 November [1617], in a professional secretary hand, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

      Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Misc XXXIV, No. 5.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • *LoT 29 ff. 118r-19v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, concerning Lodge's edition of Seneca, 4 December 1617.

      HMC, 75, Downshire, VI (1995), p. 338.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72352

    A folio composite volume of letters and papers of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 163 leaves, 1618.

    Volume CXI of the Trumbull Papers. Formerly Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull MS Misc. IX

    • KiH 804 ff. 75r-6v

      Autograph letter signed by Henry King, to William Trumbull, 16 April 1618.

      Henry King, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72353

    An unbound collection of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 128 leaves.

    Volume XII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Misc. XXXIV.

    • RaW 550.2 ff. 55r-60v

      Part of a copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, imperfect. c.1620s.

      A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
    • RaW 550.4 ff. 61r-2v

      Part of a copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sr walter Ralegh his Appologie, imperfect.

      A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
    • RaW 550.6 ff. 63r-5v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sr Walter Ralegh his Apologie, on six pages of three pairs of conjugate folio leaves, incomplete, lacking the ending, endorsed Sr Walter Rawleigh's Apology. c.1620s.

      A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana

  • Add. MS 72354

    An unbound collection of letters and papers generally dating from October to December 1618, in various hands, 125 leaves.

    Comprising Volume CXIII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.

    • RaW 730.3 f. 47r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Coppie of that Sr. W. Raleghe did write the Day before he suffered, wch he did desire might be published for the better satisfaction of all men, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter. c.1620.

      This leaf formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull MSS (Misc. Corres. Vol. XXXIV, No. 11).

      Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley.... First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note
    • RaW 876 f. 48r-v

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, in a secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 766.5 ff. 50r-1r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, endorsed in another hand If my boy hath mistaken or miswritten any thing in the speech, you must by discretion amend it. for I haue no tyme to read it, and, in yet another hand, Sr Walter Rawghleyes speech at his Death, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1618.

      Formerly Trumbull Misc. corres. XXXIV, no. 12.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 739.2 ff. 84r-5r

      Autograph letter signed by Robert Branthwaite, to William Trumbull in Brussels, discussing the vnfortunate end of their old freind, who made a most resolute and religious end and dyed like a Sainte, and a souldier, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

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

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

  • Add. MS 72360

    A folio composite volume of correspondence between January and March 1620/1.

    Trumbull Papers Volume CXIX, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.

    1621.
    • *ToA 114 ff. 136r-7v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to William Trumbull, from Hampton Court, 13 March 1620/1.

      Sotheby's, 14 December 1989 (The Trumbull Papers catalogue), lot 36, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 36. Facsimile page also in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86.

      Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72363

    An unbound collection of letters sent to William Trumbull, Resident in Brussels, in various hands, 176 leaves, 1621-2.

    Trumbull Papers Vol. CXXII.

    • *LoT 31 ff. 1r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 2 January 1621/2.

      Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72373

    A folio composite volume of letters and papers of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 110 leaves, 1628-32.

    Volume CXXXII of the Trumbull Papers.

    • *KiH 820 ff. 4r-5r
      Autograph

      A letter signed by Guiana Company shareholders, including Henry King and Sir Robert Naunton, to William Trumbull, Clerk of the Privy Council, 30 March 1628.

      Facsimile in Sotheby's catalogue The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 18.

      Henry King, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 72396

    Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, unascribed, the heading added in the hand of the Rev. Ralph Bridges (d.1724), chaplain to the Bishop of London, 22 folio leaves (plus four blanks).

    Volume CLV of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official, and Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), diplomat. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.

    c.1620s.

    Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add. 19(3). Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, lot 7.

    • BcF 166
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain

  • Add. MS 72408

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page The Voyage made to the Isles of Azores...under the Conduct and Commaund of Robert late Earle of Essex...Collected and written...by Sr Arthur Gorges Knight, (also mentioning, as annexed, Ralegh's certaine Observations and Notes concerning the Royall Navy and Sea service although no text of this work is present), 37 folio leaves (plus blanks), unbound.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Volume CLXVII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.

    Annotated at the end by William Trumbull with a quotation from Camden's Annales regnante Elizabetha (pt. II, f. 534). Formerly in Berkshire Record Office, part of Trumbull Add. 22.

    • GgA 133
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage (but without any dedicatory epistle), in Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition of Purchas, XX (1907), 34-129. According to Purchas the work was written in 1607 and dedicated to Prince Henry.

      Sir Arthur Gorges, The Islands Voyage

  • Add. MS 72409

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 17 leaves of an unbound quarto booklet in paper wrappers, ff. 18r-20r occupied by Certaine other obseruacons taken out of some other coppies and here incerted.

    Early 17th century.

    Volume CLXVIII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly in Berkshire Record Office, part of Add 21.

  • Add. MS 72411

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled The Earle of Essex his Apologie and dated 1601, on 14 folio leaves.

    Early 17th century.

    Volume CLXX of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 16/11.

    • EsR 116
      No description or publication history available.

      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.

  • Add. MS 72414

    An unbound collection of state tracts and speeches, in various hands, 113 chiefly folio leaves.

    Volume CLXXIII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly in Berkshire Record Office, in Trumbull Add 5, 8, 37, 42.

    • CtR 281 ff. 35r-53v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the beginning. 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.
    • *CtR 13 ff. 55r-78v
      Autograph

      Part of a copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed Robert Cotton Bruceus, inscribed at the top of f. 67r, apparently in Cotton's own hand, Ks. of Engld R. C. Bruce, imperfect, much torn away.

      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 72439

    A folio composite volume of largely official letters and papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653), German poet, secretary to Charles I, and afterwards parliamentary Secretary for the Foreign Tongues, c.180 leaves.

    c.1615-51.

    Volume CXCVIII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park

    • WoH 204.8 f. 148r

      Copy, headed On the sudden restraint of a favourite, followed by two Latin versions.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')

  • Add. MS 72451

    An unbound collection of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 82 generally folio leaves.

    Volume CCX of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.

    • PpS 10 ff. 22r-39r

      Copy in a professional hand, headed Mr Pepys letter and new years gift to his Honble Friend Sr Wm Coventry, 18 folio leaves (plus blanks), with (ff. 40r-1r) an abstract of the tract, probably by Sir William Trumbull, on a loosely inserted pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1665-70s.

      This MS tract once owned by Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), Secretary of State. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add. 19 (26).

      First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.

      Samuel Pepys, The Pursers Employ Annatomized and both Advantages & disadvantages therein discovered and also A Proposall of comitting the Victualling accompt to the care and management of each Comander. Presented as a New yeares guift to Sr: William Coventry by Samuel Pepys Esqr in 1665

  • Add. MS 72456

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, ii + 50 quarto leaves, imperfect, partly eaten away by rodents, in contemporary vellum.

    Early 17th century.

    Volume CCXV of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 26.

    • OvT 42
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State.... First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

  • Add. MS 72470

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A shorte Viewe of Kinge Hen: the 3: his Raigne, unascribed, iii + 14 folio leaves, in contemporary paper wrappers.

    Volume CCXXIX of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 19/1.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Formerly Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull Add. 19(1).

    • CtR 392
      No description or publication history available.

      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 72478

    An unbound folder of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves.

    Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.

    Sotheby's sale catalogue, The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), part of lot 39.

    • CwT 261 f. 45r

      Copy, in a cursive hand, on a single folio leaf, originally with an accompanying leaf inscribed These To Robert Lee, Esqr at his hous at Binfield in Berkshire present Leave this wth the Earle of Sterline at his hous nere Hartford Bridg.

      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')
    • WyW 5 ff. 61r, 62r-4r

      Copy in the neat hand of Alexander Pope, headed An Epistle to Mr. Dryden; Occasion'd by his desiring me to join with him in writing a Comedy By Mr. Wycherley, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

      The hand identified by Hilton Kelliher.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions. By His Grace the Duke of Buckingham (London, 1717). Posthumous Works (London, 1728), pp. 18-29. Summers, IV, 63-9.

      William Wycherley, An Epistle to Mr. Dryden ('As when great Kings with petty Princes joyn')
    • HeR 115 f. 74r-v

      Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1620s-30s.

      Facsimile the last ten lines in Sotheby's catalogue, The Trumbull Papers, lot 39.

      First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

      Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare')
    • HeR 262 ff. 74v-5v

      Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, headed The Welcome again, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      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')
    • DaW 110.5 f. 81r

      Copy of the opening speech, headed The master of the Ceremonies of the Prince D'Amour to the Prince Elector (here beginning Sr this shorte Journey from my prince's throne), in a neat predominantly secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf; together with (f. 80r), in another secretary hand, Certaine quæries of the Prince D'Amour and his officers, queries which formed no part of Davenant's printed text but which were also probably part of the entertainment.

      Dramatic Works, I, 328-9.

      First published in London, 1635. Dramatic Works, I, 317-40. Trois Masques à la Cour de Charles Ier d'Angleterre, ed. Murray Lefkowitz (Paris, 1970), pp. 111-69.

      Sir William Davenant, The Triumphs of the Prince D'Amour
    • DrJ 164 f. 92r-v

      Copy, in a professional hand, headed Prologue, on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 369-70. California, I, 146-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 277-9.

      John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxon. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman ('What Greece, when Learning flourish'd, onely Knew')
    • DrJ 40.8 f. 92v

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 370-1. California, I, 147-8. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 279-81.

      John Dryden, Epilogue [to the University of Oxon.], Spoken by the same [Mr. Hart] ('No poor Dutch Peasant, wing'd with all his Fear')
    • WaE 285 f. 94r

      Copy, in a probably professional hand, on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed (f. 95v) Mr Wallers Verses vpon old Age.

      First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

      Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book ('When we for age could neither read nor write')
    • DoC 22.2 f. 109r-v

      Copy, in a probably professional rounded hand, untitled, here beginning Att noon, and in a Sumers day, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter, addressed (f. 110v) For Sr. William Trumbull at his house in Gesard Street, and endorsed Ld Dorsetts verses / The disappointed maid.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State...Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 72-3.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, 'At noon in a sunshiny day'
    • FrG 7.5 f. 111r-v

      Copy of the song, untitled, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves (the second leaf blank).

      First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).

      George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song ('A Trifling Song you shall hear')
    • BcF 21.5 f. 135r-v

      Copy of an untitled version, in a neat rounded hand, beginning The longest life of man / Is but a spann, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

      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'

  • Add. MS 72479

    An unbound collection of verse MSS, in various hands, 145 generally folio leaves.

    Volume CCXXXVII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly in Berkshire Record Office, in Trumbull Add 17 and 18.

    Once owned by Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), lawyer and government official. Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, part of lot 39.

    • CaW 19 f. 27r-v

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed Nouember, on a single folio leaf, folded as a letter, frayed and slightly imperfect.

      First published as a broadside, undated. Reprinted in London, 1671. Evand, pp. 560-3.

      William Cartwright, November or, Signal Dayes Observ'd in that Month in relation to the Crown and Royal Family ('Thou Sun that shed'st the Dayes, looke downe and see')
    • DoC 72 ff. 28r-9r

      Copy, in a probably professionalcursive hand, headed A Duell betwixt two Crablice vpon my Lady Bennetts - concludinge wth the change of the governmt. from Monarchicall to democraticall, subscribed from the Rose in Cursitors Alley August 5. 68::, on two conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter.

      First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')
    • MaA 194 ff. 30r-2r

      Copy, in a professional hand, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter, endorsed Cleaveland's Ghost.

      First published in one version [c.1669?] (exemplum without title-page owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 935Q). An incomplete version in Charles Gildon, Chorus Poetarum (London, 1694). Margoliouth, I, 180-7. Lord, pp. 188-92. Smith, pp. 403-12.

      Lines 15-62 also appear as lines 649-96 in The last Instructions to a Painter (MaA 500-4), and lines 178-85 appear as a separate poem in Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (MaA 253-280).

      Andrew Marvell, The Loyal Scot ('Of the old Heroes when the Warlike shades')
    • DoC 336 f. 40r-v

      Copy, in a small hand, in double columns, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter.

      First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
    • DoC 141 f. 68r

      Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf, folded as a letter.

      First published in Harris (1979), pp 61-2.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On King William's Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination ('The youth whose fortune the vast globe obey'd')

  • Add. MS 72521

    An unbound collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 237 leaves.

    1685.

    Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, in lot 49, pp. 132-3, with a facsimile example of one letter. Now Trumbull Vol. CCLXXX.

    • *EtG 133 ff. 160r-1v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 8/18 December 1685.

      Bracher, pp. 14-15.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72522

    A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 216 leaves.

    1685-6.

    Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, in lot 49, pp. 132-3, with a facsimile example of one letter. Now Trumbull Vol. CCLXXXI.

    • *EtG 134 ff. 62r-3v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 5/15 January 1685/6.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)
    • *EtG 135 ff. 158r-9v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 2/12 February 1685/6.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)
    • *EtG 136 ff. 207r-8v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 23 February/5 March 1685/6.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72523

    A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 232 leaves.

    1686.

    Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, in lot 49, pp. 132-3, with a facsimile example of one letter. Now Trumbull Vol. CCLXXXII.

    • *EtG 137 ff. 9r-10v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 2/12 March 1685/6.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)
    • *EtG 138 ff. 21r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 9/19 March 1685/6.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)
    • *EtG 139 ff. 119r-20v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 20/30 April 1686.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72524

    A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 223 leaves.

    1686.

    Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, in lot 49, pp. 132-3, with a facsimile example of one letter. Now Trumbull Vol. CCLXXXIII.

    • *EtG 140 ff. 19r-20v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 1/11 June 1686.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)
    • *EtG 141 ff. 132r-3v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 20/30 July 1686.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72525

    A collection of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull, Envoy to Turkey, in various hands and paper sizes, 212 leaves.

    1686.

    Formerly in the Berkshire Record Office, among Trumbull Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vols. XXIII and XXV Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, in lot 49, pp. 132-3, with a facsimile example of one letter. Now Trumbull Vol. CCLXXXIV.

    • *EtG 142 ff. 1r-4v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 24 August/3 September 1686.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)
    • *EtG 143 ff. 21r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 31 August/10 September 1686.

      Facsimile pages IELM, II.i (1987), XVII, after p. xxiv.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)
    • *EtG 144 ff. 114r-15v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Etherge, to Sir William Trumbull, from Ratisbon, 8/18 November 1686.

      Bracher, pp. 70-1.

      Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72538

    A folio composite volume of correspondence of Sir William Trumbull from July 1697 to June 1698, in various hands, 224 leaves.

    • *DrJ 335 f. 64r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Sir William Trumbull, 18 August [1697].

      Formerly Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull MSS, Miscellaneous Correspondence, Vol. XXXII, No. 68.

      Ward, Letter 46. Facsimile in Sotheby's catalogue The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), lot 54.

      John Dryden, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72542

    A folio composite volume of correspondence chiefly of Sir William Trumbull, in various hands, 197 leaves.

    Volume CCCI of the Trumbull Papers.

    • *SdT 43 ff. 98r-9r
      Autograph

      Autograph doggerel verse epistle signed by Shadwell, to William Trumbull, beginning It was I assure you with the greatest Surprize, undated.

      Facsimile of the first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), lot 62. Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XI, after p. xxi.

      Thomas Shadwell, Letter(s)
    • *SdT 44 ff. 100r-1r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, addressed to William Trumbull (Will Trumbull Esqr a gallant Young Spark / To be left at his house in Easthamsted Park), a doggerel verse epistle beginning Tho it's very unlucky oft times to delay, undated.

      Thomas Shadwell, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72602

    Copy, in a professional hand, with occasional annotations in the hand of Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), diplomat.

    c.1700.

    Volume CCCLXI of the Trumbull Papers. Formerly Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull MS Add. 65.

    • ClE 105
      No description or publication history available.

      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 72604

    A folio volume of parliamentary tracts and proceedings, in several largely professional hands, ii + 162 leaves, in contemporary speckled calf.

    Volume CCCLXIIIof the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 83.

    • HaG 56 ff. 138v-58v

      Copy, in a professional rounded hand, on 40 folio pages.

      Formerly Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull Add 83(d).

