The British Library: Cotton MSS

Copy of a version headed 1608. An Epitaph one the death of Thomas Sackuile Lord Buckhurst Earle of Dorset & Lord Treasurar of England who died Suddainly at the Counsell table at whitehall 19^th. Aprilis 1608 as he was Speaking in his owne Cause against Sir John Lawson Knight, beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once Conferre.

Copy of lines 1-2, jotted in a 16th-century hand, the first line recopied in a 17th-century hand.

Autograph letter signed by Douglas, to Lord Dacre, from Perth, 21 January 1515.

Edited in Small, I, xli-xlii, and in Fraser, IV, 72.

Autograph letter signed, to the Scottish Secretary, from Antwerp, 23 August 1531.

Edited in Hamer, IV, 255, and, with a facsimile of the signature, in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, ed. David Laing, 2 vols (Edinburgh, 1879), I, xxiv-xxvi. Edited and discussed in Janet Hadley Williams, Of officiaris serving thy senyeorie: David Lyndsay's diplomatic letter of 1531, in A Palace in the Wild: Essays on Vernacular Culture and Humanism in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Scotland (Leuven, 2000), pp. 125-40. Facsimile also in IELM, I.ii, Facsimile XXIV (p. 312).

Autograph letter signed by Douglas, to Adam Williamson, from Perth, 18 January 1514/15.

Edited in Small, I, xxxvi-xxxix, and in Fraser, IV, 68-70.

Autograph letter signed by Douglas, to Adam Williamson, 21 January 1514/15, enclosing Douglas's letter of 18 January (DoG 10).

Edited in Small, I, xxxix-xli, and in Fraser, IV, 70-1.

A joint letter by Douglas and Robert Cockburn, Bishop of Ross, to Cardinal Wolsey, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by the two bishops, from Abbeville, France, 27 June 1517.

Edited in Small, I, lxxxiv, and in Fraser, IV, 75 (dated 1518).

Letter, to Cardinal Wolsey, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Douglas, from London, 1 January 1522.

Edited in Small, I, xcix-c, and in Fraser, IV, 83-4.

Autograph letter signed by Douglas, to Cardinal Wolsey, from London, 6 January 1522.

Edited in Small, I, ci, and in Fraser, IV, 84-5. Facsimile in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XI (p. 4).

Autograph fair copy of a 42-line version, subscribed Finis. H. N. gemens, docketed Inscriptions upon the Queene of Scotts tombe.

Edited from this MS in Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, IX (1585-88), pp. 314-15.

Copy, headed [A di]scourse plainlie prooueinge that [a]swell the Sentence of death latelie given against the vnfortunate Ladie Marie late Queene of Scotts as also the execution of the same Sentence were ho^ble: iust necessarie and Lawfull, here beginning There hathe not happened since the memorie of man….

Edited from this MS in Calendar of the State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots 1547-1603, ed. William K. Boyd, Vol. IX. 1586-1588 (1915), No. 330 (pp. 356-8). This MS selectively collated in Camden Society edition; recorded in Willcock & Walker, p. xxiii (n). An 18th-century transcript of this MS is in British Library, Harley MS 4647, ff. 143v-63v.

Copy of a letter by Constable to Dr Bagshaw in Paris, from Kingston, 9 January 1604, endorsed Copy of a lre fro M^r H Constable to D^r. Bagshaw. 1603.

Copy in the hand of the merchant and antiquary Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), on thirteen folio pages (part of a single section: ff. 17r-32v), imperfect.

This MS cited in H.R. Woudhuysen, A crux in the text of Sidney's A Letter to Queen Elizabeth, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 172-3. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 13, with facsimile example Plate 71.

Autograph Latin notes and antiquarian collections of Camden, including material used for Britannia, 126 leaves; one page (f. 119v) dated 1580, another (f. 100v) dated 1581.

Copy of lines 1-11, imperfect.

Extracts from Part II transcribed by Francis Thynne, Lancaster Herald (1545?-1608) (ff. 67v-87v); 17 December 1589; with a few other miscellaneous notes from the Itinerary (ff. 179v, 199v-201).

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.

Extracts transcribed by John Stow.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled but docketed S^r. Robert Cotton / Nouemb 1604 / Antiquity of Christian Religion in this Island; probably the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries.

Copy in the hand of an amanuensis, untitled, endorsed M^r Camden; probably the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries. c.1604.

