Copy of the complete text, transcribed from the edition of 1674, on 186 octavo leaves.
Late 17th or early 18th century.This MS recorded in Shawcross, Bibliography, No. 406.
First published in London, 1667. Columbia, II. Darbishire I. Carey & Fowler, pp. 417-1060.
Copy, in a formal probably professional roman hand, with (ff. 150r-2v) A Table
of contents, 152 octavo leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.
Entitled True Coppies of certaine Loose Papers left by ye Right hoble Elizabeth Countesse of Bridgewater Collected and Transcribed together here since Her Death Anno Dni 1663
, and inscribed by her husband John Egerton (1623-86), second Earl of Bridgewater, Privy Councillor, Examined by J. Bridgewater
.
Inscribed (on an affixed slip inside the front cover) Sam. Egerton Brydges The Gift of his mother
; (f. 2r) Samuel Egerton Brydges Feb. 12: 1795
; (f. 4r) C. Hammond
and Jemima Bridges
.
This MS discussed by Betty S. Travitsky in His wife's prayers and meditations MS Egerton 607, in The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon, ed. Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky (Amherst, Mass., 1990), pp. 241-60; and in Reconstructing the Still Small Voice: The Occasional Journal of Elizabeth Egerton, in Women's Studies, 19 (1991), 193-200. Collated in Travitsky, Subordination, with a facsimile of the title-page on p. 4.
Edited in Travitsky, Subordination (1999), pp. 172-207 (collations pp. 208-40).
A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, 95 leaves in all.
This MS is a companion volume to Mihi - Edited
[i.e. presumably that the owner has the Edited version].
Inscribed on first page Mr Mathews, the Bbinder D: Frown[?]. Mar. 16. 67. 0.0.6.7
[i.e. ? the bookseller Thomas Mathews (fl.1650s-60s)]. Also (on f. 95v): Charles Trumbull
[D.D. (c.1646-1724), chaplain to Bishop Sancroft], Ralphe Trumbull
[(c.1640-1708), both brothers of the lawyer and government official Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716)]; and Sandys
. Later note on upper endpaper that this MS was No. CCVIII of Dr Adam Clarke's MSS and was purchased 29 May 1838 from Baynes.
Copy, subscribed mihi.-Edited
.
First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, [c.1636?] (no title-page known). 2nd edition [London, 1666]. Molesworth, Latin, V, 319-40.
Copy, headed A Panegyrick to the lord Protectour, by A. Gentleman
and subscribed mihi Edited 2d pt. of Wallers Poems p. 62 xi
.
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.
Copy, headed A Poem to the memory of ye Protectour oliver. Written after a celebration of his funerall
.
This MS collated in Dearing et al., loc. cit.
First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 18-29.
Copy, subscribed Edited. mihi. 2d pt. of Wallers Poems. p. 72
.
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
Copy, later subscribed Edited in Mr Wallers Poems - p. 227 mihi. 1686
.
First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, Third
edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 61-2.
Copy, headed The Speech of her Maiety the Queen Mothers Palace upon the Reparation & Enlargement of it by her Majesty
and subscribed By Mr Cowley Supposed Edited in his workes - after his Latin Davideid. p. 26
.
This MS recorded in Jean Loiseau, Abraham Cowley's Reputation in England (Paris, 1931), p. 26, n. 17.
First published, among Verses written on several Occasions, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, I, 433-40.
A folio composite volume of Exchequer documents.
An Exchequer receipt signed by King, 5 December 1667.
Copy of a letter by Waller to Mrs Myddelton, from Beaconsfield, 12 May 1678.
Cited and discussed in Warren L. Chernaik, The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller (New Haven & London, 1968), pp. 36-7 (where the date is erroneously read as 1670
and a suggested emendation of 1675
made). Edited in Steinman (1864), pp. 34-5. Text in Deas, pp. 179-80. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
Copy of a letter by Waller to Mrs Myddelton, 4 August [1683?].
Edited in Steinman (1864), p. 40. Text in Deas, p. 180. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
Copy of a letter by Waller to Mrs Myddelton, from Beaconsfield, 8 August [1680].
Edited in Steinman (1864), pp. 35-7. Text in Deas, pp. 181-3. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
Copy of a letter by Waller [to Mrs Myddelton], from Hall Barn, 22 August [1683].
Edited in Steinman (1864), pp. 41-2. Text in Deas, pp. 183-5. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
Copy of a letter by Waller to Mrs Myddelton, [May 1677].
Edited in Steinman (1864), pp. 32-3. Text in Deas, pp. 187-8. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
Copy of a letter by Waller [to Mrs Myddelton], 23 March [1680/1].
Edited in Steinman (1864), pp. 37-9. Text in Deas, pp. 185-7. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning.
c.1630s-40s.Copy of lines 1-32, 49-80, plus four additional stanzas.
This MS recorded and additional stanzas edited in Latham, pp. 169-70.
First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.
Copy, headed Preswasions to loue
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, headed A Poem made on Robt Deuorex Earle of Essex by mr. Henry Cuff his Chaplaine
.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?
, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
Copy of a version headed Epit on a Bellowes maker
and beginning Here lyes John Goddard a maker of Bellowes
.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.
Copy, headed Epit on Mr Sandes
.
Copy, headed A Prophesie to come to pase the next yeare
.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
First published as A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas and On the Cardes and dice respectively).
Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed Mr. Hoskins to the king sent by his wife
.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd
and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue
, was widely circulated.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.
Copy, headed On the Remoue of Queene Elizabeths body from Richmond (where she dyed) to white hall
.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
Copy, headed Epitaph on a child dying very younge
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
Copy, untitled.
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.
Copy, untitled and here beginning I and my loue for kisses playd
.
First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
Copy, headed Sonnet by Queene Elizabeth
.
Collected Works, Poem 9, pp. 302-3. Selected Works, Poem 6, pp. 12-13. Bradner, p. 5.
Copy, headed Ode
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 174-5.
Copy, headed Inconstances Encomiu
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
Copy, headed Mr Carew on the Fly
and here beginning While this fly liu'd it vs'd to play
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
Copy headed Dauenats newyeares guift to K Charles 1631
.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 31-2.
Copy.
Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses
, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (
Copy.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).
Copy, headed The fayries feast att his mariage
and without the preliminary lines.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State
, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.
Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleigh to the Lady Benbow
.
First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an indecorous trifle
).
Copy, headed Thomas Randalgh vpon the losse of his finger
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
Copy, subscribed in another hand Tho: Randalgh
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
Copy, headed Vpon a Lady
.
First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
Copy, headed Vpon 6 maides bathinge themselue[s] in Cambridge riuer
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 138-40. Davis, pp. 56-62.
Copy, headed Upon a mayde that would singe well & had a deformed face
, subscribed Tho: Randolgh
.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
Copy, headed Tillhburnes Elegie
and here beginning My prime of youth, is but a feast of cares
.
This MS text collated in Hirsch.
First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer
to this poem, see
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
Copy, headed On a mayde manageable
and here beginning Wold you haue me lead ye blind
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as possibly by Walton Poole.
Copy, headed The faire boyes answere to the blacke maide
and here beginning ffaire mayde )plaine not yt I fly
.
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).
First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman
. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes
and superscribed R
; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961:
Copy.
First published, as The Rapture, by J.D.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman's death
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
Copy of a version headed A Maydes deniall
and beginning Nay pish, nay pray, & will you fly
.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.
. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie
, was first published, as A Maids Denyall
, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
Copy of the last four lines (here beginning Shall talke my shame, break, break my heart
), imperfect, lacking all the first part.
This MS collated in Davis.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 79.
Copy, headed On a woman dying in child birth
.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.
Copy of a variant fourteen-line version, headed On a Puritaine
and here beginning A st like sister, late turne votary
.
First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see
Copy, headed A Libel by ye Scots, vpon Sr John Sucklings 1639
.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
Copy.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
Copy of stanzas 1-4, headed Sonnetto
.
This MS collated in Allott, p. 203.
First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.
Copy, headed A Song by R: Louelace
and here beginning Why shouldst thou say I am forsworne
.
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).
Copy, headed Comendacons of a Lady
.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 28.
Copy, headed Sonnetto
.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published, untitled, in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 55-6.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 56-7. Possibly written by Sir Tobie Matthew.
Copy, headed A Song by Sr Jo: Suckling
.
First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.
Copy, headed Vpon an Hermaphrodite By John Cleaueland
.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.
Entirely autograph presentation copy, on 74 quarto vellum leaves (each c.200 x 133mm.).
Dedicated and presented to Queen Elizabeth, the edges of the leaves gilt and gauffered, the semi-calligraphic text ruled in red and with running heads in gilt; the dedication to the Queen (f. 1r) elaborately decorated in blue, red and gold; an illuminated portrait of the Queen seated on the throne with a book on her lap on f. 1v; and an elaborate formal title-page in red and gold on f. 2r.
c.1576.The volume labelled Ex legato Caroli Baronis Farnborough
: i.e. from the library of Charles Long (c.1760-1838), Baron Farnborough, of Bromley Hill Place, the vellum boards bearing his arms in gilt (see Cyril Davenport, English Heraldic Book-Stamps (London, 1909), pp. 273-4). Purchased from H. Farrer 23 July 1842.
This MS recorded in Woudhuysen, p. 100. The portrait of Elizabeth is reproduced in Roy Strong, Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford, 1963), pp. 100-2.
