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  • Lansdowne MS 13

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

    • *HrJ 347 f. 115r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Penn, from Eton, 19 May 1571.

      McClure, No. 1, p. 61.

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

  • Lansdowne MS 19

    A folio composite volume of papers of William Cecil, Lord Burghley.

    • LyJ 5 f. 31r

      A Latin epistle by Lyly, to Lord Burghley, in a professional hand, 16 May 1574.

      Edited in Bond, I, 13-14, and in Feuillerat, pp. 522-3.

      John Lyly, Letter(s)

  • Lansdowne MS 28

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 220 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

    • *HvG 10 ff. 180r-1v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Harvey, in Latin, to Lord Burghley, from Cambridge, 2 April 1579.

      Recorded in Moore Smith, pp. 35-6.

      Gabriel Harvey, Letter(s)

  • Lansdowne MS 30

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 220 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

    • *HvG 11 f. 163r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed (Gabriel Haruejus), in Latin, to Lord Burghley, from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 14 June 1580.

      Facsimile examples in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plates LXXI (a, b), and in Alfred Fairbank and Bruce Dickins, The Italic Hand in Tudor Cambridge (London, 1962), Plate 22a.

      Gabriel Harvey, Letter(s)

  • Lansdowne MS 36

    A folio composite volume of state papers.

    • *LyJ 6 ff. 192r-3r
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Lord Burghley, July 1582.

      Edited in Bond, I, 28-9, and in Feuillerat, pp. 529-31. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XVII.

      John Lyly, Letter(s)

  • Lansdowne MS 42

    A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands.

    • *HvG 12 ff. 160r-1v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Harvey, to Lord Burghley, 15 February 1585.

      Recorded in Moore Smith, pp. 46-8. Facsimile examples in Greg, Englisj Literary Autographs, Plate LXXI (d, e).

      Gabriel Harvey, Letter(s)

  • Lansdowne MS 50

    A folio composite volume of tracts letters and papers, in various hands, 212 leaves, in modern half-calf on cloth boards gilt.

    Papers of Lord Burghley.

    Bookplate of shelburne.

    • HkR 48 ff. 171r-3r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on the first six pages of a quarto booklet of six leaves (plus wrapper), endorsed (f. 177v) by Lord Burghley 28. Mart. 1586 Inter Hookar. et Travers. 1586.

      A series of paragraphs, beginning Our fathers are no precidentes for vs to followe in error, apparently written in answer to Hooker's account of his preaching in the Temple (see HkR 45-6).

      Richard Hooker, [Answer to Hooker's Account]
    • HkR 45 ff. 174-6v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on the last six pages of a quarto booklet of six leaves (plus wrapper), endorsed (f. 177v) by Lord Burghley 28. Mart. 1586 Inter Hookar. et Travers. 1586.

      This MS conforms to the text edited in Keble (see also HkR 49).

      Hooker's account of what he preached in his Temple sermons on Habakkuk, beginning I doute not but that god was mrcifull to thousandes of or fathers.... Keble, I, 60-4.

      Richard Hooker, Notes of Mr Hookers Sermon

  • Lansdowne MS 63

    • *AndL 83 f. 209r
      Autograph

      An academic letter in Latin, to Lord Burghley, supporting a petition to Queen Elizabeth, signed by Andrewes and others, 23 April 1590.

      Facsimile in Alfred Fairbank and Bruce Dickins, The Italic Hand in Tudor Cambridge (London, 1962), Plate 24.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)

  • Lansdowne MS 72

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 226 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-calf on cloth boards gilt.

    Bookplate of Shelburne.

    • AndL 2 f. 144r-v

      Extracts, in an italic hand, on a single folio leaf, folded in double columns, headed Ex concione Mri Dris Andrewes ad Clerum habitâ Londini in æde Divi Pauli in Comitije Pananglije. ao 1592, docketed Mr Goodwin.

      Edited from this MS in John Strype, The Life and Acts of John Whitgift, 3 vols (Oxford, 1822), III, 293-6.

      First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Opuscula (1852), pp. 29-31.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Concio ad clerum in synodo provinciali Cantuariensis provinciae ad D. Pauli. 20 February 1592/3

  • Lansdowne MS 82

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various largely professional hands, 236 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

    Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

    • ElQ 95 f. 161r

      Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled but with a sidenote Her Mats pryvate Medytacion vppon ye recent Expedytion against ye Spaniard in 1596, the second item on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed Juine 1596 A Prayer made by ye Q. wth a lre of mr secretary [Cecil] to ye Erl of Essex and ye L. Admirall.

      Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

      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
    • *HrJ 350 No. 88
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Lady Russell, [14 August 1596].

      McClure, No. 5, pp. 65-6. Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(a), and in P. J. Croft, Autographs, in The Concise Encyclopædia of Antiques, Vol. IV (London, 1959), pp. 236-41 (Plate 148).

      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

  • Lansdowne MS 94

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

    Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

    Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

    • ElQ 119 f. 29r

      Copy of Version 1, in a professional italic hand, headed The answere of ye Quenes highnes to ye peticion proposed vnto hir by ye lower howse concerning hir mariage, on one side of a single folio leaf, docketed Q. Eliz. Speech / Double.

      Edited principally from this MS in Hartley and in Collected Works.

      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
    • *ElQ 140 f. 30r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, on the first page of two once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Burghley (f. 31v) x. ap'll, 1563. 25 The Q. speche -- yn ye Parliamt vttred by ye L. kepur Q. Elizabs. hand.

      Edited from this MS in Hartley (Text i) and in Autograph Compositions, pp. 34-7. Edited in Selected Works. Collated in Collected Works, with a facsimile on p. 78.

      Facsimiles also in Heisch, p. 38; in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 14, p. 42; and in Philip Mould Fine Paintings catalogue [c.2008], p. 15.

      First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

      Beginning Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words.... Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon
    • SiP 197 ff. 53r-6v

      A précis of the letter in a single cursive secretary hand, originally untitled, here beginning To arme an excuse wth reasons were to acknowledg yt I did willinglie amisse..., on six folio pages, with blank wrappers (ff. 53r, 61v), docketed in another contemporary hand (f. 53r) 1579. Notes out of mr Phillip Sidneys lre to ye Q. towching hir mariage wth. Monsieur; other inscriptions including 1579 / Bundle XII / Varia (and scribbling in cipher on f. 53r in the same hand as the inscription on f. 63v: Ano. 1579 IV. LXXV. Articles propounded in behalf of ye Duke of Anjoy concerning marryinge wth ye Queen).

      This MS recorded in Feuillerat, III, 325. Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 18), with a facsimile of f. 54r on p. 126.

      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
    • *ElQ 213 ff. 84r-5r
      Autograph

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, with autograph revisions by Elizabeth, on two folio leaves, imperfect.

      Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley and (as Version 2) in Autograph Compositions. This MS collated in Collected Works (as Version 2), with a facsimile of the first page on p. 191, and in Selected Works. Edited in part diplomatically in Heisch, pp. 49-51.

      First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

      Version I. Beginning When I remember the bottomless depth of God's great benefits towards me.... Hartley, II, 254-8 (Text ii, a summary) and II, 261 (cited only, as Text iv). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 186-90 (Version 1).

      Version II. Beginning The bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almighty.... Hartley, II, 247-53 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 190-6. Autograph Compositions, pp. 67-72 (Version 2). Selected Works, Speech 8, pp. 61-9.

      Version III. Beginning My lords and gentlemen, I cannot but accept with much kindness this your petition, wherein I perceive the great love you bear towards me.... Hartley, II, 259-60 (Text iii).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586
    • *ElQ 224 ff. 86r-8r
      Autograph

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, with extensive autograph revisions by Elizabeth.

      Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley and (as Version 2) in Autograph Compositions. Edited in Selected Works. Collated (as Version 2) in Collected Works, with a facsimile of f. 87v on p. 203. Part edited diplomatically in Heisch, p. 52.

      First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

      Version I. Beginning I perceive you have well considered of my last message.... Hartley, II, 266-71 (2 versions). Hartley, II, 271 (cited only, as Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 196-200 (Version 1).

      Version II. Beginning Full grievous is the way whose going on and end breed cumber for the hire of a laborious journey.... Hartley, II, 266-70 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 200-4 (Version 2). Autograph Compositions, pp. 73-8. Selected Works, Speech 9, pp. 70-6.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Second Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 24, 1586
    • ElQ 250 f. 120r

      Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed Oratio siue responsio Dnæ Reginæ, facta Oratori regis Poloniæ die Lunæ, 26. Julij. 1597, on one side of a folio leaf, endorsed Responsio Reginæ. ad pau'l de Jaline Legatu Regis Poloniæ Sigismondi tertii.

      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 271 f. 123r-v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Her maiesties most princely answere, delyuered by her self at the court at whitehall on the last day of nouember 1601. when the Speaker of the lower house of parliament asisted with the most pte of the knights and burgesses had presented ther humble thankes for her fre and gracious fauour in preuenting and reforminge of sundrie greiuances, by abuse of many grants commonly called Monopolies, the same beinge taken verbatim in wrytinge by A: B: as neer as he could possiblie set yt downe, on both sides of a single folio leaf, docketed Vlt Nouvbris 1601 Hir Maty Speache to ye Speaker and the knights and Burgesses of the Lower howse.

      Edited from this MS (as second version) in Hartley (pp. 292-3). Cited in Collected Works.

      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
    • EsR 283 f. 135r-v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a folio leaf.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 96

    A folio composite volume of state and ecclesiastical papers in various hands, 159 leaves, in modern half-calf.

    Among papers probably of Lord Burghley. Bookplate of Shelburne.

    • HkR 40 f. 50r-v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 51v) 30: Martij 1585 Certaine pointes of doctrine deliuered by Mr: Hooker.

      Edited in part from this MS in Folger edition, Volume V, with a facsimile of f. 50r on p. 280.

      These statements edited in Keble I, 59-60, and in Folger edition, p. 282.

      Richard Hooker, A shorte note of sundrie vnsounde pointes of Doctrine at diuers times deliuered by Mr: Hooker in his publicke sermons

  • Lansdowne MS 98

    A large folio composite volume of state latters, tracts and verse, in various hands, 282 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

    Largely Burghley papers, with some later additions.

    Bookplate of Shelburne.

    • WoH 164 f. 189r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed A Hymne made by Sr Henry Wotton in an unquiet night at the tyme of his late sicknes, on the first page of a trimmed pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 190v) A Hymne made by Sr He: Wotton att Venice.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.

      Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory')
    • WiG 25.5 ff. 192r, 193r

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed Some verses taken out of Mr George Withers his Prosopopæia Britanica, or Britagnes Genius, Edited Ano 1648 When ye King was at ye Isle of Weight; Beginning towards ye end of Page 98, & ending p. 101, here beginning And since men Wandring in a Wood by night, in double columns, on two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      First published, with preliminary material, in London, 1648. Spenser Society, Miscellaneous Works of George Wither. Fourth Collection, pp. 1-117.

      George Wither, Prosopopæia Britannica: Britans Genius, or Good-Angel ('When, in his might, the Dogstar, raigned here')

  • Lansdowne MS 99

    A large folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 280 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

    • *PlG 25 ff. 151r-2v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Peele, in his predominantly italic hand, to Lord Burghley, docketed as presenting ye tale of Troy in 500 verses by his eldest daughter necessities servante, on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed 17 Jan. 1595[/6].

      Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XVI; in Shakespeare's England (Oxford, 1917), I, facing p. 290; and in Prouty, I, 106.

      George Peele, Letter(s)

  • MS Lansdowne 103

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 320 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.

    Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

    Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

    • ElQ 214 f. 64

      Copy of Extractions taken by the Queens order in reformation of somme errours in report of her speeche, the 12 of November 1586 in her withdrawing chamber.

      This MS discussed in Hartley (II, 253).

      First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

      Version I. Beginning When I remember the bottomless depth of God's great benefits towards me.... Hartley, II, 254-8 (Text ii, a summary) and II, 261 (cited only, as Text iv). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 186-90 (Version 1).

      Version II. Beginning The bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almighty.... Hartley, II, 247-53 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 190-6. Autograph Compositions, pp. 67-72 (Version 2). Selected Works, Speech 8, pp. 61-9.

      Version III. Beginning My lords and gentlemen, I cannot but accept with much kindness this your petition, wherein I perceive the great love you bear towards me.... Hartley, II, 259-60 (Text iii).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586

  • Lansdowne MS 104

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 219 folios, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

    Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

    • HoJ 150 f. 11
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).

      John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge ('Here lyes the man was borne and cryed')
    • HoJ 273 ff. 195r-8v

      A fair copy, in a fine italic hand (the same hand as in HoJ 272), probably the formal copy delivered to the Cecil family, headed Anna Vera vxor Eduardi Veri Comitis Oxoniæ, filia Guil. Burghlæi summi Angliæ Quæ storis, mulier pietate, prudentia patientia, publicitia & in Coniuge amore singulari, principi, parentibus, fratribus & vniuersæ Aulæ regiæ admodu chara. Obijt in Aula regia Greenwici Tres filias superstitus reliquit, subscribed V. M. Pergaman / Joh. Hoskins, on four folio leaves, among other elegies and funereal verses on Anne Cecil.

      Edited from this MS in Osborn.

      Osborn, No. XVI (pp. 184-8).

      John Hoskyns, [Epitaph on Anne, Countess of Oxford] ('Anna soror soror Anna suæ charissima Elisæ')

  • Lansdowne MS 115

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 272 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

    • ElQ 74 f. 108r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A praier made by her Matie the 15 of Aug beinge then in Bristowe, on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed A praier made by Queene Elizabethe.

      Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

      Beginning I render unto thee, O merciful and heavenly Father, most humble and hearty thanks.... Collected Works, Prayers 29, pp. 310-11. Selected Works, Prayer 1, pp. 246-8.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Prayer at Bristol, August 15, 1574

  • Lansdowne MS 116

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 87 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.

    Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

    • ElQ 75 f. 71r

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed The Q prayer / After a Progress. / Entered / Aug. 15 being then a [sic] Bristow.

      Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

      Beginning I render unto thee, O merciful and heavenly Father, most humble and hearty thanks.... Collected Works, Prayers 29, pp. 310-11. Selected Works, Prayer 1, pp. 246-8.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Prayer at Bristol, August 15, 1574

  • Lansdowne MS 120

    A quarto composite volume of MS tracts, 192 leaves, in modern red morocco.

    Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

    • *HvG 5 ff 179r-87r
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy, the presentation MS to Lord Burghley, in Harvey's roman hand, entitled Gabrielis Harueij Xaipe, uel Gratulatio Vandinensis, ad Honoratissimum, clarissimumque uirum, Dominum Burgleium, magnum Angliæ Thesaurarium, summumque Acadeniæ nostræ Cantabrigiensis Cancellarium; Audleianis ædibus vna cum Regia ipsa Maiestate, reliquisque Nobilibus honorificentissime exceptum, signed Gabriel Haruejus, on nine quarto leaves.

      Moore Smith, p. 79. Stern, p. 243.

      A Latin gratulatio to Lord Burghley, including a 14-line address by the poet, beginning E loquar, an sileam? breue tempus postulat altrum; an address to Burghley, beginning Te quoque Carminibus iussit Prudentia dudum; and then a series of epigrams.

      Gabriel Harvey, Xaipe vel Gratulatio Valdinensis ad...Dom...Burgleium

  • Lansdowne MS 157

    A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, compiled by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls, c.455 leaves.

    • RaW 897 f. 155r et seq.

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I, 21 January 1603.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • Lansdowne MS 160

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, compiled by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls, 432 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

    • BcF 351 ff. 331r-3v

      Copy of a speech by Bacon to the judges in Star Chamber, 26 June 1618, in the cursive hand of Sir Julius Caesar, written on folio leaves in oblong format.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • MS Lansdowne 163

    A folio composite volume of Chancery and state papers, in various hands, compiled by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls, 405 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

    • BcF 352 ff. 236r-40r

      Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in a secretary hand.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • Lansdowne MS 209

    A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in English and Latin, in several largely professional hands (the last item printed), 348 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.

    • CtR 115.5 ff. 166r-75r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

      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 Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano 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
    • CtR 286.5 ff. 176r-234v

      Copy, headed Records Collected by Sir Robert Cotton knt and Baronet, followed (ff. 235r-42r) by nineteen Ordinances for the warre.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

  • Lansdowne MS 211

    A folio volume of political speeches and miscellaneous papers.

    • RaW 614 ff. 309r-43r

      Copy.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 213

    A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

    The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde.

    c.1660s.
    • BcF 539 ff. 1r-6r

      Copy, headed An Excellent Treatise against Papists. Written by the Ld Treasurer Burleigh Afterwards Earle of Salisbury. Address'd by him vnto Queene Elizabeth.

      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)
    • CtR 507 ff. 19r-31v

      Copy, with a title-page: Considerations for the Suppressing of the increase of Priests, Jesuites and Recusants, without drawing of Blood, written Aug. 11th Ano. Domi. 1613. By Sr Robt: Cotton Bruceus.

      Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads..., dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?
    • GgA 139 ff. 36r-45v

      Copy, with a title-page (appertaining to the three works on ff. 37r-56v), all as Written, By Wm; Gorges Gent:.

      This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.

      The fuller title: Observations & Overtures for a Seafight vppon our owne Coasts, and what kynd of order and disciplyne is fittest to be vsed...against the præparations of such Spanish Armadas...as shall at anie tyme come to invade vs. Unpublished.

      Sir Arthur Gorges, Observations & Overtures for a Seafight
    • RaW 707 ff. 46r-8v

      Copy of Sir Arthur Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's Orders, as A Forme of Orders and Directions...[for] Conducting a Fleete through the Narrow Seas.

      This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672. Discussed in Sandison, Mariner's Mirror, 20 (1934), 323-4.

      Orders, beginning First, because no action or enterprise can prosper (be it by sea or land) without the favour and assistance of Almighty God.... First published in Newes of Sir Walter Rauleigh (London, 1618). Works (1829), VIII, 682-8. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 121-6.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Orders to be observed by the Commanders of the Fleet with Land Companies. 3 May 1617
    • RaW 687 ff. 49r-56v

      Copy, unascribed.

      This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.

      A tract dedicated to Prince Henry and beginning Having formerly, most excellent prince, discoursed of a maritimal voyage, and the passages and incidents therein.... First published in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 335-50. These notes probably written by Ralegh but usually appended to Sir Arthur Gorges, A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage, printed in Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition, XX (1907), 34-129. See Helen Estabrook Sandison, Manuscripts of the Islands Voyage and Notes on the Royal Navy, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown (New York, London & Oxford, 1940), 242-52, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 53, 58-9.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea-Service
    • FeO 83 ff. 81r-9r

      Copy, with a title-page A Breife Description of the Low Countryes especially Holland Obseru'd in a three Moneths abode in those Parts And dedicated to a very Noble Person. Written by J.S., the dedication to B.B. subscribed I.S. Roterdam.

      This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 83r on p. 152.

      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
    • BcF 590 ff. 90r-100r

      Copy of a letter by Bacon to George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, 1616.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • RaW 631 ff. 101r-10r

      Copy, as Written by Sr Walter Rawleigh kt.

      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
    • CtR 452 ff. 135r-9r

      Copy, with a title-page, followed (ff. 139r-48r) by the answers of the committee, etc.

      Speech beginning My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626 and Questions to be proposed, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]
    • WoH 274 ff. 203r-13v

      Copy, as Written by Sr Henry Wotton, kt.

      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 11.9 ff. 214r-22v

      Copy, unascribed.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 215

    A quarto composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 87 leaves, in modern half red morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    • LeC 23 ff. 5r-52v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, incomplete.

      This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 216

    • RaW 1092 ff. 133v-44r

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 223

    A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various professional hands, 138 leaves, in red mottled leather gilt.

    Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

    • ClJ 54 f. 133r

      Copy, headed Cleauelands Hecatombe to his Mrs:, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

      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 82 f. 133v

      Copy, headed Parting wth a friend on ye Way, C. L., in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

      Morris & Withington, p. 63.

      John Cleveland, Parting with a Freind upon the Rode ('I'me rent in 'twayne, your horses turning thus')
    • ClJ 168 f. 134r

      Copy, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

      Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.

      Morris & Withington, pp. 72-4.

      John Cleveland, On the Pouder Plot ('I neede not call thee from thy miterd Hill')
    • ClJ 76 f. 134r

      Copy, ascribed to C. L:, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

      First published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. With Additions never before Printed (1658). Morris & Withington, p. 62.

      John Cleveland, On Princess Elizabeth born the Night before New-Years Day ('Astrologers say Venus, the same starr')
    • WoH 234 f. 134v

      Copy, headed A far well to ye world, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

      First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
    • ClJ 61 ff. 134v-5r

      Copy, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

      First published as a separate, 1649. Morris & Withington, pp. 45-7.

      John Cleveland, The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbyter ('With Hair in Characters, and Lugs in text')
    • ClJ 6 f. 135r-v

      Copy, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

      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 128 ff. 136v-7r

      Copy, untitled, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

      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')
    • MaA 111 ff. 137r-8v

      Copy, headed Brittania;- Rawleigh. Britt, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

      Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')

  • Lansdowne MS 229

    A folio volume of antiquarian collections, extracted from chronicles, genealogies, etc., in a single neat hand, 164 leaves (plus blanks), inscribed Miscellanea ex variis scriptoribus collecta, 1573, in modern morocco gilt.

    Compiled by, and in the hand of, Robert Glover (1543/4-88), Somerset Herald.

    1573.
    • LeJ 82 ff. 82r-6v

      Extracts from the Itinerary, in double columns, headed Ex Comentarijs Angliæ, Johannis Laylandi.

      This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.

      John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]
    • LeJ 42 ff. 87r-98r

      Extracts, in double columns, headed Ex alijs diuersis collectaneis Johannis Leilandi.

      This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.

      John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

  • Lansdowne MS 231

    A folio composite volume of tracts, in various hands, including (ff. 101r-243v) autograph collections by John Aubrey (1626-97), antiquary and biographer, for his projected work on Remains of Gentilisme & Judaisme, 322 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

    Late 17th century.

    Once owned by White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

    • CoA 176 f. 157r

      Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey, headed Virg. Æneid. lib. 4., on one side of a small octavo-size leaf, subscribed Translated, for K. Ch: II. by mr Abraham Cowley.

