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Harley MS 6003

A folio volume of naval collections.
End of 17th century.
- PpS 8 ff. 137r-45r
  
  Copy, in a professional hand, headed M^r Pepy's Letter & New yeares Guift to his Hon^ed Friend S^r William Coventry.
  
  First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.
  
  Samuel Pepys, The Pursers Employ Annatomized and both Advantages & disadvantages therein discovered and also A Proposall of comitting the Victualling accompt to the care and management of each Comander. Presented as a New yeares guift to S^r: William Coventry by Samuel Pepys Esqr in 1665
Harley MS 6021

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 192 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) by Humfrey Wanley with date of accession into the Harley Library 25 Novembris, A.D. 1723.
- CtR 398 ff. 49r-65v
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A short veiwe of the life of Henrie the 3. kinge of England, unascribed. Early 17th century.
  
  Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
- ElQ 118 ff. 76r-7r
  
  Copy of a reported form of Version I, introduced The Queene...returned answeare, that shee gaue them greate thankes (as shee saw greate cause) for the loue and care, w^ch they did expresse....
  
  This MS recorded in Hartley.
  
  First published in Richard Grafton, An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England (London, 1563), 179v-80.
  Version I. Beginning As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks.... Hartley, I, 44-5. Collected Works, Speech 3, pp. 56-8 (Version 1).
  Version II. Beginning In a thing which is not much pleasing unto me.... Collected Works, pp. 58-60 (Version 2).
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Speech before Parliament, February 10, 1559
- LeC 20 ff. 140r-88r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Leicesters Commonwealth. Early 17th century.
  
  This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225
  
  First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
  
  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
- BcF 138.5 ff. 190r-2v
  
  Copy of the first part, headed An answere to a libillous boke intitled the causes of the troubles of the Commonwealth of England or the Cecillian gouernment, imperfect, lacking the rest.
  
  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.
  
  Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
Harley MS 6038

A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco.
Mid-17th century.
- BcF 706 ff. 8r-9r
  
  Copy.
  
  Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth.... Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
  
  Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King
- DaJ 187 f. 10r
  
  Copy, headed In Juvenem abortiva morte peremptu and here beginning As carefull Nurses in their bedds doe lay.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- BrW 205 f. 10v
  
  Copy, headed Lady Pembrookes Epitaph.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
- HrG 290.6 f. 11v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed G. H.
  
  Edited from this MS in Whitlock and in Doelman.
  
  A twelve-line epitaph. First published in Baird W. Whitlock, The Authorship of the Couplet on Sir Albertus Morton and His Wife, N&Q, 226 (December 1981), 523-4, where (through a misreading of G. H. in HrG 290.6 as J. H.) it is attributed to John Hoskyns. Edited and attributed to George Herbert in James Doelman, Herbert's couplet?, TLS, 19 February 2010, p. 15.
  For lines 5-6, beginning The first deceased. He for a little try'd, a couplet which in various forms circulated independently for many years and has traditionally, though uncertainly, been associated with Sir Henry Wotton, see WoH 175-198.
  
  George Herbert, On the death of Mr. Barker of Hammon, and his wife who dyed both together ('Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds')
- HoJ 307 f. 12r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed J: H:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, p. 302.
  
  John Hoskyns, 'He that hath heard a princes Secrecy'
- HrG 319 f. 15v
  
  Copy, subscribed G: H: 1618.
  
  The text followed on f. 16 by an English version (see HrG 318).
  
  An untitled eight-line poem on the visit of Frederick, the Elector Palatine, to the University of Cambridge. First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 416. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 102-3.
  
  George Herbert, Lucus, XXV. Roma. Anagr. ('Roma, tuum nomen quam non pertransijt Oram')
- RaW 367 f. 18r
  
  Copy, untitled and here beginning Here Hobbinoll lies our shepheard whilere.
  
  First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.
  Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')
- CoR 405 f. 19v
  
  Copy, headed The Deane of Christs-Church to Marquesse of Buckingham and subscribed Christs-church this present newyeares day 1621 Rich: Corbett..
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72, 143.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.
  
  Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')
- CoR 267 f. 20r
  
  Copy, headed Ad Authorem..., subscribed D^r: C:.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
  The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
- HoJ 283 ff. 20r-1v
  
  Copy, headed John Hoskins new=yeares-gift to the Kings Ma^ty:, subscribed J: H:.
  
  This MS cited in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).
  
  John Hoskyns, Jacobo Magnæ Britanniæ Regi Maximo, Clementissimo ('Jam mihi bis centum fluxere in carcere noctes')
- HoJ 211 ff. 21r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS cited in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIII (pp. 205-6). Whitlock, pp. 483-4.
  
  John Hoskyns, The same in English ('An hundred nights twice told are come & gone')
- BmF 37 ff. 22r-3v
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed ff: B:.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.
  
  Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep')
- BmF 10 ff. 24r-5r
  
  Copy, untitled, subscribed F: B:.
  
  First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
  
  Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')
- BcF 459 f. 26r-v
  
  Copy of a submission.
  
  The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
  
  Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
- HoJ 221 f. 27r-8r
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Great Verulam is very lame, the gout of go=out feeling, subscribed ffranciscan Martir.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.
  
  John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling')
- RaW 401.2 f. 28r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
- RaW 894 ff. 31r-4r
  
  Copies of two letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Lady Ralegh.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
- WoH 206 f. 44r-v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq. The text accompanied by two Latin versions.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour ('Dazzled thus with the height of place')
- ElQ 269 ff. 72r-4r
  
  Copy of Version II, in a professional rounded hand, headed Queen Elizabeths Speech to her last Parliam^t 29 October 1601.
  
  This MS cited (as his 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).
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Harley MS 6054

A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands over a period, much in a small cursive hand, 50 leaves, in quarter-morocco gilt.

Probably compiled in part by Edmund Killingworth (of Winchester College and New College, Oxford).
Late 17th-early 18th century.
Discussed in Hilton Kelliher, Dryden Attributions and Texts from Harley MS. 6054, BLJ, 25.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-22, with facsimiles of ff. 20r and 27r on pp. 4 and 10.
- RoJ 126.3 f. 12v
  
  Copy.
  
  Cited in Kelliher, p. 14.
  
  First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy')
- DrJ 222.1 f. 23r
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy on y^e Visc^t Dundee, following the Latin version by Archibald Pitcairne and a translation of it.
  
  Edited from this MS in Kelliher, pp. 15-16.
  
  First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.
  
  John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')
- ClJ 87 f. 24r
  
  Extract, lines 63-4, followed by Latin translations Translated by M^r Redman several wayes.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.
  
  John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot ('How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?')
- DeJ 7.4 f. 24v
  
  Extract, followed by a Latin translation.
  
  First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.
  
  Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill ('Sure there are Poets which did never dream')
- BcF 54.9 f. 32v
  
  Copy of the twelve-line version, headed on the Death of the D of R: by J. Elyot.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
  
  Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
- DrW 177.12 f. 34v
  
  Copy of a version, headed An Epitaph upon the late Lord Chancelor, here beginning Im'odest death, that woul'st not once confer.
  
  First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
  
  William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table ('Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre')
- DoC 85.5 f. 35v
  
  Copy, headed Epit: on H: Savile by the Lord Buckhurst, over a bottle upon Savils bragging of his mighty performances with the ladies.
  
  A six-line satirical epitaph on Henry Savile (1642-87), courtier and diplomat. Unpublished.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Epit: on H: Savile ('Under this stone')
- RoJ 154.5 f. 35v
  
  Extract, lines 40-3, here beginning Love y^e most generous passion of the mind, headed E: of Rochest^r.
  
  First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
- BuS 0.6 f. 36r
  
  Extract.
  
  Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).
  
  Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')
Harley MS 6056

A quarto composite volume of MS and printed state tracts and speeches, the MSS in two hands, 72 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
- CtR 113 ff. 1r-3r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as Written by S^r Robert Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague. Anno 1621, subscribed R. C. B.
  
  Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by S^r Rob: Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague An^o Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can.... First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature
Harley MS 6057

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:) to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.
c.1630s [-1670s].
- CwT 648 ff. 2r-4r
  
  Copy, subscribed Th: Ca:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
- JnB 11 f. 4v
  
  Copy of lines 11-30, headed Songe and here beginning Doe but loke on her eyes they doe delight, subscribed B: J:.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
  
  Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
- JnB 572.5 f. 4v
  
  Copy, headed Song on his Mrs Gloue, subscribed B: J:.
  
  Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, IV, iii, 305-16. Song ('Thou more then most sweet gloue')
- RnT 225 ff. 5v-6v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge ('Lament, lament, ye Scholars all')
- KiH 678 ff. 6v-7r
  
  Copy, headed The mournfull partinge of two Lovers Caused by the disproportion of estates, subscribed T: Car.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.
  
  Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
- CwT 1245 f. 7v
  
  Copy, subscribed ^{Th: Car}.
  
  This MS collated in Dunalp; recorded in Hazlitt, p. 69.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris ('To her whose beautie doth excell')
- CwT 1149 f. 8r
  
  Copy, headed To a Lady that had resemblance of my m^rs..
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 33.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
  
  Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
- CwT 499 f. 8r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed Th: C:.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.
  
  Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse ('This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares')
- RaW 329 f. 9r
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Passions are likned unto floods & streames, subscribed Th: C:.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.
  
  First published, prefixed to Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart (see RaW 500-42) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.
  For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen ('Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames')
- CwT 77 f. 9r
  
  Copy, headed Vppon his Mistres, subscribed T: C:.
  
  First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
- PoW 25 ff. 9v-10r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon blacke haire, subscribed Ben Johnson.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- CwT 898 f. 10r
  
  Copy, headed A Charming Beauty, subscribed Th: C:.
  
  This MS (erroneously cited as Harley MS 4057) recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.
  
  First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
- KiH 716 ff. 11v-12v
  
  Copy, headed To his vnconstant M^rs:, subscribed Th: Ca..
  
  Edited from this MS in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. 101-3; recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.
  
  Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')
- CwT 110 ff. 12v-13v
  
  Copy, headed Loues Complement, subscribed Th: Ca:.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 262.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Complement ('O my deerest I shall grieve thee')
- WoH 233 f. 14r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Good night to the world, subscribed H: Kinge.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson.
  
  First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
- KiH 441 f. 14v
  
  Copy headed on the Misery of man, subscribed H: Kinge.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
  
  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
- RaW 252 f. 14v
  
  Copy, headed On the brevity of mans life.
  
  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.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- BcF 54.15 f. 15v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the Duke of Richmond.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
  
  Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
- BcF 20 f. 17r-v
  
  Copy headed On the misery of man.
  
  First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
  
  Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
- StW 888 f. 18r
  
  Copy, headed An ode.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.
  
  William Strode, Song ('O when will Cupid shew such Art')
- RaW 518 f. 18r
  
  Copy, headed An ode, subscribed S^r Walter Rawleigh.
  
  This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see RaW 320-38) and headed To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).
  This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart'
- WoH 26 f. 18r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  NO NOT HERE DELETE
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')
- JnB 491 ff. 18v-19r
  
  Copy, headed M^r: Johnson to Inigo Joanes Marques Wouldbe, subscribed Ben: Johnson.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.
  
  Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary ('But cause thou hearst y^e mighty k. of Spaine')
- JnB 477 f. 19r
  
  Copy, headed An Epigram vpon him to his freind, subscribed Ben: Johnson.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.
  
  Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him ('S^r Inigo doth feare it as I heare')
- JnB 526 f. 19v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon kinge Charles his Birth daie, sunscribed Ben 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 (lxii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 249.
  
  Ben Jonson, To the King. On his Birth-day. An Epigram Anniversarie ('This is King Charles his Day. Speake it, thou Towre')
- JnB 74 f. 20r
  
  Copy, headed An Epigram on S^r Kellum to my Muse, subscribed Ben: 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 (lxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 262-3.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Epigram To my Mvse, the Lady Digby, on her Husband, Sir Kenelme Digby ('Tho', happy Muse, thou know my Digby well')
- JnB 83 f. 20v
  
  Copy, subscribed Ben 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 (lix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 232-3.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Epigram. To William Earle of Newcastle ('They talke of Fencing. and the use of Armes')
- JnB 206 ff. 21v-2v
  
  Copy, headed The Minde, subscribed Ben Johnson.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.
  
  Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
- RaW 444 ff. 22v-3r
  
  Copy, headed S^r Walter Rawleighes Pilgrimage, subscribed S^r: walter Rawleigh.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.
  
  First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).
  This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage ('Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet')
- RnT 130 ff. 24r-5r
  
  Copy, headed To his ffather M^r: Beniamin Johnson vpon his Adoption and here beginning I am not born to Hellicon nor dare, subscribed Tho: Randolphe.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son ('I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare')
- RnT 85 ff. 25r-7v
  
  Copy, headed An Eglouge To his worthy ffather M^r: Ben: Johnson vnder the Persons of Titerus and Damon, subscribed Tho: Rand.
  
  This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue to Mr Johnson ('Under this Beech why sit'st thou here so sad')
- HrJ 279.2 f. 27v
  
  Copy, headed On the refusall of a learned wife and here beginning You wishe mee to a wife thats faire and younge.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
- CmT 164 ff. 28v-9r
  
  Copy, headed A Songe and here beginning Young and tender though I am.
  
  This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-6.
  
  First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Young and simple though I am'
- CwT 1204 f. 30v
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet and here beginning The Silken wreath that Circles in my Arme.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
  
  Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband ('This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme')
- JnB 129 f. 30v
  
  Copy, headed on M^rs. Bowlstred and here beginning Wilt thou here what man can say, subscribed Ben Johnson.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ('Would'st thou heare, what man can say')
- RnT 277 ff. 31r-3r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship ('Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet')
- JnB 110 f. 33r
  
  Copy, headed on the death of m^rs. Bowlstred.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  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.
  
  Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] ('Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such')
- DnJ 1563 f. 33v-4r
  
  Copy of three stanzas.
  
  This MS recorded in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.
  
  John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany ('In what torne ship soever I embarke')
- B&F 87 f. 34r
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet.
  
  Dyce, VI, 179-80. Bullen, III, 183. Bowers, V, 66-7.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 24-41. Song ('Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below')
- FlJ 7 f. 34r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed J. F.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dyce.
  
  First published in Dyce (1843), I, liii-liv.
  
  John Fletcher, A Sonnet ('Come, sorrow, come! bring all thy cries')
- B&F 45 f. 34v
  
  Copy of Charles's song, headed An ode, subscribed John Fletcher.
  
  Dyce, X, 248-9; Bullen, II, 57-8.
  
  First published in London, 1637. Dyce, X, 197-292. Bullen, II, 1-100, ed. W.W. Greg. Bowers, IX, 469-545, ed. Fredson Bowers.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Elder Brother
- KiH 199 f. 35r
  
  Copy, headed on the death of S^r: Walter Rawleighe.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
- CwT 1279 f. 35r-v
  
  Copy, headed On a faire Lady that wore in her brest a wounded hart Carved in a pretious stone.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.
  
  Thomas Carew, The mistake ('When on faire Celia I did spie')
- B&F 21 f. 36v
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed W. S.
  
  Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song ('Take o take those lipps away')
- StW 1243 ff. 36v-7v
  
  Copy, headed on a greate hollowe tree.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.
  
  William Strode, Westwell Elme ('Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree')
- BrW 31 f. 38r-v
  
  Copy of lines 1-78, headed On the death of his Mistres.
  
  First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy ('Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws')
- HeR 310 ff. 42r-3r
  
  Copy, subscribed R: W.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hazlitt, II, 433-6. Martin, pp. 404-6. Patrick, pp. 549-51.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Descripcion: of a Woman ('Whose head befringed with bescattered tresses')
- RnT 265 ff. 43v-4r
  
  Copy, headed On an Empty Purse, subscribed Tho: Randall.
  
  This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 127-8.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A parley with his empty Purse ('Purse, who'l not know you have a Poets been')
- CwT 392 f. 45r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Powell, p. 290.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap, p. 131.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Ladies prayer to Cupid ('Since I must needes into thy schoole returne')
- PeW 230 ff. 48r-v
  
  Copy of the shorter version, headed A Songe and here beginning Nay pish, nay pue, nay faith and will you fye.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
  A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie, was first published, as A Maids Denyall, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
- RnT 450 f. 48v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parry (1917), pp. 231-2. Omitted in Thorn-Drury.
  
  Thomas Randolph, The City of London ('O fortunate Citie reioyce in thy Fate')
- RoJ 282 ff. 60r-2v
  
  Copy of lines 1-138 in two hands, headed in a third hand Lord Rochester. c.1670s.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park ('Much wine had passed, with grave discourse')
Harley MS 6071

A folio volume of genealogies, in a single secretary hand, with an Index (ff. 2r-7r) and two leaves tipped-in at the end, 277 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) Jacobus Locke apprentice de la Ley in Grayes Inn dedit mihi chartaceum hoc amoris erga me...20^o: July...Ani: 1642 / Ita Testor Robert Appleton. Also inscribed (f. 1r) by Wanley Bought of M^r Noel. 7 July 1716.
- HoJ 300 f. 16v
  
  Copy of the Latin version only, introduced ...Serjeant Hoskins after sermon sent the Preacher [M^r Herne Vicar of Henly] these verses.
  
  This MS cited in Osborn.
  
  The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).
  
  John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince ('Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras')
Harley MS 6083

A composite volume of papers of Sir Charles Cavendish (1591-1654).
- *HbT 137 f. 85v
  Autograph
  
  Fragment of an autograph letter by Hobbes, to Sir Charles Cavendish, [from Paris], [late September 1649].
  
  Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 776, Letter 62A.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
- HbT 74 f. 177r-v
  
  Copy of part of a treatise Of Passions, here beginning They are in generall the beginnings or endeuoures to animal motion…, subscribed parte of M^r: Hobbes his answeare to my brothers quaeres, in the hand of Sir Charles Cavendish.
  
  Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 41. This MS quoted in part in Jean Jacquot, Sir Charles Cavendish and his Learned Friends, Annals of Science, 8 (1952), 13-27, 175-91 (p. 189).
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, Of Passions
- HbT 16 ff. 194r-211v, 71r-4v
  
  Notes, with summaries and extracts, on an early version of the work, in the hand of Sir Charles Cavendish.
  
  Part of this MS printed in Jean Jacquot, Un document inédit: les notes de Charles Cavendish sur la première version du De corpore de Hobbes, Thalès, 8 (1952), 33-86. Discussed and collated in part in Arrigo Pacchi, Ruggero Bacone e Roberto Grossatesta in un inedito Hobbesiano del 1634, Rivista critica di storia della filosofia, 20 (1965), pp. 15, 18-23, and in Jacquot & Jones (1973), pp. 83-8, 461-513.
  
  First published in London, 1655. Molesworth, Latin, I, 1-431.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, Elementorum philosophiae: sectio prima, de corpore
Harley MS 6143

A folio volume of verse and prose, much relating to the Marquess of Buckingham and to a proposed Royal Academy, in a single rounded hand, 36 leaves (plus blanks), in modern mottled calf gilt.
c.1620s.
- BeJ 39 f. 16r
  
  Copy, subscribed John Beaumont.
  
