A 15th-century folio MS, in English, inscribed (f. 1r) Wm Browne
.
Edwards, No. 6.
Copy, headed Behemoth, or the Epitome of ye Civill Wars of England
.
Copy in two scribal hands, with additions in a third hand, headed Behemoth, or the Epitome of ye Civill Wars of England
, on 64 folio leaves.
First published, as The History of the Civil Wars of England, ([in London], 1679). Molesworth, English, VI, 161-418. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969), and reprinted with an introduction by Stephen Holmes (Chicago & London, 1990).
Copy, in a neat hand, on 114 folio leaves, with two letters concerning the work.
Mid-late 17th century.Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.
First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).
Copy, on 45 folio pages (ff. 3r-25r).
Complete with the Dedication To the Queenes moste excellente Matie:
, headed A memoriall of a discourse vsed by the late worthy Emperour Charles the vth vppon the resignemt of his gouermente, and stats to his sonne, the now kinge of Spaine
.
Name on f. 1v of John Gybbon
. Inscription on f. 2r Lent to Mr Gunton. Feb. 16. 1648...
.
An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century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.
MS of an anonymous brief analysis of Books I-IV, on 28 duodecimo leaves.
17th century.Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
A large folio guard-book of independent state papers, in various hands, 86 leaves.
Copy, in a secretary hand, on both sides of a folio leaf, imperfect; lacking the beginning.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death
: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The verses following were made by Sir Walter Rawleigh the night before his death at the gate house
.
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
A second copy, in another secretary handm, untitled.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death
: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state papers, in various hands, 166 leaves.
Receipt of salaries of Milton and other Government officers (the Ashburnham Document), signed on Milton's behalf, 13 February 1654/5.
Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII[bis], No. ii, item 1); in John Milton 1608-1674 Facsimiles of Autographs and Documents in the British Museum (London, 1908); and in Guide to the Exhibited MSS (BM), Part I (1912), No. 80. Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 625.
A folio volume of state tracts and papers dating up to 1628, almost entirely in two professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe
, 179 leaves, in modern reversed calf.
Once owned by Ric: Tichbone
, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652).
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 247 (No. 71), with a facsimile of f. 1r on p. 83.
Copy.
A tract beginning By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled …
. Unpublished?
Copy, as by Sr. Robert Cotton
.
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.
A folio volume of state letters and tracts, dating up to 1628, in three professional hands, one that of the Feathery Scribe
, 214 leaves.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 247-8 (No. 72).
Copy, the first three and a half lines in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
, the rest in another professional secretary hand.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 248 (No. 72.15), with a facsimile of f. 46r on p. 81.
Written c.January 1611/12. First published in Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 265-70. Spedding, XI, 249-54.
Copy.
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).
A folio composite volume of state tracts and parliamentary speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves.
Copy, headed A Gracious and religious Epistle of a sonne to his father
. Early 17th century.
This MS not recorded by editors.
Epistle, beginning In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty...
. First published as An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.
A small quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more cursive secretary hands, 236 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
c.1620s.Copy, as written p Sr Robert Coton Knight & Baronet
.
Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James
, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...
. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Rudiers speache taken as he spake it, being ye first in ye great busieness concerninge ye Treatie
.
Speech beginning We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Mats favour towards vs...
.
Copy, in a roman hand, entitled (f. 108v) Robert Dudley Erle of Leicester his life & gournmt, commonly called his Comon Wealth.1584
.
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
Copy of a twelve-line version, headed Epitaphium
and here beginning Heere lyes ye valiant soldier | that neur drewe his sword
.
Printed from this MS in D.C. Peck, Another Version of the Leicester Epitaphium, N&Q, 221 (May-June 1976), 227-8.
First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier
, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592
), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.
Copy, unascribed.
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.
A folio volume of state and miscellaneous tracts, dating from 1572 to 1635, in various professional secretary hands, 386 leaves.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
Copy, as written by Sir Robt Cotton knight and barronet
, dated 27 April 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.
Copy.
First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.
Copy of the prayer, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Praier is thus
, and followed (ff. 354v-5r) by a Latin version, in a copy (on ff. 353r-69v) of Roger Marbeck's account of the taking of Cadiz in 1596.
Beginning Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest...
. Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596).
A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 211 leaves, in mottled leather.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
Copy of the main text (ff. 3r-23r). followed by the Dedication To the Queenes most excellent Matie
: (ff. 24r-7r), in a professional secretary hand, unascribed.
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.
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand.
A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...
., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).
Copy, in at least three professional secretary hands, with a title-page.
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).
A folio composite volume of diplomatic letters and papers, 1609-11, in various hands, 396 leaves.