      This MS collated in Brown, I, 404-6.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1695. Foxcroft, II, 466-88. Brown, I, 315-41.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Some Cautions offered to the Consideration of those who are to choose Members to serve in the ensuing Parliament

  • Add. MS 72611

    Two unbound MSS of the Marquess of Halifax's Character of a Trimmer, 78 folio leaves.

    Volume CCCLXX of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 55.

    • HaG 4 ff. 1r-38r

      Copy, in a professional hand, headed probably by Sir William Trumbull Charactr of a Trimmer Written A° 1684, 35 folio leaves, in paper wrappers.

      Edited from this MS in Brown.

      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
    • HaG 5 ff. 39r-78r

      Copy, in the hand of Halifax's chaplain and amanuensis Alexander Sion (1654-1730), 39 folio leaves (rectos only), slightly imperfect, in paper wrappers.

      This MS collated in Brown, I, 345-96. Recorded in Brown, HLQ (1972), p. 147. Facsimile of the first page in Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 55, p. 146.

      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

  • Add. MS 72612

    Large folio volume of state papers and tracts, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 56 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in a contemporary vellum wallet binding with ties.

    Volume CCCLXXIof the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 88.

    • HaG 47 ff. 51r-48r rev.

      Copy, in the hand of Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), lawyer and government official, transcribed directly from HaG 45, with (f. 48v-r rev.) a list of proposals relating to the tract, headed Heads &c. 29 November 1693.

      This MS collated in Brown, I, 309-14, and the list of proposals edited, I, 308-9. Recorded in Brown, HLQ (1972), p. 152. Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 56, with a facsimile example of the first page on p. 148.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea

  • Add. MS 72850

    A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence of Sir William Petty, in various hands, iv + 310 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt.

    Formerly Petty Papers, Vol. 6, 1st and 2nd series.

    • HbT 161 ff. 134r-5v

      Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to John Aubrey, from Hardwick, 24 February[/16 March] 1674[/5].

      Cited in Quentin Skinner, Thomas Hobbes and the Nature of the Early Royal Society, Historical Journal, 12 (1969), 217-39 (pp. 217-19). Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 751-2, Letter 198.

      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
    • MaA 557 ff. 145r-6v

      Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir William Petty, from Westminster, 18 October 1675, faded.

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)
    • WaE 831 ff. 151r-2v

      Letter by Waller, to Dr Robert Wood, in the hand of an amanuensis and sent on by Wood to Sir William Petty, from Saint Germain, 7 March [1680/1].

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
    • DoC 251.5 ff. 194r-5v

      Copy of a Latin verse translation, in a rugged hand, added to a letter by Sir Peter Pett to Sir William Petty, introduced by Pett: I haue here enclosed for you a latine translacon of My Lord Buckursts song of his bonny black Besse, subscribed Ld Buckhursts Song in Leonine, 29 January 1673[/4].

      First published in Methinks the Poor Town (London, 1673). Choice Songs and Ayres…The First Book (London, 1673). Harris, pp. 90-2.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song on Black Bess ('Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long')

  • Add. MS 72898

    A folio composite volume of scientific and other papers of Sir William Petty (1623-87), natural philosopher, 138 leaves.

    Volume XLIX of the Petty Papers, formerly owned by the Earl of Shelburne, Bowood House.

    A microfilm of this MS is in Bodleian, Film dep. 937.

    • HaJ 6 f. 33r-v

      Autograph letter signed by Harrington, to Sir William Petty, c.March 1675[/6].

      A formal letter of request, reminding Sir William Petty that in March 1675 he had offered to show to him, Sir Robert Boyle and Sir Christopher Wren a cleare and easy experiment…more intimately concerning the good of man kinde than any other hetherto contained in the writings or known experience of any of the philosophers, his only condition being that they would furnish him with a suitable place to show it (such as some open grown[d] or rather some flat roofe of any building) and an instrument (which would not cost aboue six pounds.

      Formerly Petty Papers, Box H, No. 21.

      James Harrington, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 72899

    A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, chiefly verse, in various hands and paper sizes, iii + 262 leaves, mounted on guards, in brown morocco gilt.

    Vol. L of the Petty Papers, owned principally by Sir William Petty (1623-87), natural philosopher and administrator in Ireland.

    Formerly owned by the Earl of Shelburne, Bowood House (Petty Papers, Vol. 2).

    • HbT 4.5 ff. 130r-9r

      Copy.

      First published in Jacquot & Jones (1973), Appendice I, pp. 439-47.

      Thomas Hobbes, De Motibus Solis, Aetheris & Telluris. Praecipuè autem Numeri Dierum In hemisphaerio Boreo, quàm in Australi Majoris, Causa conjecturalis ('Antiquâ dudum Tellus statione relictâ')
    • MaA 329 ff. 140r-7v

      Copy, in a cursive hand, headed A Second Advice to ye Paintr, on eight small folio leaves.

      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')
    • CgW 27.8 ff. 151r-2r

      Copy of lines 1-56, in a neat hand, headed Verses by Congreve on Lord Cobham's Gates at Stowe, incomplete, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, stained. c.1728-40s.

      Probably owned by Sir William Petty's younger son, Henry, first Earl of Shelburne (d.1751), of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

      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')

  • Add. MS 73086

    A folio volume of documents by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, in several professional hands, iv + 30 leaves (including five blanks), in paper wrappers.

    c.1620s.

    The upper wrapper inscribed Cha Kemeys. Bought from Maggs, 23 April 1953, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

    • RaW 877 f. 1r

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, 1608, in a predominantly secretary hand.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 728.115 ff. 2r-19v

      Copy of the 1603 arraignment, in a predominantly secretary hand.

      Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • RaW 788 ff. 20r-2r

      Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed Sr: Walter Raleigh his speace att the time of his death.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RaW 73 f. 22r

      Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, here beginning Eaven such is tyme that takes in trust.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'

  • Add. MS 73087

    A folio volume of state letters and tracts, almost entirely in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the Feathery Scribe, iv + 232 leaves, in reversed calf.

    c.1628-30s.

    Once owned by Ric: Tichbone, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652). James Tregaskis, sale catalogue No. 1022 (1948), item 29. Bought from Maggs, 4 November 1948, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

    Briefly described in Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 229-31 (No. 35).

    • RaW 878 ff. 22r-43r

      Copy of ten letters by Ralegh, to Lords Nottingham, Suffolk, and Devonshire, to Sir Robert Carr, to Sir Robert Cecil, to James I, to Queen Anne, to Sir Ralph Winwood, and to Ralegh's wife, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 789 ff. 43r-6v

      Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed Sir walter Rawleighe Confession.

      This MS recorded in C. Deedes, Unpublished Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh, N&Q, 8th Ser. 3 (24 June 1893), 481-2.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • CtR 254 ff. 106r-12r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sir Robert Cotton knight and Barronett.

      Tract beginning For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name.... Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett
    • CtR 328 ff. 112r-15r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed Ra: Cotton.

      A tract beginning Which office because it was neuer hereditary.... Unpublished?

      Sir Robert Cotton, Of the steward of the King's household by Sr. Robt Cotton Kt. & Bart.
    • CmW 43 ff. 115v-18r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as collected by mr Will: Camden.

      A tract beginning Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus.... First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.

      William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England
    • CtR 238 ff. 118v-20v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sr Robert Cotton knight & Baro:.

      Tract beginning Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question.... Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by Sr: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 55 ff. 121r-6r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sr: Robert Cotton Knight and Baronette.

      Tract beginning The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto.... Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 220 ff. 126v-8v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Ro: Cotton Kt:.

      A dedicatory epistle beginning Sir, Yor small tyme, I must Ballance, wth as sclendr Aunswere... followed by a tract beginning Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne....

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Antiquitye, and Offyce of the Earle Marshall of England, written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, Att the request of the Lord Henrye Howard, Earle of Northampton [25 November 1602]
    • CmW 32 ff. 131r-8v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.

      A tract beginning Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes... and sometimes entitled in manuscripts The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England. First published, as Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.

      William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
    • BcF 455 ff. 160r-3r

      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
    • JnB 411.5 f. 231r

      Copy, added in a third professional cursive hand after 1633.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 250.

      Ben Jonson, On the Right Honourable, and vertuous Lord Weston, L. high Treasurer of England, Vpon the Day, Hee was made Earle of Portland, To the Envious ('Looke up, thou seed of envie, and still bring')

  • Add. MS 73165

    A small (114 x 60 mm.) almanac for 1680 and notebook, in a single rounded hand, ii + 83 leaves, in vellum boards.

    Compiled by Henry Sturmy, who in November 1686 was bound apprentice to the London bookseller Ricard Hunt.

    c.1680-85.

    Christopher Edwards, Short List 9 (1997), item 88.

    • ElQ 226 ff. 54r-6v

      Copy, headed Queen Elizabeths Speech to her Army Att Tilbury Camp on ye Spaniards coming to Inuade the Land in ye year 1588, subscribed This Account the Earle of Leicester gaue ro Dr Sharp that hee might publish it to ye Army in a Sermon.

      Beginning My loving people, I have been persuaded by some that are careful of my safety to take heed. how I committed myself to armed multitudes.... Collected Works, Speech 19, pp. 325-6. Selected Works, Speech 10, pp. 77-83. The Queen's authorship supported in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 103-6.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeths Armada speech to the Troops at Tilbury, August 9, 1588

  • Add. MS 73540

    An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco.

    Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents This Book is written by Brown.

    Late 17th century.

    Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.

    • MaA 501.5 ff. 1r-26r

      Copy, complete with the envoy, subscribed p Andrew Marvel.

      This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 10r, in Hilton Kelliher, Marvell's The Last Instructions to a Painter: From Manuscript to Print, EMS, 13 (2006), 296-343 (pp. 329-32).

      First published in The Third Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 147-72. POAS, I, 97-139. Lord, pp. 151-86. Smith, pp. 369-96. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 36-7.

      Andrew Marvell, The last Instructions to a Painter ('After two sittings, now our Lady State')
    • RoJ 104.25 ff. 5v? [pp. 127-36]

      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).

      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 194.5 ff. 26v-32v

      Copy, subscribed ffinis p Andrew Marvel.

      First published in one version [c.1669?] (exemplum without title-page owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 935Q). An incomplete version in Charles Gildon, Chorus Poetarum (London, 1694). Margoliouth, I, 180-7. Lord, pp. 188-92. Smith, pp. 403-12.

      Lines 15-62 also appear as lines 649-96 in The last Instructions to a Painter (MaA 500-4), and lines 178-85 appear as a separate poem in Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (MaA 253-280).

      Andrew Marvell, The Loyal Scot ('Of the old Heroes when the Warlike shades')
    • DoC 41.5 ff. 39r-43r
      No description or publication history available.

      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')
    • WaE 384.5 ff. 43v-8r

      Copy, headed A Panegyrick to my Ld Protector by Edward Waller Esqr.

      First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

      Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation ('While with a strong and yet a gentle hand')
    • MaA 69.5 ff. 50r-4v

      Copy, headed The Checquer Inne.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')
    • MaA 239.5 ff. 57r-8v

      Copy, headed Upon Sr Robert Viners setting up the kings Statue in Wool Church Market.

      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')
    • RoJ 359.5 ff. 58v-60r

      Copy, headed Upon Seignor Dildo p Rochester.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

      The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) Signior Dildo, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo ('You ladies all of merry England')
    • RoJ 76.3 f. 62r

      Copy of lines 89-100, headed Upon Comon Fame, here beginning There's not a thing on Earth yt I can name.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')
    • RoJ 104.26 ff. 64r-8v

      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')
    • RoJ 567.5 ff. 68v-9v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • SeC 53.5 f. 70r

      Copy, headed Against ye Pride of Women.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

      Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia ('As in those Nations, where they yet adore')
    • EtG 88.5 f. 70v

      Copy, headed To a Very Young Lady.

      First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 1.

      Sir George Etherege, To a Very Young Lady ('Sweetest bud of beauty, may')
    • RoJ 48.5 ff. 71r-2r

      Copy, headed The Maymed Drunkard.

      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')
    • RoJ 169.5 f. 73v

      Copy, headed Song / Love and Life, inscribed E R.

      First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')
    • RoJ 413.5 f. 74r

      Copy, subscribed E R.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
    • RoJ 621.5 f. 74v-5r

      Copy, subscribed E R.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor ('Love bade me hope, and I obeyed')
    • RoJ 407.5 f. 75v

      Copy, subscribed E R.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as Love to a Woman.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Love a woman? You're an ass!')
    • RoJ 439.5 f. 76r

      Copy, subscribed E R.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('What cruel pains Corinna takes')
    • RoJ 396.5 ff. 76v-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 39-40, and the version How perfect Cloris, and how free on pp. 40-1, and in Love, pp. 23-4. See also David Vieth, A Textual Paradox: Rochester's To a Lady in a Letter, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('How happy, Chloris, were they free')
    • RoJ 555.5 ff. 77v-8r

      Copy, headed To Celia for Inconstancy, subscribed E R.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress ('Tis not that I am weary grown')
    • RoJ 384.5 ff. 78r-v

      Copy, immediately followed (on ff. 78v-9r) by Elizabeth Wilmot's answer (Nothing adds to your fond fire).

      First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

      Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')
    • RoJ 242.5 ff. 79r-80r

      Copy, headed My Lord Rochester on Sr. C. S., followed (f. 80r) by His Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler).

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')
    • RoJ 138.5 ff. 80v-6v

      Copy, as per E R.

      First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
    • RoJ 484.5 f. 86v-8r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love ('O Love! how cold and slow to take my part')
    • RoJ 287.5 ff. 88r-9r

      Copy of lines 174-221, headed A Supplemt to my Ld Rochesters Satyr agt Man not Edited, beginning All this wth Indignation have I hurld.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')

  • Add. MS 73541

    A quarto volume of poems by George Herbert, in a single italic hand, iv + 20 leaves, in 19th-century dark brown calf.

    c.1620s.

    Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 July 1845 (Bright sale, Part V), lot 1728. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, 1846, p. 62. Cochrane's sale catalogue, 1846, item Melvin. Inscribed (f. iiir) in 1850 by William Pickering (1795-1854), publisher. Bookplate (1911) of Robert Monckton-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 80, with a facsimile of ff. 10v-11r in the sale catalogue.

    • HrG 324.5 ff. 6r-19r

      Copy of 43 poems, comprising (f. 6r-v) the three preliminary poems addressed to James I, to Prince Charles, and to Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, and (ff. 7r-19r) Epigrams i-xl.

      The text here follows a copy (on ff. 1r-5r) of Andrew Melville's Pro supplici euangelicorum ministrorum in Anglia...siue Anti-tami-cami-categoria (beginning Insolens audax facinus nefandum) which inspired Herbert's response. It was written in 1603-4 and first published in David Calderwood, Parasynagma Perthense (1620). Hutchinson, pp. 609-14.

      A series first published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, pp. 384-403. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 2-61.

      George Herbert, Musae Responsoriae ad Andreae Melvini Scoti Ante-tami-cami-categoriam ('Cvm millena tuam pulsare negotia mentem')
    • HrG 302.5 f. 19r

      Copy.

      First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 435. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 166-7.

      George Herbert, Ad Autorem Instaurationis Magnae ('Per strages licet autorum veterúmque ruinam')
    • HrG 311.5 f. 19r-v

      Copy, headed De Eodem. Ep.

      First published in Emanuele Tesauro, Caesares, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1637). Hutchinson, pp. 436-7. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 168-71.

      George Herbert, In Honorem Illustr. D.D. Verulamij, Sti Albani, Mag. Sigilli Custodis post editam ab eo Instaurationem Magnam ('Qvis iste tandem? non enim vultu ambulat')
    • HrG 305.5 f. 19v

      Copy.

      First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 435. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 166-7.

      George Herbert, Comparatio inter Munus Summi Cancellariatus et Librum ('Mvnere dum nobis prodes, Libróque futuris')
    • HrG 301.5 f. 20r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Fry.

      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 303.8 f. 20r

      Copy.

      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')
    • HrG 327.5 f. 20v

      Copy.

      Ten lines, unpublished.

      George Herbert, Wren cum chirothecis ('Candida amicitiæ nascentis pignora, sed quæ')
    • HrG 313.5 f. 20v

      Copy.

      First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 434. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 164-5.