Autograph letter signed by Bale, to Thomas Cromwell, [c.January 1536/7].

Edited in McCusker (1942), pp. 12-13. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XXXI(a-b).

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Cromwell, [Autumn, 1536].

Wilson, pp. 30-2, with a facsimile on p. x. Facsimile also in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, 2009), p. 254.

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Cromwell, [6 March 1535/6].

Wilson, pp. 26-8.

Autograph or partly autograph drafts, including memoranda on Means to repair the kinges Estate (ff. 66r-70v), on Resumption of Graunts (ff. 125r, 127v), and on Subsidies (f. 213r-v).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with some possibly autograph insertions and marginal instructions (such as Leave a space), headed An Answere to such motiues as were offered by certen mylitary men to prince Henry to incite him to affect Armes mor then Peace mad at his highnes command by R. C. B his humble seruant, signed by him (f. 3r) Robertus Cotton Bruceus, dated at the beginning Aprill. 1609, and subscribed R^o. Cotton. 1609. 1609.

The copy text for the first (1655) abd subsequent printed editions.

Copy, possibly a composite of more than one MS; the first part (ff. 41r-3v) almost entirely in a professional secretary hand, with copious marginal annotations in the hand of Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton; a second professional hand on ff. 44r-5v, and 51r; the first scribe again on ff. 46r-49r; a third secretary hand on ff. 46r-9v, and signed and dated at the end by Cotton himself Ro. Cotton 1612. Sept. 25. 1612.

Autograph MS, under headings of categories of proposed Abatements and Improvementes, docketed in another hand (f. 84r) Considerations of the Kings present Estate by the Earl of Northampton in his own hand.

Autograph letter signed by Donne, to Sir Robert Cotton, [1602?].

Edited in Gosse, I, 123-5. Facsimiles in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical, and Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), plate 93, and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 44.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed Regina dixi 1593, on the recto of a single folio leaf; together with an untitled English translation, beginning Youre desertes and gratitude do Alter mye purpose..., in a different secretary hand, on both sides of another folio leaf.

At least some of the items here belonged to Camden, including several notes, drafts, patents and a letter in his hand, inscribed (f. 1r) Collections of M^r Camdens Relating to Hauralds at arms with sev^ll. Originall pattents.

Part of an autograph draft of the work, here beginning out of the riche mine of Peru betweene a glass..., the sequence out of order, imperfect.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in the margin My Lord of Northampton concerning the painters of Armes and others.

Lord Henry Howard's autograph annotations or docketing on various documents in professional hands on heraldic matters, including (ff. 94r-6r)Copy of M^r Camdens deputation to m^r N Charles Lancaster Herauld, for Visitting in his province; (ff. 225r-6v) Embeaselinge of Recordes and bookes out of the office; (ff. 227r-8v) Office of Armes; and (f. 234r-v) Rules or articles.

Autograph draft, with deletions and revisions, headed of Single Combat, on two folio leaves; delivered 22 May 1601.

Copy in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, untitled and here beginning Since civility..., on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 28 October 1601.

Autograph draft, with deletions and revisions, on one side of a single folio leaf; possibly the paper delivered on an unspecified date to the Society of Antiquaries.

Autograph letter signed by Andrewes, to Abraham Hartwell, from Lambeth, 30 November 1604.

Edited in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. xli-xlii. Facsimile in IELM, I.i (1980), p. 5.

Autograph fair copy, with revisions, on one side of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 29 June 1604.

Autograph fair copy, headed The Antiquitie of Armes in England. Armes, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 2 November 1598.

Autograph fair copy, headed Duke, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 25 November 1598.

Facsimile of f. 105r in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile VII, p. 148.

Autograph fair copy, headed Castles, on the recto of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered on 15 May 1599.

Autograph draft, with deletions and revisions, on three pages of two folio leaves, endorsed M^r Cotton.

Autograph draft, with deletions and revisions, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered on 23 June 1600.

Autograph fair copy, headed Townes, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 23 June 1599.

Autograph draft, with deletions and revisions, n both sides of a single folio leaf.

Copy, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, headed Funeralles, on both sides of a folio leaf, docketed Camd.; the paper delivered 30 April 1600.

Copy in the cursive secretary hand of an amanuensis, headed in Camden's hand Tombes, and Monuments, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed M^r Clarencieux; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 7 June 1600.