  Edited from this MS in Sell.
  
  First published in Ethel M. Portall, The Academ Roial of King James I, Proceedings of the British Academy, 1915-1916, pp. 189-208. Sell, pp. 176-7.
  
  Sir John Beaumont, To my Lord Marquess of Buckingham. Concerning the Academ of Honor [1621] ('My Lord the hart that loves you must have leave')
Harley MS 6166

A large folio volume of antiquarian and heraldic tracts and papers, with a two tables of contents in other hands, 158 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

The first 31 items, in a neat roman hand, are transcribed from collections of Francis Thynne, now British Library Add. MS 11388.
- MrT 92 ff. 1r-20r
  
  Copy, entitled The lyfe of S^r Thomas Moore K^nt written by William Roper Esq^r. who marryed Margarett Daughter of y^e sayd S^r Thomas, This William liued at Eltham, & dyed about. &c., subscribed Finis. 26^o Maij. 1598.
  
  This MS collated in Hitchcock and briefly described, pp. xii-xiii.
  
  First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).
  
  Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More
Harley MS 6177

Copy of the abridged version, in the single neat hand of Henry Fisher, 120 tall folio leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century morocco gilt.

With a formal title-page: A Summary Of the Lives of the Veteriponts, Cliffords & Earles of Cumberland And of the Ladye Anne Countess Dowager of Pembroke, Dorsett, And Montgomery, & Daughter & Heir to George Clifford Earl of Cumberland, in whom y^e Name of the Said Cliffords Determined! Copied from y^e Originall Manuscript y^e 29^th, of December, 1737. by Henry Fisher.
1737.
Edited from this MS in Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of her parents summarized by herself, ed. J.P. Gilson (London, Roxburghe Club, 1916). Facsimile, with transcription, of p. 164, in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 280-1.
- CdA 2
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Lady Anne Clifford, The Great Books of Lady Anne Clifford
Harley MS 6191

Copy, in a single professional hand, untitled, in mottled calf with initials M. B. in gilt on each cover.
c.1620s-30s.
- RaW 578
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
Harley MS 6193

A folio volume, in the neat roman hand of Sir William Haward, FRS (c.1617-1704), of Tandridge Hall, Surrey, courtier and antiquary, 290 pages, in contemporary calf gilt within modern half-morocco gilt.
c.1658-67.
- HrJ 265 f. iii^r
  
  Copy, in Haward's hand, untitled, subscribed S^r Ioⁿ. Harrington.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')
- LeJ 33.5 The MS as a whole
  
  Copy of parts of the Collectanea, in Haward's hand, entitled in another hand (f. ii^r) Lelands Commentaries of England, with Latin verses on Leland by John Bale and John Pits (f. iv^r).
  
  Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980) as LeJ 28.
  
  John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]
Harley MS 6207

A quarto composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 152 leaves, in modern half-calf gilt.
- BrN 112 ff. 14r-22r
  
  Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled, with a dedication to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, subscribed Nicholas Breton. Early 17th century.
  
  Edited from this MS in Nichols and in Grosart, II (v). Mistakenly described as autograph in Grosart and in Robertson, p. cxv.
  
  A prose character, beginning In the yere of o^r Lord 1534: Sept: 7: in the pallace of Greenw^ch.... First published in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, III (London, 1805).
  
  Nicholas Breton, Character of Queen Elizabeth
- HbT 33 ff. 71r-101v
  
  Copy, with a title-page, as By Tho: Hobbes, with the dedication to the Marquess of Newcastle, in a professional hand, on 31 quarto leaves; imperfect at the end.
  
  Probably the MS once owned by Thomas Rawlinson. Ballard's sale, 4 March 1733/4, lot 725.
  
  First published in London, 1654. Molesworth, English, IV, 229-78.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, Of Liberty and Necessity
Harley MS 6208

Composite volume of theological works.
1575.
- MrT 42 ff. 43r-50r
  
  This MS collated in Yale.
  
  First published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1264-9. Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 189-204.
  
  Sir Thomas More, A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Body
Harley MS 6211

MS.
- WaE 715.5 f. 101r-v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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.
  
  Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
Harley MS 6241

A folio composite volume of tracts relating to the dispute about Impositions, in several hands, 175 leaves, in modern crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
c.1638.
- DaJ 265.8 ff. 1*^r-1v
  
  Copy of only a title-page and list of contents in a roman hand and Davies's dedicatory epistle to King James I in a stylish secretary hand, lacking any further text.
  
  A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely.... First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
  
  Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions
Harley MS 6242
- RaW 895 f. 90r
  
  Copy of a letter by Ralegh.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Harley MS 6253

Copy, in one or possibly two professional secretary hands, with a title-page in roman script The life and death of S^r Thomas Moore knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England Written in the tyme of Queene Marie, 109 leaves (plus blanks etc.), in panelled calf gilt.
Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Hitchcock & Chambers and briefly described, pp. xviii-xix.
- MrT 74
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, as The life and death of S^r Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England...by Nicholas Harpsfield (EETS, London, 1932).
  
  Sir Thomas More, Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More
Harley MS 6254

Copy, closely written in a secretary hand, untitled and unascribed, 47 folio pages (plus blanks), in modern panelled calf.
Late 16th century.
Edited principally from this MS in Hitchcock and briefly described, p.xi.
- MrT 93
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).
  
  Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More
Harley MS 6255

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings and speeches, 1623-8, in a single professional secretary hand, with a table of contents (ff. 2*^r-5*^r), 731 pages, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
c.1630.
Inscribed (f. [i^r]) Humfry Burton.
- CtR 163 pp. 191-212
  
  Copy, docketed in the margin S^r R: Cotton and dated 10 March 1627.
  
  Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
- RuB 43 pp. 442-7
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiard his speech vpon receipt of his Ma^t^es answere to the last Peticon.
  
  Speech beginning The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628
- RuB 63 pp. 482-90
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiard speech in the house of Commons Aprill 28^o 1628.
  
  Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
- HlJ 22.6 pp. 493-5
  
  Copy, headed The Bishopp of Exceters ler to the Parliament.
  
  Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.
  
  Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
- RuB 32 pp. 307-8
  
  Copy, headed s^r Beniamin Ruddiard.
  
  Speech beginning Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8
Harley MS 6257

Presentation copy, on 240 folio leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

For Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), antiquary and politician; written at least partly in the accomplished italic script of Howard's principal amanuensis; with a formal title-page in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) including an autograph quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the arms of Cotton in watercolours (f. 1v) subscribed by ten autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard (f. 1v); a Dedication To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestye in italic script on ff. 2r-26v, with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard and his three-line subscription; the main text, possibly in one or more other hands, in a predominantly secretary script, after a blank leaf (f. 27r-v), on ff. 28r-240v, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 134r) and third book (f. 165r).
Late 16th century - 1613.
The title-page subscribed by the heavily deleted name or signature of Sir Robert Cotton and then the inscription Ex dono Henrici Comitis Northamptoni 1613. The name N: Boothe inscribed on f. 2*^v. Harleian inscription Oxford, BH Oct. 18. 1738. on f. 1r.
This volume was evidently lent by Cotton to the merchant and antiquary Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628) before 23 April 1621 (recorded in his loan register Harley MS 6018, f. 150r, and recorded as item 47 in Starkey's own list of his MSS, Harley MS 537, ff. 82r-3v). It presumably remained in Starkey's collections which were purchased after his death by Sir Simonds D'Ewes.
- *HoH 74
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's railing invective against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign …; the main text, in three books, beginning It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge …, and ending … Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.
  
  Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women
Harley MS 6265

A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in several secretary hands, 124 leaves, in modern mottled calf gilt.
Early 17th century.
- BcF 204.5 ff. 25r-7r
  
  Copy of ten essays, in a professional secretary hand, with no general heading, beginning with Studies, Essayes.
  
  Kiernan, p. lv.
  
  Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
  
  Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
- EsR 167 ff. 115r-17r
  
  Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed The Earle of Essex advise to the Earle of Rutland in his Jorny, and dated Jan: 4:.
  
  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.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
Harley MS 6266

A large folio volume comprising works principally by John Leland, almost all in the formal roman hand of Sir William Haward, FRS (c.1617-1704), of Tandridge Hall, Surrey, courtier and antiquarye, with light rubrication, 323 large folio leaves (plus blanks), in remains of contemporary calf gilt within modern half morocco gilt.
c.1658-67.
- LeJ 94 ff. 5r-7r
  
  Copy, in Haward's hand, headed Iohn Leylands new-yeres-gyft, giuen of him to King Henry y^e. 8th in y^e. 37^th yeere of his Reigne, concerning his laborious Iorney, & search for Englands Antiquities.
  
  First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.
  
  John Leland, The Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johan Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees
- LeJ 63 ff. 8r-323r
  
  Copy of nine books, in Hawarth's hand, entitled in red ink (f. 8v) Johis Lelandi Itinerarium, a list of contents (f. 2r); in another neat hand, a formal title-page (f. 3r), Latin verses (f. 3v), and Latin verses on Leland by John Bale and John Pitts (f. 8r); ff. 263r-323r comprising Divers Passages omitted in the Copy in the Oxford Library transcribed out of Stows Copy in the Custody of M^r Robert Vaughan of Henwrt in Merioneth; with (ff. 260r-2v) a copy of William Dugdale's index dated 15 July 1657.
  
  This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxviii-xxix.
  
  John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Dugdale transcript]
Harley MS 6273

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, in several professional hands, 174 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
- RaW 654 ff. 128r-38r
  
  Copy, in a mixed hand, imperfect, a large part torn away.
  
  A tract beginning To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Match between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont
- RaW 629 ff. 139r-50v
  
  Copy, in one or possibly two mixed hands, subscribed Walter Rawley.
  
  A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
- RaW 1091 ff. 151r-63r
  
  Copy.
  
  A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past.... First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.
  Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, Who is the author of the tract intitled Some observations touching trade with the Hollander?, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander
Harley MS 6274

A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 280 leaves, in half red morocco gilt.
- RaW 613 ff. 149r-85v
  
  Copy, in a rounded hand, with a title-page (f. 149r) in faded red ink, as Written by S^r. Walter Rawleigh / Never Expos'd to the Public. Late 17th century.
  
  A tract beginning The ordinary theme and argument of history is war.... First published (in part), as The Misery of Invasive Warre, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War
- HaG 50 ff. 186r-91r
  
  Copy, in a professional hand (the same as in HaG 49 and HaG 51), on eleven folio pages. c.1690s.
  
  This MS collated in Brown, I, 309-14.
  
  First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.
  
  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea
Harley MS 6285

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on 12 folio leaves.
Late 16th century.
- PtG 4.4
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning There hath not happened since the memorie of man…. First published, as A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.
  
  George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown
Harley MS 6287

A folio composite volume of naval papers.
Late 17th century.
- PpS 9 ff. 48r-57r
  
  Copy, in a professional hand, headed M^r: Pepys Letter and New yeares Gift to his Hon^rle Friend S^r. William Coventry, on ten folio leaves.
  
  This MS recorded in Tanner (1929).
  
  First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.
  
  Samuel Pepys, The Pursers Employ Annatomized and both Advantages & disadvantages therein discovered and also A Proposall of comitting the Victualling accompt to the care and management of each Comander. Presented as a New yeares guift to S^r: William Coventry by Samuel Pepys Esqr in 1665
Harley MS 6314

Folio, 18 leaves.

Copy in a scribal hand of a tract by Rafael Micoleta on the language of Vizcaya, 1653 (ff. 1-15), followed by passages in Sir Thomas Browne's hand on The Lords prayer in the cantabrian, visayna or present Bascuenza Languadge out of paulus merula cosmographie part 2 lib 2 (f. 16), The Apostles creed in the same Languadge (f. 17) and (following a pasage in Icelandic in another hand, ?that of the rev. Theodore Jonas) The Lords prayer in the present languadge of Island (f. 18).

The volume later owned by Sir Thomas Browne's grandson by marriage, Owen Brigstocke (1679-1746).

This MS briefly discussed in Keynes, III, 83, and in N.J. Endicott, Sir Thomas Browne, Montpellier, and the tract Of Languages, TLS (24 August 1962), p. 645. This MS corresponds to Folio item 7 in the Rawlinson Catalogue of Browne's MSS printed in Wilkin, IV, 467.
- *BrT 27
  Autograph
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea
Harley MS 6346

A folio volume of the words of anthems used in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall, compiled from Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 23.
c.1660s-70s.
- KiH 486 f. 16r-v
  
  Copy, apparently transcribed from KiH 485.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.
  
  Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne ('Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes')
- CwT 608.2 pp. 149-50
  
  Copy, apparently transcribed from CwT 607.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 180-1. Dunlap. pp. 138-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, Psalme 91 ('Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell')
Harley MS 6353

A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 194 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
- BcF 282 ff. 72v-9v
  
  Copy, in a small secretary hand, untitled and unascribed. Early 17th century.
  
  Edited partly from this MS in Spedding.
  
  First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.
  
  Francis Bacon, A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain
- RaW 762 ff. 80r-6r
  
  Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed The Sume of S^r walter Raleigh his speetch att his execution in the olde pallace att westm^r the 29^th of october .1618. & in y^e sixteenth yere of his Ma^ties Raigne, as followeth. c.1620s-30s.
  
  Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
- BcF 298.5 ff. 151r-8r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  First published in Opuscula varia, ed. William Rawley (London, 1658). Spedding, VI, 281-303. His translation pp. 305-18.
  
  Francis Bacon, In felicem memoriam Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae
Harley MS 6356

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous historical and theological tracts and sermons, 494 leaves, in calf gilt.

Written in various professional hands.

The sermons by Donne on ff. 118r-43v have a preliminary leaf, f. 117r, bearing the inscription Donum honoratissimæ & amicissimæ foeminæ Annae Sadleir: i.e. the gift of the literary patron Anne Sadleir (née Coke) (1585-1671/2), aunt of Herbert Aston. The volume later owned, and a table of contents added, by the Yorkshire antiquary Abraham Pryme (1671-1704).

This MS volume discussed in Jeanne Shami, New Manuscript Texts of Sermons by John Donne, EMS, 13: New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts (2006), 77-119.
For Anne Sadleir, see Arnold Hunt, The Books, Library, and Literary Patronage of Mrs. Anne Sadleir (1585-1670), in Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium, ed. Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson (Aldershot, 2004), pp. 205-36.
- DnJ 4008.5 ff. 118r-31v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a few corrections possibly in another hand. c.1620s.
  
  This MS text identified and discussed in Shami.
  
  First published in Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634). Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 35. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 8, pp. 180-96.
  
  John Donne, Sermon preached February 21 [1618/19], on Matthew 21.44
- DnJ 4000.5 ff. 132r-43v
  
  Copy, in two professional hands (changing on f. 134r), the first the same as DnJ 4008.5.
  
  This MS text identified and discussed, with a facsimile of ff. 133v-4r, showing the change of hand, in Shami.
  
  First published in Sapientia Clamitans (London, 1638). XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 13. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 11, pp. 235-49.
  
  John Donne, A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619, on Ecclesiastes 12.1
Harley MS 6362

Copy, in an accomplished secretary hand, with some rubrication, and with a title-page The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore sometyme Chancellor of Englande written by the sonne in lawe Williame Roper of Eltham in the countye of Kent Esquier, subscribed January. 4. 1602. Ætat suæ 24, 48 quarto leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.
c.1600.
Inscribed (f. 1v) in a later hand Sir W^m Strickland Bar^t a descendant from Sir Th: More had another Copy of the following Life very similar to this, with a pencil annotation Autograph of Joseph Planta Esqr: i.e. Joseph Planta (1744-1827), principal librarian of the British Mueum.

Collated in Hitchcock and briefly described, pp. xi-xii.
- MrT 94
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).
  
  Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More
Harley MS 6377

Copy, in a single mixed hand, ten quarto leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
c.1620s-30s.
- WoH 272.5
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
Harley MS 6383

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, occupying ff. 25r-79v, the second of three independent MSS in different hands (including extracts from Hayward's Henry IV and from Sir Edwin Sandys, and parliamentary proceedings 1623/4), in a composite volume, 141 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare.
Mid-17th century.
Discussed in Andrew McRae, Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (Cambridge, 2004), 42, and Thomas Cogswell, The Symptomes and Vapors of a Diseased Time: the Earl of Clare and Early Stuart Manuscript Culture, RES, NS 57 (2006), 310-336. The parliamentary proceedings published in Christopher Thompson, editor, The Holles Account of Proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624 (Orsett, Essex, 1985).
- RnT 555 ff. 25v-7r
  
  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.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire')
- CaE 19 ff. 27v-8r
  
  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.
  
  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
- CoR 8 f. 29r-v
  
  Copy, headed Verses made of the Lower house of Parlement 1628. supposed by D^r. Corbett bishop of Oxford at y^t time.
  
  First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.
  Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')
- RnT 319 ff. 32r-3r
  
  Copy, headed Randolphs verses to S^r. Kellam Digby.
  
  First published in The Jealous Lovers (Cambridge, 1632). Hazlitt, I, 57-8.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To that complete and noble Knight Sir Kenellam Digby ('Sir, when I look on you, methinks I see')
- RnT 320 f. 33r
  
  Copy, headed Randolphs verses to S^r. Christopher Hatton.
  
  First published in The Jealous Lovers (Cambridge, 1632). Hazlitt, I, 58-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To the truly noble Knight Sir Chr. Hatton ('To you (whose recreations, sir, might be')
- DnJ 3086.8 ff. 41r-2r
  
  Copy, headed The description of a storme by Doctor Donne.
  
  First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
  
  John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
- DnJ 570.5 ff. 42v-3r
  
  Copy, headed Doctor Donnes verses of a calme.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
  
  John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
- CoA 54 f. 50r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed A. Cowley.
  
  Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Waller.
  
  First published in Grosart (1881), I, cxxxix-cxl. Waller, II, 483.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Coolyes verses uppon my Lady Elisabeth birth on Christmas euen 1635 ('Your picture mighty P. ingrau'd in gould')
- CoR 523 f. 62r-v
  
  Copy, headed Corbett y^e Bishop of Oxfords verses of Prince Charles his birth, 1630 endorsed by my Lo. his Foolish & Episcopall verses.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.
  
  Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')
- SuJ 201 f. 70r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
  
  John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse ('I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King')
- SuJ 221 f. 70v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
  
  John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer ('I tell thee foole who'ere thou be')
- JnB 250.5 ff. 73r-5r
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnsons expostulation with Inigo Jones inuectiue against him.
  
  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon w^th Inigo Iones ('Mr Suruey^r, you y^t first begann')
- JnB 491.5 f. 75r-v
  
  Copy, as by Ben Johnson.
  
  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.
  
  Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary ('But cause thou hearst y^e mighty k. of Spaine')
- JnB 477.5 ff. 75v-6r
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnsons epigram of Inigo Jones, to a frend, subscribed Ben Jonson.
  
  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.
  
  Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him ('S^r Inigo doth feare it as I heare')
- JnB 74.5 f. 76r-v
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnsons epigram on S^r. Kenelm Digby. To my Muse.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 262-3.
  