      George Herbert, In Natales et Pascha Concurrentes ('Cvm tu, Christe, cadis, nascor. mentémque ligauit')

  • Add. MS 74066

    A tall folio composite volume of letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, several hundred unnumbered pages, in contemporary half-calf on marbled boards.

    Volume CCXCVII of the papers of Horatio Walpole, MP (1678-1757), first Baron Walpole of Wolterton, diplomat.

    • CtR 448 Item 12

      Copy, in two neat hands, endorsed by Walpole Copy of a discourse at ye Council table concerning moneys, agst infeebling Coyn: by Sr R: Cotton, on five folio leaves. c.1730.

      Speech beginning My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626 and Questions to be proposed, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]

  • Add. MS 74272

    A quarto volume of chiefly religious tracts and verse, in a single italic hand, iv + 228 leaves, imperfect, disbound.

    Compiled by Thomas Sparrow, BA, of London.

    c.1658-61.

    Donated by Arthur Freeman, March 1999.

    • TaJ 122 ff. 98r, 102r-6r, 173r-200r, 208r-v

      Extracts or copies of works attributed to Taylor, including An excellent Prayer by Dr Taylor (beginning O holy, and eternall Jesus! whoe hast ouercome Death...; The Eight Beatitudes; Of Prayer; and A Prayer (beginning O holy and eternal Jesu! who didst for our sakes fast 40 daies..., subscribed Mr doctr Taylor.

      Jeremy Taylor, Extracts
    • TaJ 20 ff. 139v-56v

      Copy of the dedicatory epistle, headed Octo Beatitudines The eight Beatitudes or Blessednesses, subscribed Dr Tayler.

      First published in London, 1649.

      Jeremy Taylor, The Great Exemplar
    • HrG 53.8 ff.. 157r-66v

      Copy, as mr Herberts.

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

      George Herbert, The Church-porch ('Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance')
    • HrG 45.2 ff. 166v-72v

      Copy.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 190-8.

      George Herbert, The Church Militant ('Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throne')
    • TaJ 10 ff. 173r-200r

      Copy of the discourse Of Prayer.

      First published in London, 1658.

      Jeremy Taylor, A Collection of Offices or Forms of Prayer in Cases Ordinary and Extraordinary

  • Add. MS 74287

    Autograph draft, with copious revisions, written on board his ship the Due Repulse on Essex's return from the Cadiz expedition, with some deletions and additions in another hand, 32 folio leaves, imperfect, [c.early August 1596].

    1596.

    From the Hulton papers relating to Essex. Sotheby's sale catalogue Elizabeth and Essex. The Hulton Papers (14 December 1992), lot 4, with facsimiles of two pages. Phillips's sale catalogue The Earl of Essex to Elizabeth I (11 June 1999), lot 250, with facsimiles of two pages.

    • *EsR 152
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Written as a letter to an unnamed gentleman, probably to Sir Robert Cecil, and possibly intended ultimately for the Queen, giving an account and justification of the Cadiz expedition and proposing various measures for dealing with Spain.

      Unpublished in full. An altered version of the first few pages was published from a MS in the British Library, Cotton MS Julius F. VI, ff. 280r-1r, in Thomas Lediard, The Naval History of England in all its branches (2 vols, London, 1735), pp. 337-9.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Discourse on War with Spain

  • Add. MS 74734

    An unbound collection of miscellaneous letters and papers, 151 leaves.

    Acquired from miscellaneous sources.

    • RaW 399.8 f. 54v

      The title of the poem (ICVR) only, in an endorsement on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves containing two Jacobean satirical ballads in a secretary, lacking the lower half of the second leaf which would have contained the text of the ICUR poem.

      Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 11 May 2000, lot 11.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'

  • Add. MS 74763

    A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, ii + 168 leaves (plus blanks), including some laid-down printed pages, in contemporary calf (lacking upper cover).

    c.1740.

    Sotheby's, 18 May 2000, lot 558, to Hugh Pagan.

    • DrJ 107.5 ff. 87v-9r

      Copy, subscribed Dryden.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1767-9. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 606-7.

      John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas: A Pastoral Elegy (''Twas on a Joyless and a Gloomy Morn')
    • BeA 15.5 ff. 89r-90v

      Copy, subscribed A Behn.

      First published in Miscellany, Being A Collection of Poems By several Hands (London, 1685). Todd, Works, I, No. 53, pp. 161-3.

      Aphra Behn, On the Death of the late Earl of Rochester ('Mourn, Mourn, ye Muses, all your loss deplore')
    • DeJ 9.5 ff. 151r-66r

      Series of pages of the 1709 printed edition of the poem mounted, with MS collations from the 1643 edition on many of the facing pages.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

      Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill ('Sure there are Poets which did never dream')

  • Add. MS 75364

    Written on ten quarto pages by Halifax's amanuensis Alexander Sion (1654-1730), a Huguenot refugee whom Halifax appointed as his domestic chaplain some time after 23 October 1690 and whom he presented to the rectory of Barrowby in Lincolnshire in 1693.

    Formerly Althorp Papers, C6 (2).

    The text has been edited (albeit piecemeal) in Foxcroft (see I, xiv, for full page references), and see Foxcroft, I, xii-xiv; Brown, HLQ (1972); and David Wykes, The Marquis of Halifax and his Man of Letters: Facts and Problems, N & Q, 218 (May 1973), 171-5.

    • HaG 72
      No description or publication history available.

      An account of Halifax by Alexander Sion under the title Saviliana/or/The Works/of/George Savile/Late Marquis of Halifax/In four Tracts/The Character of a Trimmer/A Letter to a Dissenter/The Anatomy of an Equivalent/and/Advice to a Daughter, evidently intended as an introduction to a posthumous edition of four of Halifax's tracts which did not materialize.

  • Add. MS 75366

    A collection of partly autograph notes and papers of Halifax, in various hands and paper sizes, on unnumbered loose sheets, in 44 folders.

    Including a note concerning news from Spain (one small slip); ([9]) autograph notes concerning the capture of James II at Faversham, c.12 December 1688 (one folio leaf); minutes of the meeting of the Lords at Windsor, 17 December 1688 (two quarto pages); and ([5]) notes at the debates of the Lords, 24 December 1688 (two folio pages). Also including ([3]) three pairs of conjugate quarto leaves containing, in the hand of Halifax's secretary Alexander Sion, a titke-page Saviliana / or / The Works/of / George Savile / Late Marquis of Halifax / In four Tracts / The Character of a Trimmer / A Letter to a Dissenter / The Anatomy of an Equivalent / and / Advice to a Daughter, and Some account of the following papers and of their noble Author, Sion's introduction to his intended edition of four of Halifax's tracts.

    c.1688-95.

    Volume LXVI of the papers of the Earl Spencer, of Althorp, Northamptonshire. Formerly Althorp Papers C8.

  • Add. MS 75367

    A folio volume comprising two autograph MS works by Halifax, bound together, i + 48 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern dark green morocco gilt.

    Volume LXVII of the archives of the Earl Spencer, of Althorp, Northamptonshire. Formerly Althorp Papers, C9 (1-2).

    • *HaG 55 ff. 2r-21v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile of the first page facing I, 316. Recorded in Brown, HLQ (1972), p. 153.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1695. Foxcroft, II, 466-88. Brown, I, 315-41.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Some Cautions offered to the Consideration of those who are to choose Members to serve in the ensuing Parliament
    • *HaG 61 ff. 22v-48r
      Autograph

      Autograph journal of Halifax's conversation with William III between 30 December 1688 and (here) 8 February 1689/90, transcribed by Halifax from (now lost) notes originally made by him on separate sheets, on 27 folio leaves (written on one side only); imperfect.

      Edited from this MS in Foxcroft.

      Journal of Halifax's conversations with William III between 30 December 1688 and 8 February 1688/9. First published in Foxcroft (1898), II, 201-52.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Conversations between King William III and Lord Halifax, 1688-90

  • Add. MS 75372

    Transcript of Halifax's conversations with William III between 30 December 1688 and 8 February 1689/90 in the hand of Miss Rachel Lloyd (d.1803), apparently transcribed (at least in part) from Halifax's (now lost) original notes, here headed Memorandoms of Conversations that pass'd between King William, and George Marquiss of Hallifax, who was made Lord Privy Seal, by King Wiliam at the Revolution. They were wrote by that Lord upon loose sheets of paper most of them with dates, some without, 93 large quarto leaves on rectos only (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary green vellum.

    c.1800.

    Volume LXXII of the archives of the Earl Spencer, of Althorp, Northamptonshire. Formerly Althorp Papers F163. (C14).

    Edited in part from this MS (A) in Foxcroft.

    • HaG 62
      No description or publication history available.

      Journal of Halifax's conversations with William III between 30 December 1688 and 8 February 1688/9. First published in Foxcroft (1898), II, 201-52.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Conversations between King William III and Lord Halifax, 1688-90

  • Add. MS 75373

    Transcript of Halifax's conversations with William III.

    Transcript of Halifax's conversations with William III between 30 December 1688 and ?23 May 1690 in the hand of Miss Rachel Lloyd, apparently transcribed (at least in part) from Halifax's (now lost) original notes, here headed Memorandoms of Conversations between King William and George Marquiss of Hallifax, wrote down by that Lord upon loose sheets of paper, some with dates, and some with none. Correctly copied, To which are added some explanatory Notes by the Transcriber, 94 small quarto leaves, on rectos only (plus numerous blanks), in brown half-calf.

    c.1800.

    Volume LXXIII of the archives of the Earl Spencer, of Althorp, Northamptonshire. Formerly Althorp Papers F164 (C15).

    Edited in part from this MS (B) in Foxcroft.

    • HaG 63
      No description or publication history available.

      Journal of Halifax's conversations with William III between 30 December 1688 and 8 February 1688/9. First published in Foxcroft (1898), II, 201-52.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Conversations between King William III and Lord Halifax, 1688-90

  • Add. MS 78186

    An unbound collection of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands, 81 generally folio leaves.

    Chiefly papers of Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford, father of Sir Richard Browne.

    Volume XIX of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Purchased March 1995.

    • BcF 455.5 f. 39r-v

      Copy of Bacon's letter to the House of Lords, 19 March 1620/1, in the predominantly italic hand of Christopher Brown, on a folio leaf, folded as a letter.

      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

  • Add. MS 78192

    A folio composite volume of correspondence between Sir Richard Browne and Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, 101 leaves, in half-morocco.

    Volume XXV of the Evelyn Papers.

    Formerly Evelyn MS 10.

    • ClE 75 ff. 92r-3r

      Copy, in the hand of John Evelyn.

      Petition beginning I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain.... Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?], and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667

  • Add. MS 78205

    A composite volume of state papers, principally relating to the Civil War, 159 leaves.

    Volume XXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *HbT 81 ff. 108r-9v
      Autograph

      Autograph, docketed by Sir Richard Browne Propositions. E. of Warwick &ct. T.H.

      Proposal by Hobbes for persuading the Lord High Admiral, Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick, to bring the English Navy over to King Charles I. Unpublished.

      Thomas Hobbes, Proposal concerning the English Navy

  • Add. MS 78223

    A folio composite volume of correspondence of Sir Richard Browne, 102 leaves.

    Volume LVI of the Evelyn Papers.

  • Add. MS 78229

    A quarto notebook relating to natural philosophy, c.100 pages, in contemporary limp vellum with remains of leather ties, the front cover lettered by Evelyn Academic Exercises.

    Vol LXII of the Evelyn Papers.

    c.1623-8.

    Evans (i.e. Sotheby's), 22 June 1846 (William Upcott sale), lot 59. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 10.

    • *EvJ 26
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Academical Exercises

  • Add. MS 78230

    An oblong octavo commonplace book containing extracts from Quintilian, Seneca and other authors, partly in the hand of John Evelyn the younger, iv + 187 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf.

    1701/2.

    Volume LXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 95.

    • EvJ 30
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Adversaria and Commonplace Books

  • Add. MS 78233

    A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

    Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

    Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

    • RaW 158.5 ff. 1r-2r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed in a different hand finis a rich ballet entitled Sr. ffoole yow lye, on the first three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

      This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')
    • EsR 40 f. 2r

      Copy, untitled.

      As The Answer to the Lie in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge'
    • RaW 364.5 f. 3r

      Copy, in a stylish italic hand, untitled and here beginning Heere Hobbinoll lies our sheaphard while-ere, on one side of a large portion of a single folio leaf.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')
    • CoR 265.5 f. 7r-v

      Copy, in a rounded italic hand, headed Ad Authorem..., on the first two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1620s-30s.

      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 403.5 f. 17r

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on one side of a single quarto leaf, folded as a letter. c.1620s-30s.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

      Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')
    • CoR 219.5 ff. 18r-19r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, on the first three pages (two following leaves unopened) of a quarto booklet. c.1620s-30s.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

      An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of Dr Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

      Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
    • CoR 356.5 ff. 21r-2r

      Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Verses. Dr. Corbet. c.1620s.

      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')
    • SuJ 94.5 ff. 32r-3v

      Copy, in a professional rounded italic hand, headed The Witts, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1630s.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.

      John Suckling, The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) ('A Sessions was held the other day')
    • ClJ 184 f. 37r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled and here beginning Here rests wise & valiant dust, on a fragment of a leaf, imperfect, the ending torn away.

      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')
    • DeJ 81.5 f. 46r et seq.

      Copy, in a probably professional mixed hand, headed The Westerne Wonder The second part to the same tune, here beginning You have herd of that wonder, subscribed Sr John Hotham, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 133-4.

      Sir John Denham, A Second Western Wonder ('You heard of that wonder, of the Lightning and Thunder')
    • *PsK 485.5 f. 69r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed To ye Queens Majesty, on both sides of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 13-16. Poems (1667), pp. 7-8. Saintsbury, pp. 510-11. Thomas, I, 75-7, poem 6.

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen's majesty, Jan. 1. 1660/1 ('You justly may forsake a land which you')
    • *PsK 218.5 ff. 70r-1r
      Autograph

      Autograph, untitled, on three pages of a pair of quarto conjugate leaves.

      Facsimile of f. 70r in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 75.

      First published, as Ode. On Retirement, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), pp. 45-8 [apparently unique extant exemplum Folger C6681.5]. as Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode in Poems (1664), pp. 237-42. Poems (1667), pp. 122-4. Saintsbury, pp. 575-7. Thomas, I, 193-5, poem 77.

      Katherine Philips, An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject ('No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast')
    • PsK 577.8 ff. 72r-3r

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed Extract of a Scene in Corneile's Pompey Act 3 Scene 4th Enter Caesar, and Cornelia (Being his Prisoner) &c., comprising the whole scene from line 5 to line 93 (here beginning Cæsar! that enuious Fate which I can braue), on two conjugate folio leaves.

      Song sung by two Egyptian priests. Thomas, III, 40-1.

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act II, scene iv. Song ('See how Victorious Cæsar's Pride')
    • MaA 316.5 ff. 81r-7v

      Copy, in a bold rounded hand, headed The [ ]uice to a Painter drawing the History of or Nauall Business In Imitation of Mr Waller Being the Last Worke of Sr Joh: Denham London written for the Company of Poets, in a quarto booklet, imperfect.

      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 402.5 ff. 89r-90v

      Copy, in a probably professional rounded hand, headed New Instructions to the painter, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      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 485.5 f. 93r-v

      Copy, in a cursive hand, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter, imperfect, partly torn away.

      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 448.5 ff. 94r-5v

      Copy, in a probably professional hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      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 200.5 f. 100r

      Copy, in a rounded hand, headed An Antient Prophecy of Nostre=domus written Originall, in french and therefore now done into English, on a folio leaf, imperfect, partly torn away.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy ('The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix')
    • RoJ 24.5 ff. 104r-5v

      Copy, in a neat hand, headed In imitation of ye 10 Satyr of Horace by my Ld Rochester, on a fragment of two quarto leaves, partly torn away.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
    • RoJ 347.5 f. 105v

      4 lines, docketed these were writen in Kg Charles ye 2ds Window by ye late Ld Rochester.

      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')
    • DoC 218.5 f. 109r

      Copy.