Copy in the secretary and italic hand of an amanuensis, with autograph additions, including (f. 165v) an unpublished autograph epitaph of four lines (beginning John Bell Brokenbrow liyys vnd^r this stean) belonging to this essay, on three folio pages, docketed Camd; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 3 November 1600.

Copy, in the hand of William Camden, headed Vpon one Margarett Radcliffe I found theise Verses, written along the length of a margin.

Autograph draft, untitled, quoting several epitaphs, on four folio leaves; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 3 November 1600.

This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. xli-xlii(n).

Autograph, headed The epitaph of the bellowes maker is in every mans mouth and here beginning Heers lies old Craker a Maker of Bellowes, written along the length of a margin, quoted in DaJ 243).

Copy, in Sir John Davies's hand, introduced as the newest pleasant Epitaph that I know.

Copy, here beginning He that lies heer was borne & cried.

Copy, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, with autograph additions, docketed Cam, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered 28 November 1600.

Autograph fair copy, on one side of a single folio leaf, docketed Cott.

Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

Copy, in a secretary hand, docketed in another hand (f. 51r) Belgia 1577 May.

Edited from this MS and attributed to Sidney in Osborn, Young Philip Sidney, pp. 482-90. Also discussed by Osborn in TLS (30 April 1970), pp. 487-8.

Copy, headed A prayer mayd by the Queenes < > for the prosperos successe of the Journy begonn <> 15<>, on one side of a quarto leaf, damaged by the fire of 1732.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, untitled, with two introductory lines beginning Englande now Roioysse fore Ioyous may thou bee, in a herald's chronicle of ceremonial events in the reign of Henry VII.

Edited from this MS in Green.

This probably the MS referred to in John Bale, Index Britanniae scriptorum, ed. R. Lane Poole and M. Bateson (Oxford, 1902), p. 425.

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cotton, 20 February 1601/2.

Edited in Gosse, I, 109. Facsimiles in Derek Parker, John Donne and his World (London, 1975), p. 35, and in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, London, 1986), No. 13, p. 25.

Autograph letter signed by Donne, to [Sir Robert Cotton]. 24 January 1609/10.

Facsimile in Gosse, I, facing p. 108.

Autograph letter signed by Florio, probably to Sir Robert Cotton, 11 March 1600[/1].

Edited in Yates, pp. 218-19. Facsimile example in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate LXXVIII(d).

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cotton, [c.1635].

Edited in Herford & Simpson, I, 215. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXIII(c).

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cotton, damaged by fire, 30 April 1605.

Edited in Bond, p. 395 and in Feuillerat, p. 564. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XVIII(a).

Autograph letter signed (the signature now obliterated), to William Cotton, MP [c.September 1596].

Edited in McKerrow, V, 192-6, with a facsimile example as frontispiece. Facsimiles also in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XX(a-c), and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 33.

Copy, in a stylish italic hand, untitled, subscribed Gulielmus Allab<>, on one side of a half-folio leaf, dated in the top corner 1583, slightly imperfect.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Copy of the elegiac distich, headed Anglus, and six elegiac couplets headed Respons. Gallo supradicto qui Joanna[m] Aurelian[am] Virginem et plenam Deo fuisse contendit and beginning Define, Galle, tuam tandem jactare Bubulcam.

These verses follow in the MS a text of François Duiet's epigram in praise of Joan of Arc to which they are a response.

Autograph, imperfect and lacking a title.

Extracts.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.

Copy of Part I, with a few other extracts in another hand.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.

Extracts transcribed by William Burton for John Selden and Sir Robert Cotton.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.

Autograph notes and drafts, including notes on ff. 87r-91v, 94r-100v, 131r-2v; a scribal copy of a letter to James I on f. 78r beginning It was a custome amonge the Romans (Most high most mighty) that such officers....

Autograph working notes and drafts, docketed on the outer wrapper Proceding of England befor France and Spayne Fragments, followed (on ff. 120r-1r) by a copy of a tract on precedency in a professional secretary hand.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with some annotations in Cotton's hand, headed A breife treatise of the question of precædency betwixt England and Spaine deuided into seuerall chapters, here beginning All Predence is of duety to the worthier..., subscribed finis Rob: Cotton.

Autograph notes in Latin by Camden, including verses (ff. 4r, 311r), various notes on coins, Scottish topography, Roman inscriptions in Northern England, war with Spain, &c, and a draft letter and draft dedication in his hand or in the hands of his amanuenses or correspondents with autograph additions, some notes probably relating to Britannia; a few autograph Epitaphia Camdeni, on f. 430r-v dating between 1604 and 1611.