      Edited from this MS (inaccurately) in Anecdotes and Traditions, ed. William J. Thomas, Camden Society 5 (London, 1839), pp. 108-9.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

      Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

      Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana ('By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest')

  • Lansdowne MS 236

    A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, including charges and reports by him, in professional secretary hands, 221 leaves, bound with an independent sixteen-leaf tract of 1608 (Lansdowne MS 235), in modern red morocco gilt.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum EUmfreville 1740: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

    • BcF 353 ff. 5r-100r passim

      Copies of some fifteen speeches by Bacon, including (ff. 17r-35) on the naturalization of the Scots, (ff. 36r-42r) on the union of laws, (ff. 162r-71v) on his becoming Lord Chancellor (7 May 1617), and (ff. 176r-83v) to Sir William Jones, to John Denham, and to Sergeant Hutton (1617).

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • BcF 707 ff. 218r-20r

      Copy, as By Sr ffrancis Bacon.

      Spedding, VI, 595-7; discussed 592-4.

      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
    • BcF 275 f. 221r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, VII, 105-10. Spedding notes (VII, 107) Basil Montagu's reference to an unspecified MS in the British Museum, but he could not find it.

      Francis Bacon, Short Notes for Civil Conversation

  • Lansdowne MS 238

    A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various professional largely secretary hands, ff. 80r-160v an imperfect single unit, 346 leaves, in modern half red morocco gilt.

    c.1630s.

    Inscribed (f. 3r) Sum Ed: Umfrevile Janrio 1727: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-(1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

    • BcF 591 ff. 80r-9v, 93v-129r

      Copy of a collection of letters by Bacon, to Essex, Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Sir John Davies, Ellesmere, Northumberland, James I, Buckhurst, Northampton, Robert Cecil, Buckingham, and others.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 182 ff. 89v-93v

      Copy.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
    • RaW 898 ff. 138r-9r

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • HbT 96 f. 151v

      Copy, in a neat mixed hand, of a letter by Hobbes, to my Mr. [Sir Gervase Clifton], [from Paris],

      Edited in Molesworth, English, VII, 451. Reprinted in de Beer, pp. 199-200.

      Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)
    • EsR 184 ff. 158r-9r

      Copy, headed A Letter of aduice touching trauell written to the Earl of Essex by a frend, subscribed Essex.

      The letter dated from St Albans 16 October [1596] and beginning My Lord, Since you have required of me some advice now at the very instant of your going.... Spedding IX, 19-20.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Third Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
    • NaR 11 ff. 162r-241v

      Copy.

      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 592 ff. 242r-53v, 257v-70r

      Copy of a collection of letters by Bacon, to Essex, Queen Elizabeth, Sir John Davies, Ellesmere, Northumberland, James I, Northampton, Robert Cecil, Sir Edward Coke, and others.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 176.7 ff. 253v-7v

      Copy.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

  • Lansdowne MS 241

    A folio diary and notebook, in several hands, from 1560 to 1610, 411 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    Compiled by John Sanderson, a merchant at Constantinople.

    • CmT 216 f. 49r

      Copy, here beginning What yf a day or a night, or an hower.

      Edited from this MS in Swaen, pp. 401-2.

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

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'

  • Lansdowne MS 253

    A folio composite volume of state, parliamentary and legal tracts, in professional secretary hands, 551 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

    • *CmW 156 f. 199r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph rough notes in Latin, on genealogy and dates and events in Tudor history, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

      William Camden, Collectanea
    • *PpS 4 ff. 242r-54v
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy, untitled, signed SPepys, on thirteen folio leaves, a preliminary blank leaf (f. 241r) inscribed About Pursers, once folded as a letter, being the presentation MS sent to the dedicatee Sir William Coventry as a New Year's gift, dated from Greenwich 1 January 1665.

      First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.

      Samuel Pepys, The Pursers Employ Annatomized and both Advantages & disadvantages therein discovered and also A Proposall of comitting the Victualling accompt to the care and management of each Comander. Presented as a New yeares guift to Sr: William Coventry by Samuel Pepys Esqr in 1665

  • Lansdowne MS 254

    A folio composite volume of political, legal and antiquarian tracts, 500 leaves.

    In various professional hands, including that of 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. 62).

    • FeO 84 ff. 164r-70r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Three weekes Obseruacons of the States Countries especially Holland.

      This MS recorded 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
    • NaR 12 ff. 225r-51r

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand.

      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
    • CtR 492 ff. 252r-6v

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, with a title-page, as by Ser Robert Cotton Knt, & Baronet.

      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 166 ff. 258r-69r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed written by Sr Robert Cotton knight and Baronet in January Aoo 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
    • RaW 1123 ff. 353r-65r

      Copy.

      A tract beginning The Scepticke doth neither affirm nor deny any position.... First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 548-56. William M. Hamlin, A Lost Translation Found? An Edition of The Sceptick (c.1590), ELR, 31/1 (Winter 2001), 34-51 (pp. 42-51).

      A translation of extracts from the Hypotyposes of Sextus Empiricus. See S.E. Sprott, Ralegh's Sceptic and the Elizabethan Translation of Sextus Empiricus, PQ, 42 (1963), 166-75, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 66-7.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Scepticke

  • Lansdowne MS 255

    A folio composite volume of state and heraldic tracts and papers, in various hands, 452 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    [1688].
    • *HaG 66 ff. 40r-2r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of Transactions at the P. of Oranges first Comeing, written in double columns on three pages of two folio leaves.

      Edited from this MS in Foxcroft, II, 57-9.

    • *HoH 52 ff. 99r-120v
      Autograph

      A largely autograph draft work, the first two leaves in a professional secretary hand with Howard's autograph deletions and revisions, all the rest entirely autograph with his revisions, untitled, docketed (f. 99r) A Discourse of Duells in the Handwriting of Henry howard Earl of Northampton - the interlineation to p. 2. & afterwards the whole, subscribed (f. 118v) sit laus sanctæ Trinitati, with an additional autograph leaf f. 120r-v.

      Treatise beginning The pride of humors, the Lybertie of Times, the connyuencie of magistrats …. Unpublished.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Discourse of Duels (I)

  • Lansdowne MS 259

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous, genealogical and antiquarian papers, in two or more hands, 108 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf gilt.

    Inscribed (f. 2r) Liber Ricardi Stgeorge Norroy 1607: i.e. Sir Richard St George (1554/5-1635), Norroy King of Arms, and Sum EUmfreville, i.e. Edward Unfreville (1702?-96), collector of legal manuscripts.

    • FuT 5.267 ff. 102r-4v

      Extracts, headed Colleccons out of ye history of the Worthies of England Endeavoured by Th. ffuller.

      First published in London, 1662.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England

  • Lansdowne MS 265

    Copy, in a professional semi-calligraphic hand, with a lengthy title-page which is subscribed Anno Dni 1616, the Epistle to G.M. in italic, the rest in secretary script, concluding (ff. 96v-7r) with the meditation out of Job, 97 folio leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards.

    1616.

    This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

    • LeC 24
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

  • Lansdowne MS 335

    Autograph draft of a Latin account of John Wicliffe and his followers, with deletions and revisions, untitled, with his original dedication to a patron (Duke Christopher of Würtemberg), 120 duodecimo leaves, in wrappers from a ?15th-century document, within modern quarter-calf marbled boards.

    c.1554.

    This account first published in Commentarii rerum (1554). It was later translated into English and incorporated in Actes and Monuments.

    • *FxJ 3
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Strasbourg, 1554.

      John Foxe, Commentarii rerum in ecclesia gestarum

  • Lansdowne MS 350

    A quarto composite volume of religious tracts, in various hands, 236 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards.

    • FoJ 3 ff. 139r-78r

      Formal copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page and a dedicatory preface, subscribed in an italic hand John de la Ford, apparently written for presentation to James Hay (c.1580-36), Baron Hay, Viscount Doncaster, and later first Earl of Carlisle, courtier and diplomat.

      This MS recorded in M. Joan Sargeaunt, Writings Ascribed to John Ford by Joseph Hunter in Chorus Vatum, RES, 10 (1934), 165-76 (pp. 174-5), and in George F. Reinecke, John Ford's Missing Ralegh Passage, ELN, 6 (1968-9), 252-4. Discussed in Nondramatic Works (1991), esp. pp. 287-96, with a facsimile of ff. 144v-5 on p. 298. Also discussed in G.D. Monsarrat, Edited Texts and Presentation Manuscripts: The Case of John Ford's Fame's Memorial and A Line of Life, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 80-5.

      First published [in London], 1620; Dyce, III, 381-419. Nondramatic Works (1991), pp. 277-327.

      John Ford, A Line of Life

  • Lansdowne MS 353

    Composite volume of theological tracts; imperfect.

    [1580].
    • *FxJ 10 ff. 225-384
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      First published in London, 1580.

      John Foxe, Papa confutatus

  • Lansdowne MS 357

    A MS abridgement.

    Made by W.H. for the use of Lord Fitzmaurice.

    1757.
    • TaJ 15
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1660.

      Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium or The Rule of Conscience

  • Lansdowne MS 388

    A folio composite volume of papers.

    A composite volume of papers, including a life of Foxe by his son Samuel Foxe (ff. 2-52), Foxe's autograph drafts of letters and other writings composed while he was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford [1544-5] (ff. 53v-148), Foxe's autograph extracts from a book by John Purvey on the Eucharist (ff. 166-75), and letters and exercises by Samuel Foxe (ff. 184-250).

    Formerly owned by John Strype.

    This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

    • *FxJ 22
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Foxe, Miscellaneous Papers
    • *FxJ 0.8 ff. 59r
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written at Magdalen College, Oxford.

      Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.

      A fourteen-line epigram about the schoolmaster John Harley. First published in John Hazel Smith, Notes on Two Renaissance Authors, in Brandeis Essays in Literature, ed. John Hazel Smith (Waltham, Mass., 1983), pp. 25-36 (pp. 25-9).

      John Foxe, 'Maximus Aurorae custos lectique relictor'
    • *FxJ 2 ff. 62-5
      Autograph

      Autograph treatise on astrology written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University.

      Edited from this MS in Smith.

      First published, with a translation, in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 210-25.

      John Foxe, An omnis mundi inferioris gubernatio ab influentiis dependent coelestibus
    • *FxJ 8 ff. 66-71
      Autograph

      Autograph, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University.

      Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

      Unpublished.

      John Foxe, [Digest of Erasmus's Querimonia pacis]
    • *FxJ 17 ff. 71v-7v
      Autograph

      Autograph, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University.

      Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

      Unpublished.

      John Foxe, [Tract on Rhetoric and Dialectics]
    • FxJ 0.3 f. 78r

      Fragment of a two-line unfinished autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written by Foxe at Magdalen College, Oxford.

      Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.

      First published in John Hazel Smith, Notes on Two Renaissance Authors, in Brandeis Essays in Literature, ed. John Hazel Smith (Waltham, Mass., 1983), pp. 25-36 (pp. 25-9).

      John Foxe, Ad Iesum Christum Filium Dei: Carmen Eucharisticon ('Christe. aeterna Dei progenies patris')
    • *FxJ 0.5 f. 79r
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written at Magdalen College, Oxford.

      Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.

      Six Horation quatrains. First published in John Hazel Smith, Notes on Two Renaissance Authors, in Brandeis Essays in Literature, ed. John Hazel Smith (Waltham, Mass., 1983), pp. 25-36 (pp. 25-9).

      John Foxe, 'Integer mentis fide fultus alta'
    • *FxJ 4 ff. 92v-100
      Autograph

      Autograph inspirational piece written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University.

      Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

      Unpublished.

      John Foxe, De contemnendis opibus
    • *FxJ 6 ff. 105-10
      Autograph

      Autograph inspirational piece written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University.

      Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

      Unpublished.

      John Foxe, De regno clauuium disputatio adversus perturbatas conscientias
    • *FxJ 20 ff. 121-46, 112-16
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, with extensive revisions, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University.

      Edited from this MS in Smith, with a facsimile of f. 121r on p. 53.

      First published, with a translation, in Two Latin Comedies by John Foxe the Martyrologist, ed. John Hazel Smith (Ithaca & London, 1973), pp. 50-197.

      John Foxe, Titus et Gesippus
    • *FxJ 5 ff. 175-82
      Autograph

      Autograph; one in a series of Letters & Writings of J. Fox in ye University.

      This MS recorded in Mozley, p. 245.

      Unpublished. Recorded in John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium (Basle, 1557), p. 733.

      John Foxe, De re eucharistica

  • Lansdowne MS 389

    A bound collection of Foxe's papers, consisting of documents and transcripts used in the writing of Actes and Monuments, most of them being edited in that work.

    16th century.
    • *FxJ 23
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Foxe, Miscellaneous Papers

  • Lansdowne MS 489

    A folio volume of largely parliamentary and state tracts, predominantly in three secretary hands, 137 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    c.1637-43.

    Owned in 1643 by one Charles Cheyney.

    • WoH 275 ff. 111r-18v

      Copy, untitled.

      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
    • SaG 25 ff. 121r-7r

      Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with dedicatory verses To ye Queene (beginning Chast Nymph; you who extracted are) and (on f. 127v) nine lines of Ye Jugdmnt of Sidney Godolphin On ye former worke not Edited (beginning Not in yt ardent course as where he woes), on seven folio leaves.

      This MS recorded in Hooper, I, xlvi-xlvii. Discussed in Davis, loc. cit., p. 333 et seq.

      First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses To the Queen first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.

      George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon ('Join thy life-breathing lips to mine')
    • BrT 8 ff. 132v-7r

      Extract, headed Mrs [sic] Browne, beginning ffor my religion though there be seuerall circumstances..., on ten folio pages, dated 1639.

      This MS recorded and collated in part by all editors.

      First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

  • Lansdowne MS 491

    A folio composite volume of antiquarian and parliamentary tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 245 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco in cloth boards gilt.

    Inscribed (f. 2r) Sum Edw Umfrevile Juneis. Interioris Templi Studentis 1725. 10o Aprilis: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

    • CtR 115 ff. 16r-21r

      Copy.

      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 Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano 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
    • CmW 77 ff. 39r-41v

      Copy, headed The Antiquitie of Parliaments, subscribed Wm Camden, in a sheaf of papers (ff. 22r-44r) in a professional predominantly secretary hand headed The seuerall opinions of sundry Antiquaries touchinge the Antiquitye Power order state manner Persons, and Proceedinges of the high Court of Parliament in England.

      A tract beginning That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here.... First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

      William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England
    • BcF 708 ff. 46r-8r
      No description or publication history available.

      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
    • RuB 113 ff. 90v-1r

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamen Ruddires, among proceedings in Parliament 1628.

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

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9
    • CoR 9 f. 184v

      Copy, untitled, following The kinges speech 10 March 1628[/9].

      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')
    • ElQ 272 ff. 222r-5r

      Copy of a version, headed The Queenes answere, dated 30 November 1602.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 498

    A quarto composite volume of papers largely relating to Parliament in 1620-28, in various professional hands, 142 leaves, in modern quarter-calf on cloth boards gilt.

    • RaW 632 ff. 53r-9v

      Copy, in two professional italic hands, headed A politique dispute about the happiest mariage for the noble Prince Charles.

      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 254 f. 60r

      Copy, in a small italic hand, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')

  • Lansdowne MS 512

    A folio volume of Elizabethan and Jacobean parliamentary papers, in professional hands, 265 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    A second volume of parliamentary collections by William Petyt (1637-1707), Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London.

    Late 17th century.
    • ElQ 273 ff. 37v-41r

      Copy of Version 1, headed The last Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her last Parliament held Anno 43o. of her Reigne. Annoque Domini 1601. Late 17th century.

      This MS cited in Selected Works.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 514

    A folio volume of parliamentary and state papers, in professional hands, 224 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

    A fourth volume of the parliamentary collections of William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

    Late 17th century.
    • BcF 462 ff. 59v-60r, 61v-6v, 71r-7v

      Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1, 22 April and 30 April 1621, in an account (ff. 55r-81r) of the proceedings against him.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 515

    A folio composite volume of chiefly Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline parliamentary papers, in professional hands, c.250 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    A fifth volume of parliamentary collections by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

    • ElQ 274 ff. 140r-4v

      Copy of version 1, introduced ...her Matie began thus to Answer her self viz. Late 17th-century.

      This MS cited in Selected Works.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 612

    A folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, in four professional hands, 80 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum Edri Umfrevile Junris. Interioris Templi Studentis 1724: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

    c.1630s.
    • BcF 265 ff. 2r-10r

      Copy.

      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 114 ff. 10r-11v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

      First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 776-8.

      Francis Bacon, Cases of the King's Prerogative
    • BcF 80 ff. 11v-16v

      Copy, as written by Sr Francis Bacon...1608.

      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 731 ff. 17-19

      An adaptation of part of Sir John Doddridge, History of the Principality of Wales, possibly used by Bacon.

      Printed in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 778-81; discussed pp. 773-4.

      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 354 ff. 20r-40r

      Copy of three speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • Lansdowne MS 613

    A folio volume of tracts and papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in several professional hands, 613 leaves, in reversed calf.

    c.1620s.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Sum Edri Umfrevile Junris. Interioris Templi Studentis 1724: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Shelburne

    • BcF 244 ff. 78r-95v

      Copy of 100 Ordinances, as made by the Lord Chaunceller, subscribed Fran: verulam Canc., and inscribed in the margin Bacon's Hecatomb.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 682

    A duodecimo volume, comprising a brief description of England and account of its worthies extracted entirely from Fuller's work.

    Owned, and possibly written, by one Abraham Bassano.

    1657.
    • FuT 5.268
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1662.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England

  • Lansdowne MS 690

    A fair copy, made by Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, with a title-page 1624 A Game att Chesse By Tho: Middleton, on 53 quarto leaves, in modern quarter green crushed morocco on cloth gilt.

    1624.

    Part edited in N.W. Bawcutt, editor, Ralph Crane's Transcript of A Game at Chess, Bodleian Manuscript Malone 25, Collections: Volume XV, Malone Society (Oxford, 1993), 1-109. This MS collated in Bald; facsimile of p. 21 in Wilson, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215 (plate IV).

    • MiT 19
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, [1625]. Bullen, VII, 1-136. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929) and by J.W. Harper (London, 1966). An early form in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1779-1824, with a later form on pp. 1830-85.

      Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess

  • Lansdowne MS 699

    A 15th-century MS of works by Lydgate, on paper and vellum, inscribed (f. 2r) W Browne 1615 and (f. 95r) Wm Browne, together with the opening lines of Britannia's Pastorals.

    1615.

    Later owned by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

    Edwards, No. 5.

  • Lansdowne MS 702

    A quarto notebook, closely written in a single cursive hand, 108 leaves, in modern quarter morocco on cloth gilt.

    Compiled by Thomas Rawlins, of Pophills, near Wixford, Warwickshire.

    c.1730s.
    • HoJ 292 f. 54v

      Copy, with an introductory note about ye ingenious Mr. Jon. Hoskyns and as verses drawn 6 years before he dy'd.

      The Latin poem followed by an Englished version, beginning Years sixty six, I have with vigour Past. Osborn, No. XLVIII (pp. 214-15).

      John Hoskyns, 'Undecies senos exegi strenuus annos'

  • Lansdowne MS 716

    A quarto manuscript of the unfinished abridgement of Edmund Gibson's English translation which he published in 1722.

    Published in 1722.

    c.1722.
    • CmW 13.16
      No description or publication history available.

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

      William Camden, Britannia

  • Lansdowne MS 722

    A quarto composite volume of tracts, in various hands, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    • OvT 44 ff. 115r-25r

      Copy, in an italic hand, with a title-page Sr Thomas Overburie's Observations of The Low Countryes and Kingdome of France.

      This MS cited in Steevens, p. 30.

      A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State.... First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

  • Lansdowne MS 740

    A quarto verse miscellany, including 50 poems by Donne, in a single neat secretary hand except for ff. 70r-2r, which are in another secretary hand.

    Comprising folios 57r-137v in a quarto composite volume of MSS, in various hands, 173 leaves, in 19th-century leather gilt.

    c.1620s.

    Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Among the collections of William Petty (1737-1805), first Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Shelburne.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Lansdowne MS: DnJ Δ 8. Recorded as item 133 among Manuscripts in Quarto in the list at the end of Thoresby's Ducatus Leodensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 85.

    • DnJ 2791 ff. 58r-9r

      Copy, headed A Satire.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
    • DnJ 2820 ff. 59v-62v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

      John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
    • DnJ 2854 ff. 63r-4r

      Copy, headed A Satire. 3.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

      John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')
    • DnJ 2758 ff. 64v-6r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

      John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
    • DnJ 362 ff. 66r-7v

      Copy, headed Elegie 1°.

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
    • DnJ 2729 ff. 70r-2r

      Copy, headed Satyra.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

      John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
    • OvT 16 f. 75r-9v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS cited in Beecher, pp. 95n, 122, 351-2.

      First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife ('Each woman is a brief of woman kind')
    • OvT 31 f. 80r-v

      Copy.

      First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 48-50. Beecher, pp. 201-2.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: A Very Woman
    • OvT 34 ff. 80v-1r

      Copy.

      First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 50-1. Beecher, pp. 202-3.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: Her next part
    • OvT 28 f. 81r-v

      Copy.

      First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 47-8. Beecher, pp. 200-1.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: A Good Woman
    • OvT 3 f. 81v

      Copy.

      First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph ('The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest')
    • DnJ 681 f. 82r-v

      Copy, headed Elegia 2.

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

      John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
    • DnJ 2543 f. 83r-v

      Copy, headed Elegi 3th..

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

      John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
    • DnJ 613 f. 84r

      Copy, headed Elegia 4°.

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

      John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
    • DnJ 2190 ff. 84v-5r

      Copy, headed Elegi. 5.

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

      John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
    • DnJ 3161 f. 85r-v

      Copy, headed Elegia 6.

      This MS collated in Grierson; 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')
    • DnJ 247 f. 86r-v

      Copy, headed in a different ink Widdow Her.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
    • DaJ 97 f. 94r

      Copy of poems 4 and 5, inscribed in the margin Verses upo Bp Fletcher, who maried a Woman of il Fame.