Unpublished Latin prose treatise, beginning Cogitanti mihi sapius de Maiesta eis tua laudibus (Regina serenissima, qua paruis Britannorum finibus latebrisque non contentae transcenderunt Alpes …
.
A folio volume of accounts of state and ceremonial events in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 76r, a second hand thereafter, including an index, 126 leaves (including remains of excised leaves), in 19th-century calf gilt.
Late 16th century.Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, of Strawberry Hill, author, politician and patron of the arts. Bought from Thomas Thorpe, 14 October 1843.
Copy, with introductory lines beginning Englande now reioyse, for ioyous may thow be
.
Canon, D 57, p. 18. First published in Elias Ashmole, The Institutional Laws and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London, 1672). Dyce, II, 387-8. Discussed and Skelton's authorship rejected in Richard Firth Green, The Verses Presented to King Henry VII: A Poem in the Skelton Apocrypha, ELN, 16 (1978), 5-8.
A collection of epitaphs, principally from churches in and about London, at least up to f. 193 in a single large rounded hand, an epitaph on f. 309 dated 1760, 244 folio leaves.
Late 18th century.Owned in 1785 by Mary Windsor of Tottenham High Cross, Owned in 1821 by one John Marris [i.e. Morris?]. Bookplate of James Walsh, FSA, FRAS. Purchased from J. R. Smith 9 December 1848.
Copy of a version headed On a Monument this Inscription
and beginning As Nurses strive their Babes in Bed to lie
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
Copy, headed An Epitaph in memory of ye late deceas'd virgin, Mrs: Elizabeth Hereicke
.
First published in John Stow, Survey of London (London, 1633), p. 812. Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 145-6. Patrick, pp. 197-8. The memorial tablet of c.1630 bearing this epitaph at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, was restored there in 1955: see Charles Smyth, A Herrick Epitaph, TLS (13 May 1955), p. 253.
Copy, headed On King James the ffirst
and here beginning He that hath Eyes, now wake and weep
.
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
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
Copy of a version headed On a Bellows Mender. Epi:
and beginning Here lies John Cucker. Mender of Bellows
.
A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.
Copy, headed Another
[i.e. on the Earl of Somerset].
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.
Copy, headed On the Lady Pembrook
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
Copy, headed Epit. On a man drown'd in the Snow
.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
Copy of lines 1-18.
First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.
A small square album, or liber amicorum, of miscellaneous autograph inscriptions and coloured coats of arms, belonging to Johannes Opsimathes, of Moravia, 223 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Autograph verse inscription, several lines, signed by Andrewes as Bishop of Ely, dated July 1616.
The liber amicorum of Christoph Arnold, Professor of History at Nuremberg, an oblong duodecimo.
Autograph signature (Joannes Miltonius
), after a quotation from the Greek New Testament (2 Cor. xii, 9: meaning in weakness my strength is made perfect
) in another hand, 19/29 November 1651.
Facsimiles in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 112 (Plate XVI, No. iv); in John Milton 1608-1674 Facsimiles of Autographs and Documents in the British Museum (London, 1908); in Milton Tercentenary: The Portraits, Prints and Writings of John Milton Exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge, 1908 (Cambridge, 1908), after p. 110; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LIII(b); in Don M. Wolfe, Milton and His England (Princeton, 1971), p. 92; and in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London, 1986), No. 18, p. 29. Recorded in Columbia XVIII, 271, and in LR, II, 104-5.
A duodecimo notebook apparently found in the D[uke] of Monmouths pocket when he was taken [after the Battle of Sedgemoor] and is most of his owne hand writing
.
Copy of a completely recast eighteen-line version, headed Song
and beginning With joie we do leave thee
, together with some music.
Edited from this MS in Charles Chenevix Trench, The Western Rising (London, 1969), pp. 83-4. Edited from this MS, and discussed, with facsimiles, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 209-14.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 56-9. Poems (1667), pp. 28-9. Saintsbury, p. 524. Hageman (1987), pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 97-8, poem 22.
Copy of a completely recast twelve-line version, headed Song
and beginning O how blest and how inocent
(with music possibly belonging to this song on f. 58r).
This MS recorded in Thomas, pp. 363-4; discussed, with facsimiles, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).
Extracts from prayers.
Copy.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
Copy on 83 quarto leaves.
Mid-late 17th century.Microfilm of this MS in the National Library of Ireland, n. 782, p. 508.
First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).
Shakespeare's signature on the mortgage of the Blackfriars Gate-House, on a membrane of vellum, 11 March 1612/13.
1613.Unfolding facsimile in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), pp. 225-6. Facsimile also in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 218. Discussed in R.C. Bald, The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore and its problems, Shakespeare Survey, 2 (1949), 44-65; and elsewhere.
A formal copy, without dedication, in the professional hand of the Parisian scribe
, with Hobbes's autograph corrections and marginal annotations (particularly on ff. 16, 38v-40, 41, 44v, 53, 58v, 235v-9), on 248 quarto vellum pages.
Traditionally believed to be the author's presentation copy to Charles II.
1650-1.Later owners: Philip Carteret Webb (1700-70), antiquary and politician. S. Baker and G. Leigh, 25 February 1771 (Webb sale), lot 2826. William Henry Pratt, of Lissanoure, Antrim (according to a letter by him of 30 June 1802). George, Earl Macartney (d.1806). Acquired from George Macartney Esq., 13 April 1861.
This MS discussed in Keith Brown, The Artist of the Leviathan Title-Page, BLJ, 4 (1978), 24-36, where the drawing on the title-page is attributed to the Bohemian artist and engraver Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77). Facsimile of p. 144 in Noel Malcolm, Hobbes, the Latin Optical Manuscript, and the Parisian Scribe, EMS, 12 (2005). 210-32 (p. 213).
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].
A folio composite volume of plays.
c.1620s-1640s.From the library of Lord Charlemont.
This MS partly collated in Greg; described in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 334-7.
First published in London, 1637. Dyce, X, 197-292. Bullen, II, 1-100, ed. W.W. Greg. Bowers, IX, 469-545, ed. Fredson Bowers.
Copy of a play probably written or revised by Heywood, in the secretary hand of a professional scribe also responsible for
Edited from this MS by editors. Discussed in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 329-32; in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1318-20; and in James G. McManaway, Latin Title-Page Mottoes as a Clue to Dramatic Authorship, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 28-36, reedited in McManaway, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), 55-66. Facsimile pages in the Malone Society edition and in McManaway article.
First published in A Collection of Old English Plays, ed. A.H. Bullen, II (London, 1883), 1-99. Edited by James G. and Mary R. McManaway, Malone Society (Oxford, 1955).
Autograph, with revisions, untitled, prepared for use as a prompt-book by another hand. [1624].
Edited from this MS by editors. Discussed in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 284-8, with a facsimile example, II, plate 7; in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, IV, 560-2; in Grace Ioppolo, The foule sheet and ye fayr
: Henslowe, Daborne, Heywood and the Nature of Foul-Paper and Fair-Copy Dramatic Manuscripts, EMS, 11 (2002), 132-53, with a facsimile of f. 52r; and in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York), pp. 94-9, 115, with facsimile examples. Facsimile pages also in the Malone Society edition; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XXII(a); in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 55; and in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 121.
First published in A Collection of Old English Plays, ed. A.H. Bullen, IV (London, 1885), 99-127. Edited by Arthur Brown, Malone Society (Oxford, 1953).
Autograph, the first act entitled Calisto; the play entitled at the end in another hand The Escapes of Iupiter; c. 1625?.
Facsimile example of the first page in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 119. Facsimile of f. 79r in Henry D. Janzen, Preparing a Diplomatic Edition: Heywood's The Escapes of Jupiter, in Play-Texts in Old Spelling, ed. G.B. Shand with Raymond C. Shady (AMS Press, 1984), pp. 73-9. Facsimiles of ff. 74a (upper portion), 82a (upper portion), and 87b (lower portion) in the Malone Society edition.
This play is made up of scenes from The Golden Age (London, 1611; Dramatic Works, III, 1-79) and The Silver Age (London, 1613; Dramatic Works, III, 81-164). Edited by Henry D. Janzen, Malone Society, 1976 (Oxford, 1978).
Discussed in W.W. Greg, The Escapes of Jupiter, Palaestra, 148 (1925), reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 156-83. Also discussed in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 318-21; in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, III, 567; and in Henry D. Janzen, A Note on the Authorship of The Escapes of Jupiter, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 270-3.
Copy of an anonymous dramatic adaptation of Arcadia, entitled Loves Changelinges change.
The complete play has been edited by Felicina Rota in L'Arcadia di Sidney e il teatro (Bari, 1966) and by John P. Cutts (Fennimore, 1974).
Copy, in the play Loves Changelinges change.
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, More Manuscript Versions of Poems by Sidney, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 3-12 (pp. 4-5).
Ringler, pp. 11-12. Robertson, pp. 28-9.
Copy of an abridged version beginning These weedes will beecome my mind
, in the play Loves Changelinges change.
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, More Manuscript Versions of Poems by Sidney, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 3-12 (p. 5).
Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 40.
Copy of a two-stanza version beginning wee loue and are beelovd againe
, in the play Loves Changelinges change.
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, More Manuscript Versions of Poems by Sidney, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 3-12 (pp. 5-6).
Ringler, p. 14. Robertson, pp. 57-8.
Copy, in a professional hand, on 166 folio leaves.
c.1640s.Later in the library of the Porte family, of Islam. Bought by W. Ford in 1807. Acquired by the British Museum from Boone in 1866.