  Ben Jonson, An Epigram To my Mvse, the Lady Digby, on her Husband, Sir Kenelme Digby ('Tho', happy Muse, thou know my Digby well')
- CoR 196 ff. 76v-7r
  
  Copy, headed Corbett Bishop of Oxfords verses on D^r. Donne late Deane of Powles.
  
  First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee')
Harley MS 6389

A quarto composite volume of annotated printed tracts and miscellaneous MS verse and prose, in at least two cursive hands, 94 leaves, in mottled calf (rebacked).
c.1700s.
- SeC 121 ff. 49r-50v
  
  Copy of S^r Charles Sidlyes Speech in Parliam^t. On y^e Bill for Disbanding y^e Army Anno 1699, beginning I hope my behavio^r in this house has put Mee above y^e censure of one who w^d obstruct his Ma^ties affairs....
  
  Seven speeches in The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, [London, 1702], pp. 1-21 (second pagination). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 225-38.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, Speeches
- SeC 122 ff. 80v-2r
  
  Copy of S^r Charles Sidleys Speech in y^e House of Commons made on the Bill for raiseing Monnyes for the civill Lists in y^e first of y^e Reigne of W^m y^e 3^d, beginning We have pvided for ye Army. We have pvided for ye Navy....
  
  Seven speeches in The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, [London, 1702], pp. 1-21 (second pagination). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 225-38.
  
  Sir Charles Sedley, Speeches
Harley MS 6396

An octavo miscellany, 47 leaves, the greater part (ff. 1r-26, 42r-5v) in a single small mixed hand, with other hands on ff. 27r-41r, including a Catalogus Librorum on ff. 29v-40r, and accounts c.1705 on ff. 46v-7r, in black morocco gilt.

Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge.
c.1639-43.
Inscribed (f. 1*^v) Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto.
- RaW 252.5 f. 1r
  
  Copy of a version headed Mans life and beginning Mans life is like a play of passion.
  
  First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
- RnT 386 ff. 1v-2r
  
  Copy, headed On a finger cutt off.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger ('Arithmetique nine digits, and no more')
- DaJ 187.5 f. 9r
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on an infant and here beginning As carefull nurses to their beds doe lay.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
  
  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
- StW 798 f. 9r
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman walking in the 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).
  
  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
- CoR 614 f. 9v
  
  Copy, headed To the Ladyes with new dresse.
  
  Edited from this MS in Gilchrist, p. 233.
  
  First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
  This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes')
- GrJ 29 f. 10r
  
  Copy, headed The Ladies answere.
  
  An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.
  
  John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night'
- SuJ 114 f. 14r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.
  Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman ('I am confirm'd a woman can')
- ClJ 24 ff. 15r-16r
  
  Copy, headed A dialogue betweene two Zelots, concerning Acetera in the new oath, subscribed Finis. M^r Cleaveland.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
  
  John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')
- HrJ 232.5 f. 17r
  
  Copy, untitled, here beginning Six of the weaker sex but purer sect.
  
  First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches ('Six of the weakest sex and purest sect')
- RnT 587 ff. 18r-19r
  
  Copy, headed On D^ctr Butts…163i.
  
  Tentatively attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1927), p. 113.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Verses upon the Vicechaun: pulling downe ye signes ('The Vicechauncelour doth like y^e sunne appeare')
- DnJ 1762.5 f. 19v
  
  Copy, heade On a cripple and here beginning I cannot goe nor stand the Cripple cryes.
  
  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.
  
  John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
- HrJ 279.5 f. 20v
  
  Copy, headed On a learned wife and here beginning You wish to me a wife thats faire & younge.
  
  First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
- RnT 107.5 f. 21v
  
  Copy of The Epitaph, headed Epitaph on a fayre woman and beginning Beauty it selfe lyes here in whom alone.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.
  
  Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby ('Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee')
- CoA 146 f. 22v
  
  Copy, headed The Prologue at Trin: Coll: 1641, unascribed.
  
  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).
  
  Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian ('Who says the Times do Learning disallow?')
- CoA 75 ff. 22v-3r
  
  Copy, unascribed.
  
  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).
  
  Abraham Cowley, The Epilogue [to the Guardian] ('The Play, great Sir, is done. yet needs must fear')
- ClJ 102 ff. 24r-5v
  
  Copy, subscribed J. C.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.
  
  John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines ('Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start')
Harley MS 6401

Copy, in two professional secretary hands, unascribed, 64 quarto leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
c.1592-early 17th century.
This MS collated in Spedding.
- BcF 139
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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.
  
  Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
Harley MS 6451

A small octavo pocketbook of miscellaneous tracts, in a single small italic hand, 57 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum within modern quarter morocco.
Early 17th century.
- CtR 399 ff. 1r-20r
  
  Copy, headed A short viewe of Henry the thirde his Reygne, unascribed.
  
  Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Harley MS 6463

A quarto volume comprising two works by Francis Bacon, in professional hands of amanuenses and bearing his autograph revisions, a list of contents at the beginning covering both works also in his hand, 73 pages, in modern speckled calf gilt.
c.1603-8.
Facsimiles of the list of contents in Spedding, III, frontispiece; in J.G. Crowther, Francis Bacon: The First Statesman of Science (London, 1960), after p. 48; and in DLB, vol. 252, British Philosophers 1500-1799, ed. Philip B. Damatteis and Peter S. Fosl (Detroit, 2002), pp. 22-3
- *BcF 285 pp. 1-70
  Autograph
  
  Copy, in a small cursive secretary hand, with the title and list of contents (ff. 1*^r-[2*^r]) in Bacon's hand and his occasional autograph corrections or revisions, especially to headings (on pp. 18, 33, 35), with his substatial marginal additions on pp. 49 and 51.
  
  Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.
  
  First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 199-252.
  
  Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus
- BcF 307 pp. 70-3
  
  Copy of the first chapter, in a neat italic hand.
  
  This MS recorded in Spedding, III, 523.
  
  First published in Francisci Baconi...Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, [ed. Isaac Gruter](Amsterdam, 1653). Spedding, III, 521-39.
  
  Francis Bacon, Temporis partus masculus
Harley MS 6494

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, in various hands, 335 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
- HyT 3.5 ff. 301r-32r
  
  Copy of Books I and II only, in a professional secretary hand, untitled except for the heading The Prome, on 32 quarto leaves. Early 17th century.
  
  This MS discussed in S. Musgrove, Some Manuscripts of Heywood's Art of Love, The Library, 5th Ser. 1 (1946-7), 106-12.
  
  First published, anonymously, as Loues Schoole [?1600]. Edited from an early printed text (British Library, C.39.a.37) by M.L. Stapleton, as Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Am atoria (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000).
  
  Thomas Heywood, Ovid's De Arte Amandi or, The Art of Love ('If there be any in this multitude')
Harley MS 6534

A quarto volume of pious tracts, in a single secretary hand, 157 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
c.1633.
- RaW 680.3 ff. 102r-3r
  
  A précis of the tract, headed S^r Walter Raleighs Instructyons to his Sonne and to Posterytye.
  
  A treatise in ten chapters, beginning There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends.... First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Instructions to his Son and to Posterity
- BcF 204.8 ff. 150r-7v
  
  Extracts from some 45 Essays, headed Essayes Ciuill and Morall of Francis lord Verulam, Viscount Sn^it Alban. Printed. 1625.
  
  Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
  
  Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Harley MS 6614

Copy of a series of Latin prayers constituting Pars tertia of the Preces, in a mixed roman and secretary hand, inscribed (f. 1r) Ex manu propria Lancelloti Andrews wintoniensis olim Episcopi, sicut a fide dignis accepi, with an illuminated coat of arms (f. 2r), 44 octavo leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf lettered on each cover in gilt V M, with remains of metal clasps.
Early-mid-17th century.
This MS described in Brightman, p. xviii.
- AndL 48
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  First published in an English translation as The Private Devotions, ed. Humphrey Moseley (London, 1647). Selections of the original Greek and Latin version published in Verus Christianus, ed. David Stokes (Oxford, 1668). A more comprehensive version published as Preces privatae, Graece et Latine, ed. John Lamphire (London, 1675). Translated by F.E. Brightman as The Preces Privatae of Lancelot Andrewes (London, 1903).
  
  Lancelot Andrewes, Preces privatae
Harley MS 6688

A large folio volume of legal tracts, in one closely written secretary hand, 20 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
Early 17th century.
- BcF 222 ff. 1r-12r
  
  Copy of 22 rules, untitled, with dedication to the Queen dated 1596, incomplete.
  
  This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 309.
  
  First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.
  Bacon claimed to have collected 300 of them, of which only some few (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the missing maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, On Bacon's Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.
  
  Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law
- BcF 273 ff. 13r-18r
  
  Copy of about half the treatise, headed Lectura secunda francisci Bacon militis, vnius de consilio quondam Regine Elisabethe & nunc dni regis Jacobi in legibus eruditi duplicis....
  
  Edited partly from this MS in Spedding.
  
  First published as The Learned Reading of Sir Francis Bacon...upon the Statute of Uses (London, 1642). Spedding, VII, 389-450.
  
  Francis Bacon, Reading on the Statute of Uses
Harley MS 6796

A folio composite volume of philosophical tracts, owned, at least in part, by Sir Charles Cavendish (1591-1654) and possibly containing MSS sent to him from Paris by Marin Mersenne.
c.1640s.
The complete MS volume, without the diagrams, edited in Franco Alessio in Rivista critica di storia della filosofia, 18 (Florence, 1963), 147-228. Discussed by Timothy Raylor, with facsimile examples, in Hobbes, Payne, and A Short Tract on First Principles, The Historical Journal, 33 (2001), 29-58, and in The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9.
- *HbT 91 ff. 193r-266v
  Autograph
  
  Copy, complete with diagrams, in the hand of the Parisian scribe, with possibly Hobbes's autograph corrections, revisions and marginal annotations, on 74 folio leaves.
  
  Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 42. Extracts edited from this MS in The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, ed. Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889; reprinted 1969), Appendix II, pp. 211-26. Discussed in Jean Bernhardt, La polémique de Hobbes contre la Dioptrique de Descartes dans le Tractatus Opticus II (1644), Revue internationale de philosophie, 129 (1979), 432-42, and in Raylor, EMS 12, with a facsimile of f. 201r on p. 202.
  
  An untitled treatise in Latin, a modified and expanded version of the Tractatus opticus published in 1644 (see HbT 39). Unpublished complete.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, Tractatus opticus
- *HbT 117 ff. 291r-5r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Charles Cavendish, from Paris, 29 January/8 February 1640/1.
  
  Edited in Molesworth, English, VII, 455-62, and in Mersenne, Correspondance, X (1967), 501-6. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 80-5, Letter 31.
  Facsimiles of f. 291r in Isographie des hommes célèbres ou collection de fac-simile de lettres autographes et de signatures, 3 vols (Paris, 1828-30), Vol. II; of f. 292v in Raylor, Historical Journal (2001), p. 36; and of f. 293v in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXXVI.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
- *HbT 88 ff. 297r-308r
  Autograph
  
  MS, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), untitled, on 12 folio leaves.
  
  Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 43. Edited from this MS, as if a Hobbes holograph, in Tönnies. Facsimile of f. 297r, in Raylor, p. 40.
  
  First published, as A Short Tract on First Principles, and attributed to Hobbes, in The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, ed. Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889; reprinted 1969), Appendix I, pp. 193-210. The authorship subsequently disputed and the tract attributed to Robert Payne: see Timothy Raylor, Hobbes, Payne, and A Short Tract on First Principles, The Historical Journal, 33 (2001), 29-58.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, A Short Tract on First Principles
- *HbT 41 ff. 309r-16r
  Autograph
  
  MS, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), of a translation of the work by Benedetto Castelli [1578-1643] Monck of Cassina; and Mathematician to Pope Vrban. 8 Printed in Rome. 1628. Translated out of Italian. 1635, by M^r Robert Payen added in the hand of Sir Charles Cavendish.
  
  Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 44. This MS recorded in Jean Jacquot, Sir Charles Cavendish and his Learned Friends, Annals of Science, 8 (1952), 13-27, 175-91 (p. 21). Erroneously once thought to be in Hobbes's hand. Facsimile of f. 310v in Raylor, Historical Journal (2001), p. 38.
  
  Unpublished.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, Castelli, Benedetto. Geometricall Demonstration Of the Measure of Running-waters...Translated out of Italian
- *HbT 50 ff. 317r-39r
  Autograph
  
  MS, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), of a translation of Galileo's work, subscribed Raptim ex Italico in Anglicum Sermonem transfusum. Nouemb. 11°. 1636, By M^r Robert Payen added in the hand of Sir Charles Cavendish.
  
  Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 45. This MS recorded in Jean Jacquot, Sir Charles Cavendish and his Learned Friends, Annals of Science, 8 (1952), 13-27, 175-91 (p. 21). Facsimile of f. 324r, wrongly identified as in Hobbes's hand, in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXIV, after p. xxiv.
  
  Unpublished translation.
  
  Thomas Hobbes, Galileo, Galilei. Of the Profitt w^ch is drawen from the Art Mechaniq[ue] & it's Instruments
Harley MS 6797

A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, principally his own papers probably collected by his executors, in various secretary hands, a heading on ff. 12r A Book of Speeches in Parliam^t or otherwise deliuered by S^r fr. Bacon the K Sollicitor, 199 leaves.
- BcF 460 ff. 1r-10r
  
  Copy.
  
  The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
  
  Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
- *BcF 261 ff. 20r-46v
  Autograph
  
  Copy, f. 20r-v in one secretary hand, the rest in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, on versos only, with Bacon's autograph corrections and revisions.
  
  Edited from this MS in Spedding.
  
  A discourse beginning Your Majesty's desire of proceeding towards the union of this whole island.... First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 731-43 (and see p. 775 et seq.).
  
  Francis Bacon, A Preparation for the Union of Laws
- BcF 321 ff. 47r-v, 48v-52v
  
  Copy of the third and fourth speeches, namely M^r Bacon in prayse of knowledge and M^r Bacons Discourse in the praise of his Soueraigne), in a professional secretary hand.
  
  Edited from this MS in Stephens (1734) and in Spedding, VIII, 123-43.
  
  The third and fourth speeches first published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, VIII, 123-43. A defective text of the whole entertainment, with missing text conjecturally supplied, published as A Conference of Pleasure, composed for some festive occasion about the year 1592 by Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding (London, 1870). Full text edited in Francis Bacon: A Critical Edition of the Major Works, ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, 1996), pp. 22-51.
  
  Francis Bacon, Of Tribute, or Giving What is Due
- BcF 205 f. 48r
  
  Copy of two essays, of Faction and Negotiatinge, deleted.
  
  Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
  
  Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
- BcF 231 f. 53r-v
  
  Copy of a letter, headed M^r Fran: Bacon of the Collo^rs of good and evyll to the Lo: Mountioye possibly intended as a prefix to his essay on that subject, in a professional secretary hand, the verso page deleted.
  
  Edited from this MS in Spedding, VII, 69-71.
  
  First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 65-92. Spedding, VII, 67-8.
  
  Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil
- BcF 262 ff. 54r-62v
  
  Copy, a title-page in italic script S^r Francis Bacons. Collectionis touching Cases of Paræmunire Treason. etc., the main text in a professional secretary hand.
  
  This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.
  
  A discourse beginning Your Majesty's desire of proceeding towards the union of this whole island.... First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 731-43 (and see p. 775 et seq.).
  
  Francis Bacon, A Preparation for the Union of Laws
- BcF 112 ff. 63r-4v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  This MS recorded in Spedding, p. 775.
  
  First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 776-8.
  
  Francis Bacon, Cases of the King's Prerogative
- BcF 76 ff. 65r-73v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.
  
  First published in Cases of Treason (London 1641). Spedding, VII, 745-54.
  
  Francis Bacon, Answers to Questions touching the Office of Constables
- BcF 730 ff. 74r-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  Spedding, VII, 778-81 (discussed pp. 773-4). An adaptation of part of Sir John Doddridge, History of the Principality of Wales, possibly used by Bacon and printed with works by him in Cases of Treason (London, 1641).
  
  Francis Bacon, Of the jurisdiction of Justices itinerant in the principality of Wales
- BcF 298 ff. 79r-83v
  
  Copy, in a professional small secretary hand, with a later sidenote printed by D^r Rawley in the Opuscula p. 177.
  
  Edited from this MS in Spedding, VI, 281-303 (translation pp. 305-18).
  
  First published in Opuscula varia, ed. William Rawley (London, 1658). Spedding, VI, 281-303. His translation pp. 305-18.
  
  Francis Bacon, In felicem memoriam Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae
- BcF 202 ff. 85r-92r
  
  Copy, in a bold mixed hand, of an unfinished essay, headed An Essay of ffame Begun by the Lord Bacon & left imperfect, inscribed f. 86r Thus farr the Lord Bacon, then the rest headed f. 87r To follow though not with Equall excellency the Lord Bacons Essay of ffame left imperfect, on eight quarto leaves.
  
  First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VI, 519-20.
  
  Francis Bacon, An Essay of Fame
- BcF 89 ff. 111r-21r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with no general title.
  
  Spedding, VII, 567-611.
  
  Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. The Arguments on the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches
- *BcF 132 ff. 122r-7v
  Autograph
  
  Copy, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's autograph inscription praesented to his M. [by S^r fr 1605 deleted] 1606.
  
  Edited from this MS in Spedding.
  
  First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, XI, 116-26.
  
  Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Plantation in Ireland
- *BcF 348 ff. 128r-38r, 147r-52v, 159r-76r, 178r-99v
  Autograph
  
  Copies of various speeches by Bacon, in the hands of amanuenses, mostly with Bacon's autograph revisions and additions
  
  Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
- *BcF 214 ff. 139r-46v
  Autograph
  
  Copy of an English version, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's autograph corrections and revisions.
  
  Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.
  
  First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 493-504.
  
  Francis Bacon, Filum labyrinthi, sive formula inquisitionis
- BcF 461 153r-v
  
  Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 May 1620/1, in a professional secretary hand.
  
  The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
  
  Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
- *BcF 75.5 ff. 155r-8v
  Autograph
  
  Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, the heading in Bacon's hand.
  
  Written c.January 1611/12. First published in Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 265-70. Spedding, XI, 249-54.
  
  Francis Bacon, Advice to the King touching Sutton's Estate
Harley MS 6798

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers chiefly relating to dealings with foreign states, in various largely professional hands, 365 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Fol. 87 inscribed Bought of M^r. G. Pauls Landlady and fol. 89 Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes.
- RaW 1071 ff. 25r-43r
  
  Copy.
  
  A treatise beginning Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse.... First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Military Discourse
- GgA 134 ff. 57r-63r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published, as A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage (but without any dedicatory epistle), in Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition of Purchas, XX (1907), 34-129. According to Purchas the work was written in 1607 and dedicated to Prince Henry.
  
  Sir Arthur Gorges, The Islands Voyage
- ElQ 227 f. 87r-v
  
  Copy, in the hand of Lionell Sharpe (1560-1631), clergyman employed by both the Earl of Leicester and Earl of Essex and present at the Queen's visit to Tilbury, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed (f. 88v) The Queenes speech at Tilburie camp.
  