Autograph draft, with revisions, headed An abstract of a Book wrighten in defence of the Scotts Q Honor deliuered on December 1571 by D Harpsfield and Weston then in the Flete to sergent Barram and M^r Soliciter Bromely and now remaineth with my Lord of Salesbury Principall Secretary .1610., on two folio leaves.

Copy of a version of Bacon's first report.

The beginning of a copy only of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, lacking the rest.

Copy of part of the fourth and sixth sections, in a small secretary hand, headed Touching the proceedings betweene Spaine and England and certaine true generall notes Vppon the actions of the Lo. Burghley, on three quarto leaves. c.1592-early 1600s.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy of Howard's last will and testament.

Various autograph or partly autograph historical notes and memoranda, on possibly as many as 50 leaves, chiefly in Latin, including extracts from Tacitus and other Roman authors; topographical material (dated 1580) used for Britannia (including ff. 119r-v); copies of epitaphs (ff. 116r-17r); matter relating to Camden and George Buchanan; and a clothes bill for November 1578-July 1580.

Certain of the contents of this MS noted in Haverfield (see CmW 147), pp. 350, 378.

Copy of 551 apothegms, including two which were to appear in Grave Speeches, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, untitled.

Copy of 267 apothegms, including 110 which were to appear in Grave Speeches, in thesecretary hand of an amanuensis with autograph corrections and revisions, headed Witty aunsweres & saienges of Englishmen.

Extracts from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 12) transcribed by William Camden. c.1580s-90s.

This MS recorded in Skeat, p. 506.

Copy, in a fine italic hand (the same hand as in HoJ 273).

Various historical notes and memoranda, autograph or partly autograph, chiefly in Latin, a number relating to Remaines, including genealogical trees (ff. 42r-61v), astronomical texts, verse (some on Sir Henry Goodyer the Elder, f. 85r, and on Sir Nicholas Bacon, f. 87r), and (f. 220r) notes relating to Britannia.

Incomplete early draft, partly autograph. This draft essay also developed into the essay Of Epitaphes (see CmW 67).

Copy, in a secretary hand, here beginning Heer lyeth John Croker a maker of bellowes.

Copy.

Copy.

Draft, partly autograph.

Draft, partly autograph.

Draft, partly autograph.

Copy of an early version, here beginning The busie witt of man continually workinge hath wrought out of names…, partly autograph.

Draft, partly autograph.

Copy, partly autograph.

Autograph draft; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries 3 November 1603.

Copy of Richard Carew's essay as incorporated by Camden in Remaines, in the hand of an amanuensis with a few autograph alterations by Camden.

Draft, partly autograph, of a short later version.

Autograph rough draft of the title-page, here addressed to Fulke Greville, with a list of contents.

Draft, partly autograph, of parts of the essay, headed England; also containing material for what became the essay The inhabitants of Britaine.

Draft, partly autograph, headed English tounge and here beginning From Englishmen we will now procede to the English tounge….

Autograph rough draft of passages belonging to the essay.

MS, partly autograph.

Draft, partly autograph.

Copy of a draft, in a neat italic and secretary hand.

Edited from this MS, with a complete facsimile, in Dunn's article (1986).

Copy of Book IX, stanzas 24-5 (beginning For first he is of limbs and bodie strong), and Book XI, stanzas 19-24, in a professional hand.

Copy, partly autograph, of a short early version, here beginning In most auncient ages there was onely batterie or chaunge of wares….

Autograph rough draft of the dedication (without the name of the addressee).

First published (addressed to Sir Robert Cotton) in Remaines (London, 1605).

Autograph draft of an early version, headed Duke and here beginning This word Duke we have receaued from the french….

Autograph draft notes for an early paper on the title of baron, untitled.

Autograph list of names relating to the essay.

Autograph rough draft, here beginning Wheras Armories or Armes do as silent names distinguish families….

Autograph draft of the opening paragraph, untitled.

Copy of a long Latin oration on English commercial grievances delivered by Wilson on 30 October 1567 in his embassy to the King of Portugal, attested by Edward Wilson, notary public, with related papers.

Copy, imperfect, badly burnt.