      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')
    • WhA 35 ff. 121r-2r

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed A Paraphrase upon the 103 Psalme, on three pages of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves (the second pair unopened), once folded as a letter.

      First published in The Idea of Christian Love (London, 1688), pp. xix-xxiii. Greer & Hastings, No. 15, pp. 172-4.

      Anne Wharton, Mrs. Wharton's Paraphrase Upon the 103d Psalm ('Advance my Soul, and all thy Pow'rs incline')
    • WhA 14 f. 122v

      Copy, in a neat hand, untitled, on the fourth page of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves (the second pair unopened), once folded as a letter.

      First published (in a 33-line version) in The Idea of Christian Love (1688). Greer & Hastings, No. 22, p. 188.

      Anne Wharton, From Mrs. Wharton ('Small are the poor Returns which you receive')
    • JnB 503.5 f. 123v

      Copy.

      First published as a commendatory poem in William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals (London, 1616), sig. A5v. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 386.

      Ben Jonson, To my truly-belou'd Freind, Mr Browne: on his Pastorals ('Some men, of Bookes or Freinds not speaking right')
    • WaE 159.5 ff. 124r-9r

      Copy of extracts from Cantos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, headed Mr Waller of diuine Loue, on seven pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      First published in Poems, Fourth edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 119-30.

      Edmund Waller, Of Divine Love. Six Cantos ('The Grecian muse has all their gods survived')
    • KiA 5 f. 128r-v

      Copy, in a neat rounded hand (? possibly autograph), headed To the Queene, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Poems (London, 1686), pp. 6-10.

      Anne Killigrew, To the Queen ('As those who pass the Alps do say')
    • KiA 1 f. 130r

      Copy, in a neat rounded hand (? possibly autograph), headed 1 Epigram, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      First pub. in Poems (1686), p.

      First published in Poems (London, 1686), p. 15.

      Anne Killigrew, First Epigram. Vpon being Contented with a Little ('We deem them moderate, but Enough implore')
    • KiA 3 f. 130r

      Copy, in a neat rounded hand (? possibly autograph), headed 2 Ep: / On Mamurra and here beginning Wanton Mamurra loudly does Complaine, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Poems (London, 1686), pp. 15-16.

      Anne Killigrew, The Second Epigram On Billinda ('Wanton Bellinda loudly does complain')
    • KiA 4 f. 130r

      Copy, in a neat rounded hand (? possibly autograph), headed 3 Ep: On a Concealed Atheist, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      First pub. in Poems (1686), p.

      First published in Poems (London, 1686), p. 16.

      Anne Killigrew, The Third Epigram. On an Atheist ('Posthumus boasts he does not Thunder fear')
    • KiA 2 f. 130v

      Copy, in a neat rounded hand (? possibly autograph), headed 4 Ep On Galla, on the second page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      First published in Poems (London, 1686), p. 17.

      Anne Killigrew, The Fourth Epigram. On Galla ('Now liquid Streams by the fierce Gold do grow')

  • Add. MS 78234

    An unbound collection of mainly verse MSS, in various hands, 142 leaves.

    Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Purchased March 1995.

    • HrG 321.5 ff. 5r-6r

      Copy of a version of lines 62-99, headed Inventa Bellica and here beginning O Mortis longæva fames venterq perennis, in a neat italic hand, subscribed G Herbert, on three pages of a pair of conunct folio leaves, folded as a letter.

      First published in The Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, I (London, 1836). Hutchinson, pp. 418-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 108-17.

      George Herbert, Lucus, XXXII. Triumphus Mortis ('O mea suspicienda manus, ventérque perennis!')
    • HrG 321.8 ff. 9r-v

      Copy of lines 62-101, in an italic hand, untitled, here beginning Plumbea glans livensq suæ quasi conscia noxæ, subscribed G. Herbert, on a quarto-size leaf, split at the folds and imperfect, lacking the first 61 lines.

      First published in The Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, I (London, 1836). Hutchinson, pp. 418-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 108-17.

      George Herbert, Lucus, XXXII. Triumphus Mortis ('O mea suspicienda manus, ventérque perennis!')
    • StW 1274.5 f. 125r

      Copy of a French translation, in double colums, beginning Je tien pour chose trescertaines, on one side of a folio leaf.

      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')

  • Add. MS 78277

    An unbound collection of chiefly financial papers, in several hands, 56 leaves.

    Papers of Richard Evelyn (d.1640), of Wootton.

    Volume CX of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Purchased March 1995.

    • CtR 157 ff. 28r-32v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Febr 1627. A Treatice of Sr Ro: Co: prsenting to the Lordes of his Mats prevy Counsell The danger wherein the kingdome of England now stands and the Remedie thereof, on eight pages in a sewn gathering of three pairs of folio leaves, with endorsements apparently by Richard Evelyn and by John Evelyn.

      Formerly Evelyn MS 291.

      Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

  • Add. MS 78312

    A folio composite volume of letters by John Beale, FRS (1608-83), rector of Yeovil, 119 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

    Evelyn Papers Vol. CXLV.

    • CoA 121.5 f. 66r

      Copy of lines 54-64, in a letter by Beale to John Evelyn, 11 September 1667.

      First published in Verses...upon several occasions (London, 1663).

      Abraham Cowley, Ode. Upon Dr. Harvey ('Coy nature which remained though aged grown')
    • DnJ 3685.5 f. 68r

      Copy of lines 13-20, 25-81, beginning But he who lovelinesse within, in a letter by Beale to John Evelyn, 23 September 1667.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

      John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')

  • Add. MS 78315

    A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 143 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

    Volume CXLVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *WaE 811 f. 62r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 21 January 1646[/7].

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers Letters 1340.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
    • *WaE 804 f. 73r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 3 August 1646.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1341. A passage quoted by Allan Pritchard in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), p. 69.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
    • *WaE 805 f. 76r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 17 August 1646.

      Formerly Evelyn Papers, Letters 1342.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
    • *WaE 806 f. 77r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 22 August 1646, with (ff. 77v-8r) Evelyn's draft reply.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1343.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
    • *WaE 807 ff. 86r-7r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, in French, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 6 October 1646, with (f. 87r-v) Evelyn's draft reply.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1344.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
    • *WaE 808 f. 91r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Dieppe, 18 October 1646.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1345.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
    • *WaE 810 f. 97r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 18 January 1646.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1346.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
    • *WaE 812 f. 103r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 14 August 1647.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1347.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
    • *WaE 813 f. 105r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 5 September 1647.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1348.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 78323

    Autograph diary.

    Evelyn's autograph diary covering the period from 1620 to 31 October 1697, headed Kalendarium, on c.732 folio pages (including a number of misplaced leaves between pp. 157 and 214 and blanks); imperfect, lacking various leaves (notably after p. 150, before p. 215 and after p. 718); the text up to p. 237 entered (transcribed from an original diary or notes) c.1660s, then resumed c.1680 and entries from c.1684 roughly contemporaneous; some later marginal notes; a four-page transcript of a damaged leaf (pp. 715-16, containing entries from 2 August to 13 September 1696) attached at rebinding in the early 19th century; also inserted after p. 414 a drawing of an altar given to Evelyn by Margaret Blagge (Mrs Godolphin), in 19th-century half-morocco.

    1620-97.

    Vol. CLVII of the Evelyn Papers.

    Edited principally from this MS in Bray and (as text K) in de Beer, with facsimile examples in the latter (II, after p. 210, and III, after pp. 214, 350, 574 and 628). Facsimiles of the drawing of an altar also in Sampson, after p. 22, and in Hiscock (1951), after p. 26. William Bray's transcript of extracts from this Diary, taken in 1814-15, is in a large folio volume of c.1000 pages in Add. MS 78577 (formerly Evelyn MS 159).

    • *EvJ 215
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in selections in Bray (1818). The text for the period from 4 October 1699 to 1706 first published as a serialisation in Abinger Monthly Record, I (1889), pp. 7-8, 20,32, 48, 64, 76. II (1890), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 79-80, 96, 116, 132, 148, 167-8, 184, 199-200. III (1891-3), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 76, 92, 107-8, 127-8, 147-8, 167-8, 191-2, 215-16, 235-6, 251-2, 271-2, 291-2, 311-12, 328, 343-4, 364, 393-6, 414-28, 439-58. The Diary first published in full (but for missing pages) in de Beer (1955).

      John Evelyn, Diary

  • Add. MS 78324

    Autograph Diary.

    Evelyn's autograph Diary in continuation of EvJ 215, for the period from 31 October 1697 to 3 February 1706, on four quarto pages, headed Extract out of my Diary: Paris [for 1651-3, written after 1677], followed by 26 gatherings numbered I to XXVII (181 chiefly quarto pages in all), with an autograph note: Join the following pages to [the rest] of my Diary. 1697. next October 31; some leaves misplaced, defective or missing, now in modern limp vellum.

    1697-1706.

    Volume CLVII of the Evelyn Papers.

    The first four pages printed in de Beer, III, Appendix A, pp. 632-6, and discussed I, 46-7. The main text edited from this MS in Abinger Monthly Record (1889-93), with a facsimile of the last page in Vol. III, before p. 449, and (as a continuation of K) in de Beer (1955), with facsimile examples in I, after p. 92, and V, after p. 402.

    • *EvJ 216
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in selections in Bray (1818). The text for the period from 4 October 1699 to 1706 first published as a serialisation in Abinger Monthly Record, I (1889), pp. 7-8, 20,32, 48, 64, 76. II (1890), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 79-80, 96, 116, 132, 148, 167-8, 184, 199-200. III (1891-3), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 76, 92, 107-8, 127-8, 147-8, 167-8, 191-2, 215-16, 235-6, 251-2, 271-2, 291-2, 311-12, 328, 343-4, 364, 393-6, 414-28, 439-58. The Diary first published in full (but for missing pages) in de Beer (1955).

      John Evelyn, Diary

  • Add. MS 78325

    Autograph revised version of parts of Evelyn's Diary.

    Evelyn's autograph revised version of EvJ 215 for the period up to late 1644, on 76 pages of a 470-page folio volume lettered on the spine De Vita Propria Pars Prima, the last few lines entered c.1737 in the hand of Evelyn's grandson, Sir John Evelyn, Bt (1682-1763), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

    c.1697 and later.

    Vol. CLVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

    Edited from this MS (as text V) in de Beer (1955).

    • *EvJ 217
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in selections in Bray (1818). The text for the period from 4 October 1699 to 1706 first published as a serialisation in Abinger Monthly Record, I (1889), pp. 7-8, 20,32, 48, 64, 76. II (1890), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 79-80, 96, 116, 132, 148, 167-8, 184, 199-200. III (1891-3), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 76, 92, 107-8, 127-8, 147-8, 167-8, 191-2, 215-16, 235-6, 251-2, 271-2, 291-2, 311-12, 328, 343-4, 364, 393-6, 414-28, 439-58. The Diary first published in full (but for missing pages) in de Beer (1955).

      John Evelyn, Diary

  • Add. MS 76326

    Copy of parts of Evelyn's Diary for the period from 1620 to Good Friday 1644 transcribed from EvJ 215 and EvJ 217, in a probably professional hand, made for Sir John Evelyn, Bt (1682-1763), the diarist's grandson, on 270 pages of a folio volume of c.348folio pages, in quarter-morocco, lettered on the spine John Evelyn's Memoirs, 1620-1644. Copy, 1737.

    1737.

    Volume XLIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 50.

    This MS discussed in de Beer, I, 47-8.

    • EvJ 218
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in selections in Bray (1818). The text for the period from 4 October 1699 to 1706 first published as a serialisation in Abinger Monthly Record, I (1889), pp. 7-8, 20,32, 48, 64, 76. II (1890), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 79-80, 96, 116, 132, 148, 167-8, 184, 199-200. III (1891-3), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 76, 92, 107-8, 127-8, 147-8, 167-8, 191-2, 215-16, 235-6, 251-2, 271-2, 291-2, 311-12, 328, 343-4, 364, 393-6, 414-28, 439-58. The Diary first published in full (but for missing pages) in de Beer (1955).

      John Evelyn, Diary

  • Add. MS 78327

    A ggrammatical vademecum or manual reference book compiled from various authors in the hand of Richard Hoare, with Evelyn's autograph note at the beginning stating that This Compendium ... is in many places false written & full of Errore; imperfect, 218 octavo pages (plus blanks), in contemporary morocco gilt.

    c.1649-51.

    Volume CLX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 91.

    This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 22.

    • *EvJ 104
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Grammar

  • Add. MSS 78328-78331

    Set of autograph theological commonplace books in four large folio volumes.

    Vol. I comprising Loci Commvnes Theologici Tomus Tertivs and Tomus Quartus on 351 leaves, chiefly in Evelyn's autograph, the beginning and a few other pages in the hand of Richard Hoare and ff. 147-8v in another hand;

    Vol. 2 comprising Tomvs Imus. on 180 pages (plus 764 blank pages), entirely autograph;

    Vol. 3 comprising Tomvs IIdus on 111 pages (plus 613 blank pages), entirely autograph, the flyleaf containing a quotation from Bacon's Advancement of Learning to the effect that A Substantiall and Learned digest of Common-Places is a solid, and a good aide to memory: And…the diligence, and paines in collecting Common-Places, is of greate vse, and certainety in stud[y]ing…;

    Vol. 4 comprising an autograph Index Locorum Comunium on 219 pages (plus blanks).

    Vols CLXI-CLIV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS MSS 54, Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4.

    Vol. 3 recorded in Keynes, p. 21.

    • *EvJ 170
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78332

    Autograph commonplace book, containing a series of observations in Latin and English on a wide variety of subjects, 815 numbered quarto pages (including many blanks), in modern buckram.

    c.1680s-1703.

    Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 36.

    • *EvJ 27
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Adversaria and Commonplace Books

  • Add. MS 78333

    Autograph commonplace book containing Adversaria Historical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanicall &c. promiscuously set downe as they Occur in Reading, or Casual Discourse, on 36 pages in a large folio volume otherwise blank, damaged by damp, in contemporary vellum, originally together with a detached quarto gathering of collections possibly from EvJ 76.

    c.1680s-1703.

    Volume CLXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, MS 173.

    • EvJ 31
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Adversaria and Commonplace Books

  • Add. MS 78334

    A large folio volume of dried, pressed, mounted and labelled simples collected at the Botanic Gardens at Padua, 1645; with autograph title-page Hortus Hyemalis sive Collectio Plantorum… and labels, V + 157 leaves, in morocco.

    1645.

    Volume CLXVII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 159
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Science and Natural History

  • Add. MS 78335

    Autograph notes on chemistry.

    A quarto volume of autograph notes on chemistry, f. 2r dated 1646, iii + 129 leaves, in contemporary mottled calf gilt.

    c.1646.

    Volume CLXVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 32.

    This MS discussed in F. Sherwood Taylor, The Chemical Studies of John Evelyn, Annals of Science 8 (1952), 285-92, with facsimile examples.

    • *EvJ 152
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Science and Natural History

  • Add. MS 78338

    An unbound collection of medicinal and culinary receipts, in several family hands including Evelyn's, on different sized papers, in a portfolio.

    Late 17th century.

    Volume CLXXI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 297 and 531.

    • *EvJ 134
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

  • Add. MS 78339

    Partly autograph folio commonplace book containing notes and collections, headed Trades: Seacrets & Receipts, Mechanical as they came casually to hand, 605 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Late 17th century.

    Volume CLXXII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 65.

    In a letter to Mr. Boyle 8 Aug. 1659, [Evelyn] says he had intended to write a History of Trades, but had given it up from the great difficulty he found in the attempt (Bray, II, part I, p. 103).

    • *EvJ 29
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Adversaria and Commonplace Books

  • Add. MS 78340

    A folio autograph compilation of notes on medicine and mechanics, c.450 pages, in contemporary mottled calf.

    c.1650s-1700s.

    Volume CLXXIII of the Spenser Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 52a.

    • *EvJ 154
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Science and Natural History

  • Add. MS 78341

    A folio autograph commonplace book containing notes and memoranda, headed A Booke of Promiscuous Notes, & Observations concerning Husbandry, Butlery &c:, 290 pages (including blanks).

    c.1650s-70s.

    Volume CLXXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 44.