This MS recorded in Tönnies.
First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).
A folio volume of tracts and papers chiefly on state matters, largely in one hand, 72 leaves (plus blanks).
c.1635.Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed Another
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland
in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
Copy, untitled and subscribed J.D.
.
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.
Copy, headed Songe
.
First published in London, 1649. Dramatic Works, III, 91-192 (pp. 155-6). Gibbs, pp. 208-9.
Copy, untitled and subscribed F. Beo:
.
First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).
Copy, headed A Nymphes Passion in a Pastorall
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (vii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 147-8.
A formal copy, in a neat italic hand, i + 48 duodecimo leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco marbled boards.
With a title-page Divine Appearances Or A very Wonderful Account of the Dealings of God with Mrs. Agnes Beamount, Who was afterwards Married to Mr. Story, a Merchant at High-Gate, Taken from a Coppy Transcribed from a MS.S. in the hands of Mrs. Kenwrick at Bavant in Hampshire
, the first page of text decorated with a pen-and-ink vignette of a landscape scene, including paragraphs at the end not in the earlier MS.
Acquired in November 1871 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
Facsimiles of the title-page and first page of text in Camden, pp. 10-11, 34, and the concluding paragraphs edited on p. 84. Facsimile, with transcription, of the title-page also in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 286-7.
First published, as The Singular Experiences and Great Sufferings of Mrs. Agnes Beaumont, who was born at Edworth, in the County of Bedford, incorporated in Samuel James, An Abstract of the Gracious Dealings of God (1760). Edited, as The Narrative of the Persecution(s) of Agnes Beaumont, by G. B. Harrison (London, 1929), by Vera J. Camden (East Lansing, Michigan, 1992), and in John Bunyan, Grace Abounding with other Spiritual Autobiographies, ed. John Stachniewski and Anita Pacheco (Oxford, 1998), pp. 191-224.
A folio volume of proceedings and speeches in the House of Commons in 1601-2, principally from Hayward Townshend's journal, in a single professional hand, 279 leaves.
Late 17th century.Inscribed (f. 2r) Stamford 1693
. Inscribed in pencil (f. 1r) by Alfred John Kempe, 4 June 1836. Purchased from Sotheby's, January/February 1873.
Copy of Version I, introduced The Queen answered her selfe
.
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).
Copy of Version I, with introduction (...And her Majestie beganne thus to answer her Selfe: vizt./
.
This MS cited in Hartley.
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).
A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco.
c.1630s [-1777].Inscribed (f. 1r) E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus
, the date 1638
possibly added in a different hand. The name William Allen
on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for Mr Thorpe
, I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835
.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Glover MS
:
Copy, with a sideheading Elegie BKR[?]
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?
, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
Copy, untitled.
First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
Copy, with sideheading Elegy
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
Copy of a five-stanza version, with sideheading ye will / Du:
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
Copy, untitled and here beginning In youre fayre cheekes two pitts there bee
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
Copy, untitled.
First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning A godlye maide wth one of her societye
.
First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
Copy, headed The loss of a chaine: Elegie
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
Copy, untitled, superscribed Du:
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Copy, with sideheading Curse
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
Copy, headed A paradox in prayse of a paynted face
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.
. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie
, was first published, as A Maids Denyall
, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
Copy, headed Le Pet:
.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses
in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Forey.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy of lines 1-8 (with a version of lines 7-8 repeated on f. 28v).
This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 75.
First published, as A Poem
, in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 7>. Authorship unknown.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
Copy, untitled and here beginning Heere lyes Hobbinoll our shepheard while ere
.
Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
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.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
Copy, untitled.
First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
Second copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 573-5; recorded in Davis, p. 495.
First published in Robert Jones, A Musical Dreame (London, 1609). Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xvi. Davis, pp. 106-7. Doughtie, pp. 319-20.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 6, p. 58. Jones, p. 2.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
A quarto volume of copies of correspondence of John Aubrey, FRS (1626-97), antiquary and biographer, transcribed from originals in the Bodleian Library.
Early 19th century.Copy of James Harington's letter to John Aubrey, 16 February 1669[/70] (
Copy, transcribed from
First published in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), I, 294. George Watson, James Harrington: A Last Apology for Poetry, MLN, 71 (1956), 170-2.
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 7[/17] September 1663.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 153.
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from London, 30 July[/10 July] 1664.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 167.
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from Hardwick, 24 February[/16 March] 1674/5.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 198.
Copy of Hobbes's letter to Josias Pullen, Vice-President of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, from London, 1[/11] February 1672/3.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 193.
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from Hardwick, 5[/15] March 1677/8.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 202.
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 25 March[/4 April] 1679.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 205.
Copy of Hobbes's letter to William Crook, from Chatsworth, 25 March[/4 April] 1679.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 204.
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 18[/28] August 1679.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 209.
A folio volume of papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in one or more professional secretary hands, 156 leaves, in vellum boards.
c.1640.Presentation inscription (f. 1r) by Wilmot Buxton, counsellor, to his friend William Henry Black, FSA (1808-72), antiquary, Assistant Keeper of the Public Records, with Black's inscription of similar date, 8 May 1860, supposedly identifying the writer as Elias Ashmole and saying he found it in Ashmole's chambers at 77 Chancery Lane.
Copy of 101 Ordinances, unnumbered, headed Ordinances for the Chancery made by the Lord Bacon
.
First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale...
. Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions
of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).
A quarto composite volume of twelve folio and quarto leaves, in three hands, in 19th-century half red morocco gilt.
Early-mid-17th centry.Acquired from M.C. Hamilton 11 November 1873.
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed To the Right H: ye Erle of Rutland By Henry Savall
, on four quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking the last section.
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...
.
First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
Copy, untitled.
A brief history beginning The books which are written do in their hands represent the faculties of the mind of man...
. Quoted in John Speed, History of Great Britain (London, 1611). First published complete in Cabala (London 1663). Spedding, VI, 17-22.
A large collection of Cowley's poems, entitled The most Ingenious & famous Abraham Cowley's Poem's
4°, 205 leaves; large collection of Cowley's poems, entitled (f. 2v) The most Ingenious & famous Abraham Cowley's Poem's [In Manuscript added in different ink]; predominantly in three hands (A: ff. 3-90, 103-15v, 142-205v; B: ff. 91-102v; C: ff. 116-41), with additions in other hands on ff. 2v and 202v.
Mid-late 17th century.f. 59v the childish scribbling Edward Edisbury his my name
; also John Owen
. Later owned (before 15 December 1873) by W. C. Hazlitt (1834-1913)
Autograph MS volume of works by George Cavendish, 154 small folio leaves in all.
c.1556-8.Owned in the 17th/18th century by Clement Rossington of Dronfield, Derbyshire, possibly acquired from the family of William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary. Later owned by the genealogical collector Thomas Lloyd; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Thomas Corser (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 13 December 1876 Corser sale), lot 453. Cape's & Co.'s, Manchester, 18 December 1876 (9th part of the Corser sale).
Autograph, lacking the first leaf of the prologue.
Edited from this MS in Singer and, with a facsimile example of f. 88v, in Sylvester. Facsimile example of f. 90r in Petti, English Literary Hands (1977), No. 22.
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).
Autograph, the leaves bound in the wrong sequence (the correct order being ff. 94r-112v, 128r-9v, 134r-47v, 130r-1v, 114r-27v, 132r-3v, 113r-v, 149v-51r, 148v-9r), untitled, recorded in the colophon as finished le xxiiiier jour de Iunii annus regnorum Philippi Rex et Regine Marie / iiiith and vth
[i.e. 24 June 1558].
Edited from this MS in Singer and in Edwards. Also discussed by A.S.G. Edwards in The Author as Scribe: Cavendish's Metrical Visions and MS Egerton 2402, The Library, 5th Ser. 29 (1974), 446-9, and in his The Text of George Cavendish's Metrical Visions, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 2.1 (Winter, 1978), 3-62.
A series of poetical lamentations, comprising 2425 lines, on the deaths (the majority by execution) of Cardinal Wolsey, George, Viscount Rochford, Sir Henry Borris, sir Francis Weston, Sir William Brereton, Mark Smeaton, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell, Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, Henry Pole, Baron Montague, Catherine Howard, her lover Culpeper, Viscountess Rochford, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Henry VIII, Thomas Seymour, Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Sir Thomas Arundel, Sir Michael Stanhope, Sir Ralph Vane, Sir Miles Partridge, Edward VI, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey, and Queen Mary.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (London, 1825). Metrical Visions by George Cavendish, ed. A.S.G. Edwards (Columbia, SC, 1980).
A small quarto verse miscellany, 51 leaves.
c.1601.Owned in 1601 by one Thomas Wenman. Later by W. Stonehouse and by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector.
Copy.
This MS discussed in Mary Shakeshaft, Nicholas Breton's The Passion of a Discontented Mind: Some New Problems, SEL, 5 (1965), 165-74; partly collated in Doughtie. Collated in May, pp. 125-7.
First published in London, 1601. Attributed to Breton in Robertson, pp. xcii-xcviii, but see also Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Printed and firmly attributed to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in 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. 49-59 (No. 11) and pp. 94-106.
Fair copy of an early version.
The title-page reading Psalmes of Kinge David, paraphras'd for our English Lire (accordinge the the [sic] Translation allowed in the Church of England) and fitted vnto such Tunes as were heretofore in vse by George Wither
, and a prose epistle To the Reader
(ff. 4-7), the text in the hand of a professional scribe, the formal title-page (f. 3) and some textual corrections and revisions elsewhere in Wither's autograph and the epistle also signed by him, on 112 small folio leaves.