  Edited from this MS, discussed and the hand identified in Janet M. Green, I My Self: Queen Elizabeth's Oration at Tilbury Camp, Sixteenth Century Journal, 28 (1997), 421-45. Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.
  Facsimiles of the first page in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 42, p. 98, and in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 268.
  
  Beginning My loving people, I have been persuaded by some that are careful of my safety to take heed. how I committed myself to armed multitudes.... Collected Works, Speech 19, pp. 325-6. Selected Works, Speech 10, pp. 77-83. The Queen's authorship supported in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 103-6.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeths Armada speech to the Troops at Tilbury, August 9, 1588
- ElQ 248 f. 89r
  
  Copy of the Latin speech, headed Oratio siue responsio dni Regine [fowfa?] Oratori Regi Polome vicessimo quinto die JuliJ. 1597., on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed on f. 89v The Quenes ma. speche to the Poloniom embassador. 1597.
  
  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.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597
- ElQ 249 f. 90r
  
  Copy of an English translation of the speech, headed The answere of the Queene, to the orator of the Kinge of Polonia, the 25 day of July. 1597 and here beginning Oh, how I was beguiled..., on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed on f. 90v The quenes ma. speche to the Polonia embassador englished by Harry Capell. c.1597.
  
  This MS cited in Collected Works.
  Inscribed in a later hand Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes.
  
  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.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597
- RaW 1108 f. 299v-306v
  
  Copy.
  
  A tract beginning These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland.... First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine
Harley MS 6799

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1620/1-28, in various professional hands, 395 leaves, in half morocco gilt.
- RuB 5 f. 182r-v
  
  Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiers Speech about the two Treaties taken verbatim as he spake it: Being the first Speech made touching that great busines of the Treaties 1^o Martij 1623.
  
  Speech beginning We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4
- RuB 9 f. 201r-v
  
  Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyerd concerning Assistance to be yealded for the support of the aduise to dissolue the Treaties; The first upon that day March 11^th. 1623.
  
  Speech beginning We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4
- RuB 10 f. 221r-v
  
  Copy, in a Professional cursive secretary hand, headed S^r Ben. Rudyerds speech taken as he spake it being the first concerning the Kes demand of pticular Ayde. 19 Martij: 1623.
  
  Speech beginning We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4
- RuB 17 f. 333r-v
  
  Copy, headed A speech made by S^r Ben Ruddyard in the comons house of plm^t March 22. 1627.
  
  Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8
- CtR 164 ff. 353r-6v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, docketed in a later hand By S^r Robert Cotton...Printed 1672....
  
  Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
- RuB 33 f. 358r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiers speech 22: March. 1627.
  
  Speech beginning Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8
- RuB 64 ff. 384v-5v
  
  Copy, in a prodessional secretary hand, headed Beniamin Ruddiers speech Aprilis 28. 1628.
  
  Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
Harley MS 6800

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in various professional hands, in modern red morocco gilt.
- RuB 44 f. 95r-v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A speach made by S^r Ben: Rudiard in the house of Comons one the second Day of Apr 1628 and docketed in the margin Wednesday the 2 of Aprill 1628.
  
  Speech beginning The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628
- RuB 45 f. 96r-v
  
  Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed A speech made by S^r Ben. Rudyard in the house of Coons Wednesday the 2. Daie of Aprill 1628, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate small folio leaves, with a scribal endorsement.
  
  Speech beginning The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer....
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628
- RuB 65 ff. 231r-2r
  
  Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed A speech made by S^r Ben. Rudyard in the house of Coons on the 28. of Aprill 1628, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
  
  Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
- RuB 66 ff. 233r-4r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Speech made by S^r Ben. Rudyard in the house of Coons on the 28 Aprill 1628, docketed in the margin Monday 28 Aprill 1628.
  
  Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
- RuB 98 ff. 333r-4r
  
  Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed A Speech made by S^r Ben Rudyard at a Comittee himselfe sitting in the Chaire, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
  
  Speech beginning I did not think to have spoken.... First published, as Sir Benjamin Rudierd His speech in Behalfe of the Clergie and of Parishes destitute of Instruction through want of Maintenance, Oxford, 1628. Manning, pp. 135-8. Yale 1628, III, 17-19, where it is dated probably 21 April 1628.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?22 May 1628
- RuB 99 ff. 335r-6r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Speach made by S^r Ben Rudiard at a Comittee, M^r Pyme in the Chare, docketed in the margin quere the date. Satterday the 24 of May 1628.
  
  Speech beginning I did not think to have spoken.... First published, as Sir Benjamin Rudierd His speech in Behalfe of the Clergie and of Parishes destitute of Instruction through want of Maintenance, Oxford, 1628. Manning, pp. 135-8. Yale 1628, III, 17-19, where it is dated probably 21 April 1628.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?22 May 1628
- HlJ 22.4 f. 250r
  
  Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed A lre written to the house of Comons by the B. of Excester on the 2^d of May 1628, subscribed Jos. Exceter, on one side of a quarto leaf.
  
  Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.
  
  Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
- HlJ 22.8 f. 251 r
  
  Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed 2 Maij. B. of Excesters lre 2^do Maij
  
  Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.
  
  Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
Harley MS 6801

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, from 1640 to 1675, in various professional hands, 293 leaves, in old calf.
- WaE 790 ff. 90r-101v
  
  Copy.
  
  Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
  
  A speech beginning I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them … First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries.
  
  Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640
- RuB 125 ff. 118r-22r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sir Beniamin Ruddiers Speech in the House of Comons 1640.
  
  Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.
  
  Speech beginning There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good.... Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640
- RuB 153 ff. 161r-7v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sir Beniamin Rudyard his Speech in Parliam^t. the 9^th of November 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 S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
Harley MS 6807

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 299 leaves, in modern leather gilt.
- *CtR 19 ff. 54r-72r
  Autograph
  
  A series of autograph notes and drafts for the tract, with copious deletions and revisions, an inserted half-folio leaf (f. 59r) in another hand.
  
  A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace
- RaW 384.3 in ff. 144-69
  
  Copy, in a copy (on ff. 144r-69r) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592.
  
  First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester ('Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword')
- RaW 385.4 f. 160v
  
  Copy, here beginning Heere lieth the worthy warrier that neuer blooded sword, quoted in a copy (ff. 144r-68r) of Richard Verstegan's polemic A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592, which is in a probably professional secretary hand and headed A slanderous and Defamatory libell published by the Trayterous Papists beyond seas....
  
  First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester ('Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword')
Harley MS 6808

A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts and papers, in various hands, 158 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
- BcF 243.5 ff. 9r-21r
  
  Copy of 101 ordinances, as by the Lord Chauncellor, in a secretary hand.
  
  First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).
  
  Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery
- BcF 243.8 ff. 129v-40r
  
  Copy of 100 ordinances, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ffranc: verulam Canc.
  
  First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).
  
  Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery
Harley MS 6810

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 181 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
- CtR 114 ff. 134r-9r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by S^r Robte Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague An^o 1621.
  
  Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by S^r Rob: Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague An^o Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can.... First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature
Harley MS 6824

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 243 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
- AndL 16 ff. 79r-99v
  
  Copy, in a professional italic hand, a few annotations in another hand, with a title-page ...De Vsura, etiam lege humana permissa. Authore Lanceloto Andrews; proposita... in Scholis publicis pro asseguedo Baccalaureatus in S.S. Theologia gradu Cantabrigiæ decimo Kalendas Maij. 1585^o. c.1585.
  
  This MS collated in LACT.
  
  First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Opuscula (1852), pp. 117-50.
  
  Lancelot Andrewes, De usuris, theologica determinatio
- FeO 80 ff. 195r-224v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Three weekes obseruation of the states Countryes specially Holland, on 30 quarto leaves.
  
  This MS discussed in Van Strien.
  
  First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).
  
  Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries
Harley MS 6828

Composite volume of theological tracts.
Mid-late-17th century.
- BcF 158 ff. 1r-15v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Spedding.
  
  First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.
  
  Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith
Harley MS 6842

A large folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 312 leaves.

In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1568-1628), antiquary, and the Feathery Scribe.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 245 (No. 61).
- BcF 349 ff. 3r-7v
  
  Copy of two speeches by Bacon, the first on the Union, the second dated 25 November 1606, in a professional italic hand.
  
  Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
- NaR 9 ff. 21r-53r
  
  Copy, in two professional secretary hands (ff. 21r-34v, 35r-53v respectively). Mid-17th century.
  
  This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
  
  Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
  
  Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
- *BcF 350 ff. 131r-2v
  Autograph
  
  Copy of a speech by Bacon in the House of Commons, on a motion of subsidy, 1597, in the hand. of an amanuensis with Bacon's autograph revisions.
  
  Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
- RuB 198 ff. 187r-8r
  
  Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
  
  Speech beginning We are now upon a very great business, so great indeed as it requires our soundest and saddest consideration.... Manning, pp. 188-92.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?June 1641
Harley MS 6845

A large folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various professional hands, 298 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

A later note in the gutter of f. 199r: Bought of H.W., and similar inscriptions on ff. 12r and 13v (1581).
- SiP 196 ff. 199r-200v
  
  Fragment of a copy of the letter, in two or three cursive secretary hands, or possibly one which progressively degenerates, here beginning of Spaines Dowter some tymes yo^r. Ma^tie. are evident testimonie of a light minde..., on two large folio leaves. Early 17th century.
  
  This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 17.
  
  First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.
  This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
- RaW 655 ff. 201r-7r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  A tract beginning To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Match between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont
- RaW 630 ff. 213r-17r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
Harley MS 6846

A large folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and parliamentary speeches, in various hands, 452 leaves, in 19th-century half morocco gilt.

Humphrey Wanley's inscription (f. 1r) on his date of accession 26 August 1724.
- DaJ 238.2 ff. 1r-8v
  
  Copy of the prefatory epistle to Lord Ellesmere, in a secretary hand, subscribed Jo Davis.
  
  A compilation, beginning with Trin. 2. Iacobi en Leeschecquer. Le Case de Praxiet, the main part an epistlolary tract by Davies to Lord Ellesmere. First published as Le Primer Report des Cases en Matters en Ley (Dublin, 1615). Grosart, II, 243-357.
  
  Sir John Davies, A Discourse of Law and Lawyers: with Appendix of Cases
- *CtR 551 f. 45r
  Autograph
  
  A list of parliamentary speeches during the reigne of Queen Elizabeth, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, subscribed by Cotton All thes that I haue marked I desier to se and Examin by my book and the shalbe safly retorned you with many thanks / your assured frend / Robert Cotton.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- RuB 154 ff. 191r-3r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamen Rudyeres Speeche the 7^th of Nouember 1640, with a reader's marginal annotation This speech may now be vnseasonably reveiwed at this season - especially y^e later p^t of it.
  
  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 S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
  
  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
- *CtR 552 ff. 197r-v
  Autograph
  
  Autograph draft notes, including M^r Speaker from the king about Composition for Purueour and releuing the kings wants and references to Sir Edwin Sandys.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- *CtR 553 f. 222r-3r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph draft, with revisions, for a speech about the naturalisation of foreigners.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
Harley MS 6848

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands.
- *KyT 4 f. 154r
  Autograph
  
  A letter unsigned, possibly by Kyd, to Sir John Puckering or to one or more other Lords of the Privy Council, [1593].
  
  Edited in Freeman, pp. 182-3. Facsimile example in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XV(b). Discussed, and the identity of the handwriting questioned, in Freeman, p. 30; in Robert D. Parsons, Thomas Kyd's Letters, N&Q, 225 (April 1980), 140-1; and in Rebekah Owens, Thomas Kyd and the Letters to Puckering, N&Q, 250 (December 2006), 458-61.
  
  Thomas Kyd, Letter(s)
- KyT 5 ff. 187r-9v
  
  Fragments of an anonymous heretical disputation found among Kyd's papers (though not in his hand).
  
  Edited, with a facsimile of one page, in Boas, pp. cx-cxiii. Facsimile of another page in Wraight & Stern, p. 239.
  
  Thomas Kyd, Document(s)
Harley MS 6849

A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary speeches, in various hands, 337 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.
- *CtR 534 f. 10r
  Autograph
  
  Possibly autograph notes.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- *CtR 535 f. 47r-v
  Autograph
  
  Possibly autograph draft letter to James I.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- *CtR 536 f. 53r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph draft.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- *CtR 537 f. 84r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- *CtR 538 f. 85r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph notes.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- *CtR 491 ff. 86r-7r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph draft of the first part.
  
  Tract beginning Since at these Assemblies few Diaries, or exact Iournall Books are remaining.... First published as A Treatise, shewing that the Soveraignes Person is Required in the great Councells or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the conclusions, London, 1641. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [41]-57.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, That the Soveraignes Person is Required in the Great Covncells, or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the Conclusions
- *CtR 539 ff. 97r, 98r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph notes etc.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- *CtR 540 f. 109r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph draft concerning the precedency of peers in parliament, subscribed Ro: Cotton.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- *CtR 541 ff. 110r, 111v
  Autograph
  
  Miscellaneous autograph notes.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- *KyT 3 ff. 218r-19r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed, to Sir John Puckering, Keeper of the Great Seal, [1593].
  
  Edited in Boas, pp. cviii-cx, and in Freeman, pp. 181-3. Facsimile examples in Boas, frontispiece; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XV(a); in Wraight & Stern, p. 314; and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 32.
  
  Thomas Kyd, Letter(s)
- ElQ 94 f. 257r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled but subscribed The Queenes prayer for the navy. An do. 1596, following a list of army regiments and preachers in 1596.
  
  Beginning Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest.... Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596).
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596
- CtR 542 f. 265-6v
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
- CtR 42 ff. 268r-72v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, subscribed Robertus Cotton Bruceus, docketed in the margin Parl: an^o. 3^o. Jacobi regis S^r. R O: Cotton speche deliuered to his Ma^tie after it was spoken in Parlament. Early 17th century.
  
  Tract beginning What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.
  
  Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men
Harley MS 6854

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands, 380 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
- ClE 138 f. 102r
  
  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.
  
  Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York
- WoH 273 ff. 129r-41r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page in engrossed lettering. c.1620s-30s.
  
  First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
  
  Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
- ClE 11.8 ff. 145r-76r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, with a title-page The disparitie betweene the Earle of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham. c.1630s.
  
  First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), where it is ascribed to Sir Henry Wotton. First ascribed to Clarendon in the third edition (1672). First published separately as The characters of Robert Earl of Essex … and George Duke of Buckingham (London, 1706). Reprinted in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (London, 1724), pp. 247-71, and in A Collection of several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727), I, 247-71.
  
  Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Difference and Disparity betweene the Estates and Condicions of George Duke Buckingham and Robert Earle of Essex
- EsR 216 ff. 188r-201r
  
  Copy.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
- EsR 282 ff. 201r-2r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A description of thexecucon of the Earle of Essex at the tower the 25 of ffebruary 1600.
  
  Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
- BcF 140 ff. 203r-30v
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand. Early 17th century.
  
  This MS collated in Spedding.
  
  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.
  
  Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
- EsR 217 ff. 232r-42r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
Harley MS 6855

A folio composite volume of tracts, in various professional hands, 145 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
- *BcF 306 ff. 4r-31v
  Autograph
  
  Copy, in the professional italic hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's autograph corrections, deletions and revisions, copious on ff. 7v-8r, 14v, incomplete. c.1608.
  
  Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.
  
  First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chacellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 557-85.
  
  Francis Bacon, Redargutio philosophiarum
- *BcF 111 ff. 52r-60r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph draft, headed Sequela cartarum sive Inquisitio Legitima de calore et frigore.
  
  Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.
  
  First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 641-52.
  
  Francis Bacon, Calor et Frigus
Harley MS 6858

Copy of chapters 1-13 (i.e. Humane Nature) in a scribal hand on 32 folio leaves.
c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Tönnies.
- HbT 26
  
  No description or publication history available.
  
  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).
  
  Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Harley MS 6866

A quarto composite volume of theological tracts, in various hands, 524 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
- AndL 21 ff. 1r-6v
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, as by D^r. Andrewes B^p of Ely, (now of Winton), and subscribed Lancelot Ely An^o. 1601. Early 17th century.
  
  First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 106-10.
  
  Lancelot Andrewes, A Discourse against Second Marriage after Divorce
- *DiA 1 ff. 52r-72v
  Autograph
  
  Autograph MS, in Dicsone's cursive italic hand, signed Alex^r Dicsone, on 42 quarto pages.
  
  Facsimile of the last page in Beal, Checklist, p. 124.
  
  Unpublished disquisition on Prudence, in seventeen chapters, addressed to an unidentified person by Yo^r S^ruito^r Alex^r Dicsone. Beal, Checklist, p. 123.
  
  Alexander Dicsone, Auertiment of Prudence
Harley MS 6867

A composite volume.
- BcF 538 ff. 42r-69r
  
  Copy, untitled and unascribed, in a predominantly secretary hand.
  
  Edited from this MS in Spedding.
  
  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.
  
  Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)
Harley MS 6893

A quarto composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 295 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
- FeO 81 ff. 63r-90r
  
  Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Three weekess observation of the States Countries Especially Holland. Mid-17th century.
  
  This MS discussed in Van Strien.
  
  First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).
  
  Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries
- FeO 82 ff. 91r-5v
  
  Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Three monthes observation of y^e States Countrey Especially Holland. Mid-17th century.
  
  This MS discussed in Van Strien.
  
  First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).
  
  Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries
Harley MS 6900

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly in French, in at least two hands, one on f. 3r dated 1662. /Jan. 9^th, in quarter calf on marbled boards.

According to a note in another hand on a tipped-in slip of paper (f. 44r) and dated [16]83 the volume was compiled by one Du Prat for Mademoiselle Hardy.
c.1662/3-1683.
This volume discussed, with a facsimile of the note on f. 44r, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 139-44) and the contents listed on pp. 161-4.
- PsK 260 f. 68r-v
  
  Copy, added at the end.
  
  This MS collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.
  
  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 24-7. Poems (1667), pp. 12-13. Saintsbury, pp. 514-15. Thomas, I, 81-2, poem 10.
  
  Katherine Philips, On the death of the Queen of Bohemia ('Although the most do with officious heat')
- PsK 365 f. 69r-v
  
  Copy, headed To Her Royall Highnes y^e Dutches of york. Who commanded M^rs. Philips to send her what vses she had written, here beginning Madam / To you whose dignity strikes us with aw, added at the end.
  
  This MS collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Facsimile of f. 69r in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (p. 142).
  
  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 22-4. Poems (1667), pp. 11-12. Saintsbury, pp. 513-14. Thomas, I, 80, poem 9.
  
  Katherine Philips, To her royall highnesse, the Dutchesse of Yorke, on her command to send her some things I had wrote ('To you, whose dignitie strikes us with awe')
Harley MS 6908

A quarto composite volume of verse, state letters and culinary recipes, in English and French, in various hands, 136 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Fane Chambrelaine.
- SpE 7.8 f. 1v
  
  Copy, in an italic hand, untitled. Early-mid 17th century.
  
  Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 221-2.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Amoretti. Sonnet LXIIII. ('Coming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found)')
- SpE 7.5 f. 2r
  
  Copy, in an italic hand. Early-mid-17th century.
  
  Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 204.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Amoretti. Sonnet XXIII ('Penelope for her Vlisses sake')
- GrF 16.8 ff. 88v-87r rev.
  
  Copy, headed S^r Fulk Grevill to his kinsman in France. c.1630s.
  
  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.
  
  Fulke Greville, Letter to Grevill Varney on his Travels
- RaW 896 ff. 92r-89r rev
  
  Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife, to Sir Robert Carr, and to Queen Anne.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Harley MS 6910

A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
c.1596-1601.
This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.
- DrM 83 passim
  
  Series of extracts from works by Drayton, including Englands Heroicall Epistles and Mortimeriados, notably on ff. 125v-7v, 139r, 143r-4r, 159r-60r, and 163v.
  
  Michael Drayton, Extracts
- SpE 16 ff. 2*^r-20r
  
  Copy, transcribed from Complaints (London, 1591).
  
  This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 103-40.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale ('It was the month, in which the righteous Maide')
- SpE 29 ff. 20v-30r
  
  Copy, transcribed from Complaints (London, 1591).
  
  This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 59-79.
  
  Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses ('Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine')
- SpE 33 ff. 30v-41r
  
  Copy (including the dedication beginning Wrong'd, yet not daring to expresse my paines), transcribed from Complaints (London, 1591).
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591); Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Virgils Gnat ('We now haue playde (Augustus) wantonly')
- SpE 12 ff. 41v-8r
  
  Copy, transcribed from Complaints (London, 1591).
  
  This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687; described in The Poetical Works of Spenser, ed. E. de Sélincourt, III (Oxford, 1910), pp. xviii-xix.
  
  First published (with a separate title-page dated 1590) in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 157-73.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Muiopotmos: or The Fate of the Butterflie ('I sing of deadly dolorous debate')
- SpE 24 ff. 48v-59r
  
  Copy, transcribed from Complaints (London, 1591).
  
  This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.
  
  Edmund Spenser, The Ruines of Time ('It chaunced me on day beside the shore')
- SpE 21 ff. 59v-66v
  
  Copy, transcribed from Complaints (London, 1591).
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591); Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 141-54. This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 141-54.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Ruines of Rome: by Bellay ('Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie')
- SpE 40 ff. 67r-9v
  
  Copy, transcribed from Complaints (London, 1591).
  
  This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 174-8.
  
  Edmund Spenser, Visions of the worlds vanitie ('One day, whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe')
- SpE 36 ff. 69v-72v
  
  Copy, transcribed from Complaints (London, 1591).
  
  This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 179-85.
  
  Edmund Spenser, The Visions of Bellay ('It was the time, when rest soft sliding downe')
- SpE 39 ff. 73r-4v
  
  Copy, transcribed from Complaints (London, 1591).
  
  This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.
  
  First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 186-8.
  
  Edmund Spenser, The Visions of Petrarch ('Being one day at my window all alone')
- ChG 6 ff. 75r-91v
  
  Copy of the complete work, with no general title, consisting of two hymns: i.e. Hymnus in Noctem (ff. 75r-82r) and Hymnus in Cynthiam (ff. 82r-9v), the second beginning Natures bright eye-sight, and the Nights faire soule), followed by a glossary (ff. 90r-1v), transcribed from the edition of 1594.
  
  First published in London, 1594. Bartlett, pp. 17-45.
  
  George Chapman, The Shadow of Night ('Great Goddesse to whose throne in Cynthian fires')
- HrJ 317.5 f. 123r
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).
  
  Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax
- SoR 198.5 f. 123r-v
  
  Copy of six stanzas of the poem, untitled and beginning at line 637 (Ah Sinne, the nothing that doth all things fyle), followed by lines 703-4.
  
  First published London, 1595. Brown, pp. 75-100.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaint ('Launche foorth my Soul into a maine of teares')
- SoR 242 f. 124r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Time goe by turnes ('The lopped tree in time may grow againe')
- SoR 110 f. 126r
  
  Copy of lines 1-18.
  
  This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 57.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Looke home ('Retyred thoughts enjoy their owne delights')
- SoR 213 ff. 126v-7r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Brown, p. 152.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least ('Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong')
- BrN 93.5 ff. 130r-7r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in 1595.
  
  Nicholas Breton, A Solemn Passion ('Awake my Soule, out of the sleepe of sinne')
- LoT 0.5 ff. 137r-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Euphves Shadow, The Battaile of the Sences (London, 1592). EV 23951.
  
  Thomas Lodge, Anthenors Item, to all young Gentlemen ('The reckless race of youth's inconstant course')
- RaW 181 f. 139v
  
  Copy, here beginning Like hermite poore, in pensive place obscure.
  
  This MS collated in Hughey, II, 314; recorded in Latham, p. 104.
  
  First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore ('Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure')
- BrN 13 f. 140r
  
  Copy of the prologue, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Rollins, England's Helicon, II, 111.
  
  First published in Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 33>, ascribed to N. Breton (S. Phil. Sidney cancelled). Grosart, I (t), p. 8.
  
  Nicholas Breton, Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon ('Faire in a morne (o fairest morne)')
- NaT 18 f. 140r-v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1592. McKerrow, I, 149-245.
  
  Thomas Nashe, Pierce Pennilesse
- OxE 13 f. 140v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in May.
  
  First published in John Mundy, Songs and Psalmes composed into 3. 4. and 5. parts (London, 1595). May, Poems, No. 16 (p. 37). May, Courtier Poets, p. 281. EV 28428.
  
  Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'Weare I a kinge I coulde commande content'
- DyE 82 f. 140v
  
  Copy, with the stanzas reversed, here beginning Where waters smoothest run....
  
  This MS collated in Sargent.
  
  First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
- TiC 21 f. 141v
  
  Copy, headed mr Tytchborns verses.
  
  This MS recorded 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 KyT 1-2.
  
  Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')
- RaW 160 ff. 141v-2r
  
  Copy, in double columns, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.
  
  First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
  This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')
- RaW 113 f. 142v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 102.
  
  First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse ('Calling to minde mine eie long went about')
- OxE 19 f. 145r
  
  Copy, here beginning When were ye born....
  
  This MS collated in May.
  
  First published, as Of the birth and bringing vp of desire, subscribed E. of Ox., in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). May, Poems, No. 11 (pp. 33-4). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 277-8. EV 30058.
  
  Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'When werte thow borne desyre?'
- SiP 114 f. 145v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
  
  Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 3 ('What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show')
- BrN 92 ff. 146v-7r
  
  Copy, subscribed La: R (i.e. ? Lady Rich).
  
  First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 17.
  
  Nicholas Breton, 'Sitting late with sorrow sleepinge'
- BrN 96 ff. 147v-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  Lines 37-66 (beginning Who can delight in suche a wofull sounde) first published as Of a wearie life in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 23>. Lines 49-66 are lines 13-18, 25-36 of A most excellent passion set downe of N.B. Gent. in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). First published complete in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 20.
  
  Nicholas Breton, 'Some men will saie, there is a kinde of muse'
- BrN 84 ff. 148v-9r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published as Of the foure Elements in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 55>. Authorship unknown.
  
  Nicholas Breton, Quatuor elementa ('The Aire with swete my sences doe delight')
- SiP 48 f. 149r
  
  Copy of lines 1-32, in double columns, untitled and here beginning Whoso hath fancye pleased.
  
  This MS collated in Ringler.
  
  Ringler, pp. 151-2.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 23 ('Who hath his fancie pleased')
- DyE 30 ff. 149v-50r
  
  Copy, ascribed to Dyer.
  
  First published in Sargent (1935). Sargent, No. III, pp. 180-1. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 299-300. EV 10542.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'I woulde it were not as it is'
- CmT 200 f. 150r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Vivian and in Davis.
  
  First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 475.
  
  Thomas Campion, Dolus ('Thou shalt not love mee, neither shall these eyes')
- CmT 140 f. 150v
  
  Copy of a version in sonnet form.
  
  Printed from this MS in Davis, p. 476.
  
  First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xviii. Davis, p. 154.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre'
- CmT 110 ff. 150v-1r
  
  Copy of a version in sonnet form, headed Beautie without Love deformitie.
  
  Edited from this MS in Davis, p. 476.
  
  First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white'
- EsR 20 f. 151r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed finis. Comes Essex.
  
  This MS collated in May, p. 123.
  
  May, Poems, No. 1, pp. 43-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 250-1EV 14991.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Muses no more but mazes be your names'
- DyE 83 f. 153r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall'
- RaW 382 ff. 154r-v, 158r
  
  Copy of a twelve-line version.
  
  This MS recorded in Latham.
  
  A verse exchange, with Queen Elizabeth's answer If thou art afraid climb not at all. First published in Works (1829), VIII, 732-3. Latham (1929), pp. 72-3 (listed but not printed in her 1951 edition, p. 172). Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth I, pp. 24-5. Bradner, p. 7, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. May, Courtier Poets, p. 313-14, among Poems possibly by Dyer. Rudick, No. 14, pp. 18-19 (32-line version) and No. 41, p. 111 (one line, and with the Queen's one-line reply).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Fayne woulde I but I dare not'
- DyE 68 f. 154v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Sargent.
  
  First published in The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, 3rd edition (London, 1598). Sargent, No. I, p. 176. May, Courtier Poets, p. 302. EV 19124.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, Sonnet ('Prometheus, when first from heuen hie')
- SiP 126 f. 154v
  
  Copy of lines 1-8, 13-14.
  
  This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
  
  Ringler, p. 38-9. Robertson, p. 95.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 15 ('Let not old age disgrace my high desire')
- SiP 4.5 f. 156r-v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published in London, 1591. Ringler, pp. 163-237.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella
- NaT 9 f. 156r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 480-2. Recorded in McKerrow.
  
  First published in Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). McKerrow, III, 396 (in poems of doubtful authorship). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 104-5.
  
  Thomas Nashe, Verses from Astrophel and Stella ('If flouds of teares could clense my follies past')
- CmT 7 f. 156v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded in Davis, p. 491.
  
  First published among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Davis, p. 10.
  
  Thomas Campion, Canto Quinto ('A daie, a night, an houre of sweete content')
- DyE 18 ff. 158v-9r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Sargent.
  
  First published, in a garbled version, in Poems by the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660), pp. 29-31. Sargent, No. V, pp. 184-7. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 290-2. EV 8529.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, A Fancy ('Hee that his mirth hath loste, whose comfort is dismaid')
- BrN 6 ff. 163v-4r
  
  Copy of lines 1-20.
  
  This MS collated in Robertson, pp. l-li. Recorded in Grosart.
  
  First published in The Historie of the life and fortune of Don Frederigo di terra Nuoua (London, 1590); Grosart, I (u), p. 10.
  
  Nicholas Breton, 'Among the groves, the woods and thickes'
- PtG 5.5 ff. 166v, 175r-v
  
  Extracts.
  
  First published, anonymously and dedicated to Lord Burghley, in London, 1589. Edited by Gladys Doidge Willcock and Alice Walker (Cambridge, 1936). Edited by Frank Whigham and Wayne A. Rebhorn (Ithaca & London, 2007).
  
  George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie
- EsR 69 ff. 167r-8r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS 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.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
- DyE 64 f. 169r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Sargent.
  
  First published in The Queenes Maiesties entertainment at Woodstocke (London, 1585), pp. C2-C3. Sargent, No. VI, p. 188. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 288-9. EV 23394.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, The Song in the Oak ('The man whose thoughts against him doe conspire')
- SiP 12 ff. 171r-2v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Ringler.
  
  Ringler, pp. 217-21.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song viii ('In a grove most rich of shade')
- DyE 26 f. 172v
  
  Copy of a shortened and variant version of the first stanza only.
  
  First published in Bernard M. Wagner, New Poems by Sir Edward Dyer, RES, 11 (1935), 466-71 (p. 470). May, Courtier Poets, p. 312, among Poems possibly by Dyer. EV 6219.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'Fancy farwell, that fed my fond delight'
- DyE 9 f. 173r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Sargent.
  
  First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 75. Sargent, No. IX, p. 191. May, Courtier Poets, p. 309. EV 2856.
  
  Sir Edward Dyer, 'As rare to heare as seldome to be seene'
- SiP 164 ff. 173v-5r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
  
  Ringler, pp. 94-7. Robertson, pp. 249-53.
  
  Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Third Eclogues, No. 64 ('A neighbor mine not long agoe there was')
Harley MS 6913

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 222 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary red panelled morocco gilt.
c.late 1680s.
- DrJ 88 ff. 5r-10r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in California, in Blakemore Evans and in Vieth.
  
  First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.
  The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.
  
  John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
- DrJ 43.77 ff. 11r-18r
  
  Copy.
  
  A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
  First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
  The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.
  
  John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')
- DoC 42 ff. 40r-3v
  
  Copy, as by Lord Buckhurst, dated in another hand 1679.
  
  Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.
  
  First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')
- DoC 342 ff. 44r-9v
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in POAS.
  
  First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the L^d Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
- RoJ 11.6 f. 50r-v
  
  Copy, headed Tacit de vita Agric. An Allusion.
  
  First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise')
- HrJ 233 f. 55r-v
  
  Copy, headed Upon six holy Sisters that mett at a Conuenticle to alter the Popish word of Preaching.
  
  First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.
  
  Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches ('Six of the weakest sex and purest sect')
- DoC 74 ff. 62r-4v
  
  Copy, headed A Duell Between two Monsters upon my Lady Be^nnets C-t with their change of Government from Monarchical to Democraticall [By L^d. Dorset & H. Savile added in pencil].
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')
- DoC 326.4 f. 147r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence ('Dorset no gentle Nimph can find')
- EtG 101 ff. 155r-7r
  
  Copy, headed M^rs Nelly's complaint. An Elegy.
  
  This MS collated in Thorpe.
  
  First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.
  
  Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint ('If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start')
Harley MS 6914

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in six chiefly professional hands, 124 leaves (plus numerous blanks) and including, ff. 123r-4r, two tipped-in octavo leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
c.1710.
- RoJ 44 f. 2v
  
  Copy, headed Dialogue by L^d Rochester.
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as Dialogue L: R.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Dialogue ('When to the King I bid good morrow')
- RoJ 118 f. 8v
  
  Copy, headed King Cha: praiseing the Translation of the Psalmes, L^d Rochester said Ile show you how they run.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; edited in Walker.
  
  First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II ('God bless our good and gracious King')
- BuS 21 11v-15v
  
  Copy.
  
  Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.
  
  Samuel Butler, Dildoides ('Such a sad Tale prepare to hear')
- DoC 33 f. 21r
  
  Copy, headed Catch by L^d. Buckhurst.
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Harris (1979), p. 49.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Catch ('When rebels first push'd at the Crown')
- RoJ 503 f. 21r-v
  
  Copy, as by L^d: Rochester, the date 1674 added afterwards.
  
  Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; edited in Walker.
  
  First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy ('Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell')
- DoC 326.5 ff. 47v-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence ('Dorset no gentle Nimph can find')
- DoC 127 f. 48r-v
  
  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
  
  First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')
- EtG 74 f. 52r-v
  
  This MS collated in Thorpe.
  
  First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.
  
  Sir George Etherege, A Song on Basset ('Let equipage and dress despair')
- DoC 158 f. 80r
  
  Copy, headed M^rs Anne Roche, when she Lost S^r John Daws by E: of Dorset.
  
  Edited from this MS in Ebsworth and in Harris; collated in Wright & Spears.
  
  First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity). Harris, pp. 101-2.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mrs. Anne Roche when she Lost Sir John Daws ('Like a true Irish merlin that has lost her flight')
- DoC 250 f. 82r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song ('Phyllis, the fairest of love's foes')
- DoC 199 f. 82v
  
  Copy, headed Epigram by y^e late E. of Dorset on Lady Dorchester.
  
  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
  
  First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')
- DoC 335.3 f. 83r-v
  
  Copy, headed A satire by Lord Dorset.
  
  Recorded in Harris.
  
  Edited in Harris (1940), pp. 152-3. Discussed in Harris (1979), p. 188. Unlikely to be by Dorset.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Revolution in 1688 ('Of a splenetic nation I sing')
- DoC 86 f. 84r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph by the Earl of Dorset.
  
  Edited from this MS in Harris; collated in Wright & Spears.
  
  First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971), II, 777-8 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity). Harris pp. 93-4.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Epitaph on Mrs. Lundy ('Here lies little Lundy a yard deep or more')
- DoC 290 ff. 87v-8r
  
  Copy, headed An Account of a Poem called Female Nine 1670.
  
  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
  
  First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines')
- CnC 146 ff. 123r-4r
  
  Extracts, headed Panegyric to y^e K. Ch. 2. by Ch. Cotton, on three pages of two tipped-in conjugate octavo leaves.
  
  First published in London, 1660.
  
  Charles Cotton, A Panegyrick to the King's most excellent Majesty
Harley MS 6917

A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.
c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
- CwT 482 f. 3r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 41.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 32-3.
  
  Thomas Carew, A New-yeares Sacrifice. To Lucinda ('Those that can give, open their hands this day')
- CwT 943 f. 3r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 43.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love ('I burne, and cruell you, in vaine')
- CwT 925 f. 3v
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver ('Now she burnes as well as I')
- CwT 921 f. 4r
  
  Copy, subscribed T. Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 46.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 36.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To a Lady not yet enjoy'd by her Husband ('Come Celia, fixe thine eyes on mine')
- CwT 361 f. 4r-v
  
  Copy, headed To her Inconstant friend, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 52.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant ('When on the Altar of my hand')
- CwT 1174 f. 4v
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 53.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
  
  Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated ('No more, blind God, for see my heart')
- CwT 1104 ff. 4v-5r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 53.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
  
  Thomas Carew, To my Rivall ('Hence vaine intruder, hast away')
- CwT 537 ff. 5r-6r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 55.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue ('As Celia rested in the shade')
- CwT 542 f. 6r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 58.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 45-6.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue ('This mossie bank they prest. That aged Oak')
- CwT 1081 f. 6v
  
  Copy, headed To my Cozen, on his marriage, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 60.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 47.
  
  Thomas Carew, To my Cousin (C.R.) marrying my Lady (A.) ('Happy Youth, that shalt possesse')
- ClJ 155 f. 7r-v
  
  Copy, headed On a young man Courted by an old deformed crone and here beginning Hence Beldam Eue surcease thy Suite, subscribed J: Cleueland.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 18-20.
  
  John Cleveland, A young Man to an old Woman Courting him ('Peace Beldam Eve: surcease thy suit')
- PoW 26 f. 8v
  
  NOT HERE. wrong ref???
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- HeR 170 ff. 10r-13v
  
  Copy of a twenty-three stanza version, headed An Epithalamium, subscribed R: Herrick.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 448-55; collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady ('What's that we see from far?')
- CwT 431 ff. 13v-14r
  
  Copy, headed A Louers Courtshipp.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.
  