    • *EvJ 28
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Adversaria and Commonplace Books

  • Add. MS 78342

    A largely autograph folio volume of collections and drafts for the Elysium Britannicum, with some additions by others, c.342 pages, including pasted-in and loose slips and a printed prospectus.

    Begun c.1650.

    Volume CLXXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 45.

    Edited from this MS in Ingram. Extracts edited as John Evelyn's Manuscript on Bees from Elysium Britannicum, ed. D.A. Smith (Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, 1966), with facsimile examples. Discussed in Bee World, 46 (1965), 117-31. Recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87; in Hiscock (1955), p. 243 (with a facsimile example after p. 32), and in Keynes, p. 236. Facsimile examples in Mark Laird, Sayes Court Revisited, in John Evelyn and his Milieu, ed. Frances Harris and Michael Hunter (London, 2003), pp. 115-44.

    • *EvJ 76
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Intended to be Evelyn's magnum opus on horticulture, this work remained unfinished: see Keynes, p. 236. Edited by John E. Ingram, as Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).

      John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum

  • Add. MS 78343

    A folio composite volume of notes and collections for the Elysium Britannicum, largely autograph, 163 leaves, imperfect.

    c.1660s-80s.

    Volume CLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 38.

    This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87.

    • *EvJ 75
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Intended to be Evelyn's magnum opus on horticulture, this work remained unfinished: see Keynes, p. 236. Edited by John E. Ingram, as Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).

      John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum

  • Add. MS 78344

    A folio volume of notes and papers by Evelyn, 136 leaves.

    Volume CLXXVII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 73.5 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      A folio volume of largely autograph notes by Evelyn intended for incorporation in the Elysium Britannicum, some perhaps for a new edition of the Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and also some for Evelyn's translation of De La Quintinye's Compleat Gard'ner (1693). 135 leaves.

      Intended to be Evelyn's magnum opus on horticulture, this work remained unfinished: see Keynes, p. 236. Edited by John E. Ingram, as Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).

      John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum
    • CoA 54.3 ff. 87v-9r

      Copy, followed by Cowley's Latin version.

      First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 419-20.

      Abraham Cowley, The Country Life. Lib. 4. Plantarum ('Blest be the man (and blest he is) whome're')
    • HrG 45.5 f. 102v

      Copy of lines 235-47.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 190-8.

      George Herbert, The Church Militant ('Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throne')
    • *EvJ 46 f. 115r
      Autograph

      Autograph plan of a Designe for a Library for the Royal Society, given in 22d May Sr: R: Murray Praesident.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 541.

      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries
    • *EvJ 111 ff. 129r-35r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of the beginning, partly in Latin.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 546 and 547.

      John Evelyn, The Historie of Staves

  • Add. MS 78345

    A folio volume on chemistry.

    Volume CLXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 155 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      Autograph draft by Evelyn of a treatise on Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, on 23 folio leaves, together with several loose leaves of unrelated notes.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 61. This MS discussed, with facsimile examples, in Sherwood Taylor, loc. cit.

      John Evelyn, Science and Natural History
    • *EvJ 158 [unspecified page number]
      Autograph

      Autograph notes, headed Chymicall processes Experimented by me: 1659, on a single large folio leaf, the verso bearing an autograph Latin verse on roses.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 552.

      John Evelyn, Science and Natural History

  • Add. MS 78346

    Autograph fair copy of an account of the manufacture and chemical properties of alcohol, headed Coelum Sanitatis. or, a Particular of the Vegetable & Animal Dissolvant, ii + 53 quarto leaves, in contemporary brown calf gilt.

    c.1650s-60s.

    Volume CLXXIX of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Bookplate of Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 4 March 1937, lot 686, to Goldschmidt. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 77.

    This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 20.

    • *EvJ 161
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Science and Natural History

  • Add. MS 78347

    Autograph title-page and two lines of preface for an essay on The Dignity of Mankind, in A Problematical Exercitation or Essay...Writen at the Request of Samuel Pepys Esqr:...1676, on the first two leaves of a quarto volume of 219 leaves later filled with notes on land documents by Sir John Evelyn, Bt, in contemporary vellum.

    1676[-early 18th century].

    Volume CLXXX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 137.

    • *EvJ 131
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

  • Add. MS 78349

    Autograph, together with some unrelated preliminary material and with some later additions by Sir John Evelyn, Bt, 106 quarto pages (plus blanks), in vellum, lettered on the spine Qe Dutch./.

    1687[-early 18th century].

    Volume CLXXXII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 136.

    Edited from this MS by Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1932). Recorded in Keynes (1968), p. 254.

    • *EvJ 58
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Directions for the Gardiner at Says-Court: But which may be of Vse for other Gardens

  • Add. MS 78350

    Two autograph papers by Evelyn, ii + 76 leaves.

    Volume CLXXXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 15 ff. 1r-73r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, partly deleted, headed Numismae: JE: Foule Copy, 120 numbered pages plus 12 unnumbered leaves, some pages lacking.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 63.

      First published in London, 1697. Keynes, pp. 229-34.

      John Evelyn, Numismata, a Discourse of Medals
    • *EvJ 17 f. 62r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of the dedicatory epistle in Latin to Charles, Lord Spencer, and Francis Godolphin, on a single quarto leaf. 1 October 1697.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 538.

      First published in London, 1697. Keynes, pp. 229-34.

      John Evelyn, Numismata, a Discourse of Medals
    • *EvJ 135 ff. 74r-6r
      Autograph

      Formerly part of Christ Church, Oxford, MS 533.

      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

  • Add. MS 78351

    A composite volume of miscellaneous papers collected by Evelyn, 432 leaves in all.

    Volume CLXXXIV of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 105 ff. 1r-32r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, headed Gramatica. A General or praeliminary Grammar, on twenty quarto pages; imperfect.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 536.

      John Evelyn, Grammar
    • *EvJ 106 ff. 68r-71r
      Autograph

      Autograph compendium of French pronunciation, headed Compendium pronuntiaos Gallicae, on four quarto leaves.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 537

      John Evelyn, Grammar
    • *EvJ 139 f. 144r
      Autograph

      Autograph notes on travel in Italy, on a single folio leaf, 4 October 1657.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 549.

      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

  • Add. MS 78353

    Exemplum of the first printed edition with Evelyn's autograph motto, inscription and extensive marginal notes and corrections in ink and pencil.

    c.1656.

    Volume CLXXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn B67.

    Recorded in Keynes, p. 44. Facsimile example in Christie's sale catalogue, 13 July 1978, lot 1732.

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

      First published in London, 1656. Keynes, pp. 41-5.

      John Evelyn, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus De Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English Verse

  • Add. MS 78354

    Autograph fair copy of a translation of Books III to VI (line 694) of De rerum natura, headed On the Third Booke of T. Lucretius C. de R.N., being an unpublished continuation of Evelyn's published translation (1656), iii + 155 quarto leaves, in 19th-century leather.

    1656-7.

    Owned in 1818 by William Upcott. Bought at the Upcott sale on 22 June 1846, lot 117. Volume CLXXXVII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 34.

    This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 42.

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

      First published in London, 1656. Keynes, pp. 41-5.

      John Evelyn, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus De Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English Verse

  • Add. MS 78355

    Eveylyn's Lucretius, 30 + iii leaves.

    1657.

    Volume CLXXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 4 ff. 1r-27r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, Book VI.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 34a.

      First published in London, 1656. Keynes, pp. 41-5.

      John Evelyn, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus De Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English Verse
    • *EvJ 5 ff. 28r-30r
      Autograph

      Autograph fragment of a verse translation of De rerum natura, dated 11 September 1657.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 540.

      First published in London, 1656. Keynes, pp. 41-5.

      John Evelyn, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus De Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English Verse

  • Add. MS 78356

    Autograph commentary on Lucretius, De rerum natura, Books III-VI, iv + 159 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    1656-7.

    Volume CLXXXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 33.

    This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 42.

    • *EvJ 3
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1656. Keynes, pp. 41-5.

      John Evelyn, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus De Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English Verse

  • Add. MS 78356*

    Copy, in William Lawes's musical setting, on a leaf inserted in the volume.

    c.1630s-40s.
    • LoR 15.8
      No description or publication history available.

      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')

  • Add. MS 78357

    Autograph quarto volume of poems in draft and fair copies, i + 70 leaves (including blanks), damaged by damp, in black calf gilt.

    Including, inter alia, an Italian version of Vpon my Lady Isabella Thynns cutting of Trees in paper Translated from Mr: Waller (f. 9v), Upon my worthy kinsman Sr Sam: Tuke de his incomparable play (p. 51), On the Dutchess of New-Castles coming to the Royal Society 1666 (f. 26r-v), Ballad: To the tune of Sr. Jo: Sucklings I'le tell the Dick (pp. 52-3), To Abraham Cowley sending me his Poeme — The Garden (ff. 27v-8v), and Elegie [on Cowley] (ff. 29v-31r).

    Volume CXC of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 124.

    This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 21. The poem on p. 51 pub. in Samuel Tuke, The Adventures of Five Hours, 2nd edition (London, 1664), sigs A3b-A4a [Keynes, p. 259]. The poem on pp. 59-62 edited from this MS in Allan Pritchard, Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York or London, 1981), pp. 46-76 (pp. 70-4), and the poem on pp. 55-76 of the MS discussed in Pritchard, pp. 69-70. The MS discussed in Stuart Gillespie, Venus in Cypresse sheets, TLS, 30 January 2015, 14-15.

    Facsimile of p. 56 in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XVIII, after p. xxiv.

    • *EvJ 6
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Otium Evelyni

  • Add. MS 78358

    Autograph fair copy, with revisions (pp. 1-93 and p. 130), together with an autograph draft of Act I, deleted (pp. 94-107), unfinished, 68 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum with leather ties.

    Early 1660s.

    Volume CXCI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 41.

    This MS recorded, as Thirsander, in Keynes, p. 21.

    • *EvJ 213
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Thersander. A Tragi-Comoedy

  • Add. MS 78359

    A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

    Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 212 ff. 1r-4r
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy of a fragment of an unfinished comedy The Originals, together with some autograph notes on drama, on five folio and quarto pages.

      Once owned by William Upcott; this MS sold at the Upcott sale at Evans (i.e. Sotheby's) on 24 June 1846, lot 428. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 534.

      John Evelyn, The Originals. A Comedy
    • *EvJ 136 ff. 5-17r passim
      Autograph

      Autograph notes concerning comedy and other dramatic writings, in quarto and folio leaves.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 534.

      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts
    • *EvJ 212.5 ff. 5r-17r passim
      Autograph

      Autograph notes relating to dramatic writings.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 542.

      John Evelyn, The Originals. A Comedy
    • *EvJ 83 f. 21r
      Autograph

      Autograph Latin inscription, endorsed Inscription L: Clarendon, on a single octavo leaf.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 470.

      John Evelyn, Epitaphs and Funeral Inscriptions
    • EvJ 7 f. 32r

      Autograph copy of a poem headed A Pleasant Ballad: How Mop went into France to be a Nunn, on a single folio leaf.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 325.

      John Evelyn, [Verses]
    • *EvJ 8 f. 33r
      Autograph

      Autograph copy of a poem headed How Mop From France is lately come (beginning Mop's arriv'd on English ground), on a single quarto leaf, endorsed Ballad on Mrs Mary Tuke.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 326.

      John Evelyn, [Verses]
    • *EvJ 82 f. 34r
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Epitaphs and Funeral Inscriptions
    • *EvJ 84 f. 35r
      Autograph

      Autograph design for a funeral inscription for Dr John Beale (1603-83), on a single octavo leaf

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 471.

      John Evelyn, Epitaphs and Funeral Inscriptions
    • *EvJ 135.5 f. 41r et passim
      Autograph

      Autograph notes and drafts, including a draft of the dedicatory epistle for Sylva, verses on the visit of Tsar Peter the Great (1698), three pages of Bibliotheca & MSS and notes relating to Greek and Latin vocabulary, on 31 leaves and slips of paper.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 533.

      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts
    • *EvJ 81 f. 42r
      Autograph

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 324.

      John Evelyn, Epitaphs and Funeral Inscriptions

  • Add. MSS 78360-78361

    Evelyn's Bible.

    Evelyn's Bible (2 large folio volumes, 1638), with his extensive autograph annotations (particularly in the interleaved New Testament), his autograph Prayer before Reading Holy Scripture on a single folio leaf at the beginning, and with his note expressing the wish that these volumes should be delivered after his death to Mrs Blagge [Godolphin], dated 16 October 1673, bound in reversed calf.

    1638-73.

    Volumes CXCII-CXCIV. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 46.

    • *EvJ 166
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78362

    Autograph notes headed Analecta and Notes vpon several places & Difficulties of the New-Testament, 240 numbered folio pages (plus blanks), in reversed calf.

    Volume CXCV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 48.

    • *EvJ 168
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78363

    Autograph notes on the New Testament, apparently detached from a larger work, on four quarto gatherings, with other leaves, ii + 28 leaves, disbound and imperfect.

    Volume CXCVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 47.

    • *EvJ 167
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78364

    A folio volume of sermon notes in Evelyn's hand, iii + 151 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1650-87.

    Volume CXCVII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 49.

    • *EvJ 169 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy of notes of sermons heard by Evelyn, chiefly in the 1650s, headed A breife Accoumpt of divers Sermons &c recollected at my after Retirements, and begun Anno Doni: M.DC.L, with (at the beginning) short notices of preachers and texts for the period 1634-43.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
    • EaJ 86 passim

      Evelyn's notes on six sermons by Earle, delivered in Paris in 1651, on texts in Psalms 116 and 119, 1 Peter 4, 2 Samuel, and 6 Roman, on ff. 18v-, 20v-1v, 23r-v, 24v-5v.

    • TaJ 29 passim

      Evelyn's notes on eight sermons delivered by Taylor in 1654-58, in London, on texts including 5, 6, and 14 Matthew, 1 Corinthians, and 13 Luke, on ff. 32v, 34r, 45r-9r, and 51v-2v.

      This MS recorded in de Beer, I, 83; Discussed in W.J. Brown, Jeremy Taylor Sermons, TLS, 11 January 1952, p. 25 (where a mistaken reference is given to a sermon of 6 August 1654, which is not by Taylor).

      A number of Taylor's sermons published in several volumes between 1638 and 1667: see Bibliography (1971).

      Jeremy Taylor, Sermons

  • Add. MS 78365

    Autograph essay, headed The Lamentations of Origen after his fall, on eight octavo leaves mounted on guards, in half-leather.

    1638.

    Volume CXCVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 70.

    • *EvJ 171
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78366

    Copy of a Relation of what passed betwixt my Co. K, the Deane of Peterbourgh, and my Selfe at Paris touching his Change of Religion Written to a Gentleman of his Relation.

    Copy of a Relation of what passed betwixt my Co. K, the Deane of Peterbourgh, and my Selfe at Paris touching his Change of Religion Written to a Gentleman of his Relation in the hand of Richard Hoare, with Evelyn's autograph marginal notes on three pages, 78 quarto pages, in contemporary vellum, dated at the end Paris, 1651.

    1651.

    Volume CXCIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 135.

    • *EvJ 199
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78367

    Autograph manuscript, partly draft, partly fair copy of The History of Religion _____. or A Rational Account of the Trve Religion, ii + 371 quarto leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

    c.1657-1704.

    Volume CCI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 37.

    Edited from this MS by the Rev. R.M. Evanson, 2 vols (London, 1850). Recorded in Keynes, p. 251.

    • EvJ 165
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS. 78368

    Partly autograph notes and collections on religious subjects, including the beginning of an unfinished draft treatise headed Aedes sapientia, et Instaurationis Imaginis dei. Representing A Course of Vniversal knowledg in order, and Autograph notes on the Eucharist, i + 73 leaves.

    Volume CCI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 55/556.

    • *EvJ 141
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

  • Add. MS 78369

    Autograph, inscribed Copy of what I sent to the Countesse of Clarendon. 1688 Concerning the Millenium, nine quarto leaves, in a modern wrapper.

    1688.

    Volume CCII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 35.

    • *EvJ 164
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78370

    Devotional volume in Latin and Greek.

    A devotional volume, in Latin and Greek, in the calligraphic hand of Richard Hoare, on 40 tiny leaves, in an elaborate morocco folder gilt, with silk ties.