This MS recorded in Latham & Youings

Copy, headed Her ma^ties. pryuat meditation vpon y^e present expedition, sent from S^r Robt Cecyll to y^e Gnalls of her Higes Army, at Plymouth inclosed in this lre heerevnder written, on one side of a single small quarto-size leaf, with a scribbled endorsement in a different hand Praier of her Ma^tie vpo y^e expeditio anents Spaine A^o 96. c.1596.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Copy, headed The Earle of Essexe Appollegy for his proceedinges at Cales, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary; imperfect. c.1610s-20s.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Discou[rse] < >, beginning Whosoeu attendeth y^e approach [? of an Invador]….attendeth allso his tyme..., subscribed Wal: Rauleigh, very imperfect.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1955).

Extracts transcribed by John Stow, headed Excerpta ex Lelando de libris, quos ille reperit in biblothecis Monasteriorum, imperfect..1576.

Copy, here beginning My frende the thinges for to attayne. Mid-16th century.

This MS recorded in Rollins, II, 150.

Copy of lines 1-12.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, Arundel, II, 91-2; recorded in Rollins, II, 157.

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Cromwell, 8 December 1532.

Wilson, pp. 11-15. Facsimile page in Lehmberg, facing p. 32.

Autograph list of Abatementes and, on two conjugate quarto leaves, of details of the Juell howse.

Copy.

Ralegh's autograph journal compiled on his last voyage to Guiana. 19 August 1617 to 13 February 1617/18. Now bound separately.

Facsimile examples in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical and Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), plate 28; Walter Oakeshott, Carew Ralegh's Copy of Spenser, The Library, 5th Ser. 26 (1971), 1-21 (plate V(d-e)); Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 49.

Two autograph sets of notes in preparation for the work, comprising two draft versions of a list of fifteen chapter headings, the first version beginning The antiquitie of sea fight & in what vessels, the second version headed The pface and beginning The Antiquitie of sea fight, & their weapons in elder times, on two trimmed folio leaves.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 597-8.

Autograph draft of part of a critique of Ralph Brooke, York Herald, A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to the present yeare, 1619 (London, 1619); untitled and here beginning In the Catalogue of the Earles of Arundell First he maketh Roger Montgomery to be Earle of Belesmo….

Autograph letter signed by Udall, to a patron (? Sir Thomas Wriothesley), undated.

Edited, with facsimile examples, in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXXII(a-b). Edited also in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, ed. Sir Henry Ellis, Camden Society 23 (London, 1843), pp. 1-7, and in Nicholas Udall's Roister Doister, ed. G. Scheurweghs, Materials for the Study of the Old English Drama, NS 16 (Louvain, 1939), pp. xxv-xxxii.

Autograph, untitled, imperfect, lacking the ending. [1577].

Edited from this MS in Feuillerat and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Facsimile of f. 564r in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 115.

Autograph draft, with revisions, inscribed at the top M^r. Dauys, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries (? on 4 June 1603).

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with a passage added at the end in Camden's minute italic hand, headed Steward of England; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries (? on 4 June 1603).

Autograph(?) fair copy, the heading partly cropped, signed RO: Cotton; the paper delivered on an unspecified date to the Society of Antiquaries.

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed William Camden.

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed Robertus Cotton.

Autograph draft, with revisions, on two trimmed folio leaves; the paper delivered on an unspecified date to the Society of Antiquaries. c.1600.

Autograph drafts on the subject of the Earl Marshall, under the running heading Antiquitas Mariscalli.

Autograph copy, with a few revisions, of the dedicatory epistle to Northampton, signed Robert Cotton and dated 25 November 1602.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, headed in another hand Duellum, subscribed R. Cotton B. 1609. 1609.

Draft, in a professional secretary hand, with extensive autograph additions in another cursive secretary hand (? Davies's), the inscription M^r Davis cropped at the top of the first page, and inscribed at the top left Pascæ 1601; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries (? on 22 May 1601).

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, docketed in a small italic hand at the top left M^r Dauis Combatts, imperfect at the end; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries (? on 22 May 1601).

Autograph MS, with copious revisions, in two sections, dated at the end Finitu Febr 26. 26-27 February 1613.

Copy, in a professional italic and secretary hand, with a few autograph sidenotes and annotations by Howard, entitled Dvello Foil'd, with a dedication (f. 359r) to my uery good Lord.

Autograph draft, with copious deletions and revisions, headed Certaine Rules to be prescribed and euer obseruid for the reformation of all abuses and corrupiones that haue crepte into the office of Armes and for preuentio of all meanes which maie bringe in the like herafter.