  Thomas Carew, Loves Courtship ('Kisse lovely Celia and be kind')
- CwT 793 f. 17r
  
  Copy, headed On his Beautiful mistris, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 7.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. A beautifull Mistris ('If when the Sun at noone displayes')
- CwT 935 f. 17v
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 18.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris ('When thou, poore excommunicate')
- CwT 149 ff. 17v-18r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 19.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love ('I was foretold, your rebell sex')
- CwT 1159 f. 18r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 38.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.
  
  Thomas Carew, To the King at his entrance into Saxham, by Master Io. Crofts ('Sir, Ere you passe this threshold, stay')
- CwT 441 f. 19r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 61.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 48.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Lover upon an Accident necessitating his departure, consults with Reason ('Weepe not, nor backward turne your beames')
- CwT 531 f. 19r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 48-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, Parting, Celia weepes ('Weepe not (my deare) for I shall goe')
- CwT 199 f. 19v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 70.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 53-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers ('The Lady Mary Villers lyes')
- CwT 5 f. 19v
  
  Copy.
  
  Lines 5-10 edited from this MS in Dunlap, p. 240.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.
  
  Thomas Carew, An other ('The purest Soule that e're was sent')
- CwT 9 ff. 19v-20r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 71.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.
  
  Thomas Carew, An other ('This little Vault, this narrow roome')
- CwT 203 f. 20r
  
  Copy, headed An epitaph on A Lady, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 242.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 55.
  
  Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady S. Wife to Sir W.S. ('The harmony of colours, features, grace')
- CwT 446 f. 20v
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on the Lady Mary Wentworth and here beginning Loe heere the pretious dust is layd, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 72.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 56. Inscribed on the tomb of Maria Wentworth in the Church of St George, Toddington, Bedfordshire (1633): see Dunlap. pp. 242-3.
  
  Thomas Carew, Maria Wentworth, Thomae Comitis Cleveland, filia praemortua prima Virgineam animam exhalauit ('And here the previous dust is layd')
- CwT 528 ff. 20v-1r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap. Edited from this MS in the online Early Stuart Libels.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 57.
  
  Thomas Carew, On the Duke of Buckingham ('When in the brazen leaves of Fame')
- CwT 2 f. 21r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Epitaph on the duke of Buckingham.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 75. Edited from this MS in the online Early Stuart Libels.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 58-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, An other ('Reader, when these dumbe stones have t')
- CwT 306 ff. 21v-3v
  
  Copy of the four songs, subscribed T. Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 77.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.
  
  Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine ('From whence was first this furie hurld')
- CwT 437 ff. 23v-4r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 82.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 63.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Lover in the disguise of an Amazon, is dearly beloved of his Mistresse ('Cease thou afflicted soule to mourne')
- CwT 12 f. 24r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 83.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.
  
  Thomas Carew, Another. A Lady rescued from death by a Knight who in the instant leaves her, complaines thus ('Oh whither is my fayre Sun fled')
- CwT 1155 ff. 24r-5v
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 69-71.
  
  Thomas Carew, To the Countesse of Anglesie upon the immoderatly-by-her-lamented death of her Husband ('Madam, men say you keepe with dropping eyes')
- CwT 1099 ff. 25v-6r
  
  Copy, headed To his Mistris by A Rivers side, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 16.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 14.
  
  Thomas Carew, To my Mistris sitting by a Rivers side. An Eddy ('Marke how yond Eddy steales away')
- CwT 346 f. 26r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 86.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.
  
  Thomas Carew, An Hymeneall Dialogue ('Tell me (my love) since Hymen ty'de')
- CwT 491 f. 26v
  
  Copy, headed On a Damask Rose sticking betweene a Ladie's breasts.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 138.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 108.
  
  Thomas Carew, On a Damaske rose sticking vpon a Ladies breast ('Let pride grow big my rose, and let the cleare')
- CwT 422 f. 27r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse ('That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares')
- RnT 19 f. 30r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Randolph:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1875). Thorn-Drury, pp. 168-9.
  
  Thomas Randolph, Annagram: Virtue alone thy Blisse ('Descent of birth is a vaine good')
- RnT 535 f. 30v
  
  Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.
  
  Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), p. 115.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Sonnet ('Come, silent night, and in thy gloomy shade')
- RnT 502 f. 30v
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1925).
  
  Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1925), p. 257.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the death of Mr. Harrison, Mr. Sleepe, and Dr. Brookes, all of Trinity College in Cambridge ('The other gods, Jove being like to die')
- PeW 92 f. 31r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his mistris.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger and in Moore Smith (1927).
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 38-9, superscribed P.. Krueger, p. 32, among Pembroke's Poems. Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in G.C. Moore Smith, Thomas Randolph (Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 18 May 1927), Proceedings of the British Academy, 13 (1927), 79-121 (pp. 115-16).
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet ('Dear leave thy home and come with me')
- DaW 57 f. 31v
  
  Copy, subscribed W: Dauenant.
  
  Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs, p. 275.
  
  First published in Herbert Berry, Three New Poems by Davenant, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 317-21.
  
  Sir William Davenant, To a Gentleman at his uprising ('Soe phoebus rose, as if he had last night')
- StW 184 f. 32r
  
  Copy of a version headed The Commendation of musicke and beginning When whispering straines with creeping winde, subscribed W: Stroud.
  
  Edited from this MS in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 90 (p. 98).
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
  
  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
- PeW 20 f. 33v-4r
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed Pembrooke.
  
  This MS collated in Krueger and in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983), pp. 217, 231.
  
  Krueger, pp. 53-4, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts. Edited, as a Poem Possibly by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983).
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, 'Had I loved but at that rate'
- StW 139 ff. 38v-9r
  
  Copy, headed On one who kissing his mistris at his departure left some signe of blood upon her, subscribed W: Stroud.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
  
  William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
- SuJ 78 ff. 39r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed S^r J: Suckling.
  
  Edited from this MS in Clayton.
  
  First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 43-4.
  
  John Suckling, To a Lady that forbidd to love before Company ('What noe more favours, not A Ribbon more')
- CwT 596 f. 39v
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnett, subscribed T: Carew:.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 109. Musical setting by Nicholas Lanier published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, The protestation, a Sonnet ('No more shall meads be deckt with flowers')
- DaW 36 f. 44r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed W: Dauenant.
  
  Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs.
  
  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.
  
  Sir William Davenant, On his mistris Singing ('Singe gentle Lady till you move')
- DaW 72 f. 44v
  
  Copy, subscribed Dauenant.
  
  Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs.
  
  First published in Herbert Berry, Three New Poems by Davenant, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, p. 276.
  
  Sir William Davenant, Upon a moale in his mistris face ('Old nature would worke cleane, therefore commands')
- BmF 96 f. 45r
  
  Copy, headed On a Ladies Tempting Eye, subscribed John: Rutter.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 489-90.
  
  Francis Beaumont, The Glance ('Cold Virtue, guard me, or I shall endure')
- RaW 300 f. 48r-v
  
  Copy of a 36-line version, headed A poem of S^r Walter Rawleighs.
  
  Edited from this MS in Bullen (1889); in Latham; and in Rudick, No. 43B, pp. 113-14.
  
  First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs ('Nature that washt her hands in milke')
- HeR 146 ff. 48v-9r
  
  Copy, headed A Songe, subscribed Rob: Herrick.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 463-4; collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 156-7. Patrick, pp. 211-12.
  
  Robert Herrick, The mad Maids song ('Good morrow to the Day so fair')
- StW 1481 f. 49v
  
  Copy of the Musitian's song, headed A Sonnet, subscribed W. Stroud.
  
  Dobell, pp. 215-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes first published in his Ayres and Dialogues…The Third Book (London, 1658).
  
  William Strode, The Floating Island, Act IV, scene xiv. Song ('Once Venus cheekes that sham'd the morn')
- SuJ 47 f. 50v
  
  Copy, headed On King Richard the third supposed to be buried under the bridge at Leycester.
  
  Edited from this MS in Haworth and in Berry, p. 26; collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Minor Poets of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (London, 1931). Clayton, p. 36.
  
  John Suckling, On King Richard the third, who lies buried under Leicester bridge ('What meanes this watry Canop'bout thy bed')
- CrR 48 ff. 52r-4r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Martin.
  
  First published in L.C. Martin, A Hitherto Unpublished Poem by (?) Richard Crashaw, LM, 8 (June 1923), 159-66. Martin (1952), pp. 406-9.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Epithalamium ('Come virgin Tapers of pure waxe')
- CrR 253 ff. 54r-5r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 183-5.
  
  Richard Crashaw, To the Morning. Satisfaction for sleepe ('What succour can I hope the Muse will send')
- CrR 144 f. 55r-v
  
  Copy, headed On A foule morning.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 181-2.
  
  Richard Crashaw, On a foule Morning, being then to take a journey ('Where art thou Sol, while thus the blind-fold Day')
- CrR 283 ff. 55v-6r
  
  Copy, headed On a Gentlemans death.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 166-7.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of a Gentleman ('Faithlesse and fond Mortality')
- CrR 40 f. 56r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 175.
  
  Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph. Vpon Doctor Brooke ('A Brooke whose streame so great, so good')
- CrR 46 f. 56r-v
  
  Copy, headed On A man and his wife who dyed together, and were so buried.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 174 (and later version pp. 399-400).
  
  Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph Vpon Husband and Wife, which died, and were buried together ('To these, Whom Death again did wed')
- SuJ 202 56v-7r
  
  Copy, headed To S^r John Suckling.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
  
  John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse ('I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King')
- SuJ 222 ff. 57r-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
  
  John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer ('I tell thee foole who'ere thou be')
- CrR 334 ff. 58r-60r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations, 2nd edition (London, 1641). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 195-8.
  
  Richard Crashaw, Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistresse ('Who ere shee bee')
- PeW 276 ff. 60r-1r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS recorded in Krueger.
  
  Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.
  
  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song ('Draw not too near')
- CmT 165 f. 61r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet.
  
  First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Young and simple though I am'
- BrW 124 f. 62r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a young Gentlewoman's death.
  
  This MS recorded in Osborn.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about')
- JnB 345 f. 63r
  
  Copy, headed Ben: Iohnsons Reply.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.
  
  Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter ('Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast')
- CoR 590 f. 63v
  
  Copy, subscribed R: C:.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome ('Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire')
- CoR 506 f. 63v
  
  Copy, subscribed R: Corbet:.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.
  
  Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford ('Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place')
- KiH 16 ff. 63v-4r
  
  Copy, headed An Elegie, subscribed H: King.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.
  
  Henry King, The Anniverse. An Elegy ('So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?')
- KiH 470 f. 64r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King.
  
  This MS collated in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.
  
  Henry King, On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave ('Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care')
- KiH 399 ff. 64v-5v
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.
  
  Henry King, A Letter ('I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend')
- KiH 704 ff. 65v-6r
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.
  
  Henry King, To his Freinds of Christchurch upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Artes, acted at Woodstock ('But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play')
- KiH 102 ff. 66r-7r
  
  Copy, subscribed H King.
  
  This MS collated in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.
  
  Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 ('At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use')
- KiH 484 f. 67r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King:.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.
  
  Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne ('Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes')
- KiH 565 f. 67v
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet ('Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite')
- KiH 662 ff. 67v-8r
  
  Copy, headed To Patience, subscribed H: King.
  
  This MS collated in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.
  
  Henry King, Sonnet. To Patience ('Downe stormy Passions, downe: no more')
- KiH 534 f. 68r
  
  Copy, headed A Sonet, subscribed H: King.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.
  
  Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet ('Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe')
- KiH 493 f. 68v
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King:.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 167.
  
  Henry King, The Pink ('Faire one, you did on mee bestow')
- KiH 375 ff. 68v-9r
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 168-9.
  
  Henry King, The Forlorne Hope ('How long (vaine Hope!) dost thou my joyes suspend?')
- KiH 503 f. 69r
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.
  
  Henry King, The Retreit ('Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind')
- KiH 141 ff. 69r-70r
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy, subscribed H: King:.
  
  This MS collated in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 163-4.
  
  Henry King, The Departure. An Elegy ('Were I to leave no more than a Good Freind')
- KiH 9 ff. 70r-1r
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 164-6.
  
  Henry King, An Acknowledgment ('My best of Friends! what needes a Chaine to ty')
- KiH 382 f. 71r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King.
  
  This MS collated in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.
  
  Henry King, The Labyrinth ('Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and wee')
- KiH 214 ff. 71v-2r
  
  Copy, subscribed H: King:.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King ('Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust')
- StW 525 f. 72r
  
  Copy of the third poem (lines 85-106), An epitaph on m^rs Mary Prideaux, subscribed G: Morley:.
  
  Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.
  
  William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge ('Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I')
- MoG 17 f. 72v
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy on King James, here beginning All who have Eyes now wake and weepe, subscribed George Morley.
  
  A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
  Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.
  
  George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
- StW 1080 ff. 72v-3r
  
  Copy, headed To his mistrisse.
  
  Edited from this MS in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.
  
  William Strode, To a frinde ('Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play')
- FeO 54 f. 73v
  
  Copy, headed To his cruell Mistrisse; on a Spring rising in the midst of a Rock:, subscribed M^r Reynalds:.
  
  This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
  
  First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 23.
  
  Owen Felltham, The Spring in the Rock ('Harsh Maid! suppose not this clear Spring')
- CaW 71 f. 75r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 564.
  
  William Cartwright, To Splendora not to be perswaded ('Still so obdurate, hast thou vowed to liue')
- CaW 70 f. 75v
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS by editors.
  
  First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 565.
  
  William Cartwright, To Splendora hauing seene and spoke with her through a window ('I looked, and through the window chanced to spye')
- CaW 69 ff. 75v-6v
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS by editors.
  
  First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 565-6.
  
  William Cartwright, To Splendora desiring to heare musick ('Chaunt aloud, yee shrill-mouthd quires')
- CaW 68 ff. 76v-7r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS by editors.
  
  First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 567.
  
  William Cartwright, To Splendora A morning Salutation ('Splendora blesse the morne and Sol's resort')
- CaW 73 f. 77r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS by editors.
  
  First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 568.
  
  William Cartwright, To Splendora weeping ('Oh now the certaine cause I know')
- CaW 72 f. 77r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS by editors.
  
  First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 568-9.
  
  William Cartwright, To Splendora on the Same occasion ('Why doe these orient drops distill')
- HeR 413 f. 82v
  
  Copy, subscribed R. Herrick:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 446-7. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 552.
  
  Robert Herrick, Vpon parting ('Goe hence away, and in thy parting know')
- JnB 315 f. 84r-v
  
  Copy, headed Ben Johnson's invitation of a Gentleman to Svpper.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in Epigrammes (ci) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64-5.
  
  Ben Jonson, Inviting a Friend to Svpper ('To night, graue sir, both my poore house, and I')
- CmT 35 f. 86r
  
  Copy, headed Impatience in Loue incurable.
  
  This MS collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.
  
  First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.
  
  Thomas Campion, 'Fire, fire, fire, fire!'
- CoR 557 f. 87v
  
  Copy, subscribed R: Corbett.
  
  Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
  
  First published (from MSS (not in a public library)) in Eu. Hood [i.e. Joseph Haslewood], Bishop Corbet's Poems, Gentleman's Magazine, 93.i (April 1823), 308-9. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 89-90.
  
  Richard Corbett, A small Remembrance of the great King of Sweden ('What now! already are those wagers layd')
- ClJ 13 ff. 88v-9r
  
  Copy, headed M^r Cleaueland on his Hermophrodite printed among Randolphs poems.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 12-13.
  
  John Cleveland, The Authour to his Hermophrodite, made after M. Randolphs death, yet inserted into his Poems ('Probleme of Sexes; must thou likewise bee')
- StW 1258 ff. 91v-2r
  
  Copy, headed On the death of M^r Lancaster, subscribed P: Bradshawe.
  
  Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.
  
  William Strode, In eundem [the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster] ('To die is Natures debt. and when')
- MsP 21.3 f. 92v
  
  Copy, headed Choyce of a Wife.
  
  First published, as by P. M. and N[athan] F[ield], in London, 1632. Edwards & Gibson, I, 13-95 (p. 71).
  
  Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii, 51-8. Song ('Courtier, if thou needs wilt wiue')
- BrW 14.5 f. 93r
  
  Copy of Book II, Song 2, lines 193-222, headed The Choice of a mistris and beginning Shall I tell you whom I love?.
  
  This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 622.
  
  Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
- CoR 524 f. 101r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.
  
  Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')
- SuJ 23 ff. 103v-5r
  
  Copy, headed On the Marriage of the Lord Louelace, subscribed S^r John Suckling.
  
  Edited from this MS in Berry, pp. 19-25; collated in Clayton.
  
  First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.
  
  John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding ('I tell thee Dick, where I have been')
Harley MS 6918

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, including eight poems by Randolph (one twice), 102 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).
c.1650-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.
- StW 72 ff. 11v-12v
  
  Copy, headed A Dialogue betweene A Scholler and A Shoemaker: upon the Callot.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  Unpublished. Forey, pp. 150-3.
  
  William Strode, A Dialoge on the Calott ('Why Shoomaker, how ist I pay to You')
- DnJ 3023 f. 13r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his Mistrisse, subscribed J: Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
  
  John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
- FeO 62 f. 17r
  
  Copy, headed To his mistrisse.
  
  This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
  
  Fitst published in The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.
  
  Owen Felltham, This ensuing Copy the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling ('When, dearest, I but think on thee')
- HeR 327 f. 19r-v
  
  Copy of the six stanza version, headed A Sonnet.
  
  Partly edited from this MS in Brown. Recorded in Chambers.
  
  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.
  
  Robert Herrick, 'Hide not thy love and mine shall be'
- GrJ 37.2 f. 20r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his Mistrisse.
  
  First published in Poems (1660), pp. 67-9, headed Sonnet. P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as probably by John Grange.
  
  John Grange, 'Blind beauty! If it be a loss'
- HrE 48 ff. 20v-1
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Smith, p. 131.
  
  First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.
  
  Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Thought ('If you do love, as well as I')
- HeR 331 ff. 23v-4r
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet.
  
  Edited chiefly from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.
  
  Robert Herrick, His Mistris to him at his farwell ('You may vow Ile not forgett')
- HeR 235 f. 25r
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
  
  Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')
- CoA 147 f. 25v
  
  Copy, headed The prologue: at the entertainement of Prince Charles In Cambridge.
  
  This MS 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).
  
  Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian ('Who says the Times do Learning disallow?')
- CoA 76 ff. 25v-6r
  
  Copy, subscribed Cowley:.
  
  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).
  
  Abraham Cowley, The Epilogue [to the Guardian] ('The Play, great Sir, is done. yet needs must fear')
- ClJ 103 ff. 26r-7v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.
  
  John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines ('Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start')
- ShJ 68 ff. 28r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed J: Shirley.
  
  Edited from this MS in Armstrong and in Howarth.
  
  First published in R.G. Howard, Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (pp. 27-8). Armstrong, pp. 46-7.
  
  James Shirley, A Songe ('Coblers and Coopers and the rest')
- StW 689 f. 28v
  
  Copy of the second couplet, headed On a purs Stringe and here beginning While thus I hang.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.
  