    Volume CCIIIof the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 99.

    • EvJ 186
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78371

    Volume of Officivm Sanctae et Individvae Trinitatis ad Quotidianum Johannis Evelynni vsum concinnatvm in the calligraphic hand of Richard Hoare, with a frontispiece depicting Evelyn at prayer, 198 vellum sextodecimo pages in an elaborate morocco and silver binding; imperfect.

    c.1650.

    Volume CCIV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 94.

    • EvJ 182
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78372

    Volume of Officivm Sanctae et Individvae Trinitatis; or Privat Devotions and Offices, composed and collected by [John Evelyn deleted], for his [her] Anvall and Quotidian Use, with Calendar Table, &c. in the calligraphic hand of Richard Hoare, 358 octavo pages, with autograph prayers by Evelyn on seven pages at the beginning and ten pages at the end (dated 1661), his inscription to Mrs Blagge [Godolphin] and some notes in her hand; imperfect, in contemporary morocco gilt with remains of metal clasps.

    c.1650-76.

    Volume CCV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 96. Puttick and Simpson's, 11 March 1873.

    This MS discussed in The Athenaeum, 1 March 1873, p. 281, and in Sampson, pp. 192-3. Recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87; in Hiscock (1955), p. 244; in Keynes, p. 247; and in de Beer, II, 559.

    • *EvJ 183
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78373

    MS, headed An Office of […] Composed for the pious use and exercise of Mrs Mary Evelyn, in the calligraphic hand of Richard Hoare, 102 octavo leaves; imperfect, in contemporary red calf elaborately gilt.

    c.1653.

    Volume CCVI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 98.

    • EvJ 185
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78374

    Autograph devotions, headed An Eucharistical Office or The Weding-Garment, or Triming of the Lamp, , 233 octavo pages; damaged by damp, in contemporary morocco gilt (rebacked).

    c.1660-70s.

    Volume CCVII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 97.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 44, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

    • *EvJ 184
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78375

    Autograph devotions.

    Autograph devotions, headed Office for Pentecost, 22 numbered quarto pages, plus four unnumbered leaves, presented to Margaret Blagge.

    1673.

    Volume CCVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 126.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

    • *EvJ 197
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78376

    Autograph psalms and meditations, the first headed A Meditation for Michaelmas-Day, presented to Margarett Blagge, 29 September 1673, eight octavo leaves mounted on guards, in half-leather.

    1673.

    Volume CCIX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 72.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

    • *EvJ 172
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78377

    Autograph devotions, being Offices for the Nativity and for Epiphany, on two quarto quires of 25 pages and 21 pages respectively, bound together, the first office dated 1673, both presented to Margaret Blagge.

    1672.

    Volume CCX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 125.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

    • *EvJ 196
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78378

    Autograph draft of Dominica or An Office for the Lord's Day and The Rogation Office, on quarto leaves and gatherings, 78 quarto leaves, the second office presented to Margaret Blagge.

    1674.

    Volume CCXI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 130.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

    • *EvJ 198
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78379

    Autograph meditation, headed Tuesdays Meditation, presented to Margaret Blagge, ii + 26 octavo leaves, mounted on guards in half-leather.

    1674.

    Volume CCXII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 84.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), pp. 132-4, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

    • *EvJ 177
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78380

    Autograph meditation, headed Wednes-days Meditation, presented to Margaret Blagge, 15 September 1674, iii + 36 octavo leaves, mounted on guards in half-leather.

    1674.

    Volume CCXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 82.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 116, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

    • *EvJ 175
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78381

    Autograph devotions, headed The Memorial of the Jvst. An Office for all Saints, on their several Anniversaries, 16 October 1674, presented to Margaret Blagge, iii + 23 octavo leaves, mounted on guards in half-leather.

    1674.

    Volume CCXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 86.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

    • *EvJ 179
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78382

    Autograph meditation, headed A Meditation for Mone=Day, 9 November 1674, presented to Margaret Blagge, iii + 20 octavo leaves, mounted on guards in half leather.

    1674.

    Volume CCXV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 85.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

    • *EvJ 178
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78383

    Autograph meditation.

    Autograph meditation, headed A Meditation Upon the Advents, 11 December 1674, presented to Margaret Blagge, iii + 31octavo leaves, mounted on guards in half leather.

    11 December 1674.

    Volume CCXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 76.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 115, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

    • *EvJ 174
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78384

    Autograph meditation, headed Thurs-days Meditation, 26 January 1674/5, presented to Margaret Blagge, iii + 47 octavo leaves, mounted on guards in half-leather.

    1675.

    Volume CCXVII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 73.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

    • *EvJ 173
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78385

    Unbound meditations.

    Volume CCXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 187 A.
      Autograph

      Autograph MS, headed Circumcision: or New-yeares Day. Office, presented to Margaret Blagge, ii + 11 quarto leaves, in marbled wrapper.

      Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS T110. This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 40, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
    • EvJ 192 C.

      Autograph devotions, headed Friday: Morning & Euening, with verses by Margaret Blagge, iii + 13 octavo leaves, with marbled wrapper.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 116.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
    • *EvJ 193 E.
      Autograph

      Autograph devotions, headed Officivm Poenitentiae or Assistances in the Practise of Repentance by Confessions & Deprecations with prayers & Devotions suitable to its designe, ii + 23 octavo leaves, marbled paper wrapper.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 117. This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), pp. 51-2, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
    • *EvJ 194 F.
      Autograph

      Autograph devotions, headed The Trimming of the Lamp or A short Eucharisticall Office, iii + 8 octavo leaves, in modern marbled wrapper.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 120. This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
    • *EvJ 191 G.
      Autograph

      Autograph devotions, headed The Wedding-Garment or The manner how a Christian ought to prepare himselfe, for ye worthy celebration of ye holy Eucharist, imperfect, iii + 7 octavo leaves, in modern marbled wrapper.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 115.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
    • *EvJ 189 H.
      Autograph

      Autograph devotions, headed Eucharistia, with the note To be Revised & added to in the Wedding Garment, iii + 8 octavo Leaves, in a modern marbled wrapper.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 112.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78386

    Autograph draft, addressed to Margaret Blagge, imperfect, 78 quarto leaves, paginated 1-40, 51-74 (lacking pp. 41-50), in marbled paper and a later paper wrapper.

    1676.

    Volume CCXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 106.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244, and in Keynes, p. 247.

    • *EvJ 145
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Sampson (1939), Appendix.

      John Evelyn, OEconomics To a newly Married Friend

  • Add. MS 78387

    Autograph drafts of prayers, devotions and collections on 65 quarto pages, including 34 quarto pages of Oeconomical, Conjugal, & Domestick Offices: fitted for the devouter Married persons, & House-keepers, dated 1 January 1676; A Passage of [*] proper on Tuesday on two quarto leaves; 28 quarto pages of The Communion of Saints, in a Privat: Office; and The Hymne (Glory be to God on high) on two quarto leaves, 17 quarto leaves in all, imperfect.

    1677.

    Volume CCXX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 206 and 553.

    • *EvJ 200
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78388

    Autograph devotions.

    Autograph devotions, headed The Office for Trinity Sunday, & Octaves after Pentecost, 8 May 1678, presented to Margaret Blagge, 79 octavo pages, in marbled paper wrapper, now mounted on guards, in half-leather.

    8 May 1678.

    Volume CCXXI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 83.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 182, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

    • *EvJ 176
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78389

    An octavo composite volume of devotions, the first series headed Dominica or An Office for the Lord's Day, 15 April 1674, 169 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    1674.

    Volume CCXXII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 90.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), pp. 76, 177-9, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 243.

    • *EvJ 180
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78390

    Autograph discourses and devotions on Preparations for Death, later dated September 1688, 220 quarto pages, in near-contemporary calf gilt.

    c.1670s-80s.

    Volume CCXXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 31.

    • *EvJ 163
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78391

    Miscellaneous devotions and prayers in the hands of John Evelyn, Mary Evelyn and Margaret Blagge (Mrs Godolphin).

    Miscellaneous devotions and prayers in the hands of John Evelyn, Mary Evelyn and Margaret Blagge (Mrs Godolphin); including an autobiograph draft headed For my [*] Electra. If you desire to be a perfect Christian, and to abound in Spiritual Comforts, practise these things, on four folio leaves, imperfect, and an autograph copy of a letter to Margaret Blagge about religious life on three folio pages.

    Volume of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS.

    • *EvJ 201
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78391

    Autograph Devotions of Mrs: Blagge [Mrs Godolphin] which I copied out at the Request of my Lady Syluius, iii + 22 quarto leaves, paginated 81-119, in modern marbled paper wrapper.

    c.1680s-90s.

    Volume CCXXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 122.

    • *EvJ 195
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78392

    Devotional papers by Margaret Blagge and Evelyn.

    Late 17th century.

    Volume CCXXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 553.

    This MS recorded in Bray, II, part i, p. 103.

    • *EvJ 203 The work as a whole
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of prayers, devotions and religious collections, 139 + iv small quarto leaves.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
    • *EvJ 190 ff. 9r-134r
      Autograph

      Autograph prayers, hymns and notes, on leaves of various sizes.

      Formerly christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 111, 114, and 553.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
    • *EvJ 188 [unspecified page numbers]
      Autograph

      Autograph prayers and notes, headed Natalis Baptism, on sixteen octavo pages. 1670.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 111.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
    • *EvJ 211 ff. 135r-6v
      Autograph

      Autograph draft.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 304. This MS recorded, under the title The Legend of the Pearle, in in Hiscock (1951), pp. 14-17, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

      John Evelyn, To his Orientall: The Legend of Philaretes and the Pearle
    • *EvJ 202 ff. 137r-8r
      Autograph

      Autograph confession of sins, from 1625 to 1690, in contracted Latin

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 315. Facsimile in Hiscock (1955), frontispiece.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78393

    Miscellaneous papers relating to public affairs, 79 + vi leaves.

    Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 13 ff. 10r-11r
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy, headed A faithfull and impartial Narrative of wt pass'd at the Landing of the Swedish Ambassr, endorsed The Contest [of] the French & Span[ish] Embassrs: on Towre hill for Praecedency: note: That Copys of this were dispatchd to the Ld: Ambassr: in France…Another was written to be laydup & kept in ye paper Office at White-hall, on four folio pages, imperfect.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 319. Edited from this MS in Bray. Recorded in Keynes, p. 100, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

      First published [? 1661]: no exemplum known. Biographia Britannica, 2nd edition (London, 1793), V, 613-14. An abbreviated version published in Sir Richard Baker, Chronicle of the Kings of England, ed. Edward Phillips, 4th edition (London, 1665), pp. 799-800. Bray, II, part i, pp. 349-55. Keynes, pp. 99-101.

      John Evelyn, Narrative of the Encounter between the French and Spanish Ambassadors at the Landing of the Swedish Ambassador
    • *EvJ 70 ff. 18r-20r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft report on possible sources of fuel along the Thames during the Durch was, incomplete, the first page only.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 517.

      Evelyn's history of the Dutch War was begun at the instigation of Charles II in 1670 but remained unfinished and unpublished: see Keynes, pp. 202-4. See also related letters in Bray, II, part i, pp. 87-100.

      John Evelyn, The Dutch War
    • *EvJ 69 ff. 21r-6v
      Autograph

      Copy of An Impartial Narrative of The Victory obtained by the States General of the United Provinces over the Potent fleet of the King of England in a fight during four days, beginning June 11th 1666, in a professional hand, with Evelyn's autograph note So 'tis called by N. Wilson, ye Author of the Dutch Book of Naval Architecture…, on eleven folio pages, endorsed Mr Oldenburgs[?], being part of Evelyn's collections on the Dutch War.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 300.

      Evelyn's history of the Dutch War was begun at the instigation of Charles II in 1670 but remained unfinished and unpublished: see Keynes, pp. 202-4. See also related letters in Bray, II, part i, pp. 87-100.

      John Evelyn, The Dutch War
    • *EvJ 71 ff. 27r-43r
      Autograph

      Collections, partly autograph, partly in other hands, including a Catalogue of Books & papers in order to ye Hist: of the Dutch warr, brought wth me vp to Lond: 16 ffeb: 1672/3, on 31 pages, chiefly folio

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 545.

      Evelyn's history of the Dutch War was begun at the instigation of Charles II in 1670 but remained unfinished and unpublished: see Keynes, pp. 202-4. See also related letters in Bray, II, part i, pp. 87-100.

      John Evelyn, The Dutch War
    • *EvJ 138 f. 52r
      Autograph

      Autograph notes on colonial plantations in America and the West Indies, 3 June 1671, on a single quarto leaf.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 548.

      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

  • Add. MS 78400

    Autograph accounts book, including (f. 44r) A Catalogue of such Papers & Loose Notes as any may Concerne the Affaire of this first dutch Warr, as ty'd vp & Numberd in the Packetts & Bundles Marked D:E and (f. 47r) the Accompt of the Charg &c: of the Quarters, Cares, & sallaries of Sick & Wounded Sea-men: prisoners at warr, & officers: relating to the 2d. Dutch-Warr begun: 18: Mar: 1671/2 to 1: Jan: 1675/6, 114 folio leaves (the majority blank), in contemporary vellum.

    c.1676.

    Volume CCXXXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 42.

    • *EvJ 67
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Evelyn's history of the Dutch War was begun at the instigation of Charles II in 1670 but remained unfinished and unpublished: see Keynes, pp. 202-4. See also related letters in Bray, II, part i, pp. 87-100.

      John Evelyn, The Dutch War

  • Add. MS 78401

    Autograph notes and drafts.

    Autograph notes and drafts for the period 1664-7, for Evelyn's Third Booke on the Dutch War, headed Progresse of ye Dutch-War, ff. ii + 66 quarto leaves.

    [before 1674].

    Volume CCXXXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 134.

    This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 202.

    • *EvJ 68
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Evelyn's history of the Dutch War was begun at the instigation of Charles II in 1670 but remained unfinished and unpublished: see Keynes, pp. 202-4. See also related letters in Bray, II, part i, pp. 87-100.

      John Evelyn, The Dutch War

  • Add. MS 78403

    Autograph inventory of pictures, furniture, etc. at Wotton, 1702, iii + 9 large folio leaves, in calf.

    1702.

    Volume CCXXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 53.

    • *EvJ 60
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Domestic Accounts, Inventories, Instructions, and Estate Papers

  • Add. MS 78406

    Autograph ledger, recording Evelyn's personal accounts from January 1673 to December 1681, i + 22 quarto leaves.

    1673-81.

    Volume CCXXXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 64.

    • *EvJ 62
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Domestic Accounts, Inventories, Instructions, and Estate Papers

  • Add. MS 78412

    An unbound folder of papers relating to wills and executorship, 69 leaves.

    Volume CCXLV of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 224 f. 1r
      Autograph

      Evelyn's autograph memorandum The paper of particulars given to my Wife Referring to my Codicil.

      John Evelyn, Will
    • *EvJ 225 ff. 2r-14r
      Autograph

      Evelyn's autograph and signed last will and testament, with a codicil, chiefly on broadsheets, 29 February 1703/4.

      John Evelyn, Will
    • *EvJ 226 f. 16r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft of Evelyn's last will and testament, 20 February 1705/6.

      John Evelyn, Will

  • Add. MS 78414

    An autograph quarto volume of prayers and devotions, in Latin, iii + 237 leaves, in modern black velvet.

    A formal presentation copy to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, entirely in Howard's italic hand, the title-page, decorated in colour, (f. 2r) Enchiridion christianarum precautionum in honorem sacrosanctæ indiuiduæ et gloriosæ Trinitatis e sacris scripturis: delibatum et in paricularia erga singulas Personas officia distributum; with (f. 1v) Burghley's arms in colour; (ff. 3r-68v) a dedicatory epistle to him, subscribed Londini ex aedibus Dacrensibus martii 15, 1589, signed H Hwward; and (ff. 69r-237v) a series of prayers and devotional meditations; various watercolour miniatures illustrating biblical scenes and religious subjects on ff. 70v, 87r, 116r, 146v, 165v, 199v, and 217v.

    1590.

    Volume CCXLVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 100. Purchased March 1995.