Later owned in 1801 by Henry White of Lichfield. This MS was later in the library of Richard Heber (1773-1833), sold at Sotheby's (Heber sale, Part XI, 10 February 1836, lot 1688); afterwards owned by John Matthew Gutch (sold at Sotheby's, 16 March 1858, lot 2668, to Boone) and then by the Rev. Thomas Corser (sold by Capes, Dunn & Pilcher, Manchester, 14 December 1876, lot 459).
This MS substantially different from the later version published in 1632. It has occasionally, and erroneously, been described as entirely autograph. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, A Manuscript of George Wither's Psalms, HLQ, 27 (1963-4), 73-7. A fine proof impression
of a later edition of these Psalmes, apparently containing a Summary transcript, and facsimile title-page, and other parts
of this Original Manuscript
, was offered in Joseph Lilly's book catalogue of 1861 (pp. 71-2).
First published in Amsterdam, 1632. Spenser Society Nos. 31-2 (1881). For an account of the reasons why Wither's Psalms were prevented from publication in England, see James Doelman, George Wither, the Stationers Company and the English Psalter, Studies in Philology, 90 (1993), 74-82.
Quarto volume of 25 leaves written throughout in a single accomplished hand, evidently prepared by or for Christopher Brooke (c.1570-1628), politician and poet, for the licensers of the press.
c.1625.Later owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Capes, Dunn & Pilcher, Manchester, 14 December 1876, lot 462.
Copy of a commendatory poem ascribed to Geor: Wyther
prefixed to a fair copy of Christopher Brooke's A Funerall Poem Consecrated to the Memorie of … Sr Arthure Chichester.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
First published in The Complete Poems of Christopher Brooke, ed. the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart (privately printed, 1872), pp. 201-2.
Copy, in a non-professional cursive hand, untitled, on 21 quarto leaves.
With a later inscription (f. 1r) Written by one Agnes (Beaumont) of Edworth, Beds, intimately acquainted with John Bunyan, & to whose meetings she went contrary to her father's wishes, he objecting to his daughter attending such. She mentions his name in several parts of the MS
, and also with notes on her and Bunyan at the end (f. 21v).
Inscribed (f. 2r) Jacob
. Purchased from J. Harvey 24 March 1877.
Edited from this MS in Harrison and in Camden. A facsimile of the first page is in Camden, p. 8.
First published, as The Singular Experiences and Great Sufferings of Mrs. Agnes Beaumont, who was born at Edworth, in the County of Bedford, incorporated in Samuel James, An Abstract of the Gracious Dealings of God (1760). Edited, as The Narrative of the Persecution(s) of Agnes Beaumont, by G. B. Harrison (London, 1929), by Vera J. Camden (East Lansing, Michigan, 1992), and in John Bunyan, Grace Abounding with other Spiritual Autobiographies, ed. John Stachniewski and Anita Pacheco (Oxford, 1998), pp. 191-224.
A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Mid-17th century.Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys
(? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle
. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
Copy, subscribed Johns.
.
First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
Copy, headed On ye Death of a young gentlewoman
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
Copy, headed On a fart in ye Parliament house
and here beginning Reader I was borne & cri'de
.
Copy, headed On a locksmith
.
Whitlock, p. 108.
Copy, headed On his Mris walking in ye snowe
.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
Copy, headed Excuse for absence
.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
First published in A Crew of Kind London Gossips (London, 1663).
Copy, divided into two parts, the first headed The pastorall courtshippe
, the second headed The continuation of the Pastorall courtshippe where wee left oft
and subscribed Incerti Authori
.
This MS collated in Davis.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
Copy of the song, under a general heading songes [out of added] Shakespeare / The Tempest
.
This MS recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.
Copy of Stephano's song, headed Ibid
.
This MS recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.
Copy of Caliban's song, headed Ib.
This MS recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.
Copy of the song sung by Juno and Ceres, headed Ibid
.
This MS recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.
Copy of the song, headed Ibid
.
This MS recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.
Copy of lines 1-96, in two hands, subscribed R.B. Inuenit
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
Copy of a six-stanza version.
This MS recorded and the additional stanza edited in Dunlap, p. 264.
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.
Copy, headed On a faire gentlewoman scorch [?scarce] marrigeable
and here beginning Why should passion lead the blind
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as possibly by Walton Poole.
Copy, headed Pure Nonsence
and here beginning Like to the silent tone of unspoke speeches
.
First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.
Copy, headed On a faire Lady wearing Jewells
.
First published, as anonymous, in Henry Huth, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies (1870).
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
Copy, headed Upon one comminge to visit his Mrs and shee being absent hee wrote upon her lute thus
, deleted.
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.
Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone
.
Copy, headed On a lady and her Knight
.
First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72, 144.
First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.
Copy, headed Ben Johnson on the princes birth
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.
Copy, headed On the same [i.e. the Prince's birth] R: C
.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.
Copy, headed To his cruel Mrs
and here beginning Wee read of gods and kinges that kindly tooke
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
Copy, headed Against Dr Patton who preached against swearing by the crosse and masse made by a Papist
.
First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
Copy, headed Tom: christchurch great bell new fownded: To young Tom
.
First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent
).
Copy.
Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.
. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
Copy of a version headed A Venerous discourse
and beginning Nay, pish; nay phew; In faith but will you? fie
, deleted.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.
. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie
, was first published, as A Maids Denyall
, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
Copy, headed A forsaken Lady that died for loue
.
This MS collated (and four additional lines edited) in Martin, pp. 467-8.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
Copy, headed Black eyes
, lacking the last two lines.
Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie
) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.
Copy, headed Gray eyes
.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.
Copy, headed A louer to Cupid
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
Copy, headed A Blush
.
This MS recorded in Forey.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy, headed To a dissembling Lady
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as by John Grange.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (1655), p. 10, ascribed to John Grange. Poems (1660), pp. 59-60, where the stanzas by Man
are superscribed P.
and those by Woman
superscribed R.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as probably by John Grange.
Copy, headed A Song
.
First published in London, 1649. Dramatic Works, III, 91-192 (pp. 155-6). Gibbs, pp. 208-9.
Copy of a 31-line version, headed A Letter from Sr francis Beamont to Dr Donne
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.
Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club
, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.
Copy of a 36-line version beginning List all people to my words
.
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 9.
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.
Copy, headed A Song in comendacon of Music
.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
Copy, ascribed to Dr Corbet.
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night
): see
Copy, headed An apology for an vgly woman
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
Copy, headed On a ffrench woman, one of the Qeenes Chapple vgly in face but, incomparable in voice
.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
Copy.
First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman
. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes
and superscribed R
; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961:
Copy, headed On his Mris singing in Yorke-house Gallery
, ascribed to T: Cary
.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
Copy, headed An epitaph on my Lo: Staford beheaded on tower hill ye 12: of may. 1641
.
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner
. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland
. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
Copy of a twenty-line version, headed vpon my Lo Straford
.
Edited from this MS in Banks, p. 153 (footnote).
First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
Copy, headed vpon Judge Crooke
.
This MS collated in Banks.
First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.
Copy, headed On the burning of the Signe of the Mitre in Cambridge
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
Copy of lines 1-25, headed Dr. Donne his farewell to the world
.
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.
Copy, headed On an Gentlewoman dying in Trauell and her childe unborne
, subscribed W: Diuvenit
[i.e. Davenant].
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.
Copy, subscribed G:D.
[i.e. William Davenant].
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
Copy, headed On Mrs Anne Kinges table booke of pictures
, subscribed J M
.
Unpublished?
Copy, headed Epitaph: on a younge man
and here beginning As carefull nurses doe their infants laye
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
Copy, headed On Qu. Elizabeth careide by water to white Hall
.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
Copy, headed Epitaph on ye Countesse Dowager of Pembroke
and here beginning Vnder this harde marble hearse
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
Copy of lines 143-6, beginning The inke immortall fame dooth lende
.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.
Copy, headed On a cripple
and here beginning I cannot goe, stand, sitte, this cripple cries
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo
) and 10.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.
A folio composite volume of historical papers, in various hands, 31 leaves, in 19th-century blue morocco gilt.
Bought from J. Harvey, 9 February 1878.
Copy of Prince Hal's speech beginning I know you all, and will awhile uphold
(I, ii, 187-209), headed The Prince of Walles his speech. 165
, written out as prose in an italic hand, on one side of a single quarto leaf, dated in the margin April 14 / Anno / Domi 1620
.
Edited from this MS in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 336.
A folio composite volume of correspondence of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State, in various hands, c.450 leaves.
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Edward Nicholas, from Westminster, 10 December 1641.
A folio composite volume of state papers belonging to Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State.
c.1630.Copy in the hand of Sir Edward Nicholas, appended to a copy of Charles I's speech on 10 March 1628/9, on one of two conjugate folio leaves.
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.
A folio composite volume of correspondence and other papers of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State, in various hands, 342 leaves.
Volume VII of the Nicholas Papers.
Autograph letter signed by Earle, to Sir Edward Nicholas, from Sarum, 4 September 1665.
Quoted in Darwin, pp. 234-5.
A composite volume of papers chiefly of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State, 430 leaves.
Volume III of the Nicholas Papers.
Copy.
Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.
A folio composite volume of papers relating to Eikon Basilike, 27 leaves.
c.1649.Among the papers of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State.