      This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 442.

      First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.

      Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London ('The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since')
    • DnJ 3052 ff. 95r-6r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 539 f. 96r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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')
    • DnJ 37 f. 97r-v

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
    • DnJ 3277 f. 98r-v

      Copy, inscribed in the margin J: Donne.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

      John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
    • DnJ 3448 ff. 98v-9r

      Copy, inscribed in the margin J: Donne.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
    • DnJ 737 f. 100r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

      John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')
    • DnJ 1823 f. 106r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

      John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
    • DnJ 479 f. 106v

      Copy, headed [Elegie deleted] Broken Hart, inscribed in the margin J D.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

      John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
    • HoJ 22 f. 107r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).

      John Hoskyns, Absence ('Absence heare my protestation')
    • DnJ 3646 f. 107v

      Copy, headed in the margin Twittnam Garden.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

      John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
    • DnJ 1439 f. 108r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

      John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
    • DnJ 813 f. 108v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

      John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
    • DnJ 1954 f. 109r

      Copy, headed Mummy (or Alchymy) added in a later hand.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

      John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
    • DnJ 421 f. 109v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
    • DnJ 3094 f. 110r

      Copy, headed Sunn Riseing.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

      John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
    • DnJ 1791 f. 110v

      Copy, headed Loues lecture vpon the shaddow.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

      John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
    • DnJ 3610 f. 111r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

      John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
    • DnJ 950 f. 111v

      Copie, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as Elegie X). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

      John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')
    • DnJ 2030 f. 112r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
    • DnJ 3717 f. 112v

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

      John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
    • DnJ 1057 f. 113r-v

      Copy, headed An Elegie vppon the death of the La: Markam.

      This MS collated in grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

      John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
    • DnJ 3587 f. 114r-v

      Copy, headed An Elegie to the La: Bedford.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

      John Donne, To the Lady Bedford ('You that are she and you, that's double shee')
    • DnJ 3521 ff. 114v-15r

      Copy, headed in the margin Another to the Countis of Bed:.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

      John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right')
    • DnJ 1001 ff. 115v-16v

      Copy, headed An Elegie vppon the death of Mris Bulstred.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

      John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
    • DnJ 1092 f. 117r-v

      Copy, headed Another vpon the Death of Mris Boulstred.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

      John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred ('Language thou art too narrow, and too weake')
    • DnJ 2437 f. 118r-v

      Copy, with the general heading Elegiæ.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

      John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
    • DnJ 3892 f. 119r-v

      Copy, headed Loues Will; the omitted third stanza added at the end in a later hand.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

      John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
    • BmF 11 f. 120r-v

      Copy.

      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')
    • DnJ 1216 f. 121r-v

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

      John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
    • DnJ 2904 f. 122r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

      John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
    • DnJ 1992 f. 122v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

      John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
    • DnJ 1389 f. 123r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

      John Donne, The Funerall ('Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme')
    • DnJ 2165 f. 123v.

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

      John Donne, Loves Usury ('For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now')
    • DnJ 1347 f. 124r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

      John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
    • DnJ 653 f. 124v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

      John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
    • DnJ 3976 f. 125r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

      John Donne, Womans constancy ('Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day')
    • DnJ 920 f. 125v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

      John Donne, The Dreame ('Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee')
    • DnJ 3830 f. 126r

      Copy, headed A Valediction.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

      John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
    • DnJ 1312 f. 126v

      Copy, headed Of a feuer.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

      John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')
    • DnJ 2525 f. 127r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

      John Donne, The Paradox ('No Lover saith, I love, nor any other')
    • JnB 509 f. 127v

      Copy of lines 1-24.

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

      First published in The Forrest (viii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104-6.

      Ben Jonson, To Sicknesse ('Why, Disease, dost thou molest')
    • HrJ 254 f. 128r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning A ffine yong priest of kin to ffrier ffrapper.

      First published in 1618, Book II, No. 70. McClure No. 166, pp. 213-14. Kilroy, Book III, No. 7, pp. 169-70.

      Sir John Harington, Of the commodities that men haue by their Marriage ('A fine yong Clerke, of kinne to Fryer Frappert')
    • HrJ 176 f. 128v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler ('A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling')
    • DaJ 3 f. 129r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Krueger.

      Krueger, pp. 194-5.

      Sir John Davies, Elegies of Love, 3 ('Unto that sparkling wit, that spirit of fire')
    • OvT 10 f. 131r

      Copy.

      A verse translation from Ovid's Remedia amoris. First published as The First and Last Part of The Remedy of Loue: Written by Sir Thomas Overbvry Knight (London, 1620). Rimbault, pp. 205-19.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, The Remedy of Love ('When Love did reade the Title of my booke')
    • SoA 43 ff. 142r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, subscribed Anne Southwell.

      Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 124-5.

      Klene (1997), pp. 124-5.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, To the kinges most excellent Matye. ('Darest thou my muse present thy Battlike winge')
    • SoA 47 f. 142v

      Copy, in a mixed hand, the page reversed.

      Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), p. 125.

      Klene (1997), p. 125.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'wth feet of clay to enter the most hollye'
    • SoA 41 ff. 143r-55r

      Copy of a version headed Precept.3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy god in vayne...[&c.], in a predominantly italic hand, with deletions and alterations.

      Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 125-43. Facsimile of f. 151v in Victoria E. Burke, Medium and meaning in the manuscripts of Anne, Lady Southwell, in Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800, ed. George L. Justice and Nathan Tinker (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 94-120 (p. 105).

      Klene (1997), pp. 57-60.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt not take the name of god in vayne ('In this our hartes corruption is most exprest')
    • SoA 36 ff. 156r-67v

      Copy of a version headed Precept .4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy...[&c.], in a predominantly italic hand, with alterations.

      Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 143-62.

      Klene (1997), pp. 60-72.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt keepe holy the saboth daye ('In six dayes god made this admyred balle')
    • DrJ 279 f. 170v

      Copy of the first and last stanzas of the song, untitled, on the last page of two conjugate quarto leaves.

      This MS collated in part in California. Recorded in Day, p. 156.

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

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

  • Lansdowne MS 762

    A quarto composite volume of verse and prose, partly on vellum, partly on paper, c.110 leaves.

    Mid-late 16th century.
    • DuW 183 f. 7v

      Copy, headed An honour to London.

      Edited from this MS in T. Wright and James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps], Reliquiae Antiquae (London, 1841), I, 205-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 230-1.

      Mackenzie, No. 88, pp. 177-8.

      William Dunbar, To the City of London ('London, thou art of townes A per se')
    • SkJ 2 ff. 75r-6r

      Copy of lines 462-80, beginning Som men thynke that ye and subscribed The profecy of Skylton, 1529.

      Edited from this MS in Dyce, I, 329.

      Canon, C12, p. 5. First published London, [c.1530]. Dyce, I, 311-60. Scattergood, pp. 246-78.

      John Skelton, Colyn Cloute ('What can it auayle')
    • SoR 64 f. 88r

      Copy of lines 1-6, untitled.

      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')

  • Lansdowne MS 775

    A folio miscellany of tracts and papers on heraldic, genealogical and other subjects, in several secretary hands, 193 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

    c.1598-9.

    Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by compilers, Johannem Lvyt de purleigh [Essex] 1598, Edmunde Thurston, Edmund Skorie 1597, and John Clearke 1598, and (f. 194v) Jo: Levitt again and Johis Leviticus me possidet.

    • BcF 207 ff. 160r-4r

      Copy of ten Essays (Of Studies, Of Discourse, Of Ceremonies and Respects, Of Followers and Friends, Of Suitors, Of Expense, Of Regiment of Health, Of Honour and Reputation, Of Faction and Of Negotiating), in a secretary hand, headed Essayes. By Ld Bacon.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 776

    A quarto omposite volume of three tracts.

    • HaG 7 ff. 49r-69r

      Copy, in a professional hand, with some alterations in a later hand, on 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

      This MS collated and used in part as a copy-text in Foxcroft (as MS C.). Collated in Brown, I, 345-96.

      First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry], in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

  • Lansdowne MS 777

    A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ffinis W Browne.

    This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.

    c.1637-50.

    Inscribed (f. 280v) Philip Butler his book.

    • BrW 70 f. 2r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 211-13.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 1-3.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Ode ('Awake, fair Muse. for I intend')
    • BrW 3 f. 3r

      Copy, untitled, with rudimentary patterning.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 310-11. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Gillian Wright, A Pattern Poem by William Browne of Tavistock: Behold O God in Rivers of my Tears, EMS, 7 (1998), 264-74.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Behold, O God, in rivers of my tears'
    • BrW 57 ff. 3v-4r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 299-300.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 5-7.

      William Browne of Tavistock, The Happy Life ('O blessed man! who, homely bred')
    • BrW 238 f. 4v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges and in Goodwin.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 8-9. Goodwin, II, 213-14.

      William Browne of Tavistock, A Round ('Now that the Spring hath fill'd our veins')
    • BrW 62 ff. 5r-7r

      Copy of lines 1-48, 67-120.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 9-15, and chiefly from this MS in Goodwin.

      First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656). Goodwin, II, 305-9.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Lydford Journey ('I oft have heard of Lydford law')
    • BrW 59 f. 7v

      Copy, headed Epigramme.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 283.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 15-16.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'It happen'd lately at a fair, or wake'
    • BrW 21 f. 8r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 17-18. Collated in Goodwin, II, 340.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song 1, lines 463-92 ('Love! when I met her first whose slave I am')
    • BrW 72 f. 9r-v

      Copy, headed One a faire Ladyes yellow harre powdred with white, writting in the dissoluing of a snow.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 194-5.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 19-20.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On a Fair Lady's Yellow Hair, powdered with White ('Say, why on your hair yet stays')
    • BrW 69 f. 10r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 195.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 21.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Not long agone a youthful swain'
    • BrW 61 f. 10r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 193-4.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 21-2.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Love who will, for I'll love none'
    • BrW 240 f. 10v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 196.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 22-3.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Shall I love again, and try'
    • BrW 25 f. 10v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 196-7.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 24.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Deep are the wounds which strike a virtuous name'
    • BrW 245 f. 11r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 298-9.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 24-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Telle me, Pyrrha, what fine youth'
    • BrW 20 f. 11r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), p. 26. Recorded in Goodwin, II, 340.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song 1, lines 430-7 ('Yet one day's rest for all my cries!')
    • BrW 234 f. 11v-12r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 197.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 26-7.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Poor silly fool! thou striv'st in vain to know'
    • BrW 40 f. 12r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 228-9.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 28-9.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epistle ('Dear soul, the time is come, and we must part')
    • BrW 250 ff. 12v-13r

      Copy, headed Song.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 198-99.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 30-1.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Welcome, welcome, do I sing'
    • BrW 251 f. 13r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 199-200.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 32-4.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Ye merry birds, leave of to sing'
    • BrW 23 ff. 14r-17r

      Copy of a sequence of fourteen sonnets.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 217-25.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 34-46.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Caelia. Sonnets ('Lo, I the man that whilom lov'd and lost')
    • BrW 249 ff. 17v-19r

      Copy of six Visions (numbered 1, 3-7, with blank spaces left for 2 and 8).