    This volume inscribed (on a flyleaf) by John Evelyn as being given to him, in London 1647, by James Thicknesse.

    This MS would seem to be the work which Howard discusses in a letter to Burghley on 27 March 1589 (Cotton MS Titus C. VI, f. 39r-v), describing the matter out of which this treatise is compiled as the worde of god it selfe, expressing a hope that Burghley will therefore wincke the rather at the playnesse of the workmanshippe Diuersitie of formes of praier, adding that the littell booke is written in his own hand, that he was forced to take this extraordinary labore by the ignorance of the scriueners of this towne, and that it had a preface to your lordshipe.

  • Add. MS 78423

    A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts from printed sources, in English and French, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, i + 95 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.

    Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn.

    c.1656.

    Volume CCLVI of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford, as Evelyn MS 254. Purchased March 1995.

    Recorded (as the Tuke MS) in Peter Beal, More Donne Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 214).

    • BcF 204.4 ff. 15v-19v

      Extracts, headed Collections from Sr ffrancis Bacons essayes or Counsells civill and Moralle.

      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
    • BcF 231.8 ff. 19v-20r

      Extracts, headed Out of ye same Authors Table of Collours.

      First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 65-92. Spedding, VII, 67-8.

      Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil
    • DnJ 605.8 ff. 43v

      Copy of lines 33-5, untitled, under a general heading Doctor Dunns' Poems, here beginning As well, a well-wrought Vrne becomes.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

      John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
    • DnJ 3822.5 f. 43v

      Copy of lines 55-63, untitled, here beginning abroad ill studie thee.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

      John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')
    • DnJ 942.3 f. 43v

      Copy of lines 27-8, untitled, here beginning As torches wch must readdie bee.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

      John Donne, The Dreame ('Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee')
    • DnJ 3755.5 f. 43v

      Copy of lines 21-36, untitled, here beginning Our twoo soules therefore wch are one.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

      John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
    • DnJ 2619.8 f. 43v

      Copy of lines 5-6, headed of Primroses on a hill and here beginning Where their forme and their infinitye.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

      John Donne, The Primrose ('Upon this Primrose hill')
    • DnJ 993.5 f. 43v

      Copy of lines 11-12, 78-84, 127-8, untitled and here beginning The springs by froste, lines 78-84 headed the description of a vertuus Court.

      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')
    • DnJ 2814.3 f. 43v

      Copy of lines 12-13, written lengthways down the inner margin, untitled and here beginning Meete blinde philosophers in heauen whose merritt.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
    • DnJ 2849.5 f. 43v

      Copy of line 236, written lengthways down the inner margin, headed of the kgs guard and here Living barrells of Beefe, [flaggons deleted] & Tunns of wine.

      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 3506.5 f. 43v

      Copy of lines 38-40, written lengthways down the inner margin, untitled and here beginning Who know to play false / rather then loose deceiue.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
    • DnJ 3299.8 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 10-12, untitled and here beginning for though to vs it seeme but Light & thinn.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

      John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
    • DnJ 3473.5 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 10-15, untitled and here beginning In this Worlds Warfar, they whom rugged fate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
    • DnJ 3542.8 f. 44r

      Copy of line 7, untitled, here Ignorance of Vice makes Vertue less.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.

      John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('T' have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee')
    • DnJ 3565.8 f. 44r

      Copy of part of line 13, untitled, here Verse embalmes Vertue.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 198-201. Milgate, Satires, pp. 98-100. Shawcross, No. 139.

      John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford. On New-yeares day ('This twilight of two yeares, not past nor next')
    • DnJ 3574.8 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 35-36, 129-30, untitled, here beginning Who first lookt sadd, grieu'd, pin'd & shew'd his paine.

      First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 417-21 (in his appendix of spurious poems, but accepted into the canon in his edition of 1929). Milgate, Satires, pp. 81-5 (Donne's authorship discussed pp. 293-4). Shawcross, No. 131.

      John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntington ('That unripe side of earth, that heavy clime')
    • DnJ 1877.5 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 31-3, untitled, here beginning w'arre thus but pcell guilt To golde w'are growne.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.

      John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens ('Here where by All All Saints invoked are')
    • DnJ 1337.8 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 91-2, untitled, here beginning There is noe health-Phisitians say that wee.

      First published in An Anatomie of the World (London, 1611). Grierson, I, 229-45. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 7-17.

      John Donne, The First Anniversary ('When that rich Soule which to her heaven is gone')
    • DnJ 1339.5 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 63-4, untitled, here beginning One, whom all men who durst noe more, admir'd.

      First published in An Anatomie of the World (London, 1611). Grierson, I, 245-8. Shawcross, No. 156. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 35-8.

      John Donne, The First Anniversary. A Funerall Elegie (''Tis lost, to trust a Tombe with such a guest')
    • DnJ 2877.9 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 77-8, 351-2, untitled, here beginning Shee to whose person paradice adher'd.

      First published in London, 1612. Grierson, I, 251-66. Shawcross, No. 157. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 41-56. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 25-37.

      John Donne, The second Anniversary. Of the Progresse of the Soule ('Nothing could make me sooner to confesse')
    • DnJ 1666.9 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 250, 518-20, untitled, here beginning Weakenes invites, but Silence feests oppressione, and a brief paraphrased extract from the prefatory Epistle (here The Counsel of Trent condemnes whatsoeuer Luther hath or shall write).

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.

      John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis ('I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule')
    • DnJ 805.5 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 38-40, untitled, here beginning A selff despising, may begett self loue.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

      John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
    • DnJ 145.5 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 25-30, untitled, here beginning As by the self fixd pole wee neuer doe.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608). Shawcross, No. 183.

      John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion ('Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day')
    • DnJ 1946.7 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 89-90, untitled, here beginning To some / not to bee martyrs is a martyrdome.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

      John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
    • DnJ 1562.5 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 29-32, untitled, here beginning Churches are best for prayer that haue least light.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

      John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany ('In what torne ship soever I embarke')
    • MyJ 6 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 71-2, written lengthways down the outer margin, untitled, here beginning And from the point such tedious vses draw.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633), p. 393. Grierson, I, 382-4.

      Jasper Mayne, On Dr. Donnes death: By Mr. Mayne of Christ-Church in Oxford ('Who shall presume to mourn thee, Donne, unlesse')
    • DnJ 1027.5 f. 44r

      Copy of lines 15-16, written lengthways down the outer margin, untitled, here beginning These Roes of Living sand.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

      John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
    • HbT 32.5 ff. 45r-53r

      Extracts, headed Collections out of Mr Hobbs Leviathan.

      First published in London, 1651. Molesworth, English, III. Edited by Karl Schuhmann and G.A.J. Rogers, 2 vols (Bristol, 2003-5) [and see Noel Malcolm's review in TLS, 3 December 2004, pp. 3-4].

      Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    • BcF 297.5 ff. 85v-84v rev.

      Extracts, headed The Historie of Life & death Written in Latin by the Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban, englisht by Doctor Rawley.

      William Rawley's English translation of the Historia vitae et mortis was published in 1638.

      First published in London, 1623. Spedding, II, 89-226 (pp. 111-12).

      Francis Bacon, Historia vitae et mortis
    • GrF 27.5 ff. 93v-92v rev.

      Extracts, headed My Ld Brookes Alaham.

      First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, II, 138-213. Wilkes, I, 310-98.

      Fulke Greville, Alaham

  • Add. MS 78424

    A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in English and French, chiefly in a single cursive hand, with some pages in the hand of an amanuensis, written from both ends, i + 134 leaves, originally in contemporary calf (now detached), in modern half red morocco.

    Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn. Inscribed by him (f. 134r rev.) I began these Collections the 9th of July, 1662 / By Sr Samuel Tuke: Bart:.

    c.1662-5.

    Volume CCLVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 164.

    • HrE 125.3 ff. 22r, 21r rev.

      Extracts, headed The History of H. 8t by my Ld cherbury.

      First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
    • FuT 5.266 ff. 85r, 84r, 83r rev.

      Extracts, headed Out of Mr ffullers history of the Worthies of England.

      First published in London, 1662.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England
    • SuJ 191 ff. 123r-122r rev.

      Extracts, headed Sucklings Poems.

      John Suckling, Extracts
    • JnB 771 ff. 133v-r, 132r, 131r, 130r, 129r, 128r rev.

      Extracts from Every Man in his Humour, Every Man out of his Humour, Cynthia's Revels, The Poetaster, Sejanus, Volpone, The Silent Woman, The Alchemist, Catiline, Epigrams, The Magnetic Lady, and Discoveries, headed Collections from Ben Johnsons Workes.

      Ben Jonson, Extracts

  • Add. MS 78425

    Miscellaneous papers of John Evelyn.

    Volume CCLVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • RnT 439.5 ff. 20r-1v

      Copy, in an italic hand, headed Thomae Randulphi oratio prævaricatoris comitijs Cantabrigiensibus habita. Anno Dni. 1632, on four pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, damp-stained.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 301.

      First published in Hazlitt (1875), II, 671-80.

      Thomas Randolph, Oratio praevaricatoria Thomae Randolphi. 1632

  • Add. MS 78427

    A large drawing of Tenerife in an unidentified hand and Evelyn's copy of it, in ink and coloured wash, with his initialled inscription Orotava in Tenerif Insula Canar:, and with an unrelated engraving.

    c.1660s.

    Volume CCLX of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 94.5
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, An exact Relation of the Pico Tenariff, taken from Mr: Clappham, who had long resided in that Iland

  • Add. MS 78430

    Illuminated copy in the calligraphic hand of Richard Hoare, with Evelyn's autograph inscription and motto, ii + 84 quarto leaves, damaged by damp, in contemporary morocco gilt.

    1648-9.

    Volume CCLXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Later bookplate of Theodore H. Broadhead. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 143.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), pp. 6-7, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

    • *EvJ 113
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Instructions Oeconomique

  • Add. MS 78440

    Composite volume of correspondence and papers of Mary Evelyn (1665-85), eldest daughter of John Evelyn.

    Volume CCLXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 206 item 5
      Autograph

      Autograph notes, headed Directions for the Employment of your time (to Mary Evelyn), on a single folio leaf; imperfect.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 558.

      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions
    • *EvJ 49 item 9
      Autograph

      Autograph list of books and papers written by Mary Evelyn, the diarist's daughter, compiled by him after her death, on a slip of paper, among other MSS.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 580.

      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries

  • Add. MS 78445

    Autograph notes by John Evelyn the younger on Sir Edward Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England, 167 folio pages, in remains of contemporary vellum.

    c.1670s-80s.

    Volume CCLXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Sir Thomas Phillipps sale), lot 226. Afterwards Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 43.

    • *EvJ 130
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

  • Add. MS 78447

    Autograph notes on 16th- and 17th-century European history, ii + 31 leaves.

    c.1670s-80s.

    Volume CCLXXX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 57.

    • *EvJ 107
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, History

  • Add. MS 78448

    A tall folio composite volume of commonplace-book notes and extracts, chiefly in the hand of John Evelyn the younger, on various paper sizes, 248 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Late 17th century.

    Volume CCLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 281.

    • CmW 13.144 ff. 120r-34v

      Extracts.

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

      William Camden, Britannia
    • HbT 7.8 f. 180r

      Extracts, headed Mr Hobbs's answer to ye Preface.

      First published in Sir William Davenant, Gondibert (London, 1651), pp. 71-88. Molesworth, English, IV, 441-58.

      Thomas Hobbes, Answer to the Preface of Davenant's Gondibert
    • MaA 519.95 f. 180v

      Brief extracts from both 1672 and 1673 parts.

      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
    • DrJ 247.96 f. 182r-v

      Extracts, headed The Conquest of Granada by Mr Dryden. 1672 Lond.

      First published in London, 1672. California, XI, 1-100, 101-218.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts
    • JnB 768 ff. 188v-92v

      Extractts from various plays and Discoveries, headed Ben-Johnsons Works Lond. 1640.

      Ben Jonson, Extracts
    • BuS 0.5 f. 193v

      Extracts, headed Hudibras 1st Part Lond. 1663.

      Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

      Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')

  • Add. MS 78453

    Autograph advice by Evelyn to his son when leaving for Ireland, headed Testamentvm in Procinctv, dated 10 August 1692, with other devotions, 100 octavo pages, imperfect, in contemporary leather.

    1692.

    Volume CCLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 93.

    This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

    • *EvJ 181
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

  • Add. MS 78456

    A folio composite volume of verse chiefly by John Evelyn Jr (1655-99) and his tutor Ralph Bohun, 39 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

    Vol. CCLXXXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 253.

    • SiP 109 f. 28r-v

      Copy, in the italic hand of John Evelyn Jr, on both sides of a folio leaf.

      Inserted in the 1693 edition of Arcadia, Book III, between OA 65 and OA 66. Ringler, Other Poems No. 5, pp. 256-7.

      Sir Philip Sidney, New Arcadia, in Third Eclogues ('The ladd Philisides')

  • Add. MS 78515

    Autograph fair copy, iii + 44 sextodecimo leaves, in contemporary morocco gilt.

    c.1704-6.

    Volume CCCXLVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 132.

    Edited from this MS by Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1926). Recorded in Keynes (1968), pp. 20, 28, 251-4.

    • *EvJ 126
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Memoires for My Grand-Son

  • Add. MS 78521

    An unbound collection of verse manuscripts, in English and Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, collected by the Evelyn family, 214 leaves.

    Early 18th century.

    Volume CCCLIV of the Evelyn Papers.

    • CoA 194.2 f. 108r-v

      Copy of stanzas 9-11, beginning This only grant me, that my means may lie, untitled, subscribed Cowley, on a single quarto leaf once folded as a letter or packet.

      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')
    • DrJ 43.3 f. 111r

      Copy, in a rounded hand, headed Wrote on a Tomb In Twickenham Church, on one side of a quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

      First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 845. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 243-4.

      John Dryden, An Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore ('Fair, Kind, and True, a Treasure each alone')
    • EvJ 140 ff. 154r-68r

      Notes and lists, including some Latin verse, on about fifteen leaves and scraps of paper.

      Probably corresponding to Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 550, but not in Evelyn's hand.

      John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

  • Add. MS 78522

    An unbound collection of verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes, 212 leaves.

    Volume CCCLV of the Evelyn Papers.

    • WiG 2.5 f. 1r-v

      Copy, untitled, on both sides of single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1700s.

      First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as Sonnet 4, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

      For the answer attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

      George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet ('Shall I wasting in despair')
    • DoC 157.5 f. 17r

      Copy, in a cursive hand, headed On Mrs Harry Roche missing a Match with one Capt. John Daw. made by the Earle of Dorset & found in his Owne hand on ye backside of an Inventory of his Plate -- write in 1691, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper.

      First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity). Harris, pp. 101-2.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mrs. Anne Roche when she Lost Sir John Daws ('Like a true Irish merlin that has lost her flight')
    • MkM 8 f. 73r-v

      Copy, headed The following Verses were wrote by Mrs Monk on her death-bed at Bath to her husband at London, on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

      Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

      Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London ('Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ')

  • Add. MS 78577

    Extracts from Evelyn's Diary made by the editor William Bray (1736-1832), with some notes probably added by his assistant, James Bindley (1737-1818), 955 folio pages, in half-calf.

    1814-15.

    Volume CCCCX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 159.

    • EvJ 219.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in selections in Bray (1818). The text for the period from 4 October 1699 to 1706 first published as a serialisation in Abinger Monthly Record, I (1889), pp. 7-8, 20,32, 48, 64, 76. II (1890), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 79-80, 96, 116, 132, 148, 167-8, 184, 199-200. III (1891-3), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 76, 92, 107-8, 127-8, 147-8, 167-8, 191-2, 215-16, 235-6, 251-2, 271-2, 291-2, 311-12, 328, 343-4, 364, 393-6, 414-28, 439-58. The Diary first published in full (but for missing pages) in de Beer (1955).

      John Evelyn, Diary

  • Add. MS 78618

    Autograph ledger, recording accounts, abstracts of leases, etc. relating to Sayes Court, Deptford, 25 large folio leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    1682-1704.

    Volume CCCCLI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 62.