Volume VI of the papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes (1592-1633), diplomat.
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to Sir Thomas Edmondes, from London, 17 January 1610/11.
Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XIX.
Volume XII of the state papers largely assembled by Sir Thomas Edmondes (1563?-1633), 235 leaves.
[1615-33].Copy.
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.
A large folio guard-book of independent state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 229 leaves.
Copy.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart
: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
Copy of a letter by Ralegh.
Copy.
Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth...
. Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sr Walter Raleighs speach at his death...[&c.]
, on two conjugate folio leaves.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death
: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Bishpp of Exeters Letter to the howse of Comons
, on one side of a folio leaf.
Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal...
. First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on a blank leaf (f. 60v) A discourse of the state of these present times. / 1641
.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published as A Coppy of a Letter Found in the Privy Lodgeings at Whitehall (London, 1641). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 163-7.
Copy of the letters, here dated 3 April 1671.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
Copy, in a neat hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Facsimile of f. 77r in Kelliher, p. 110.
A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...
. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.
A folio volume of transcripts of state papers and parliamentary speeches, chiefly from 1618 to 1679, largely in a single mixed hand, written from both ends, 161 leaves, in old marbled boards.
Late 17th century.Copy, in double columns.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
Copy, in a neat italic hand, on ruled lines, headed A mournfull Elegy vppon K. James His death
.
First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.
Copy of both letters (ff. 85r-6v, 87r-v), in a neat hand.
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.
A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers of John Robethon, private secretary to William III and George I, for 1707-11, 472 leaves.
Hanover Papers Vol. II.
Autograph letter signed by Lady Chudleigh, to the Electress Sophia, from Exeter, 8 October 1710.
A folio composite volume of copies and abstracts of intercepted Jacobite correspondence, 1717-19, 221 leaves.
Hanover Papers Vol. XI.
An abstract in French of a letter by Jane Barker, to the Duke of Ormond, dated 19 March 1717/18, which was intercepted by the government's anti-Jacobite intelligence system.
Cited, with a translation into French, in Kathryn R. King, with Jeslyn Medoff, Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record, Eighteenth Century Life, 21, n.s., 3 (November 1997), pp. 26, 36 n. 84.
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from London, 18 March 1712/13.
Edited in Whistler, pp. 240-1 (Appendix I, No. 16), and, with a facsimile, in Maynard Mack, They have actually turned me out
: Vanbrugh to Marlborough, The Scriblerian, 9 (1977), 77-83.
Copy; in a rounded hand, inscribed Transcribed from a copy in the hands of Mr George Ballard, Sept. 20: 1748
, on sixteen duodecimo leaves, in vellum wrappers within modern half crushed morocco.
Edited from this MS in Fines.
First published in John Fines, An Unnoticed Tract of the Tyndale-More dispute?, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 42 (1969), 220-30.
Copy, the main text in a single professional secretary hand, 73 quarto leaves, in modern crushed morocco.
Formally inscribed (f. 1r) De. Re / Priuata et Publia / RCL / Pecet nouisse malum facisse nefandum / Lectori / Emenda Legendo menda / Vale
, with a full title-page in secretary and italic scripts (f. 2r), subscribed (f. 71r) finis. written Anno. 1594
.
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
A small folio volume containing two works, the second (ff. 49v-79r) a tabular summary of a philosophical Encyclopædia
, 79 leaves, in modern crushed morocco.
Inscribed (f. 1r) Edri Umfreville
: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
Copy, on 554 folio leaves, entitled A large and excellent discourse of the Estate of Christiandome Written by An vnknowne Author about the years of our Lord 1594…, with a table of contents in another hand.
1st half 17th century.A lengthy treatise, beginning After that I had lived many years in voluntary exile and banishment...
. First published in London, 1657. Wotton's authorship is not certain.
A small folio volume of state tracts and letters, in a professional secretary hand, sixteen leaves, in modern crushed morocco.
Early 17th century.Copy.
First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
A folio volume of state letters and tracts, chiefly in secretary hands, 24 leaves, in vellum wrappers from a ?15th-century document within a modern binding.
Early 17th century.Copy, in an italic hand, that of Oliver St John (1584-1646), first Earl of Bolingbroke, headed Sr Henrye Lee
, subscribed St John
.
This MS collated in Clayton and in Hughey.
First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court: The Texts and Authorship of His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.
Autograph draft, on twelve small quarto leaves.
c.1615-16.Edited from this MS in Fussner.
First published in Frank Smith Fussner, William Camden's Discourse concerning the Prerogative of the Crown, Proceedings of the American Philological Society, 101 (1957), 204-15.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with some alterations in another hand, complete with a title-page, on 69 small folio leaves, in modern calf gilt.
c.1630s.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).