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 279-82.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 47-51.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Visions ('Sitting one day beside the banks of Mole')
    • BrW 42 ff. 19v-21v

      Copy, subscribed WB.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 229-32.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 77-81.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epistle Occasioned by the most intolerable jangling of the Papists' bells on All Saints' Night ('Palmes and my friend, this night of Hallantide')
    • BrW 18 f. 22r-v

      Copy of an untitled version beginning Caelia is gone, and now sit I.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 129-31, and in Goodwin, II, 209-10.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song I, lines 45 et seq. ('Marina's gone, and now sit I')
    • BrW 55 f. 22v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 285.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 131.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Give me three kisses, Phillis. if not three'
    • BrW 231 f. 22v

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 284.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 73.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess of Somerset's Picture ('The pitied fortune most men chiefly hate')
    • BrW 41 ff. 23r-4r

      Copy, subscribed ffrom an Inner Temple then ye Inn or Temple May the third 1615 / WB.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 234-6.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 97-100.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epistle ('Hasten, O hasten, for my love's sake haste')
    • BrW 19 ff. 24v-5v

      Copy of a version, headed On a dreame.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 53-7, and in Goodwin, II, 302-5.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 53-7. Goodwin, II, 302-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song 1, lines 159-234 ('Vain dreams, forbear! yet but deceivers be')
    • BrW 243 ff. 26r-9v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 201-8.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 57-67.

      William Browne of Tavistock, A Sigh from Oxford ('Go, and if thou chance to find')
    • BrW 43 f. 30r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 232-3.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 93-4.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epistle Thrown into a River in a Ball of Wax ('Go, gentle paper. happy, happier far')
    • BrW 54 ff. 31r-3r, 34r-5v

      Copy, some words at the foot of f. 33r heavily deleted.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 237-45.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 132-43.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Fido: An Epistle to Fidelia ('Sitting one day beside a silver brook')
    • BrW 179 f. 36r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 301. The text is preceded on f. 33v by the Latin version by Janus Vitalis, headed In urbem Romam qualis est hodie and beginning Qui Romam in media quæris nouus aduena Roma (edited in Goodwin, II, 300-1).

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 52.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Rome as it is now ('Thou, who to look for Rome, to Rome art come')
    • BrW 39 ff. 36v-8r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 258-61.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 106-10.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epiced on Mr. Fishbourne ('As some, too far inquisitive, would fain')
    • BrW 34 ff. 38v-9v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 246-8.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 69-72.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy on Mr. William Hopton ('When shall mine eyes be dry? I daily see')
    • BrW 242 ff. 40r-2v

      Copy, headed A pastorall Elegie on Mr. Thomas Manwood.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 118-27. Collated in Goodwin, II, 343-5.

      First published in London, 1614. Goodwin, II, 77-164 (pp. 134-41).

      William Browne of Tavistock, The Shepherd's Pipe. Eclogue 4 ('Under an aged oak was Willie laid')
    • BrW 1 f. 43r

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin.

      First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 208-9.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'A hapless shepherd on a day'
    • BrW 45 f. 43r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 291-2.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 95.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph ('Fair Canace this little tomb doth hide')
    • BrW 246 f. 43r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 284.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 95.

      William Browne of Tavistock, To Don Antonio, King of Portugal ('Between thee and thy kingdom late with force')
    • BrW 51 f. 43v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 288.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 73.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Mr. Wm. Hopton ('Reader, stay, and read a truth')
    • BrW 180 f. 43v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges; in Goodwin; and in Ben Jonson, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 433-4.

      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')
    • BrW 36 ff. 44r-7v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 248-55.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 81-90.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Time hath a long course run since thou wert clay')
    • BrW 233 f. 48r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 294-5.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 103.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Right Honourable Susan, Countess of Montgomery ('Though we trust the earth with thee')
    • BrW 101 f. 48v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 291.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 92.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. John Deane, of New College ('Let no man walk near this tomb')
    • BrW 27 ff. 49r-50v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 143-8, and in Goodwin, II, 266-270.

      First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy ('Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws')
    • BrW 104 f. 51r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 289-90.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 75.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. Vaux, the Physician ('Stay! this grave deserves a tear')
    • BrW 148 f. 51v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges and in Goodwin.

      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')
    • BrW 144 f. 52r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 285.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 148.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On One Born Blind, and so Dead ('Who (but some one like thee) could ever say')
    • BrW 77 ff. 52v-3r

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman dying in Travell and the childe unborne.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges and in Goodwin.

      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')
    • BrW 52 f. 53v

      Copy, the poem on Prowde who was buryed at Zutphen. 1627.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin II, 288-9.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 74.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Sir John Prowde ('After a march of twenty years and more')
    • BrW 232 f. 54r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 256-7.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 103-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Herbert of Cardiff and Shurland ('If there be a tear unshed')
    • BrW 47 f. 55r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 287.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 68.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Mr. John Smyth, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke. 1624 ('Know thou, that tread'st on learned Smyth inurn'd')
    • BrW 103 f. 55v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 295-6.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 117.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. Turner of St. Mary-Hall ('I rose, and coming down to dine')
    • BrW 35 f. 56r

      Copy of lines 1-10.

      Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), p. 111, and partly from this MS in Goodwin.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Goodwin, II, 261-3.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy on Sir Thomas Overbury, Poisoned in the Tower of London ('Had not thy wrong, like to a wound ill cur'd')
    • BrW 100 f. 56r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 292.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 96.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. Francis Lee of the Temple, Gent. ('Nature having seen the Fates')
    • BrW 248 f. 56v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 214.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 149-50.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Unhappy Muse, that nothing pleasest me'
    • BrW 247 f. 56v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 215.

      William Browne of Tavistock, 'Unhappy I, in whom no joy appears'
    • BrW 38 ff. 57r-8v

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on Mr Thomas Ayleworth, slayne at Croydon.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 263-6.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 111-15.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy On the untimely death of...Mr. Thomas Ayleworth ('Is goodness shortest liv'd? doth Nature bring')
    • BrW 46 f. 58v

      Copy, subscribed WBrowne.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 266.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 116.

      William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Him ('Here wither'd lies a flower, which blown')
    • BrW 58 f. 59r

      Copy, subscribed W B.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 289.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 75.

      William Browne of Tavistock, In Obitum M S, Xo Maij, 1614 ('May! Be thou never grac'd with birds that sing')
    • BrW 97 f. 59r

      Copy, the poem dated 26 August 1637.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 296-7.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 118.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Goodman Hurst of the George at Horsham ('See what we are: for though we often say')
    • BrW 76 f. 59v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 284.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 68.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On an Hour-Glass ('The truest hour-glass lies. for, you'll confess')
    • BrW 74 f. 59v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 286.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 151.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On a Rope-Maker Hanged ('Here lies a man much wronged in his hopes')
    • BrW 99 f. 59v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 284.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 96.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On John Tooth ('Here lieth in sooth')
    • BrW 108 f. 60r

      Copy.

      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 130 f. 60r

      Copy of lines 3-12, headed An Epitaph on Mrs El. Y and here beginning Underneath this stone there lies.

      Edited from this MS in The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock, ed. Cordon Goodwin (London, 1894), 11, 295.

      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')
    • BrW 22 f. 61r

      Copy of a version beginning Like to a Silkeworme of one yeare.

      William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song 1, lines 552-63 ('I know that like to silkworms of one year')
    • BrW 68 f. 61v

      Copy, subscribed Wm. Browne 1614.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 293.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 101.

      William Browne of Tavistock, My Own Epitaph ('Loaden with earth, as earth by such as I')
    • BrW 98 f. 62r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 293-4.

      First published in Brydges (1815), p. 102.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On His Wife, an Epitaph ('Thou need'st no tomb, my wife, for thou hast one')
    • BrW 75 f. 62v

      Copy, subscribed (possibly relating to the poems hitherto) ffinis W Browne.

      Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 270.

      First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 151-2.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On a Twin at Two Years Old Dead of a Consumption ('Death! thou such a one hast smit')
    • RaW 519 f. 63r-v

      Copy, headed To his Mistresse, here beginning Wrong not sweet Empresse of my soule, and subscribed Sr: Wa: Raleigh.

      Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 39B, pp. 108-9. 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'
    • RaW 44 f. 64r

      Copy, headed Sr W: Raleigh de seipso and here beginning Euen such is tyme yt takes in trust.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • WoH 207 f. 64v

      Copy, headed To a Favorite.

      This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq.

      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')
    • WoH 27 f. 65r

      Copy, headed On a Priuate life and subscribed Sr Henry Wotton.

      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')
    • KiH 200 ff. 65v-6r

      Copy, headed Vpon ye Death of Sr Walter Raleigh beheaded 1619, subscribed Dr H: King.

      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')
    • TiC 22 f. 66v

      Copy, headed Throgmortons verses a little before he was executed.

      This MS text 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')
    • CoR 417 f. 67r

      Copy, headed On Mr. ffr: Beaumonts Death.

      First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

      Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death ('He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit')
    • CwT 225 f. 68r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Dunlap.

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
    • StW 858 f. 68v

      Copy, subscribed Wm. Str.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

      William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
    • DaJ 188 f. 70r

      Copy, headed Vpon an vntimely Death and here beginning As carefull mothers in their beds doe laye.

      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')
    • RaW 255 f. 70r

      Copy, headed On Mans life and here beginning What is mans life? A playe of passion.

      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')
    • PoW 28 f. 71r-v

      Copy, headed On a blacke Gentlewoman and subscribed W:P.

      This MS collated in Grierson.

      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 399 f. 72v

      Copy, headed On a faire woman that sung Excellently.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
    • HrG 195.2 f. 73r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed E. of Pembroke.

      Edited from this MS in Krueger.

      First published in The Temple (1633). John Donne, Poems, By J.D. (London, 1635). Hutchinson, pp. 183-4.

      Herbert's poem is a Parodie of a poem by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, first published in John Donne, Poems (2nd edition, London, 1635). Entries in CELM include both poems indiscriminately.

      George Herbert, A Parodie ('Souls joy, when thou art gone')
    • FeO 85 ff. 74r-82r

      Copy, headed 3 moneths obseruations of ye low Countryes especially Holland.

      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
    • DyE 44 f. 277v

      Copy of the last stanza, untitled and here beginning My wealth is health and pfect ease.

      First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'

  • Lansdowne MS 792

    A composite folio volume of tracts.

    With the armorial bookplate of Shelburne: i.e. William Fitzmaurice Petty (1737-1805), Earl of Shelburne (in 1761), Marquess of Lansdowne (in 1784). Books collected by Shelburne included several which had belonged to Sir Julius Caesar, and also many of Lord Burghley's: Cyril Davenport, English Heraldic Book Stamps (London, 1909), pp. 313-14.

    • *HoH 35 ff. 1r-54v
      Autograph

      A fair copy, probably made for presentation, complete with dedication To the Qveenes most Excellent Matie in italic script (ff. 1r-8v), the main text in mixed secretary script (ff. 9r-54v), in the hand of Howard's principal amanuensis (the same as in British Library, King's MS 166), with autograph sidenotes by Howard throughout.