    • *EvJ 61
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Domestic Accounts, Inventories, Instructions, and Estate Papers

  • Add. MS 78629

    MS map of Deptford, 1623, with Evelyn's autograph annotations and his drawing of Sayes Court, with various other maps and surveys relating to Deptford, on paper and vellum.

    Volume CCCCLXII of the Evelyn Papers. Including Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 153, 281.

    An engraving based on this map reproduced in Bray, I, after p. 314.

    • *EvJ 117
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Maps, Drawings and Coats of Arms

  • Add. MS 78630

    The title-page only of Evelyn's quarto library catalogue of 1653.

    The title-page only of Evelyn's quarto library catalogue of 1653, viz. Bibliothecae Euelyni Catalogvs, in the hand of Richard Hoare, mounted at the front of an 18th-century book of accounts.

    Volume CCCCLXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 185.

    This title-page reproduced in facsimile in Keynes, 1st edition (1937), Plate 3, after p. 14. NB. Keynes also reproduces in this plate, as if part of the same catalogue, a page of a totally unrelated library catalogue (Evelyn MS 27, f. 83), which is a quarto Catalogus Materialis of c.1706.

    • EvJ 39
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries

  • Add. MS 78631

    Autograph MS of a Method for a Library According to the Intellectual Powers, on a single folio leaf (f. 1), with an incomplete catalogue of Libri Theologici and an index of books, 32 folio leaves.

    c.1686.

    Volume CCCCLXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 19, 20 and 259.

    • *EvJ 36
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries

  • Add. MS 78632

    Library catalogue, partly autograph, with a Method for a Librarie According to the intellectual powers on f. 1r-v, viii + 139 folio leaves.

    c.1687.

    Volume CCCCLXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 20a.

    This MS bought at the Upcott sale on 22 June 1846 (either lot 60 or lot 61).

    Edited in part in Keynes, pp. 297-303. Discussed pp. 13-17, with facsimiles of pp. 1-2 as plates 3 and 4, between pp. 16 and 17.

    • *EvJ 37
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries

  • Add. MS 78633

    Unfinished autograph library catalogue, inscribed on the paper cover Catalogus Bibliothecae Londinii, comprising a quarto pamphlet of nine leaves with ruled columns and a few headings, the first page with comments (The first Catalogue is Alphabetical. The Second of the Subjects & Falcutys).

    c.1690s.

    Volume CCCCLXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 30.

    • *EvJ 38
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries

  • Add. MS 78639

    Miscellaneous papers relating to books, MSS and coins collected by Evelyn and his descendants.

    Volume CCCCLXXII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *EvJ 42 No. 10
      Autograph

      Autograph list of Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure, on a single quarto lea, with other related papers.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 330. Edited from this MS in Bray, II, part I, p. 104, and in Wheatley (1893), pp. 87-8.

      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries
    • *EvJ 40 No. 11
      Autograph

      Autograph list of letters and papers in a closet at Wotton, on a single quarto leaf.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 310.

      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries
    • *EvJ 41 No. 12
      Autograph

      Autograph list of books and manuscripts left at Wotton, on a single scrap of paper, 21 November 1702.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 311.

      John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries

  • Add. MS 78652

    An unbound collection of papers largely relating to parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 108 generally folio leaves.

    Volume CCCCLXXXV of the Evelyn Papers.

    • HoJ 345 [unnumbered pages]

      Copy of a brief summary.

      Speech, beginning (in a brief summary) That knowing our own rights we might be better enabled to give....

      John Hoskyns, Speech in the House of Commons, 2 April 1628
    • RuB 60 [unnunbered pages]

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sr Beniamine Rudyardes speech in the howse of Comons on the 28th of Aprill. 1628, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

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

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

  • Add. MS 78654

    Two unbound manuscripts relating to the first Duke of Buckingham, in professional hands, 61 folio leaves.

    Volume CCCCLXXXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Purchased March 1995.

    • WoH 262.4 Item 2, ff. 1r-21r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with (f. 46r) a general title-page, damp-stained and imperfect.

      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
    • ClE 11.3 Item 2, ff. 22r-45v

      Copy, in a professional hand, with (f. 46r) a general title-page, heavily damp-stained.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), where it is ascribed to Sir Henry Wotton. First ascribed to Clarendon in the third edition (1672). First published separately as The characters of Robert Earl of Essex … and George Duke of Buckingham (London, 1706). Reprinted in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (London, 1724), pp. 247-71, and in A Collection of several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727), I, 247-71.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Difference and Disparity betweene the Estates and Condicions of George Duke Buckingham and Robert Earle of Essex

  • Add. MS 78655

    An unbound collection of parliamentary speeches and state tracts, in at least three professional hands, 91 largely folio leaves.

    Volume CCCCLXXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Purchased March 1995.

    • RuB 146 ff. 14r-17r

      Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Sr Beniamin Rudiard 9ber 7 1640, damp-stained.

      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

  • Add. MS 78663

    A formal copy, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, in roman and italic scripts, on 16 small quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Evelyn Papers Vol. CCCCXCVI, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

    c.1612-29.

    Formerly Evelyn MS 107. According to a note on the fly-leaf by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, the MS was presented by Lady Evelyn to her relation Mrs Hugh Bisshopp (d.1826), sister-in-law of Lord De La Zouche, and afterwards owned by her housekeeper Mrs Hales, who gave it on 7 July 1826 to William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.

    • BeJ 13
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Bosworth-field: with a taste of the variety of other poems, left by Sir John Beaumont, ed. Sir John Beaumont the Younger (London, 1629). Grosart, pp. 23-63. Sell, pp. 66-83.

      Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth Field ('The Winters storme of Civill Warre I sing')

  • Add. MS 78683

    A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands.

    Volume DXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

    Formerly Evelyn MS 3.

    • *CgW 135 f. 37r
      Autograph

      A receipt signed by Congreve, to Charles Lockyer, 16 November 1721.

      Formerly Evelyn MS 3, No. 85. Hodges, p. x.

      William Congreve, Document(s)

  • Add. MS 78684

    A folio composite volume of letters and papers, iii + 192 leaves, in half modern calf.

    Volume DXVII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 3 (William Upcott vol.).

    • BuS 15 ff. 28r, 292r

      Two autograph letters signed by Zachary Grey concerning his edition of Hudibras and agreement with booksellers, dated 11 October 1742 and 9 March 1742/3.

      Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 4, Vol. ii, Nos. 17-18.

      Samuel Butler, Editorial and Copyright Papers
    • *MaA 539 No. 69
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Edward Thompson, 29 December 1670.

      Later owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.

      Edited in Hilton Kelliher, Some Uncollected Letters of Andrew Marvell, British Library Journal, 5 (1979), 145-57 (p. 148).

      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 78685

    A folio composite volume of letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, ii + 179 leaves, with an index by William Upcott, in half-leather.

    Volume DXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

    • *VaJ 518 f. 109r
      Autograph

      A partly printed document signed by Vanbrugh, giving power of attorney to Jeremiah Nicolls in relation to South Sea Company stock, 9 June 1723.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
    • *WaE 816 ff. 112r-13r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Sir Richard Browne, from Rouen, 3 July 1649.

      Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

  • Add. MS 81083

    A folio manuscript, comprising two works by William Scott, MP (c.1570-1612), the first (ff. 1r-50r), in a professional calligraphic italic hand, with corrections and alterations partly in Scott's own hand, entitled The Modell of Poesye Or The Arte of Poesye drawen into a short or Summary Discourse; the second (ff. 51r-76r), partly autograph and partly scribal, Scott's translation into English verse of part of Guillaume de Saluste, seigneur du Bartas's La Sepmaine ou Création du monde, imperfect.

    Including, besides quotations from poems, references to other works by Spenser and Samuel Daniel.

    c.1595-1600.

    Formerly preserved at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, seat of the Lee family, Viscounts Dillon.

    This MS discussed in Stanley Wells, By the placing of his words, TLS, 26 September 2003, pp. 14-15.

    • ShW 2.3 f. 16r

      Quotation from The Rape of Lucrece (line 1330: For sorrow ebbs being blown with wind of words).

      First published in London, 1594.

      William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece ('From the besieged Ardea all in post')
    • ShW 79.5 26r, 32r, 39r

      Extracts, including II, iii, lines 332-7; III, ii, lines 37-8; and III, iii, line 166.

      First published in London, 1597.

      William Shakespeare, Richard II
    • SiP 235 ff. 32v, 36r-7r, et passim

      Extracts from verse by Sidney, including Astrophil and Stella (Songs VII and VIII) and Arcadia (Books II and III), and references to A Defence of Poetry.

      For Scott's edited exemplum of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (London, 1598) in Cambridge University Library, Syn. 4.59.12, see Hannah Leah Crummé, William Scott's Copy of Sidney, N&Q, 254 (December 2009), 553-4.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Extracts
    • SpE 12.5 f. 40r

      Extract, lines 15-16, beginning And is there then.

      First published (with a separate title-page dated 1590) in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 157-73.

      Edmund Spenser, Muiopotmos: or The Fate of the Butterflie ('I sing of deadly dolorous debate')

  • Add. MS 81592

    Autograph letter signed, two conjugate folio leaves, dated 26 May [1596?].

    [1596].

    Formerly among the Hulton papers relating to the Earl of Essex. Donated by the owner of Hulton Park, Lancashire, to Rossall School, Fleetwood, in 1903. Sotheby's, 16 December 2004, lot 28, with a facsimile of the first page in the sale catalogue.

    • *EsR 185
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      The letter probably addressed to the Earl of Rutland, dated 26 May [1596?], and beginning Noble l. I am surprised by yr man thatt now letts me know he is going to yw.... First published in the school magazine The Rossallian, 15 December 1903.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Fourth Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

  • Add. MS 82370

    A quarto miscellany of verse, ballads and some prose, in secretary hands, 49 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Late 16th century.

    Inscribed (f. 1r), in red ink, John Stanhope (possibly John Stanhope, d.1593, of Eccleshill) and from the muniments of the Spencer-Stanhope family of Yorkshire.

    Recorded in A.M.W. Stirling, Annals of a Yorkshire House (1911), I, 7. Discussed in Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti, Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman's Household Book (Ithaca, 2014), with fascimile examples.

    • ElQ 16 f. [44v]

      Copy, headed certan vses made by the quenes matie Eliz &c. ao R xiio[i.e. 1569-70] and subscribed finis qd Elizabetha.

      A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

      Queen Elizabeth I, 'The doubt of future foes'
    • ElQ 3 f. [45r]

      Copy, headed certan other verses made by owre sayd soueign, subscribed finis qd Elizabetha Regina.

      Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth 3, pp. 28-30. Bradner, pp. 8-10, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 11, pp. 305-6.

      Queen Elizabeth I, 'Now leave and let me rest. Dame Pleasure, be content'

  • Add. MS 82932

    A small quarto volume of 80 English ballads and songs, in probably two variable secretary hands, transcribed from edited black-letter broadsides, iii + 162 leaves, originally foliated 98-257, imperfect, lacking the original first 97 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf gilt.

    This volume edited in full in The Shirburn Ballads, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1907), with facsimile examples opposite pp. 236, 246 and 272.

    c.1609-16.

    Inscribed (f. 59r) Edwarde Hull, possibly the main scribe of the MS. Also variously inscribed Thomas Sturgies is the right Oner of this booke and the names of Edward Sturgis, Thomas Manton, Richard Manton, Richard Halford, William Halford, Dorothy Halford, William Wagstaffe and Thomas Wagstaffe. Later in the library of the Parker family, Earls of Macclesfield, at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire. Acquired 30 March 2007.

    • BrN 61.8 f. 10r

      Copy, headed The lover's replye to the maiden's fye fye.

      Clark, No. IV (pp. 29-31).

      First published as The Plowmans Song in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to N. Breton; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

      Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon ('In the merry moneth of May')
    • DyE 42 ff. 55v-6v

      Copy, headed A sweete and pleasant Sonnet Intituled: My minde to me a kingdome is / to the tune of In Creete.

      Clark, No. XXVIII (pp. 113-15).

      First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'
    • CmT 235 f. 119r

      Copy of five strophes, imperfect, lacking a leaf with the title and first strophe, here therefore begininning What yf a smile, or a becke, or a looke.

      Clark, No. LIX (pp. 238-40). Recorded in Greer, p. 311.

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'

  • Add. MS 88897/1

    Autograph MS of the Autobiography of Alice Thornton, including some verses, 303 duodecimo pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

    c.1668.

    Inscribed on a flyfeaf Ex Libris Tho. Comber De Creech St. Michael in Comitatu Somerset 1789. 1800. The Contents of this Book are written by the hand of Mrs Alice Thornton, the Great Great Grandmother of me Thomas Comber 1789. Owned in 1875 by a descendant of Alice Thornton, the Rev. Henry George Wandesford Comber, MA, Rector of Oswaldkirk. Sotheby's, 21 July 1980, lot 63, unsold. Sotheby's, 29 June 1982, lot 17, to Quaritch, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Then owned by Paula Peyraud, New York State. Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, 6 May 2009, lot 464.

    A microfilm of this MS is also in the British Library, RP 2346.

    • *ThA 1 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      Autograph autobiography, covering the years 1627-68, in Thornton's neat italic hand, arranged under headings, with a seven-page index between pp. 299 and 300.

      The first MS used in Jackson's edition in 1875. Discussed in Anselment.

      First published, [edited by Charles Jackson], Surtees Society, 62 (1875 [for 1873]).

      Alice Thornton, The Autobiography of Mrs Alice Thornton
    • HlJ 56.2 p. 1

      Extracts by Alice Thornton, headed Bpp: Halls Obseruations in his booke of Meditations And Vowes.

      First published in London, 1605. Wynter, VII, 439-521.

      Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vows. Divine and Moral. Three Centuries
    • SiP 167.8 p. 281

      Copy, in Alice Thornton's hand, headed Against the feares of Death.

      Presumably edited from this MS in Jackson, p. 177.

      Ringler, p. 131. Robertson, pp. 373-4.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book V, No. 77 ('Since nature's works be good, and death doth serve')
    • SiP 60.5 p. 282

      Copy, in Alice Thornton's hand, headed An inducement to Loue Heauen.

      Presumably edited from this MS in Jackson, p. 178?

      Ringler, pp. 161-2.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 32 ('Leave me o Love, which reachest but to dust')
    • WoH 257.4 pp. 282-3

      Copy in Alice Thornton's hand, headed A faire=well to the World.

      Presumably edited from this MS in Jackson, p. 178-9.

      First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')

  • Add. MS 88897/2

    Autograph MS, in Alice Thornton's italic hand, covering principally 1668-9 with reminiscences of earlier times and other prayers and meditations, entitled An account of memorable Affaires, and Accidents, on my selfe, & Family, & Children. with Deliuerances, and Meditations thereon Since my Widdowed condition Since Sept: 17th 1668, 216 quarto pages, in old calf gilt.

    1668-9.

    Inscribed on a flyleaf A Manuscript written by My dear Grandmother Mrs. Thornton. Owned in 1875 by a descendant of Alice Thornton, the Rev. Henry George Wandesford Comber, MA, Rector of Oswaldkirk. Sotheby's, 13 December 1994, lot 44, to Quaritch, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Then owned by Paula Peyraud, New York State. Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, 6 May 2009, lot 464.

    The third MS used in Jackson's edition in 1875. Discussed in Anselment.

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

      First published, [edited by Charles Jackson], Surtees Society, 62 (1875 [for 1873]).

      Alice Thornton, The Autobiography of Mrs Alice Thornton

  • Add. MS 88926

    Autograph working manuscript, begun probably as a fair copy and then copiously revised, headed (f. [3r] The Amazon, with (f. 1r) a list of Dramatis Personæ, the text on eleven pages, unfinished or incomplete, 26 folio leaves (including 18 blanks), sewn in a paper wrapper.

    c.1617-30s.

    Formerly owned by the Earl of Powis, at Powis Castle. Bonhams, London, 10 November 2009, lot 56.

    Facsimile examples in the sale catalogue (of ff. [5v-6r], [8r]) and in Bonham Magazine, issue 21 (Winter 2009), pp. 44-5 (of ff. [4v-5r] and [6v]).

    • *HrE 143.5
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Unpublished play or entertainment, possibly unfinished.

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