Copy of the original English version of Earle's dedicatory epistle to Charles II, on two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.
Edited from this MS in Scott and in Almack.
First published in The Hague, 1649. London, 1649. The English version of Earle's dedication first published in Eikon Basilike, ed. Edward J.L. Scott (London, 1880), pp. xxxiv-xxxvii. Reprinted in Edward Almack, A Bibliography of The King's Book or Eikon Basilike (London, 1896), pp. 138-40. The Latin version of the dedication is in Bliss, pp. 233-6.
A folio composite volume of political and ecclesiastical verse and prose, 123 leaves.
Among the papers of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State.
Copy, inscribed Finis 20° Aug: 67
, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Osborne.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 6-8.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see
This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).
A double-folio guardbook of miscellaneous historical documents, in various hands, 70 leaves of various sizes.
Later owned by Frederic Ouvry (1814-81), antiquary and lawyer.
Autograph letter signed by Leland, to Cardinal Wolsey, 19 January [c.1522].
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf, subscribed A. Tounshend
.
Edited from this MS in Brown. Facsimile in Gabriel Heaton, His Acts Transmit to After Days
: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86 (p. 172).
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 36-7. Brown, pp. 50-1.
Tis but a while('Tis but a while, since in a vestall flame')
Copy, headed A ffarewell to the world by Sr. Kenelme Digby
, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
This MS collated in Grierson.
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.
A diary, covering the period from 9 August 1599 to 21 July 1605, in a single somewhat ungainly, largely italic hand, presumably autograph. 118 small quarto leaves, imperfect at the beginning and end.
1599-1605.Acquired from the Rev. C.St.B. Sydenham 10 November 1883.
Edited from this MS in Meads's edition (1930), with a facsimile of f. 16r facing p. 85. Facsimile of f. 16r also in English Women's Voices 1540-1700, ed. Charlotte F. Otten (Miami, 1992), p. 187.
First published as Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605, ed. Dorothy M. Meads (London, 1930).
A folio guard book of miscellaneous MSS, 95 leaves, in 19th-century black morocco gilt.
Collected by John Payne Collier (1789-1883).
Sotheby's, 16-28 November 1885 (Ellis sale).
Copy on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.
This MS collated in California; recorded in Kinsley.
First published in Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 138. California, IX, 121-2. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 258-9.
Copy on the second of two conjugate folio leaves.
This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.
First published in Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 139. California, IX, 202-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 259-61.
Copy on the first (pp. [1-2]) of two conjugate folio leaves.
Edited from this MS in Lawrence, in Summers, and in Danchin.
First published, and attributed to Shadwell, in William J. Lawrence, Did Thomas Shadwell Write an Opera on The Tempest?, Anglia, 27 (1904), 205-17 (pp. 212-13). Summers, II, 196. Danchin, Prologues and Epilogues, II, 593-4.
Authorship uncertain.
Copy on pp. [2-3] of two conjugate folio leaves.
Edited from this MS in Lawrence, in Summers, and in Danchin.
First published, and attributed to Shadwell, in William J. Lawrence, Did Thomas Shadwell Write an Opera on The Tempest?, Anglia, 27 (1904) 205-17 (pp. 213-14). Summers, II, 269. Danchin, Prologues and Epilogues, II, 595-6.
Authorship uncertain.
Copy on the first page of the remains of two conjugate folio leaves.
This MS (erroneously cited as Egerton 2326
) recorded in Wiley.
First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole
, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
Copy on the first of the remains of two conjugate folio leaves.
First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole
, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear
) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
Copy, here ascribed to Sr C.S. Bart
on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.
This MS collated in Sola Pinto.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Sola Pinto, I, 49.
Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.
Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.
Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.
Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published, as Epigram upon my Lord All-pride, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.
Copy of a version of lines 1-188 in two hands in a small quarto verse miscellany.
Lines 1-188 edited from this MS in POAS.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Several Occasions, Written in the Last Century (London, 1747). Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Vol. III: 1682-1685, ed. H.W. Schless (New Haven, 1968), pp. 511-40, where the poem is attributed to Shadwell.
Copy, untitled, on a folio leaf; the text followed by an Answear (Blame not your Armida, nor call her your Greife
).
This MS recorded in Day, p. 155.
First published in New Court-Songs, and Poems. By R[obert] V[eel] Gent. (London, 1672). Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Westminster-Drollery (London, 1672). Windsor-Drollery (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 136-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 255.
A folio miscellany chiefly of heraldic and historical collections, in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, 418 leaves.
Compiled by Robert Commaundre (d.1613), rector of Tarporley, Cheshire, and chaplain to Sir Henry Sydney, Lord President of the Marches of Wales.
Late 16th-early 17th century.Copy, headed The State of france translated oute of frenche into Englishe Anno Domini 1585
.
This MS collated in May.
First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.
Copy, headed Certen verses made by the Queenes moste excellent Matie against the Rebells in the North ptes of England and in Norfolke & other places of the Realme, Ao dni 1569 et 1570
.
This MS cited in Selected Works.
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.
Copy of a five-stanza version (plus a two-line burden).
This MS recorded in Canon.
Canon, D52, p. 16. First published in Certaine bokes copyled by mayster Skelto (London, c.1545). Dyce, I, 137-8.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Gordon.
Canon, R67, pp. 21-2. Edited by Ian A. Gordon in TLS (20 September 1934), p. 636.
Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed The frenche Prymero. 1585
.
First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.
A folio composite volume of state papers and correspondence, in various hands, 240 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on two folio leaves once folded as a letter or packet.
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.
A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt.
In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.
c.1530s.Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (
Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS
. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.
Copy.
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 97. Facsimiles in Foxwell, I, after p. 2, and in Powell, p. 18.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 1.
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 98. Facsimile in Powell, p. 18.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 1-2.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 99-100.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 2.
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 101.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 3. Harrier, p. 3.
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 102-3.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 3-4.
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald; imperfect, lacking the beginning; c. 1537-8.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 103-4.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 4.
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 104. Facsimiles in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (after p. 414), and in Powell, p. 24.
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 5.
Copy of lines 1-7 in a variant version, including an extra line between lines 5 and 6, in the hand of Nicholas Grimald, headed To hiz bedde
and here beginning O restfull place: reneewer of my smart
.
Edited from this MS in Harrier, p. 105. Collated in Muir & Thomson. Facsimiles in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (after p. 414), and in Powell, p. 24.
First published (in a three 7-line stanza version) in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 197-8.
Copy of lines 22-147, beginning O small hony, much aloes & gall
, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald, heavily written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 5-10.
Copy, with subsequent alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald, later written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 111.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 10-11.
Copy, written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 112.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 11.
Copy, written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 113.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 11-12.
Copy, written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 113-14.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 12.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 114.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 12-13.
Copy, written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 115.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 13.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 115-16.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 14.
Copy, with alterations in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 116.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 14.
Copy, heavily written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 117.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 15.
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 117-18.
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 15-16.
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 118.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 16.
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer
to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 119.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 16-17.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 119-20.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 17-18.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 120-1.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 18.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 121-2.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 19.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 122.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 19-20.
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer
to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 123.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 20.
Copy, headed Petrarke
in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 123-4.
First published in Songes and Sonnettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 20-1.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 124.
Not published in the the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 21.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 125.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 21-2.
Copy, written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 125.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 22.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 126.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 23.
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 126-7.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 23-4.
Copy, heavily written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 127.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 24.
Copy, with geometrical diagrams drawn over it by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 128.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 24-5.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 128-9. The text followed by a 12-line Aunswer in a later hand responsible for alterations to eleven other poems in this MS (this Aunswer edited in Muir & Thomson, p. 298, and in Harrier, p. 129). Facsimile in Helen Baron, The Blage
Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119 (p. 105).
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 25.
Copy, heavily written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 130.
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 25-6.
Copy, heavily written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 130-1.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 26-7.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (with a facsimile facing p. 68), and in Harrier, pp. 131-2. Facsimile also in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, Plate 1.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 27.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 132-3.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 28.
Copy, with an alteration in an italic hand (that responsible for
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 133-4.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 29. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience
Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 134-5.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 29-30. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's Patience
Poems, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.
Copy of lines 24-39, beginning all to my harme
, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 30-1.
Copy, with autograph corrections.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 136.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 32.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 136-7.
First published in The Court of Venus [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 32-3.
Copy, with autograph revisions and with alterations in another hand.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 138. Facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 44.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 33-4.
Copy, with a correction and line 15 written in an italic hand (that responsible for
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 138-9.
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 34.
Copy, with autograph corrections.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 139.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 34.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 140.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 35.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 141.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 35-6.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 141.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 35.
Copy, headed in a later hand Anna
.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 141-2.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 36.
Copy of lines 1-41, with autograph corrections (line 30 inserted).
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 142-3.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 36-7.
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 143-4.
First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 38-9.
Copy, with alterations in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 145-6. Facsimile of f. 36r in Powell, p. 19.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 39-40.
Copy, with autograph corrections.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 146-7.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 40.
Copy of lines 1-16, 21-8, including speech-prefixes.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see
Not published (in this form) in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 41-2.
Copy, with an autograph alteration.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 148-9.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 42.
Copy, with autograph corrections.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 149.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 42-3.
Copy, with two alterations in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 150-1.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 43-4.
Copy, with autograph corrections.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 151.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 44.
Copy, with autograph corrections.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 152.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 45.
Copy, with autograph revisions.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 152-3.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 45.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 153-4.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 45-6.