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

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

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

  • Lansdowne MS 794

    Copy, widely spaced, in a secretary hand, the first line illegible, 155 folio leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) This Book I borrow'd of James West Esqr. To be Returned on Demand &c. / Tho: Martin / In his Leaue I haue Transcrib'd it and, in another hand, The transcript is in the possession of Rich Heber Esqr. who bought it at Dr. Farmer's sale. Also inscribed Le Neve Norroy AD 1724 posessorem libri, and with bookplate of Shelburne.

    • SkJ 34
      No description or publication history available.

      Canon, R64, p. 21. 2544 lines, attributed to Skelton in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (Oxford, 1725), II, 684-7. Full text in Dyce, II, 413-47.

      John Skelton, The Image of Ypocresye

  • Lansdowne MS 798

    A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts.

    • RaW 1093 ff. 78r-104v

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 805

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

    Owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary.

    • MaA 507.8 ff. 83r-9r

      Copy, erroneously ascribed in 1881 to Marvell's own hand.

      Discussed in Legouis, p. 469.

      First published in London, 1678. Rejected from the canon by Legouis.

      Andrew Marvell, Flagellum Parliamentarium

  • Lansdowne MS 806

    A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 275 leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • RaW 579 ff. 28r-38r

      Copy of an abridged version, complete with dedicatory epistle to the King, in a professional secretary hand, headed Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellor & a Justice of Peace.

      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
    • CtR 287 ff. 141r-66r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page Extracts out of the Records, wherein, may bee Collected, by what meanes the Kings of England have and may raise moneys Written by Sr. R.: C. Knight and Baronett. Mid-17th century.

      Later inscribed (f. 141r) CB [or PB]: gen: Med: Tem: 24o: De: No: 1663 and (ff. 142r and 166v) C[or P]Billingsby, with a list of books in the same hand (f. 141v) dated March 19o. 1672.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
    • RaW 633 ff. 167-90v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Politique dispute aboute the happiest Mariage for the Noble Prince Charles, imperfect at the end.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 807

    A folio volume of plays and songs, in several hands, 88 leaves, in russia.

    Later owned by John Warburton, FSA (1682-1759), Somerset Herald and antiquary, including his list of manuscript plays that he says he once owned and which were burned by a servant.

    This MS and Warburton's list discussed in W.W. Greg, Collected Papers, ed. J.C. Maxwell (Oxford, 1966), pp. 48-74 (The Bakings of Betsy).

    • MiT 20.8 ff. 29r-56r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, including some inserted slips of alterations and additions, with corrections and stage directions in two other hands (one possibly a prompter), the MS submitted by the King's Men to the Master of the Revels Sir George Buc, with his further deletions and annotations, his licence inscribed by him at the end (This second Maydens tragedy (for it hath no name inscribed) may wth the reformations bee acted publikely. 31 octobr. 1611. / G. Buc.), with later inscriptions Goff'[?], George Chapman and By Will Shakspeare,

      Facsimile examples of ff. 48r, 54r, 55v-6v in Greg's edition, after p. xiii.

      Also known as The Second Maiden's Tragedy. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1909). Oxford Middleton, pp. 839-906.

      Variously attributed, including to George Chapman in Leonora Leet Brodwin, Authorship of The Second Maiden's Tragedy: A Reconsideration of the Manuscript Attribution to Chapman, SP 63 (1966), 51-77; this attribution dismissed in Anne Lancashire, The Second Maiden's Tragedy: Chapman Reconsidered and Rejected, ELN, 14 (1977), 174-82.

      Thomas Middleton, The Lady's Tragedy

  • Lansdowne MS 811

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 198 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Later in the library of Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

    • RaW 1094 ff. 7r-16r

      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
    • CtR 353 ff. 133r-9r

      Copy, as written by Sr Robert Cotton the 27 of Aprill 1624.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ... [27 April 1624]
    • CtR 452.5 ff. 140r-7v

      Copy, headed A Discourse touching Alteracon of Coyne. By Sr Robte Cotton Knt & Baronet, dated 2 September 1626, with related texts on ff. 148r-56r.

      Speech beginning My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626 and Questions to be proposed, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]
    • CtR 474.5 ff. 157r-75r

      Copy, as by Sr Robert Cotton knt & Baronett.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611

  • Lansdowne MS 813

    Presentation copy, on 231 folio leaves.

    For Sir George Carey (1547-1603), who was elevated to the peerage as the second Baron Hunsdon in 1597 and was then Lord Chamberlain of the Household; written in the accomplished italic and secretary scripts of Howard's principal amanuensis; with a formal title-page (f. 1r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the illuminated arms of Carey superscribed by four autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and with his marginal dedication signed (f. 1v); a Dedication To the Qveenes Most Excellent Maiestie in flourished italic script on ff. 2r-27r, with a two-line addition in Howard's hand (f. 16v) and subscribed and signed by him (f. 27r); the main text in a secretary script on ff. 28r-231v, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 125r) and third book (f. 156r), and with occasional autograph sidenotes added by Howard.

    Before 1597.
    • *HoH 76
      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

  • Lansdowne MS 814

    A folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence and papers, in various hands, 114 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

    • ClE 139 ff. 49r-51v

      Copy of Clarendon's letter to his daughter, on three quarto leaves, endorsed as being a copy from Mr Ashby, MP for Leicester, received from him Feb 1675/6.

      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

  • Lansdowne MS 819

    A composite volume of papers relating to Foxe and his descendants.

    A composite volume of papers collected by John Strype, consisting chiefly of documents relating to Foxe and his descendants, particularly concerning property, from 1584 to 1654, including (f. 95) a list of books and manuscripts belonging to Foxe.

    c.1551-2.
    • *FxJ 24
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Foxe, Miscellaneous Papers
    • *FxJ 16 f. 90
      Autograph

      Autograph page of Latin grammar with an English explanation, probably used in the compilation of Foxe's Table of Grammar.

      First published in 1552 (no exemplum extant).

      John Foxe, Tables of Grammar

  • Lansdowne MS 825

    A folio composite volume of MSS.

    • LeJ 83 ff. 19-21, 53-4v

      List of names of counties and towns along Leland's routes and, in another hand, an extract concerning the Priory of Snelleshall, Staunford, &c.

      This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiii.

      John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]
    • BrT 4.5 ff. 48r-51r

      Extracts.

      First published with The Garden of Cyrus (London, 1658). Wilkin, III, 449-96. Keynes. I, 123-72. Martin, pp. 81-125. Endicott, pp. 241-86. Also edited (with The Garden of Cyrus) by John Carter (Cambridge, 1958).

      Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall

  • Lansdowne MS 845

    MS.

    • MnJ 23.2 ff. 14r-24v

      MS of a translation of Paradise Lost, Book I, into Italian, by Lorenzo Magalotti (1637-1712)

      First published in London, 1667. Columbia, II. Darbishire I. Carey & Fowler, pp. 417-1060.

      John Milton, Paradise Lost ('Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit')

  • Lansdowne MS 846

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, c.285 leaves.

    • *WiG 70 f. 64r
      Autograph

      A petition by Wither, to the House of Commons, requesting his release from imprisonment and applying for the office of Chief Searcher of Dover, a printed document with four words added in Wither's own hand.

      George Wither, Petitions

  • Lansdowne MS 852

    A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

    c.1730.
    • FrG 11 f. 40r-v

      Copy, headed The Trifle A Song by Mr: Farquar 1703 To the Tune of old Simon the King.

      First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).

      George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song ('A Trifling Song you shall hear')
    • DoC 27 f. 55r-v

      Copy, headed Lord Dorset at Sea in the Dutch War An old Song, not Edited.

      This MS collated in Harris.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea ('To all you ladies now at land')
    • DoC 159 f. 61r

      Copy, headed On Mrs: Roche by My Ld: Dorset found among his Papers after his Death.

      This MS collated in Wright & Spears and in Harris.

      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')
    • CgW 66 f. 90r

      Copy of a Latin translation of the ballad, headed A Soldier and a Sailor &c. By Mr. Congreve. Put into Latin by <space> To the same Tune and beginning Miles, Navigator.

      Summers, II, 141. Davis, pp. 274. McKenzie, I, 332-3.

      William Congreve, Love for Love, III, xv, lines 44-75. Ballad ('A Souldier, and a Sailor')
    • DoC 292 ff. 108v-9r

      Copy, headed An Excellent new Ballad giving a true Accot [&c.]...by E Dorset, following (on ff. 107r-8v) The Female Nine. 1693 By E. of Monmouth.

      Edited from this MS 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')
    • DoC 176 f. 113r

      Copy, headed On the Countesse of Dorchester. 1694 By E: Dorset.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) ('Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes')
    • DoC 202 f. 113r

      Copy, headed Another on the same Lady By E. Dorset.

      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 189 f. 113r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Harris.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) ('Proud with the spoils of royal cully')
    • CgW 12 f. 115r

      Copy, here dated 1696 and as By: E Dorset.

      This MS recorded in Harris.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.

      Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

      William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')
    • DrJ 229 f. 122r

      Copy, headed On Dundee 1689 By Mr Dryden.

      This MS collated in California.

      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')
    • DoC 218 f. 183

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden ('When Israel first provoked the living Lord')
    • CoA 19.5 f. 238v

      Copy, headed An Anacreontique in Drinking, by Mr Cowley.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

      Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking ('The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain')
    • MaA 179 ff. 244v-5r

      Copy, headed A Prophetick Lampoon, or Prince Bettyman's Resolutions whenever he comes to England again To the Tune of which nobody can deny.

      First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

      Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')

  • Lansdowne MS 863

    A folio volume of heraldic, genealogical and antiquarian papers, in various hands, 200 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth gilt.

    c.1593.
    • TiC 23 f. 194r

      Copy, in an italic hand, headed Verses of mr Tychborns before his execution, subscribed Tychborne.

      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')

  • Lansdowne MS 878

    A large folio volume comprising A Collection of Monuments in divers Churches [chiefly in London and Westminster] with most of the Coats of Arms painted, predominantly in a single italic hand, 114 leaves (including some tipped-in inserts), in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

    Late 17th century.

    Shelburne bookplate.

    • DnJ 4065.8 f. 68v

      Copy of the epitaph, formally set out in a semi-calligraphic script, with a representation of Ann Donne's coat of arms emblazoned in their proper colours.

      This MS collated in Variorum, 8.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Cottoni Posthuma (London, 1651), as Valour Anatomiz'd in a Fancie by Sir Philip Sidney. Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). The Prose Works of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. Albert Feuillerat, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1968), III, 308-10 (as Appendix). Hayward, pp. 417-20. Peters, pp. 62-7 (among Dubia). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's An Essay of Valour, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

      John Donne, An Essay of Valour

  • Lansdowne MS 896

    A volume (Part VIII) of antiquarian materials collected by John Warburton, FRS, FSA (1682-1759), Somerset Herald and antiquary, for an intended history of Yorkshire.

    Early-mid 18th century.
    • CmW 13.162 ff. 273r-83r

      Notes for additions to Britannia made by one John Burnsell.

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

      William Camden, Britannia

  • Lansdowne MS 904

    Copy, in two professional secretary hands (A: ff. 1r-92v, 103r-11v; B: ff. 93r-102v), 111 folio leaves, imperfect, lacking all text up to the middle of Chapter V and all text after the beginning of the last chapter.

    Early 17th century.

    Sylvester, No. 13.

    • CvG 20
      No description or publication history available.