Autograph, with revisions, docketed Demaundes of the Kinge.

Effectively one of Howard's autograph miscellaneous compilations or commonplace books, relating chiefly to duels, his entries, mainly in English, under a series of Latin headings, beginning with Mendacium.

Copy, in the accomplished secretary hand of one of Howard's principal amanuenses, with his autograph sidenotes, untitled.

Copy of the discourse, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, a reference to the Duke of Norffolke my grand father occurring on f. 478r.

Autograph fair copy of a 42-line version, with revisions, headed In Obitum potentissimæ principis D Mariæ Stuartæ Scotoum Reginæ Franciæ dotariæ et coronæ Anglicanæ hæredis indubitata atque proximæ memoriæ suæ celebritati deuotissimus carmen lugubre posuit, as by Henricus Northampt comes.

Autograph fair copy of the 42-line version, with some deletions, headed In Obitum pijssimæ potentissimæque Principis D Mariæ Stuartæ Scotoru Reginæ Franciæ Dotariæ et iure successionis Anglicanæ regni hæredis proximæ...carmen lugubri posuit, as by Henr. Howardus comes Northamptoniæ.

Probably edited from this MS in The Works of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, ed. George Frederick Nott, 2 vols (London, 1815), pp. 472-4 (the MS erroneously cited as Cotton, Titus, B. VI. p. 174).

Autograph fair copy of a 36-line version, with some revisions, headed In obitum potentissimæ principis Mariæ Stuartæ Scotoru Reginæ Franciæ Dotariæ et iure successionis Angliæ hæredis indubitatææ atque proximæ, unascribed.

A substantial series of autograph drafts and entries, in English and Latin, most of it under commonplace-book-type headings (Regum institutio, Reges non subiectj legibus, Arma contra Principes, Status Popularis, Facetiæ, Inuentio, Pro Bello Argumeta, etc.), incorporating possibly drafts for an intended treatise on monarchy.

Copy, in the italic hand of Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), headed Q Eliz speech in parlament and, in the margin, The Q last speche, on two trimmed conjugate folio leaves. c.1601-14.

Edited from this MS in Hartley and in Collected Works. Cited in Heisch. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Leah S. Marcus, The Veil of Manuscript, Renaissance Drama, NS 30 (1999-2001), 115-31, where it is erroneously stated that the MS is not in Northampton's own hand.

Autograph drafts of psalms and prayers.

Copy, in a professional hand, subscribed W: S., on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Copy of Version II, in a professional secretary hand.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of the third section, Of the Proceedings against the pretended Catholicks, whether they haue been violent or moderate and necessarie. Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Spedding.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled.

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

Copy of Ralegh's list of points in his own defence, beginning I did neuer receive Advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape… and subscribed Att my Death. W: Raleigh. c.1620.

Published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1; Works (1829), VIII, 563. Printed from this MS in Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

Three-page abstract of the tract, headed Out of the Apologie of S^r Walter Ralegh after his unfortunate sucesse in Guiaiana. 1618 and here beginning My ill success was not without example….

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

Copy, in a professional roman hand, headed Queene Elizabeth her Oration made to the Vniuersity of Oxford. 1592. Early 17th century.

Copy. Early 17th century.

Various autograph papers by Camden, including: (f. 2r) his draft Latin epitaph, or Memoriæ, on Mary Queen of Scots, probably 1612; (ff. 36v, 40r-3v, 46r) his notes on various religious houses; (between ff. 46r and 64v) his annotations to genealogies; (ff. 74r-6v) his notes on Mary Queen of Scots; (ff. 77v-103v) his annotations to a chronological list (in another hand) of events in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and (f. 126r-v) his notes on revenues of Spain.

Copy of five Latin epigrams (Yale Nos. 19-23), with a prose preface, in a formal roman hand, with rubrication and illumination, on vellum throughout, written for the coronation of Henry VIII on 24 June 1509, the MS evidently presented to the King.

Edited from this MS in Bradner & Lynch (1953), pp. 15-24. Yale, Volume 3, Part I, pp. 100-116. Facsimile of ff. 12v-13r in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, 2009), p. 63. Facsimile examples in Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, after p. 107.

Autograph compendium of notes and extracts chiefly relating to the Carmelite order, including extracts from John Baconthorpe, Liber sententiarum, and Philippus Riboti, De gestis Carmelitarum, inscribed at the beginning in a later hand Collectiones Johis Balei manu propri...an^o 1570 die. 23. Aprilis. c.1548-60.