  William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save')
- RnT 261 ff. 29v-30r
  
  Copy, headed To M^r Endimion Porter, subscribed T. Rand:.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 136-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Paraeneticon to the truly noble Gentleman Mr. Endymion Porter ('Goe bashfull Muse, thy message is to one')
- RnT 311 f. 30r
  
  Copy, subscribed T. Rand:.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, p. 138.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To his well Timbred Mistresse ('Sweet, heard you not fames latest breath rehearse')
- RnT 170 ff. 30v-1r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Randolph.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 141-3.
  
  Thomas Randolph, In praise of Woemen in Generall ('He is a Parricide to his mothers name')
- ShJ 11 f. 31v
  
  Copy of a 30-line version beginning Listen Gallants to my words.
  
  Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 93.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 9.
  
  James Shirley, The Common-wealth of Birds ('Let other Poets write of dogs')
- HoJ 126 f. 34v
  
  Copy, headed On a fart lett in the parliament house.
  
  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
- DeJ 31 ff. 36v-7v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.
  
  Sir John Denham, Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke ('This was the Man! the Glory of the Gown')
- ClJ 113 ff. 38r-9r
  
  Copy, subscribed Cleueland:.
  
  First published in The Character of a London-Diurnall, with severall select Poems by the same Author (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 43-5.
  
  John Cleveland, Square-Cap ('Come hither Apollo's bouncing Girle')
- ClJ 58 ff. 39r-40r
  
  Copy, headed A Songe, subscribed J: C:.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 56-7.
  
  John Cleveland, How the Commencement grows new ('It is no Curranto-news I undertake')
- CwT 729 f. 41r
  
  Copy of a parody of the poem, headed On Lesbia.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 265.
  
  First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).
  For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
- StW 24 f. 41r-v
  
  Copy, headed A songe.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 155-6.
  
  William Strode, Answere or Mock-song ('Ile tell you true wheron doth light')
- HrG 304.3 f. 42r-v
  
  Copy, headed Æthiopissa ad Cæstum.
  
  First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 437. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 170-1.
  
  George Herbert, Aethiopissa ambit Cestum Diuersi Coloris Virum ('Qvid mihi si facies nigra est? hoc, Ceste, colore')
- KiH 165 f. 43r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy: on A Lady unfortunately drowned in Thames, subscribed D^r Henry Kinge.
  
  This MS collated in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 96-7.
  
  Henry King, An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames ('For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves')
- HeR 110 ff. 43v-7r
  
  Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed An Epithalamium:, subscribed Rob: Herrick:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Martin, pp. 455-60, and in Patrick, pp. 81-6.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 53-8. Patrick, pp. 76-81.
  
  Robert Herrick, An Epithalamie to Sir Thomas Southwell and his Ladie ('Now, now's the time. so oft by truth')
- HeR 134 ff. 47r-50r
  
  Copy, headed His old age to M^r Weekes, subscribed Ro: Herrick:.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.
  
  Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus ('Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye')
- HeR 30 f. 50r-v
  
  Copy, headed To his Scornefull mistris, subscribed Rob: Herricke.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 87. Patrick, p. 124.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Bubble. A Song ('To my revenge, and to her desp'rate feares')
- HeR 319 ff. 50v-1r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Martin.
  
  First published in Martin (1956), pp. 441-2 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.
  
  Robert Herrick, The farewell ('Sweetest Loue since wee must part')
- HeR 257 f. 51r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Sonnet, subscribed Rob: Herrick.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 103-4. Patrick, pp. 143-4.
  
  Robert Herrick, Upon the death of his Sparrow. An Elegie ('Why doe not all fresh maids appeare')
- HeR 372 ff. 51v-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  Edited from this MS in Martin.
  
  First published in Martin (1956), p. 442 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.
  
  Robert Herrick, A Sonnet ('Ile dote noe more, nor shall mine eyes')
- MsP 11 ff. 52r-4r
  
  Copy, subscribed P: M:.
  
  Edited from this MS in McIlwraith and in Edwards & Gibson.
  
  First published in A.K. McIlwraith, The Virgins Character: A New Poem by Philip Massinger, RES, 4 (1928), 64-8. Edwards & Gibson, IV, 409-13.
  
  Philip Massinger, The Virgins Character ('Such as doe Trophies striue to raise')
- RnT 323 ff. 56v-7r
  
  Copy, headed Against Time.
  
  Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 254-5. Thorn-Drury, p. 163.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To Time ('Why should we not accuse thee of a crime')
- ShJ 3 f. 57r
  
  Copy, headed The Curtizan.
  
  This MS recorded in Armstrong.
  
  First published, adapted as stanzas 3 and 4 of Cupid's Call (Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come), in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 89.
  
  James Shirley, Another ('Harke, harke how in euery groue')
- RnT 310 f. 58v
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Randolph.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 137-8.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To a Painted Mistresse ('There are who know what once to day it was')
- ClJ 45 f. 59r-v
  
  Copy, headed On A fayre mayde, and A black Boy, subscribed J: Cleueland.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.
  
  John Cleveland, A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her ('Stand off, and let me take the aire')
- ClJ 120 ff. 59v-60r
  
  Copy, headed To his fayre Lady that askt him why he was dumbe and here beginning Stay Lady, Shoulde I answere then, subscribed J: C:.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 20-1.
  
  John Cleveland, To Mrs. K. T. who askt him why hee was dumb ('Stay, should I answer (Lady) then')
- ClJ 131 ff. 60v-1r
  
  Copy, headed Vpon a Miser who dyed for griefe presently after he had made a feast, subscribed J: C:.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 15-18.
  
  John Cleveland, Upon a Miser that made a great Feast, and the next day dyed for griefe ('Nor 'scapes he so: our dinner was so good')
- ClJ 53 ff. 61v-3v
  
  Copy, headed The Hecatombe, subscribed J: Cleueland.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 50-3.
  
  John Cleveland, The Hecatomb to his Mistresse ('Be dumb ye beggers of the rhiming trade')
- ClJ 25 ff. 63v-4v
  
  Copy, headed A Dialogue betweene two Zelots about Et cetera and the Oath:, subscribed J: Cleueland.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
  
  John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')
- RnT 38 ff. 64v-6r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: R:.
  
  Edited from this MS in Parry and in Thorn-Drury.
  
  First published in Parry (1917), pp. 220-3. Thorn-Drury, pp. 165-7.
  
  Thomas Randolph, The Character of a perfect Woman ('Apelles curious eye must gaze upon')
- CwT 1075 f. 66v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon one hauing the Greene Sicknesse.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.
  
  Thomas Carew, To M^ris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse ('White innocence that now lies spread')
- ClJ 192 f. 68r
  
  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).
  
  John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')
- RnT 36 ff. 68r-9r
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Rand:.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 134-5.
  
  Thomas Randolph, A Character. Aulico-politico-Academico ('Thou Cozen to great Madames and allyed')
- RnT 251 f. 69r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed T: Randolph:.
  
  First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 135-6.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the losse of his Finger ('How much more blest are trees then men')
- ClJ 71 ff. 70r-1r
  
  Copy, subscribed J: C:.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 26-8.
  
  John Cleveland, The Mixt Assembly ('Fleabitten Synod: an Assembly brew'd')
- ClJ 88 ff. 71r-3r
  
  Copy, headed The Rebellious Scott, subscribed J: C:.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.
  
  John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot ('How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?')
- ClJ 124 ff. 74v-7r
  
  Copy, headed To Prince Rupert, subscribed J: C:.
  
  First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 33-8.
  
  John Cleveland, To P. Rupert ('O that I could but vote my selfe a Poet!')
- CoA 4 ff. 80r-1v
  
  Copy of the two poems, headed respectively Upon Hope, subscribed Ab: Cowley (f. 80r-v), and The Answer, subscribed Rich: Crashaw (ff. 80v-1v).
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  A pair of poems comprising Against Hope by Cowley and the answer For Hope (Dear hope! earth's dowry, & heaun's debt!) by Richard Crashaw, both first published as On Hope, By way of Question and Answer, betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw in Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Published separately as Hope and M. Crashaws Answer For Hope in Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). The Poems…of Richard Crashaw, ed. L. C. Martin, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1957), pp. 143-5 and 344-6.
  Cowley's poem only also published separately in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 109-10. Sparrow, pp. 107-8. Collected Works, II, No. 3, pp. 23-5. See also Clarence H. Miller, The Order of Stanzas in Cowley and Crashaw's On Hope, SP, 61 (1964), 64-73.
  
  Abraham Cowley, Against Hope ('Hope, whose weak Being ruin'd is')
- ClJ 127 ff. 82r-3v
  
  Copy, headed The Scale of Loue or The Loues festiuall, subscribed J. C.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C. With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 47-9.
  
  John Cleveland, To the State of Love, or, The Senses Festival ('I saw a Vision yesternight')
- RnT 324 f. 84r
  
  Second copy, headed To Time, subscribed T: R.
  
  First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 254-5. Thorn-Drury, p. 163.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To Time ('Why should we not accuse thee of a crime')
- ClJ 5 ff. 84v-5v
  
  Copy, subscribed J: Cleue.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.
  
  John Cleveland, The Antiplatonick ('For shame, thou everlasting Woer')
- ClJ 145 ff. 85v-6r
  
  Copy, headed Upon S^r. S^r. S^r, Tho: Knights, subscribed J: C:.
  
  First published in Poems, by J. C. With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 53-4.
  
  John Cleveland, Upon Sir Thomas Martin, Who subscribed a Warrant thus... ('Hang out a flag, and gather pence! A piece')
- CwT 1286 f. 89r-v
  
  Edited from this MS in Dunlap.
  
  First published as On one Grace C. an Insatiate Whore in a 24-line version beginning Go shamefull Model of a Cursed Whore! in Latine Songs, With their English: and Poems. By Henry Bold (London, 1685). A 36-line version published in Minor Poems of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (Everyman Library, 1931). Dunlap. p. 191.
  
  Thomas Carew, To a Strumpett ('Hayle thou true modell of a cursed whore')
- LoR 37 ff. 94v-5r
  
  Copy, headed Captaine Loueles made this poem in his duresse at the Gatehouse.
  
  This MS collated in Wilkinson and in Clayton.
  
  First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
  
  Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
Harley MS 6921

A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*^v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco.
1620.
With a faded inscription (f. 57v) Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.
- SoR 293 f. 1r-v
  
  Copy of the dedication of Southwell's poems, untitled.
  
  This MS collated in Brown.
  
  Prefatory address, beginning Poets by abusing their talents, and making the follies and fayninges of love.... First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 1-2.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Author to his loving Cosen
- SoR 245 f. 2r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 2.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, To the Reader ('Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style')
- SoR 224 ff. 2r-7v
  
  Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems.
  
  Poems vi & xii first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Poems i-v, vii-xi first published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Poems xiii & xiv first published in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.B. Turnbull (London, 1856). Brown, pp. 3-12.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ ('Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude')
- SoR 16 ff. 7v-8v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce ('Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child')
- SoR 157 ff. 8v-9v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 13-15.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New heaven, new warre ('Come to your heaven you heavenly quires')
- SoR 10 ff. 9v-10r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 15-16.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The burning Babe ('As I in hoarie Winters night')
- SoR 162 f. 10v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 16-17.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New Prince, new pompe ('Behold a silly tender Babe')
- SoR 234 f. 11r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 17-18.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Sinnes heavie loade ('O Lord my sinne doth over-charge thy brest')
- SoR 23 ff. 11v-12r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs bloody sweat ('Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse')
- SoR 30 ff. 12r-13r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 19-21.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs sleeping friends ('When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest')
- SoR 84 ff. 13r-14v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 21-3.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Josephs Amazement ('When Christ by growth disclosed his descent')
- SoR 68 ff. 15r-16v
  
  Copy, headed Sainte thomas of Aquines Hymne redd on corpus christie daye Lauda syon saluatorem.
  
  First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 23-6.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A holy Hymne ('Praise, O Sion, praise thy Saviour')
- SoR 168 ff. 16v-18r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published as The Christians Manna in S. Peters Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalens Fvnerall Teares ([St Omers], 1616). Brown, pp. 26-8.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter ('In paschall feast the end of auncient rite')
- SoR 194 ff. 18v-19v
  
  Copy.
  
  This version first published in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3. Brown, pp. 29-31.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaynte ('How can I live, that have my life deny'de?')
- SoR 187 f. 20r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, p. 31.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters afflicted minde ('if that the sicke may grone')
- SoR 152 ff. 20v-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 32-3.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalens blush ('The signs of shame that staine my blushing face')
- SoR 203 ff. 21r-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 33-5.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters remorse ('Remorse upbraids my faults')
- SoR 43 f. 22r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 35-6.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Davids Peccavi ('In eaves, sole Sparrowe sits not more alone')
- SoR 174 ff. 23r-5v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 36-40.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Phansie turned to a sinners complaint ('Hee that his mirth hath lost')
- SoR 252 ff. 25v-7r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 41-3.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A vale of teares ('A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades')
- SoR 179 ff. 27r-8v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke ('Disankerd from a blisfull shore')
- SoR 139 ff. 28v-9
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death ('Sith my life from life is parted')
- SoR 48 ff. 29r-30r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 47-8.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Decease release. Dum morior orior ('The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please')
- SoR 79 f. 30r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in St. Peters Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 48-9.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye without desert ('If orphane Childe enwrapt in swathing bands')
- SoR 132 ff. 30v-1r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 49-50.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mans civill warre ('My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven')
- SoR 95 ff. 31r-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Life is but Losse ('By force I live, in will I wish to die')
- SoR 217 f. 32r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 52.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Seeke flowers of heaven ('Soare up my soule unto thy rest')
- SoR 73 f. 32v
  
  Copy, with second stanza first (beginning I live, but such a life as ever dies).
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye alive ('O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?')
- SoR 258 f. 33r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, What joy to live? ('I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy')
- SoR 101 ff. 33v-4r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life ('Who lives in love, loves least to live')
- SoR 4 f. 34r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 55-6.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, At home in Heaven ('Faire soule, how long shall veyles thy graces shroud?')
- SoR 109 f. 35r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 57.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Looke home ('Retyred thoughts enjoy their owne delights')
- SoR 240 f. 35v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Time goe by turnes ('The lopped tree in time may grow againe')
- SoR 114 f. 36r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies ('Shun delaies, they breede remorse')
- SoR 127 ff. 36v-8r
  
  Copy.
  
  Lines 1-48 first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Lines 49-76 published in 2nd edition (1595). Brown, pp. 60-2.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves servile lot ('Love mistris is of many mindes')
- SoR 89 f. 38r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lewd Love is Losse ('Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure')
- SoR 54 ff. 39v-40r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Fortunes Falsehoode ('In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie')
- SoR 121 f. 39r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves Garden grief ('Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure')
- SoR 60 f. 40v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, From Fortunes reach ('Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race')
- SoR 37 ff. 41r-2r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich ('I dwell in grace's courte')
- SoR 209 f. 42r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.
  
  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least ('Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong')
Harley MS 6930

An octavo volume of psalms translated by Francis Davison and others, in the accomplished professional hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, 113 pages, in contemporary panelled calf gilt.
c.1620s-30.
- DnJ 2646.67 ff. 51r-2v
  
  Copy, in Ralph Crane's hand, headed Psalme. 137 (aliter), subscribed Finis. / Fr: D:.
  
  This MS collated in Grierson and in Crowley.
  
  First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as Probably by Francis Davison. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of Psalme 137, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.
  
  John Donne, Psalme 137 ('By Euphrates flowry side')
Harley MS 6931

An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.

Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.
c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for M^r Pitt. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS: CoR Δ 5.
- StW 1254 f. 1r-v
  
  Copy, headed In obitum ffrancisci Lancaster, subscried Peter Bradshaw.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey.
  
  Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.
  
  William Strode, In eundem [the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster] ('To die is Natures debt. and when')
- CwT 1264 f. 2r
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Dunlap.
  
  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.
  
  Thomas Carew, A Louers passion ('Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see')
- CwT 276 f. 2v
  
  Copy, headed Vppon a ffly drown'd in a Ladyes eye, subscribed Tho: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
  
  Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
- BrW 71 ff. 2v-3v
  
  Copy, headed The honour and eternity of Poetry, subscribed John Chudleigh.
  
  First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 1-3.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, An Ode ('Awake, fair Muse. for I intend')
- KiH 61 ff. 3v-4r
  
  Copy, headed The faire Maides 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).
  
  Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
- StW 755 f. 4r
  
  Copy, headed On his M^rs walking in a gentle snow, subscribed William Stroud.
  
  First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
  
  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
- HeR 13 f. 4r
  
  Copy, headed On his M^ris adorned w^th sundry sortes of Jewells and here beginning Seest thou those Rubyes w^ch shee weares.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
  
  Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares')
- BrW 161 f. 4v
  
  Copy, subscribed William Browne.
  
  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
- CwT 78 ff. 4v-5r
  
  Copy, headed To his M^ris on her pfections, subscribed John Grange.
  
  First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
- BrW 90 f. 5r-v
  
  Copy, headed Vppon an Infant vnborne whose mother dyed in travell, subscribed William Browne.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.
  
  William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail ('Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd')
- CoR 343 ff. 6r-7v
  
  Copy, headed To y^e Marquesse on his iourney into Spaine, subscribed D^r Rich: Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine ('I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd')
- DnJ 3203 ff. 7v-8r
  
  Copy, headed To his M^ris as shee was going to bed, subscribed D^r John Donne.
  
  This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
  
  First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
  The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
  
  John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
- StW 308 f. 8v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
  
  William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
- StW 696 f. 8v
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.
  
  William Strode, A Register for a Bible ('I am the faithfull deputy')
- StW 7 ff. 8v
  
  Copy, subscribed Will: Stroud.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.
  
  William Strode, Another ('I, your Memory's Recorder')
- PoW 27 ff. 8v-9v
  
  Copy, headed To his M^ris in despaire because her eyes and haire were blacke, subscribed Walton Pwle.
  
  First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
  
  Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
- StW 272 ff. 9v-10r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
  
  William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe ('Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill')
- StW 1192 ff. 10r-11v
  
  Copy, subscribed Will: Stroude.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.
  
  William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende')
- StW 346 ff. 11v-12r
  
  Copy, subscribed William Stroud.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.
  
  William Strode, On a Dissembler ('Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell')
- RnT 509 f. 12r-v
  
  Copy, ascribed to Ben Jonson.
  
  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
- StW 479 f. 13r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed Will: Stroud.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 70-1. Forey, pp. 216-18.
  
  William Strode, On Dr Lanctons death ('Because of fleshly mould wee bee')
- KiH 288 ff. 13v-14r
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Earle of Dorsett death, subscribed D^r Rich: Corbett.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
  
  Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
- StW 1218 f. 14r
  
  Copy of the second couplet, here beginning My strings can doe what noe man could.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.
  
  William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes')
- CoR 655 ff. 14r-15r
  
  Copy, headed On M^ris Mallet, subscribed Rich: Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
- CoR 500 f. 15r
  
  Copy, subscribed Rich: Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.
  
  Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford ('Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place')
- CoR 249 f. 15r-v
  
  Copy, headed An Antianniversary, subscribed Rich: Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
  The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
- CoR 229 f. 16r-v
  
  Copy, headed The answere to D^r. Price, subscribed R: Corbett.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 11.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
  
  Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
- CoR 690 f. 19r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed D^r Rich: Corbett.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
- StW 487 ff. 19v-20r
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  This MS recorded (as H 9) in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, p. 169.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.
  