Copy, with autograph revisions, written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 154-5.
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 46-7.
Copy, with autograph corrections.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 155.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 47.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 156.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 47-8.
Copy, with a correction in an italic hand (that responsible for
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 157-8.
First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 48-50.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 158-9.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 50-1.
Copy, with autograph corrections.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 160.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 51.
Copy, with an alteration in an italic hand (that responsible for
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 160-1.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 51-2.
Copy, imperfect, most of the leaf torn away.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 161-2.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 52-3.
Copy, imperfect, most of the leaf torn away.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 162-3.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 53-4.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 163-4.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 54-5.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 165.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 55-6.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 166.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 56-7.
Copy of lines 52-103, beginning Praise him for counceill that is droncke of ale
; imperfect.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 88-91.
Autograph fair copy, with revisions.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 173.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 57.
Autograph.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 173.
First pub in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 57-8.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 174-7.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 91-5.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 178.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 58.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 179.
Not published in the the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 59.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 180.
First pub in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 59-60.
Autograph fair copy, with revisions.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 180-1.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 60.
Autograph, fair copy, with one revision.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 181.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 61.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 181-2.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 61.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier. pp. 182-3.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 61-2.
Copy, the second page heavily written over.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 183-5.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 95-7.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 185-8.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 62-4.
Copy, with a revision in another hand.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 188-9.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 64-5.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 189-90.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 65-6.
Copy of a sequence of three poems, with an autograph alteration.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 190-4 (edited as separate poems).
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 66-9.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 194. Edited and discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's I Lead a Life Unpleasant
: Text and Interpretation, N&Q, 233 (March 1988), 29-33.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 70.
Copy of a 28-line version (not in the same hand as
Edited from this MS in Harrier, pp. 194-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 73-4.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 195.
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 70.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 196.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 70-1.
Copy in two hands, including John Brereton.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 197-8. Facsimiles of f. 64r in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 272.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 171-3.
Copy, in the hand of John Brereton, headed Sonet
in another hand.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 199.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 73.
Copy of a 42-line version, in the hand of John Brereton.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 199-200. Facsimiles of f. 65r in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 273.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 73-4.
Copy of lines 1-36, in the hand of John Brereton, with an autograph addition.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 75-7.
Autograph copy, with extensive revisions.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 203-4. Facsimile of f. 66r in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 46.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 207-8.
Autograph unfinished draft, heavily written over by later hands.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 204. Facsimile of f. 66r in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 46.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 78.
Copy, in the hand of John Brereton, with autograph corrections.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 204-5. Facsimile in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 179.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 78.
Autograph copy, with extensive revisions, headed In Spayne
in an italic hand (that responsible for
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 205-9.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 79-82.
Autograph, with minor revisions.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 211. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 9; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 19; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 10, p. 22; and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 351.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 82.
Autograph, with revisions.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 211. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 9, and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 351.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 83.
Autograph draft, with copious revisions.
Edited from this MS (with a facsimile) in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 212-13. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Helen V. Baron Wyatt's What rage, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (September 1976), 188-204. Facsimile also in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 47.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 83-4.
Autograph.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 213.
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 84.
Copy, in an italic hand.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 213. Discussed in Wayne H. Siek, A Note on Some Handwriting in Wyatt's Holograph Poetic Manuscript, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 496-7, where it is argued that the poem is not in Wyatt's own hand.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 84.
Copy, in the hand of Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger (c.1521-54), headed ffrom him out of Spayne to his son then Xmo yeres old
.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimiles of f. 71r in Powell, p. 26, and of f. 72r in Jason Powell, Line Omission in Prose Manuscripts, 1500-1700, PBSA, 104 (December 2010), 433-61 (p. 439).
Letter beginning In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding …
, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 38-41.
Copy, in the hand of Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger (c.1521-54), headed Again unto his Son out of Spayne about the same time
.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
Letter beginning I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you …
, subscribed From Valedolide the xxiiith of June
. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 41-4.
Copy.
This MS collated in Padelford.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 38, p. 93. Jones, p. 29.
Autograph of Wyatt's seven Penitential Psalms and their prologues, with extensive revisions; imperfect, lacking lines 100-51 (lines 26-80 in Psalm 6).
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, with a facsimile of one page facing p. 100, and in Harrier, pp. 214-49.
First published in Certayne psalmes (London, 1549). Muir & Thomson, pp. 98-125.
Autograph, with extensive revisions.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 250-2.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 84-7.
Copy of Harington's translation of the Seven Penitential Psalms (Nos. 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143), partly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis with autograph revisions. c.1609.
Psalms 38, 102, and 130 edited from this MS in Karl E. Schmutzler, Harington's Metrical Paraphrases of the Seven Penitential Psalms: Three manuscript Versions, PBSA, 53 (1959), 240-51. Facsimile of part of f. 104 (Psalm 6) in Petti, English Literary Hands (1977), No. 31 (where it is mistakenly described as entirely autograph, but see P.J. Croft's review in TLS (24 February 1978), p. 241).
Harington's complete Psalter, intended for publication just before his death, but unpublished.
A folio composite volume of correspondence for 1708-51, in various hands, 506 leaves.
Volume IX of the correspondence of the Gawdy family, baronets, of West Harling, Norfolk.
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Piers] Mauduit, [Windsor Herald], 24 November 1720.
Edited in Works, IV, 127 (No. 118).
A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt.
c.1640s.Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book
: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
Copy, subscribed J. C.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.
Copy, subscribed J. C.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 12-13.
Copy, here beginning Stay Lady, should I answere, then
and subscribed J. C.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 20-1.
Copy, subscribed J. C.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 38-9.
Copy, subscribed J. C.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.
Copy, headed A coppy of verses of captaine Lovelace his making when he was in prison
.
Edited from this MS in Wilkinson, I, 50; collated in Clayton.
First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
Copy, headed Heareing a Lady singing some verses of his makeing
.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as To the same Lady singing the former Song, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
Morris & Withington, p. 74.
Copy, subscribed J. C.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 33-8.
Copy, headed Hampdens Ghost
.
First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.
Copy, headed The Puritans Lecture
and here beginning I have beene (Sr) where soe many Puritans dwell
.
First published, as by A. C. Generosus
, in London, 1642. Collected Works, I, pp. 94-101, as The Puritans Lecture. Cowley's authorship uncertain but probable: see Perkin, pp. 25-9.
Copy, headed Prologue by A:C: March 22th before Prince Charles
.
This MS collated in Wiley; recorded in Moore Smith.
First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole
, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
Copy, headed An Epigram Vpon the Prince his birth May 19o 1630
and subscribed Benjamin Johnson
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.
Copy, headed Vpon a Fart let in the Parliament House
and here beginning Downe came Ancient Sr John Crooke
.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses
in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Copy, headed Doctour Corbetts iter boreale to Newarke
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
Copy, headed An Elegy by Doctour H: King upon the death of his wife
.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
Copy, headed An Epitaph upon the Death of a Child
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
Copy of the six-line epitaph, as by the Countesse of Faukland
.
Edited from this MS in Akkerman, p. 197. Recorded in Wolfe, p. 494.
A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland
in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
Copy, headed De ambiguitate [brevitate deleted] vitæ
.
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.
Copy, headed De brevitate vitae
.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?
, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
Copy, headed Doctor King his Farewell to the World
.
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.
Copy, headed Her answere
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee
). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
Copy, headed The Sparke T.C.
, subscribed W.P.
.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.
Probably written by Walton Poole.
Copy, headed Vpon Absence
.
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 289.
First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
Copy, headed Upon an Autumnall face
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
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.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.
Copy, omitting the first two words.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.
Copy, untitled.
First published, as To Clarinda: On Her Perfection
, in Thomas Jordan, Claraphil and Clarinda: In a Forrest of Fancies (1650?), sig. B1r-v. Dunlap (1949), p. 193.
Copy, untitled.
First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.
Copy, here beginning O thinke not Phoebe cause a cloud
and ascribed to T.C.
.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
First published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639). Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 2.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to J.G.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as by John Grange.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.
Copy, headed On a periured Mris
.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
Copy, headed On her periured servant
.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
Copy.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.
Copy, headed Good counsell to a Maide
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1927).
Edited and attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 120-1.
Copy, headed For Mris. Porter on New=yeares day
.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.
Copy, headed Mr Herrickes old age to Mr. Weekes
.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.
Copy, headed Englished
, preceded (f. 74v) by the Latin versions headed In diem passionis
, and subscribed Tho. Ran.
The Latin verses edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the Englished
version of Latin verses beginning Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit
, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.
Copy, here beginning We read of gods and kings that kindly tooke
, ascribed to T. Carey
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
Copy, headed To his Mistris
and here beginning I wonder how the rose came red
.
First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy.
(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.
Copy of a version headed An Epitaph upon the Earle of Strafford
and beginning Here lyes wisdome, Courage, witt
.
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).
Copy, headed May 1641 An offering to the sacred memory of the never sufficiently admired E. of Strafford
.
First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland
in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
Copy.
First published in Gibbs (1972), pp. 272-4.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 37-43.
Copy, headed An Elegye on Captaine Bartin Haslerigge slaine in Duell
.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 59-61.
Copy.
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, p. 167.
Copy, headed To a Lady singing
.
First published in Herbert Berry, Three New Poems by Davenant, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 275-6. A variant version, beginning Sing fair Clorinda
, published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Gibbs, pp. 303-8.
Copy, headed A song takeing leave of my Mistresse for a voyage
.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 175-6.