A small quarto volume of works attributed to Sir Thomas Overbury, in a single secretary hand, 42 small leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards.
c.1620s.Inscribed (inside the front cover) Ex Bibl G. Brander Armr Feb: 1790
[i.e. Gustavus Brander (1720-87), naturalist] and (on flyleaf) Bibl. T. Astle
[i.e. Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts].
An abridgement or extracts, untitled.
A discourse beginning God made one part of man of earth, the basest Element to teach him humility...
. First published in The Prince's Cabala: or Mysteries of State. Written by King James the First and some Noblemen in his Reign, and in Queen Elizabeth's (London, 1715). Rimbaud, pp. 253-78. Unlikely to be by Overbury (unless one of various sources for the anecdotes) since certain references in the work date from no earlier than 1622.
Copy, headed Maxims and Observations respecting the state if the 17. Provinces...Anno 1619
.
A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...
. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, as by Sir Robert Cotton, on 47 small quarto leaves, in modern boards.
Early 17th century.Owned in 1774 by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.
A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...
., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).
A folio volume comprising two treatises, 101 leaves.
c.1630s.Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.
Copy, headed A discoverye of the Hollanders trades, and their circumventinge vs therein, and the meanes howe to make profitt by the ffisheinge...
.
A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past...
. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.
Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, Who is the author of the tract intitled Some observations touching trade with the Hollander?, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.
Copy, on twenty small folio leaves.
1634-41.First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
A folio composite volume of political and legal tracts and speeches, in four professional secretary hands (one predominating), 91 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.
c.1630s.Copy, as written by Sr Robert Cotton to Sr Edward Mountagu...1621
.
Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by 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.
Copy, in two professional secretary hands (changing partway down f. 90r), as by Sr Robt Cotton Kt: and Baronett...2o Sept 1626
.
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.
A folio volume of three state tracts, 146 leaves.
Copy.
A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...
. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
A folio volume of state and legal tracts, in three professional secretary hands (one predominating ff. 2r-142r), 228 leaves (plus some blanks), in modern mottled leather.
c.1620s-30s.Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
Copy.
A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...
. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
Copy, headed The Antiquity of Parliamts
, subscribed William Cambden
.
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.
A folio partly composite miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single closely written hand (up to f. 294v) but for a second hand on ff. 220v-31v, a third hand on ff. 315r, 316r-25. 325 leaves (plus blanks), in quarter-vellum.
Early 18th century.Copy, probably transcribed from a printed source.
This MS recorded in LR, II, 264.
First published in London, 1649. Columbia, V, 63-309. Yale, III, 335-601.
Copy of a speech by Sedley, headed The speech of a person of Honour in the House of Comons Jan: 2: 1690: Sir Charles Sedly Barot
, beginning We have provided for ye navy...
.
Published in 1691.
Seven speeches in The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, [London, 1702], pp. 1-21 (second pagination). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 225-38.
Copy, headed The hasty returne
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.
Copy, headed A Satyricall poem
.
A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand
. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition
.
Copy, untitled.
Recorded in Harris.
First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.
Extracts, headed Leland. Collect. vol. 1. p. 132, 133
, on one side of a folio leaf.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiv.
Copy, 24 small folio leaves.
Headed Extracts Out of the Records, wherein it may be collected by what meanes the kings of England have and may rayse moneys. Written by Sr Robert Cotton, knight and baronett.
Early 17th century.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].
A folio composite volume of parliamentary papers, in various professional hands, 326 leaves, in modern crushed morocco.
Copy of Version 2, in a professional secretaty hand, headed The Queenes Mats answear to the Comon house touching her Mariage and the limitico of succession.
. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in J.E. Neale, Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566, EHR, 36, No. 144 (October 1921), 497-520 (pp. 514-17). Cited in Hartley and in Selected Works.
First published in J.E. Neale, Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566, EHR, 36, No. 144 (October 1921), 497-520 (pp. 514-17).
Version I. Beginning If the order of your causes had matched the weight of your matter...
. Hartley, I, 145 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 93-4 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 5, pp. 45-6.
Version II. Beginning If the order had been observed in the beginning of the matter...
. Hartley, I, 146-9 (Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 94-8 (Version 2).
Copy of a 90-line version, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses
in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sr: Benjamine Rydiars speech concerning Bishopps
.
Speech beginning I doe verily beleeue that there are manie of the Clergie in one Church who doe thinke...
. First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 15-12
[i.e. 20]. Manning, pp. 185-7.
A large folio volume of Elizabethan parliamentary proceedings, in several professional secretary hands, 452 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
Early 17th century.Copy of Version 2.