Unpublished (complete). Brief extracts from this MS printed in Monumenta historica Carmelitana. Recorded and discussed in Davies, p. 237 (xviii); in McCusker (1942), pp. 101-2; and in Fairfield, p. 164.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Speach deliuered by her Ma^tie: vnto the Lord Keeper S^r Nichas Bacon in presence of y^e vpper house of Parliam^t.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version 2, untitled, with introduction ...Then the Queene standinge said.

This MS cited in Hartley.

Copy of Version 2, untitled, with introduction ...Then the Queene standinge said.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (pp. 172-3) and (as Version 2) in Collected Works.

Copy, untitled, with introduction ...she spake a fewe words to this effect.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Collated in Hartley.

Copy of a parliamentary speech by Wilson, against vagabonds, April 1571.

Summary of a speech in parliament by Wilson against usury, April 1571.

Copy of the English Version 1, with a lengthy introduction by the original parliamentary scribe, who could not hear most of the speech but learned from others the cheife substance of her oration.

Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Recorded in Hartley.

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary, headed A Breuiarie of the historie of England, from William .i. intitled the Conqueror. c.1620s.

This MS discussed in Gottfried.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed finis m^r Haywoode. Mid-16th century.

Edited from this MS in Collier. Collated in Milligan.

A list of witnesses from eight or nine old charters, copied ex Lelando, probably from the Collectanea.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiv.

Copy, in a secretary hand, endorsed (f. 312v) Ra. warr and peace.

Autograph memorandum, on the rectos of two folio leaves, one headed Reasons against permission of the Judias, the other headed Reasons for the Judias.

A formal tabling of Wyatt's financial accounts as ambassador to Spain, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sir Thomas Wyatts Rekonyng, from 12 March 1536/7 onwards, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a packet.

Various autograph papers by Camden, including (on ff. 75v-113r, 126v-67, 185v-7r) an Anglo-Saxon-Latin vocabulary, a list of Saxon places and names, various Latin notes, material connected with Greek, and words and phrases from Homer's Iliad (dated 10 October 1592).

Autograph drafts for Camden's Greek grammar.

Copy of the sequence of seventeen poems, in a predominantly italic hand, with eleven lines at the foot of f. 170r in two other hands, headed The principall addresse in nature of a New yeares gifte, seeminge therebye the Author intended not to have his name knowne, the word Parthe: written in the margin against each poem, on nineteen quarto pages.

Edited frpom this MS in Haslewood and also in W.R. Morfill, Ballads from MSS. (Ballad Society Publications, 1873), II, 72-91.

Series of autograph entries, in English and Latin, on narrow ledger-format leaves, under Latin subject headings and largely relating to naval matters (Naues, Howe Carried, M Thesaur, etc.).

Autograph fragment, comprising three pages of text on two quarto leaves taken from one of Leland's MS volumes of the Itinerary, beginning I redde yn an olde booke of Rameley that such a yere dyed Thomas Broyerton Edward the firstes sune....

Edited from this MS in Smith, I, 327-9.

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie.

Autograph letter signed, to the Duke of Norfolk, 14 March 1532.

Wilson, pp. 2-5.

This MS recorded in Spedding.

A list of books in monastic libraries, together with extracts from Latin poets and other writers, partly autograph, partly in a professional hand, imperfect. c.1535-45.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiv.

Copy of parts of the work, probably from a transcript by John Stow.

Copy, untitled, slightly imperfect.

Copy, ascribed to Ralegh.

Copy, imperfect.

Copy, headed A Politique discourse by way of Disput about y^e happiest mariage for y^e Noble Prince Henry written by S^r Arthure Gorge in An°. 1611, the ascription emended to by S^r Walter Rauleghe, imperfect.

This MS formerly divided between Vitellius C. XVI and XVII but now united.

Second copy, imperfect.

Copy.

Edited principally from this MS in Duncan Jones and Van Dorsten.

Copy, imperfect.

Edited from this MS (erroneously believed to be the original letter) in Edwards (No. CLX).

Copy; in a professional hand, with some additions and corrections in another hand, imperfect, lacking about three fifths of the text.

This MS collated in Dyce. Partly edited from this MS, and collated, in John Skelton, The Book of the Laurel, ed. F.W. Brownlow (Newark, Delaware, 1990), with facsimiles of ff. 209r and 218v on pp. 19 and 27.