Copy, headed Coynesse importuned. A Song
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Copy, headed To his friend disdained by his Mris. A Song
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.
. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd
.
Copy, headed Cupids Renegado
and here beginning ffarewell fond Boy, under whose churlish whippe
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
Copy, headed To his Mris singing
.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.
Copy, headed Perswasion to Loue. A song
.
First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto
). Not included in Patrick.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 72-3, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy, headed On his loues unconstancy
, subscribed in a later hand sr. H. W.
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.
Copy, headed To a faire Lady weeping
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.
Copy of a five-stanza version, headed A Lovers Will
, subscribed J. D.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
Copy, headed A song
, subscribed Ben. Johnson
.
First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
Copy, headed Vpon his Mris walkinge in the snow
.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (1653), Part I, p. 16. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 45. Poems (1660), pp. 90-1, superscribed P.
Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as probably by Sir Thomas Neville.
Copy, ascribed to Bishop Corbett
.
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night
): see
Copy, headed Dr Corbett upon the death of Dr Donne. Print.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
Copy, headed A lovers ashes put into an houre glasse by his Mris
.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.
Copy, headed The Prologue to the Royall Slaue prsented to his Matie at Xts Church at Oxford
.
This MS collated in Evans.
Evans, p. 195.
Copy, headed The Epilogue spoke by the slave
and here beginning Those solemn triumphs...
.
This MS collated in Evans.
Evans, p. 251.
Copy, headed The Prologue of the same presented to the Vniversity
.
This MS collated in Evans.
Evans, p. 196.
Copy of the first stanza, headed Corus posterior
.
This MS recorded in Evans, p. 589.
Henry Lawes's musical setting of the first six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.
Copy, headed The Epilogue to the Vniversity
.
This MS collated in Evans.
Evans, p. 252.
Copy, headed Chorus
.
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 9. Chambers, pp. 7-8. Brown, pp. 115-16.
Copy.
One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities...
. First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.
Copy of a poem subscribed J. Foord
.
Edited from this MS in Lloyd and in Nondramatic Works (1991), where is is also discussed with a complete facsimile on p. 361.
First published in Bertram Lloyd, An Unprinted Poem by John Ford(?), RES, 1 (1925), 217-19. Nondramatic Works (1991), pp. 359-62.
Copy, untitled and subscribed Tho. Randolph
.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.
Copy of the second part, here beginning Though hand and eyes may proue
.
This MS collated in Brown.
First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.
Copy, headed Mr Cleaueland to Chandler
.
First published in Poems By J. C. ([London], 1651), pp. 84-5.
Copy, untitled.
First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 495-6.
Copy, headed On a faire Mris:
.
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
First published, as a Song, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.
Copy, untitled and here beginning Seest thou those Jewells which shee weares
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
Copy, subscribed J. Cleauland
.
Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.
First published in Berdan (1903). Morris & Withington, p. 70.
Copy, subscribed J. C.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 26-8.
Copy, subscribed J. C.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
Copy, untitled, in two columns.
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.
Copy, headed Sr. John Sucklings letter to a friend of his. Anno: Dom: 1640
.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 14-15.
Copy, headed Pure noncence
, here beginning Like to the silent tone...
, and subscribed in another hand Fra: Qarles. in print
.
First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.
Copy, headed Cupids inquisition
.
This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 147.
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed A Ring sent
and here beginning Nature framd a Jemme without compare
.
Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.
Copy, headed In natalem Caroli Principis Cantilena
.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.
Copy, headed Of his Mistris
.
First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
Autograph fair copy, with revisions made by Edward Knight, book-keeper and prompter of the King's Company, and some further corrections in another hand; prepared for use in the theatre; 29 leaves; licensed and slightly emended by Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels.
6 May 1631.Edited from this MS in Croker & Fairholt and in Edwards & Gibson. Reproduced in facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts (London, 1907).
Facsimile examples in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XIV (b); in Greg, Dramatic Documents, Vol. II; in A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), after p. 176; in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 9; in Edwards & Gibson, III, after p. 302; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 56; in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 182; in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 408; in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 67; and in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York, 2006), p. 137.
First published in London, 1849, ed. T.C. Croker and F.W. Fairholt, Percy Society. Edwards & Gibson, III, 303-90.
A composite quarto volume of original letters by Dryden, Pope and Byron, 12 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, from Northamptonshire, [c.August 1684].
Ward, Letter 11.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, [December 1697].
Ward, Letter 50.
A small octavo volume comprising two independent works (the first a theological treatise in two hands, c.1636), ii + 179 leaves, in old vellum.
The second item, by Phineas Fletcher, inscribed on f. 179v E libris J. Meriton. Meus est hic liber
[i.e. probably John Meriton, of St John's College, Cambridge, rector of St Mary Bothaw, Londin, in 1666-96]. The whole volume later owned by the Rev. Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827-99), literary scholar and theologian, and afterwards by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller.
Autograph MS, with a dedicatory epistle to Prince Henry. [1611-12].
Discussed in Boas, I, x-xvi and collated I, 279-87. Facsimile of the third leaf in Boas I, following p. 96.
First published in Cambridge, 1627. Boas, I, 97-123.
A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound).
Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed Finis quoth G. W.
Copy of Version 2, headed Quene Elizabeths speeche to her last parliament. the .30. of november i60i
.
This MS cited (as third version
) in Hartley.
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).
Copy, headed A copie of Queene Elizabeth her Answer to ye kinge of Polandes Embassador in the prsence Chamber at Greenewich the .25th. of July. 1597. openly & ex tempore
.
Beginning Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti...
, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint...
, in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.
Copy of the dedication, headed A copy of an Epistle dedicatory to Queene Elizabeth, written by Mr. Davies in his Booke called Nosce Teipsum
.
A philosophical poem, with dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning To that clear Majesty, which in the North
. First published in London, 1599. Krueger, pp. 1-67.
Copy, headed Verses made vppon her Remooue being dead
.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Grosart, I, 93.
Copy, headed vpon the bringing of her Corpse by water from Richmount to Whitehall
.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
Copy.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Grosart, I, 94.
Copy, headed psal: 104. of a new translation.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).
Copy, headed Verses agt feare of Death: made by Sir ph: sidney
, transcribed from a priited source.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 556, and in Robertson, p. 480.
Ringler, p. 131. Robertson, pp. 373-4.
Copy of the opening speech by Ewmone by Dice and Irene the 3 houres which do represent Time
(lines 8-15), here beginning Enter (o lord), for princes blesse these bowers
.
First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 145-50.
Copy of an account, headed The execution of Robt Devereux late Earle of Essex the 25th of feb: 1600 wthin ye tower of London
.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
Notes on Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.
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.
A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 54 leaves.
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, 1609.
A large folio volume of antiquarian, parliamentary and naval tracts, a formal compilation in professional hand(s), iii + 97 leaves, in contemporary panelled calf.
Early 17th century.Lot 389 in an unidentified sale and two unidentified armorial bookplates. Bought from Davis & Orioli, 10 November 1917.
Copy.
A tract beginning That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...
. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.
Copy, subscribed Sr Robert Cotton, Kt
.
A tract beginning As touching the nature of the Right Courte of Parliament, It is nothing else but the Kinges greate councell...
. Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.
Copy, with running heading Cotton
.
A tract beginning That we nowe agreeinge wth the Scottes doe name a Parliament...
. Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.
A tall folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 292 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
Among the papers of Sir Robert Heath (1575-1649), Chief Justice, and his sons, and of the Greville and Verney families, Barons Willoughby de Broke.
Copy of a letter by Bacon to George Villiers, late Earl of Buckingham
, in a small predominantly italic hand, on eleven quarto leaves.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous official papers relating to Rutland, in various hands, 404 leaves.
Volume IX of the Heath & Verney Papers, of Sir Robert Heath (1575-1649), Chief Justice, and his eldest sons, Sir Edward and Sir John Heath, among the papers of the Greville and Verney families, Barons Willoughby de Broke.
A certificate signed by Taylor witnessing to the church attendance of John Hunt of Barrowden, Uppingham, 6 May 1641.
A long narrow ledger (45.5 x 19 cm.) autograph financial account book, entitled A New Booke of Receights of Rents Anueties and Interest moneys begining at St Mary day 1638 written at Heryford, at John Fletchers howse
, signed by Jefferies several times, with occasional annotations probably by her nephew and executor William Jefferies (including, on f. 23r, May 3d 1651. An abstracte out of my Aunte Jeffreyes hir book of receipts, of moneyes and moneyes due to hir for consideracions in arreare from severall persons
), ii + 73 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in later half-vellum marbled boards.
Bookplate of Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, MP, fourth Baronet (1811-72), of Stanford Court, Worcestershire, 1858. Hodgson's, 26 May 1932, lot 467.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1970), Appendix, p. 53. Discussed in Robert Tittler, Money-Lending in the West Midlands: the Activities of Joyce Jefferies, 1638-49, Historical Research, 67 (1994), 249-63. Facsimiles, with transcriptions, of ff. 1r and 32r in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 266-70.
Unpublished in full. Extracts in various articles from 1857 onwards.
An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all.
Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth).
c.1586-1625.Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.
Copy.
First pub in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 87. Sandison, No. [1], pp. 3-4.
Sandison, No. [2], pp. 4-5.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [3], p. 5.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [4], p. 6.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [5], pp. 6-7.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [6], pp. 7-8.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [7], pp. 8-9.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [8], pp. 9-10.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [9], pp. 10-11.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [10], pp. 11-12.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [11], pp. 12-13.