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

      George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

  • Lansdowne MS 924

    A volume of collections of Basil Kennett (1674-1715), antiquary and translator.

    • HkR 66 ff. 1r-24r

      Extracts from Hooker and Locke, on the subject of the Liberty of the Will.

      Richard Hooker, Extracts

  • Lansdowne MS 928

    A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising extracts in English, Italian, and Latin, in various hands, 174 leaves.

    Volume V of the collections of Basil Kennett (1674-1715), antiquary and translator.

    Early 18th century.
    • FaE 4 ff. 1r-20v

      Extracts, headed Godfrey of Bulloigne, here beginnng O heavenly Muse, that not with falling Bays.

      Six verses, unpublished.

      Edward Fairfax, To my noble frend mr huntington ('Godfrey of Bulloigne & his great wonders')

  • Lansdowne MS 929

    A folio volume of collections compiled by Dr Basil Kennett (1674-1715), antiquary and translator.

    Volume VI of the Kennett Papers.

    c.1700.
    • SaG 63 ff. 52r-67v passim

      Extracts, principally from the Penitential Hymns, Job's Curse Paraphrases upon Job, upon the Psalms of David, and upon Ecclesiastes.

      George Sandys, Extracts
    • WaE 170.5 f. 70r

      Extracts.

      First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

      Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')
    • MnJ 23.6 ff. 70v-3r

      Extracts from Paradise Lost.

      First published in London, 1667. Columbia, II. Darbishire I. Carey & Fowler, pp. 417-1060.

      John Milton, Paradise Lost ('Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit')

  • Lansdowne MS 932

    An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single hand, 85 leaves, in modern quarter blue crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

    Volume IX of the collections of Basil Kennett (1674-1715), antiquary and translator

    • HkR 9.5 ff. 65r-74v

      Extracts from Books I and V, headed From Mr Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity.

      Book VII first published in John Gauden's edition of the complete Polity (London 1662). For publication of other Books see individual Books below.

      Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

  • Lansdowne MS 936

    An oblong octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, chiefly in one hand, 231 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) White Kennett ex aulâ Scti Edmundi apud Oxonienses: Octobris 18mo 1678, being Volume II of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

    c.1678.
    • RoJ 536 ff. 50r-4v

      Copy of lines 1-175, headed Epsom Wells: By ye Earl of Rochester.

      This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

      First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')
    • RoJ 310 ff. 63r-8v

      Copy, headed A Satyr against man by ye Earl of Rochester.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • TaJ 14 f. 69r et seq.

      A six-line extract.

      First published in Dublin, 1664.

      Jeremy Taylor, A Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland

  • Lansdowne MS 940

    A quarto composite volume of MSS, in several hands, 190 leaves, in modern leather gilt.

    Volume VI of the miscellaneous historical collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

    17th century.
    • RuB 100 ff. 77r-8v

      Copy, headed Sir Beniamin Rudierd his Speach in behalf of ye Clergie and of parishes miserably destitute of Instruction thro want of Maintenance, confirmed by the testimonies of Bp Jewel, Master Perkins and Sr Henry Spelman, Edited at Oxford 1628. 4to and here beginning Bp Jewell in his Sermon before Qu. Eliz....

      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
    • LeJ 84 ff. 118r-49r

      Substantial extracts, chiefly relating to Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, in several hands, headed The Itinerary of John Leiland the famous Antiquarie Begun An. 1538 30th Hen: 8. Late 17th century.

      This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiii.

      John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

  • Lansdowne MS 958

    A quarto composite volume of MSS.

    Volume XXIV of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

    Late 17th century.
    • AndL 22 ff. 54-60

      Copy.

      The text corrected from this MS in LACT.

      First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 106-10.

      Lancelot Andrewes, A Discourse against Second Marriage after Divorce

  • Lansdowne MS 963

    An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small cursive hand, 139 leaves, in modern half-calf gilt.

    Volume XXIX of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

    c.1700.

    Transcribed either from a lost volume of the Collectanea or partly from a MS of Part II of the Itinerary.

    • LeJ 43 ff. 15v-16r, 86r-7v

      Extracts, headed Ex Collectaneis Joh. Leland: MS., with references to 47v. vol. 2. and Vol. 1. fol. respectively.

      This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiii-xiv.

      John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

  • Lansdowne MS 978

    A quarto volume of biographical memoranda, in a single cursive italic hand, compiled by White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian, 184 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

    Late 17th-early 18th century.
    • MrT 9 f. 115r

      Copy by Kennett, headed 1512 Sir Tho: Mores Epitaph vpon Henry Abyngdon Organist to the King's Chapell / Epitaphium Abyngdonii Cantoris, with a sidenote Tho. More Epigramm. 4to. 1517, and subscribed This was the first pure Latine Epitaph made in England.

      Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 200-1, with English translation.

      Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 141. Epitaphium Abyngdonii cantoris ('Attrahat huc oculos, aures attraxerat olim')

  • Lansdowne MS 984

    A quarto composite volume of biographical accounts of clerics, in several hands, one predominating, 192 leaves.

    Volume L of the miscellaneous historical collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

    Late 17th century.
    • DnJ 4065.7 ff. 102v-3r

      Copy, headed His Wifes Epitaph, in Kennett's Memoirs of Dr John Donne Dean of Pauls....

      This MS collated in Variorum, 8.

      Donne's Latin epitaph on his wife Ann More, who died 15 August 1617. First published in John Stow, The Survey of London (London, 1633). Edited and discussed in M. Thomas Hester, miserrimum dictu: Donne's Epitaph for His Wife, JEGP, 94/4 (October 1995), 513-29. Variorum, 8 (1995), 187.

      John Donne, Epitaph for Ann Donne ('Fæminæ lectissimæ, dilectissimæque')

  • Lansdowne MS 985

  • Lansdowne MS 1045

    Composite volume of MSS.

    c.1556 or [1658-9].
    • *DrJ 49 ff. 101-3v
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the glorious [& happy deleted] memorie Of his most Serene & Renowned Highness Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-wealth &c Written after the Celebration of his Funeralls, on three folio leaves.

      This MS first identified as autograph by Anna Maria Crinò in Dryden MS, TLS (22 September 1966), p. 879. Edited from this MS and discussed by Crinò in Uno Sconosciuto Autografo Drydeniano al British Museum, EM, 17 (1966), 311-20. Edited from this MS in Vinton A. Dearing, Serge E. Brunet, John H. Hall and R. Gill Tamarelli, Dryden's Heroique Stanza's on Cromwell: A New Critical Text, PBSA, 69 (1975), 502-26, and in Hammond & Hopkins, I, 533-8, with a facsimile of the first page after p. 304. Other facsimiles of f. 101r in Crinò, EM, 17, facing p. 313; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 53; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 66; in Paul Hammond, Dryden's Employment by Cromwell's Government, TCBS, 8.i (1981), 130-7 (p. 133); and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 73. Also discussed by Paul Hammond in The Autograph Manuscript of Dryden's Heroique Stanza's and Its Implications for Editors, PBSA, 76 (1982), 457-70.

      First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 18-29.

      John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. ('And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste')
    • *FxJ 18 ff. 132r-55
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, with extensive revisions.

      This MS collated in Smith, with a facsimile of f. 132r on p. 201. Facsimile of f. 132r also in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 138.

      First published in Basle, 1556. Edited, with a translation, by John Hazel Smith in Two Latin Comedies by John Foxe the Martyrologist (Ithaca & London, 1973), pp. 199-371.

      John Foxe, Christus triumphans

  • Lansdowne MS 1121

    A folio volume of judicial readings and other matter.

    c.1594.
    • BcF 98 ff. 112r-20v

      Copy, written in Law French.

      An English translation of this MS in Spedding.

      First published (in an English translation) in Spedding, VII, 613-36.

      Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. Argument in Chudleigh's Case

  • Lansdowne MS 1185

    A quarto composite miscellany, in three or more hands, 76 leaves, in quarter-leather marbled boards.

    Late 17th century.
    • ShW 117 ff. 4r-14r

      Brief quotations from Shakespeare (including All's Well that Ends Well, Henry IV, King John and Troilus and Cressida).

    • ShW 55 ff. 14v-16r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1598.

      William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost
    • ShW 62 ff. 16r-20r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1600.

      William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    • ShW 67 ff. 20r-1v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1600.

      William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing
    • ShW 66 ff. 21v-5r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1602.

      William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    • ShW 89 ff. 25v-6r

      Extracts.

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

      William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    • ShW 37 ff. 26v-36r

      Extracts.

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

      William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
    • ShW 108 ff. 36r-40v

      Extracts.

      First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

      William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    • HaG 23 ff. 56r-64v

      Series of extracts from a printed edition, headed Ld Marq of Hallifax's Advice to a Daughter.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 379-424. Brown, II, 363-406.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter
    • DrJ 45 ff. 65r-76r

      Copy, as by Mr Dryden.

      First published in Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1650-66. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 406-27.

      John Dryden, The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The lady in the Arbour. A Vision ('Now turning from the wintry Signs, the Sun')

  • Lansdowne MS 1186

    Copy in a scribal hand on 79 folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    This MS collated in Foxcroft (as MS. A). Collated in Brown, I, 345-96.

    • HaG 8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry], in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

  • Lansdowne MS 1208

    A small quarto volume of speeches etc. relating to Irish parliamentary matters, in a single neat hand, 38 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

    9 January 1754.
    • DaJ 283 ff. 6r-8v, 9r-36r

      Copy of the two speeches, subscribed (f. 36r-v) Examined and Compared with a Manuscript in the possession of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire this Ninth day of January One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty four. (signed) Robt Wilmot..

      Two speeches, one in the Irish House of Commons, the other in the Irish House of Lords, beginning respectively Most honble. Lord & Rt. Worthy Deputy of Our most Invincible Renowned & Gracious Sovereign, I am here presented to your Lordp.... and Most honble. & Right Noble Lord. Since your high Wisdom (unto which I humbly made my Appeal) has not thought fit to repeal.... The second speech first published in Davies, Historical Tracts (Dublin, 1787). The two speeches first published together in Grosart, III (1876), 215-21, 222-41.

      Sir John Davies, Speeches in Ireland (21 May 1613)

  • Lansdowne MS 1233

    A quarto composite volume of topographical notes and epitaphs.

    1661.
    • MaA 45 f. 99r-v

      Copy, headed On a faire marble stone nigh a north chappell a black marble yt had an inscription, now covered wth paint.

      This MS discussed, with facsimiles, in Kelliher (1978), p. 73, and in Hilton Kelliher, Some Notes on Andrew Marvell, British Library Journal, 4/2 (Autumn 1978), 122-44 (pp. 134-9).

      First published, as prose, in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 139-40. This inscription, in lapidary verse, was on a memorial formerly in Eton College Chapel and several extant texts recorded below were transcribed from a transcript of it made by one Taffy Woodward, Chapel Clerk at Eton. See the discussion and reconstructed text in Kelliher (1978), pp. 72-3, and in Kelliher, Some Notes on Andrew Marvell, British Library Journal, 4 (1978), 122-44 (pp. 134-9). Smith, pp. 193-4, with English translation.

      Andrew Marvell, Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium ('Juxta hoc Marmor, breve Mortalitatis speculum')

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