  William Strode, On Faireford windores ('I know noe paint of Poetry')
- StW 128 ff. 20v-1r
  
  Copy, headed A gent: to his freind whome kissing at his departure he left some signe of bloud vppon her.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
  
  William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her ('What Mystery was this, that I should finde')
- StW 930 f. 21r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed Will Strode.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.
  
  William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles')
- CoR 393 ff. 21v-2r
  
  Copy, headed To y^e Duke of Buckingham, subscribed D^r Rich: Corbet.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.
  
  Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')
- StW 62 ff. 22r-3r
  
  Copy, subscribed Bill: Stroud.
  
  Edited from this MS in Tuckett.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, A Devonshire Song, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.
  
  William Strode, A Devonshire Song ('Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan')
- StW 1142 ff. 23r-4r
  
  Copy, headed To a Gentleman strangely cur'd by two Chirurgians.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 366 et seq.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.
  
  William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. ('Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!')
- CwT 1128 ff. 24v-5v
  
  Copy, headed A Gent: on his Entertainment at Saxum in Kent, subscribed Tho. Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 34.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.
  
  Thomas Carew, To Saxham ('Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes')
- CwT 1010 ff. 25v-7r
  
  Copy, headed To his M^ris psuasions to loue, subscribed Thom: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 2.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
  
  Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
- CwT 827 f. 27r-v
  
  Copy, headed On his M^ris. singing in a Gallery at Yorke house, subscribed Thom: Cary.
  
  This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
  
  Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
- CoR 81 ff. 27v-8v
  
  Copy in two hands, headed On D^r Corbets father, subscribed D^r R: Corbett.
  
  First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father ('Vincent Corbet, farther knowne')
- CwT 479 ff. 28v-30r
  
  Copy, headed To his M^rs desiring backe her letters, subscribed Tho: Carye.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
  
  Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters ('So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes')
- CoR 96 ff. 30v-1r
  
  Copy, headed On the same [i.e. death of Queen Anne], subscribed D^r Rich: Corbett.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 66, 140.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne ('Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you')
- DaJ 50 f. 31v
  
  Copy, headed The Rustick Gallants wooing and here beginning Faire wench, I cannot court thy sp'rit like eyes.
  
  First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.
  
  Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion ('Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes')
- CoR 716 f. 31v
  
  Copy, headed On a blazinge Starre, subscribed D^r R: C:.
  
  This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 138.
  
  First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
  
  Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne')
- StW 947 ff. 32r-3v
  
  Copy, headed Cappes, subscribed W: Strowde.
  
  First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.
  
  William Strode, A Song of Capps ('The witt hath long beholding bin')
- HoJ 127 f. 35v
  
  Copy, headed A fart in the Parliament.
  
  John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart ('Reader I was born and cried')
- CoR 207 ff. 36r-7v
  
  Copy, headed To M^r Hamond of Bewdley For meating downe y^e May=pole, subscribed Geo: Morleye.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
  An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of D^r Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
- MoG 92 f. 38r-v
  
  Copy, headed On y^e Crowne of an Hatt dranke in, subscribed Geo: Morleye.
  
  George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt ('Well fare those three that where there was a dearth')
- CoR 282 ff. 39r-48r
  
  Copy, subscribed D^r R: Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
  
  Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
- CoR 514 f. 49r
  
  Copy.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.
  
  Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')
- CoR 18 ff. 49r-52r
  
  Copy, headed The Entertainm^t. of his Ma^tye at Cambridge, to the Tune of Bonny Nell.
  
  First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
  Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).
  
  Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
- DaW 91 f. 52v
  
  Copy, untitled.
  
  First published in London, 1649. Dramatic Works, III, 91-192 (pp. 155-6). Gibbs, pp. 208-9.
  
  Sir William Davenant, Love and Honour, Act IV, scene i. Song ('No morning red, and blushing faire')
- CaW 40 ff. 53r-4r
  
  Copy, subscribed W: C:.
  
  This MS collated in Evans.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 188-9. Evans, pp. 445-7.
  
  William Cartwright, On the Imperfections of Christ-Church Buildings ('Arise thou Sacred Heap, and shew a Frame')
- CaW 12 ff. 54v-5r
  
  Copy, headed A Diuersion to y^e prince of Wales, subscribed Will: Cartwright.
  
  This MS collated in Evans.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 190-1. Evans, pp. 447-8.
  
  William Cartwright, A Continuation of the same to the Prince of Wales ('But turn we hence to you, as some there be')
- CoR 166 ff. 55v-6r
  
  Copy, headed On Doctor Rauis Bpp of london, subscribed Rich: Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London ('When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke')
- StW 730 ff. 56v-7r
  
  Copy, headed On a Strange Gentlewoman passing by his windowe, subscribed Will: Strode.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.
  
  William Strode, Song ('As I out of a Casement sent')
- CwT 386 f. 57v
  
  Copy, headed A Louer y^t had many verses to his M^rs y^t cared not for him, subscribed Tho: Carye.
  
  This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 20.
  
  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
  
  Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned ('Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)')
- JnB 346 f. 58r-v
  
  Copy.
  
  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
  
  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.
  
  Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter ('Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast')
- MyJ 19 ff. 59r-60v
  
  Copy, headed On M^rs Anne kings Table-booke of Pictures, subscribed Jasper Maine.
  
  Unpublished?
  
  Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures ('Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight')
- StW 997 f. 60v
  
  Copy, subscribed W: Stroud.
  
  First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
  
  William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
- HeR 272 ff. 61r-2v
  
  Copy, headed M^r Herricks welcome to Sacke.
  
  This MS collated in Martin.
  
  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
  
  Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles')
- KiH 442 f. 62v
  
  Copy, headed Mans misery, subscribed D^r John King.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
  
  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
- MoG 62 f. 63r
  
  Copy, subscribed Geo: Morley.
  
  George Morley, On the Nightingale ('My limbs were weary and my head oppressed')
- StW 513 ff. 63v-5r
  
  Copy of the sequence, headed On the Death of M^rs Mary Prideaux, each of the three poems subscribed Will: Strode.
  
  This MS recorded (erroneously as H67) in Forey, p. 335.
  
  Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.
  
  William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge ('Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I')
- CoR 110 ff. 65v-6r
  
  Copy, headed On S^r Thomas Ouerbury, subscribed Rich: Corbett.
  
  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower ('Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth')
- StW 1159 f. 66r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed W: S:.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 88-9. Forey, pp. 200-1.
  
  William Strode, To Sir Jo. Ferrers ('Gold is restorative. How can I then')
- StW 1176 f. 67r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed W: S:.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 90-2. Forey, pp. 202-4.
  
  William Strode, To the Same [Sir Jo. Ferrers] ('If empty Vessells can resounde')
- StW 1166 f. 68r
  
  Copy, headed To the same [i.e. Sir John Ferrers], subscribed W: S:.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 92-3. Forey, pp. 204-5.
  
  William Strode, To Sir John Ferrers for a token ('It grieves mee that I thus due thanks retayne')
- StW 1155 f. 68v
  
  Copy, subscribed W: Stroude.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 93. Forey, p. 199.
  
  William Strode, To Sir Edmund Ling ('Sir, I had writt in Lattin, but I feare')
- StW 1172 f. 69r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed Will Strode.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), p. 94-5. Forey, pp. 53-4.
  
  William Strode, To the Lady Knighton ('Madam, due thanks are lodgde within my breast')
- BmF 125 f. 70r
  
  Copy, headed On Madam Fowler desiring to haue a sonnet written on her, subscribed Francis Beaumont.
  
  First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).
  
  Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her ('Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me')
- StW 162 f. 70v
  
  Copy, subscribed Will: Strode.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
  
  First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
  
  William Strode, In commendation of Musique ('When whispering straines do softly steale')
- StW 989 f. 71r-v
  
  Copy, subscribed Will: Stroude.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 9-10. Forey, pp. 99-101.
  
  William Strode, A song on the Baths ('What Angel stirrs this happy well?')
- StW 911 ff. 71v-2
  
  Copy, subscribed Will: Strowde.
  
  First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
  
  William Strode, Song ('When Orpheus sweetly did complaine')
- StW 709 f. 72r-v
  
  Copy, headed A Song on a Sigh, subscribed Will: Strowde.
  
  This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
  
  First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.
  
  William Strode, A Sigh ('O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde')
- StW 368 f. 73r
  
  Copy, headed A Song on the Absence of a Frend, subscribed Will: Strowde.
  
  This MS collated in Forey.
  
  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.
  
  William Strode, On a freind's absence ('Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay')
- CoR 424 ff. 73v-4v
  
  Copy, headed On the casting of Greate Tom of ch: ch:, subscribed Jeram: Terrent.
  
  First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).
  
  Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle')
- CoR 128 ff. 76v-8r
  
  Copy, headed Upon the Lady Haddington dying of the small Poxe, subscribed Rich: Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
  
  Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
- CaW 36 ff. 78r-9r
  
  Copy, subscribed Will: Cartwright.
  
  This MS collated in Evans.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 204-6. Evans, pp. 457-9.
  
  William Cartwright, On the great Frost. 1634 ('Shew me the flames you brag of, you that be')
- KiH 779 f. 81r-v
  
  Copy, headed Vpon the King's happy returne From Scotland, Anno Dom: 1633, subscribed D^r Henry King.
  
  This MS recorded in Crum.
  
  First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.
  
  Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')
- StW 744 ff. 82r-3r
  
  Copy, headed The Chimney=sweepers song, subscribed Will: Strode.
  
  First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 111-14. Forey, pp. 89-91.
  
  William Strode, Song ('Hath Christmas furrd your Chimneys')
- CoR 632 ff. 83r-6v
  
  Copy, subscribed R. Corbett.
  
  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
  
  Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')
- CaW 2 ff. 88v-90r
  
  Copy, subscribed W: C:.
  
  This MS collated in Evans.
  
  First published in Works (1651), pp. 238-42. Evans, pp. 488-91.
  
  William Cartwright, Ariadne deserted by Theseus, as She sits upon a Rock in the Island Naxos, thus complains ('Theseus! O Theseus heark! but yet in vain')
Harley MS 6932

A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, in a single mixed hand, entitled Fancies on seuerall occasions written and reuised heere from Julij 6^t 1645 to Apr: 4^t 1647, each poem captioned with a dedication to a specified friend, 39 leaves, bound with British Library, Harley MS 3918 in modern half-morocco.
c.1647.
In the same hand as British Library Add. MS 19863.
- RnT 509.5 ff. 20v-1v
  
  Copy, captioned above On my first Imprisonment / To my truely honord Freind S^r Joh: Clot: k^t et Coll:..
  
  First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
  The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
  
  Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste')
Harley MS 6933

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled Poetical Characteristicks Vol 2^d Collected by W O, 35 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.
c.1730s.
- ElQ 18 f. 8r
  
  Copy, headed The following Ditty on the Factions raised by the Q of Scots while Prisoner in England, was composed by Q Elizabeth and was printed not long after, if not before, the beheading of the said Scots Quen.
  
  This MS cited in Bradner and in Selected Works.
  
  A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2^v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, 'The doubt of future foes'
- HlJ 7.6 f. 10v
  
  Copy of a version headed By Bishp Hall and beginning While on the Sabbath, we read Greenham's Lines.
  
  Wynter, IX, 705.
  
  Joseph Hall, Upon Mr Greenham his Book of the Sabbath ('While Greenham writeth of the Sabbath's rest')
- RnT 311.5 f. 11v
  
  Copy of the last four lines, beginning 'Mongst thy Resolves, take my Resolves in too.
  
  First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 75-8.
  
  Thomas Randolph, To Mr. Feltham on his booke of Resolves ('In this unconstant Age when all mens minds')
- RaW 401.5 f. 9r
  
  Copy, headed On Case E of Somerset.
  
  First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).
  
  Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
- DeJ 32 ff. 15v-16r
  
  Copy, headed An Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke by M^r John Denham MS not printed in his Poems.
  
  Edited from this MS in Banks.
  
  First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.
  
  Sir John Denham, Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke ('This was the Man! the Glory of the Gown')
Harley MS 6946

A quarto composite volume of five sermons by John Donne, each in a different hand, 60 leaves (plus blanks).
c.1620s.
This MS volume identified and discussed, with facsimile examples, in Jeanne Shami, New Manuscript Texts of Sermons by John Donne, EMS, 13: New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts (2006), 77-119.
- DnJ 3999.5 ff. 1r-11r
  
  Copy.
  
  Facsimile of the first page in Shami, EMS, 13 (2006), 79.
  
  First published in XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 18. Potter & Simpson, I, No. 5, pp. 236-51.
  
  John Donne, Sermon preached at Denmark-House, December 14, 1617, on Proverbs 8.17
- DnJ 4022.5 ff. 12r-22v
  
  Copy.
  
  Facsimile of the first page in Shami, EMS, 13 (2006), 82.
  
  First published in Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 2. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 17, pp. 335-47.
  
  John Donne, Sermon preached at Sir Francis Nethersole's Marriage [shortly before February 12, 1619/20], on Genesis 2.18
- DnJ 4034.5 ff. 23r-34v
  
  Copy.
  
  Facsimile of the last page in Shami, EMS, 13 (2006), 85.
  
  First published in Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634). Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 3. Potter & Simpson, III, No. 11, pp. 241-55.
  
  John Donne, Sermon preached at the marriage of Mistress Margaret Washington, May 30, 1621, on Hosea 2.19
- DnJ 4044.8 ff. 35r-48v
  
  Copy.
  
  Facsimile of the first page in Shami, EMS, 13 (2006), 85.
  
  Fifty Sermons (London, 1649). Potter & Simpson, IV, 324-44.
  
  John Donne, Sermon on John 2.35
- DnJ 4049.5 ff. 49r-60r
  
  Copy.
  
  Facsimile of the first page in Shami, EMS, 13 (2006), 93.
  
  First published in Fifty Sermons (London, 1649). Potter & Simpson, X, 213-28.
  
  John Donne, Sermon on 1 Thessalonians 5.16
Harley MS 6947

A large folio guardbook of chiefly verse MSS, in Latin, English and Greek, in various hands, at least some relating to Cambridge University, 408 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
- MaA 91 f. 74r
  
  Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled on a single folio leaf.
  
  First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.
  
  Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona ('Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti')
- MaA 265 f. 74r
  
  Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, following the Latin version (MaA 91), on a single folio leaf.
  
  First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.
  This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).
  
  Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
- JnB 686 f. 143r-v
  
  Copy of the argument, or summary of the plot, which was submitted to the Court before the performance of the masque, in a neat mixed hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf.
  
  Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 318-19.
  
  First published in London, 1609. Herford & Simpson, VII, 265-317.
  
  Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens
- B&F 63 ff. 163r-4v
  
  Extracts from Acts III and IV, in a neat rounded hand, on three leaves once folded as a letter or packet.
  
  First published in London, 1619. Dyce, II, 231-347. Bullen, I, 243-354, ed. R.W. Bond. Bowers, II, 182-281, ed. George Walton Williams.
  
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, A King and No King
- DoC 117 ff. 167r, 168r
  
  Copy, in a neat hand, headed Song [upon the French Kings returne out of flanders into France added in another cursive hand], on two long folio leaves, endorsed Translations out of french. 1693.
  
  This MS collated in Harris.
  
  First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.
  
  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French ('In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms')
- RoJ 25 ff. 199r-v, 198r-v
  
  Copy of two folio leaves (misplaced).
  
  This MS recorded in Vieth; lines 1-62 only collated in Walker.
  
  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
  
  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')
- EsR 70 ff. 230r-1v
  
  Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1568-1628), antiquary, headed A Poem made on the Earle of Essex being in disgrace with Queene Eliz:. by m^r henry Cuffe his Secretary.
  
  Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.
  
  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.
  
  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
- MaA 151 f. 247r-v
  
  Copy, closely written in double columns, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
  
  This MS collated in Margoliouth.
  
  First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
  
  Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')
- HoJ 105 ff. 252r-3r
  
  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed M^r John Hoskins of the Middle temple, Counsello^r at Law, being comitted to the Tower by the king for certaine speeches vttered in the Parliament house, not long after his comittm^t (w^ch was in the yeare of o^r Lord 1614.) wrote these ensuing verses w^ch he caused his wife to p^rsent to the kings Ma^tie. entituling the same / A Dreame, on two leaves once folded as a letter or packet.
  
  Edited from this MS is Osborn.
  
  Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
  A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.
  
  John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
- DrJ 153 f. 264r
  
  Copy, on a single folio leaf, scribbling in French on the verso. Late 17th century.
  
  This MS collated in California.
  
  First published in The Rival Ladies (London, 1664). Kinsley, I, 34. California, VIII, 103. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 84-6.
  
  John Dryden, Prologue To the Rival-Ladies (''Tis much Desir'd you Judges of the Town')
- *PsK 319 f. 270r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph fair copy, headed Rosania to Lucasia on some letters, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
  
  This MS identified and collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Independently identified in 1991 by Elizabeth Hageman. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 181, 184-5.
  
  First published in Poems (1667), pp. 144-5. Saintsbury, pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 216-17, poem 98.
  
  Katherine Philips, Rosania to Lucasia on her Letters ('Ah! strike outright, or else forbear')
Harley MS 6986

A folio composite volume of royal letters and papers, in various hands, 219 leaves.

Fol. 58 docketed Given by M^r Geo. Holmes.
- ElQ 105 f. 58r
  
  Copy, in a professional italic hand, on one side of half a folio leaf, endorsed in another hand The Quenes ma prayer at the goinge owt of the navye 1597. c.1597.
  
  Edited from this MS (as in the hand of Elizabeth or a capable imitator) in Autograph Compositions. Edited from this MS (as being autograph) in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works (as a scribal copy that lacks Elizabeth's characteristic letter forms and spellings). This MS prayer is not autograph.
  
  Beginning O God, All-maker, Keeper, and Guider, inurement of thy rare-seen, unused and seld-heard-of goodness.... Collected Works, Prayer 39, pp. 426-7. Autograph Compositions, pp. 104-5. Selected Works, Prayer 5, pp. 257-9.
  
  Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Azores Expedition, July 1597
- BcF 587 ff. 202r-19r
  
  Copies of letters by Bacon, transcribed from originals among the Advocates Library MSS in the National Library of Scotland.
  
  Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Harley MS 6989

A folio composite volume of original letters, in various hands.
- *ElT 9 f. 33r
  Autograph
  
  Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Cromwell, [1533?], originally accompanying (no longer present) a presentation exemplum of Elyot's Of the Knowledeg whiche Maketh a Wise Man (London, 1533).
  
  Wilson, pp. 22-3.
  
  Thomas Elyot, Letter(s)
Harley MS 6994

A folio composite volume of original letters, in various hands.
- AndL 59 f. 179r
  
  Autograph letter signed, to Sir Francis Walsingham, 24 May 1589.
  
  Edited in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. xxxix-xl. Facsimile in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 49.
  
  Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999

Harley MS 6003

Harley MS 6021

Harley MS 6038

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Harley MS 6377

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