Copy.
Sandisin, No. [12], pp. 13-16.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [13], pp. 16-17.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [14], pp. 18-19.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [15], pp. 19-20.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [16], p. 20.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [17], pp. 20-1.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [18], p. 21.
Copy.
Sandison, No [19], pp. 22-3.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [20], p. 23.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [21], p. 23.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [22], pp. 24-5.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [23], p. 25.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [24], p. 25.
Copy.
The incipit first published, in a musical setting, in W. Barley, A new Booke of Tabliture (London, 1596), sig. Dv of the third part. Sandison, No. [25], pp. 26-7. May EV 4157.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [26], pp. 28-34.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [27], pp. 34-5.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [28], p. 35, and second text, No. [55], p. 61.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [29], p. 36.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [30], pp. 36-7.
Copy.
sandison, No. [31], p. 37.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [32], pp. 38-9.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [33], p. 40.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [34], pp. 40-1.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [35], pp. 41-2.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [36], p. 43.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [37], pp. 43-4.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [38], pp. 44-5.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [39], pp. 45-7.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [40], pp. 47-9.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [401], pp. 49-50.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [42], pp. 50-2.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [43], p. 53.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [44], p. 54.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [405], p. 55.
Copy.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 81. Sandison, No. [46], pp. 55-6. Latham, pp. 81-2. The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999). Rudick, No. 8, p. 8.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [47], p. 56.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [48], p. 57.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [49], pp. 57-8.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [50], p. 58.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [51], pp. 58-9.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [52], p. 59.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [53], p. 60.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [54], pp. 60-1.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [28], p. 35, and second text, No. [55], p. 61.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [56], p. 61.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [57], p. 62.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [58], pp. 62-3.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [59], p. 63.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [60], p. 63-4.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [61], pp. 64-5.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [62], p. 65.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [63], pp 65-6.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [64], p. 66.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [65]. p. 67.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [66]. pp. 67-8.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [67], p. 68.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [68], p. 69.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [69], pp. 69-70.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [70], p. 70.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [71], p. 71.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [72], pp. 71-2.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [73], p. 72.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [74], p. 73.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [75], pp. 73-4.
Copy. The poem followed (f. 59v) by a copy of Thomas Churchyard's Of Mounsieur
(On worthy Queen on mighty Realme on God above
) which is deleted.
Sandison, No. [76], pp. 74-5.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [77], p. 76.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [78], pp. 76-7.
Copy of a six-stanza version made by an amanuensis of Sir Arthur Gorges.
Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Arthur Gorges, ed. H.E. Sandison (Oxford, 1953), No. [79], pp. 77-8. Recorded in Latham, p. 160.
First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [80], pp. 78-9.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [81], p. 79.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [82], pp. 79-80.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [83], p. 80.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [84], p. 81.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [85], pp. 81-2.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [86], p. 82.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [87], p. 83.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [858], p. 84.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [89], pp. 84-7.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [90], pp. 87-106.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [91], pp. 106-10.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [92], pp. 110-11.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [93], pp. 112-13.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [94], pp. 113-14.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [95], pp. 114-17.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [96], p. 117.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [97], p. 118.
Copy.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sandison, No. [98], pp. 118-23.
Autograph.
Edited from this MS in Sandison.
Sandison, No. [99], pp. 123-4.
Autograph.
Edited from this MS in Sandison. Facsimiles of f. 106v in Sandison, facing p. 124, and of ff. 106r-v in P.J. Croft, Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 vols (London, 1973), I, Nos 17 and 18.
Sandison, pp. 124-5.
Copy, among the eleven later poems.
Edited from this MS in Sandison.
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir Egerton Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [101], p. 126.
Copy, among the eleven later poems.
Edited from this MS in Sandison.
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [102], p. 127.
Copy, among the eleven later poems.
Edited from this MS in Sandison.
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [103], pp. 127-8.
Copy, among the eleven later poems.
Edited from this MS in Sandison.
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [104], p. 128.
Copy, among the eleven later poems.
Edited from this MS in Sandison.
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [105], pp. 128-9.
Copy, among the eleven later poems.
Edited from this MS in Sandison.
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [106], p. 129.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [107], p. 130.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [105], pp. 130-1.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [109], pp. 131-2.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [110], p. 132.
Copy.
Sandison, No. [111], p. 133.
Fragment of a copy, inserted in the volume.
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.
A folio composite volume of papers chiefly of Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds (1632-1712), politician. Constituting Volume XXII of the Leeds Papers.
Copy.
c.1675.Copy, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
This MS recorded in Kelliher.
A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...
. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.
A composite volume of correspondence and papers of the Osborne family, formerly at Hornby Castle, Yorks, chiefly papers of Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds.
Volume XXVIII of the Leeds Papers.
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Lattimer, 25 April 1674.
Motten, pp. 346-7.
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Lattimer, 1 June 1674.
Motten, pp. 347-8.
Killigrew's inscribed copy of his letter to Mr Parsons, from London 30 September 1674.
Motten, pp. 348-51.
Autograph letter signed, to Peregrine Bertie, 16 December 1675.
Motten, pp. 351-2.
Copy, ii + 119 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.
Volume XL of the papers of the Osborne family, formerly at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, chiefly papers of Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds.
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.
A folio volume of state tracts and papers, i + 68 leaves.
Constituting Volume XLIII of the Leeds Papers, chiefly collected by Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds (1632-1712), politician
Copy.
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).
A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in a single hand, 80 leaves, in vellum.
Constituting Volume LV of the Leeds Papers, chiefly collected by Sir Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds, politician.
c.1640.Copy.
Tract, addressed to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice...
. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.
Copy.
Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire...
. First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-79
[i.e. 89].
Copy.
Tract beginning What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been...
. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.
Copy.
Speech beginning Mr. Speaker, Although the constant Wisdome of this House of Commons...
. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [271]-281.
Copy.
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.
Copy.
Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth...
. Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
Copy of the letter on the Queen's religious policies.
A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...
. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.
A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.
Copy.
Advice beginning Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection...
. First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.
A folio volume of state tracts and papers.
Constituting Volume LX of the Leeds Papers, chiefly collected by Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds (1632-1712), politician.
Copy.
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).
A small quarto Book of Divers Relations concerning ye affairs of Scotland & England about ye year 1640, in a single neat cursive italic hand, 54 leaves, in 18th-century calf.
c.1640s.Bookplate of Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire (MS 49).
Copy, headed Sr: Beniamin Ruddier his speech in the Parliamt: 4 nouem: Ano: Domi: 1640
.
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.
A quarto navigational notebook, possibly associated with the East India Company, iii + 71 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.
Early 17th century.Copy of A present Metson for the Agewe ascribed to Sr water Raylishe 1616
(this ascription deleted).
This MS (formerly owned by Boies Penrose) offered for sale at Sotheby's, 24 July 1978, lot 97.
An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and letters, iii + 227 leaves (including blanks) in all, in calf.
Mainly in three hands, with later additions in c.1683-99.
Inscribed names including Anthony, Thomas and John Marshall, Jonas Ramsden, Jenkinson, Thomas Maleverer, and Lawson. Owned c.1670s-90s by the family of Sir Thomas Seyliard, third Baronet (d.1701), of Delawarre, Kent. Later note: Bought this Manuscript at Montague's Book warehouse near Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields Tuesday Feb: 12 1739
. Later armorial bookplate apparently of the Appleyard family of either Yorkshire or Norfolk. Phillips, 20 March 1998, lot 467, to Quaritch.
Copy, headed A short vewe of the Reigne of K. Hen: the 3
.
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).
Copy.
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.
Copy, headed The Originall (where of this is a Copie) was first devised and written by Sr Walter Cope knight deceased, late Master of the Wards
.
A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past...
. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.
Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, Who is the author of the tract intitled Some observations touching trade with the Hollander?, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.
Copy, on versos only.
Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
Copy, headed Certaine notes & observations vpon a most infamous & diffamatory Libell, written by a most notorious & knowne Traitor...
.
A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...
. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.
A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.
Copy, headed Sr. Philip Sidney to his Brother
, under a general heading Three lres concerninge Travaile & Travailors
.
A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...
. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.
Copy, in two coloured inks, headed Robart Earle of Essex to the late Earle of Rutland
, the letter here dated from Greenwich 4 January 1594
, under a general heading (on f. 191r) Three lres concerninge Travaile & Travailors
.
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...
.
First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
Copy, headed Sr Fulke Greville to his Cosen Grevill Varney residinge in France
, under a general heading (on f. 191r) Three lres concerninge Travaile & Travailors
. 20 Nov 1609.
An epistolary essay beginning My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance...
, dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.
Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, on 90 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum with ties.
Late 16th century.Inscribed at the end in the late 17th century notes of debts due to me R. Richardson
. Later owned by James P.R. Lyell (1871-1948), book collector, and then by W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 311, with facsimiles of two pages in the sale catalogue.
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.
Copy, on 355 octavo pages.
Inscribed on the last page Haec meminisse juvat Apr. 23 163[ ]
.
Owned in 1820 by Henry Cotton (1789-1879), sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library; later by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, and by Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941). Christie's, 2 April 1940/8[?], lot 18, and 12 June 2000 (William Foyle sale, Part III), lot 312.
This MS discussed in Gavin Alexander, A New Manuscript of the Sidney Psalms: A Preliminary Report, Sidney Journal, 18/1 (Summer 2000), 43-56.
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