This MS cited in Hartley.
First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 113-17.
Version I. Beginning I love so evil counterfeiting and hate so much dissimulation that I may not suffer you depart...
. Hartley, I, 174-5 (Separate version
). Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 105-6 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 6, pp. 47-51.
Version II. Beginning My lords and others, the Commons of this Assembly, although the lord keeper hath, according to order, very well answered in my name...
. Hartley, I, 172-3. Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 107-8 (Version 2).
Copy, introduced by ...after a longe stay she spake in fewe words to this effect.
This MS cited in Hartley.
Brief speech beginning My right loving lords and you all, our right faithful and obedient subjects, we in the name of God....
. First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), p. 137. Hartley, I, 195. Collected Works, Speech 11, pp. 108-9.
A folio composite volume of chiefly Elizabethan and Jacobean parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 128 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.
Copy, headed Quee Elizabeths speech to her Secretary and other her Lords before her Coronation. / Wordes Spoken by her Matie To Mr Cicille
.
This MS cited in Heisch.
Words spoken by her majesty to Mr. Cecil beginning I give you this charge, that you shall be of my privy Council...
. Collected Works, Speech 1, p. 51. Selected Works, Speeches 1, pp. 32-3.
Copy, headed Words Spoken by the Queene. To the Lords
. Early 18th century.
Words spoken by the queen to the lords beginning My lords, the law of nature moveth me to sorrow for my sister...
. Collected Works, pp. 51-2 (linked to Speech 1 as if spoken on 20 November 1558). Selected Works, Speech 2, pp. 34-6 (and dated January 1559).
Copy of a version, untitled, in a professional secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS (as Text iii) in Hartley.
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).
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sr Benjamin Rudyards speech in Parliamt. Nov: 7o 1640
, on four quarto leaves.
Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...
. First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
A folio volume of parliamentary journals for 1597 and 1601-1601/2, in three professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe
, 288 leaves.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 248-9 (No. 73).
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
This MS cited in Hartley, in Collected Works, and in Heisch.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...
. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...
. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...
. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...
. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
A folio volume of the parliamentary journal of Hayward Townshend for 27 October to 19 December 1601, in a single professional hand, 241 leaves, in mottled leather.
c.1630s.Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
This MS cited in Hartley.
Copy of Version 1, in a professional hand, introduced ...After .3. lowe obeyances/reverences made he with the rest kneeled downe, and her Matie. began thus to answere (vizt)
.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...
. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...
. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...
. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...
. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
A folio volume principally of proceedings in the House of Commons, 1603-98, 90 leaves.
Copy of both letters, here dated 3 and 4 April 1671 respectively.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
Copy, 115 folio leaves.
Late 17th century.Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.
Copy, 135 folio leaves.
Late 17th century.Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor.
Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.
A small quarto 15th-century volume of statutes from the reign of Henry IV to that of Henry VI, 125 leaves.
Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting for the lute, as transcribed by one Ralph Bowle to learne to playe on his lutte, in anno 1558
, added on the endpapers. 1558.
This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in Mumford.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.
A folio volume of state trials from 1521 to 1666, in several professional hands, 194 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather.
Late 17th century.Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.
Copy of a brief account of The Arraignment of Henry Earle of Surrey
.
Unpublished?
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, headed in the margin Sir Walter Rawleighs Indictment
.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart
: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
A small folio volume of state tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 73 leaves, in old mottled leather.
Early-mid-17th century.Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.
Copy.
Copy, headed The speeches of Robert Earle of Essex the night before his execution out of his Chamber windowe to the guard, and from his chamber going to the place of Execution
, including an account of the execution itself.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
A folio volume of state trials, 33 leaves.
c.1620.Copy, headed Overbury
.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
A tall folio volume of tracts relating to the Court of Chancery, apparently based on collections of William Lambarde, in a professional mixed hand, with (ff. 258v-63v) a table of contents, 263 leaves, in old calf now within 19th-century half-morocco.
Mid-17th century.Arms of the Wright family of Essex on the original cover.
Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.
Copy of 100 Ordinances, the text followed (ff. 82v-3v) by fourteen Additional Rules
.
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).
Copy of the first part.
Tract, in two parts, the first beginning There is a Booke called the Myrror of Justices mentioned in Plowden's Commentaries...
, the second beginning There be Two manner of Powers & Process...
.
A folio composite volume of legal tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 136 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.
Once owned by John Anstis (1669-1745), Garter King of Arms, antiquary.
Copy of an abridged version of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.
Copy.
A tract, beginning All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...
. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Cases of high Treason...[&c.]...written by Chanc. Bacon
.
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.).
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 776-8.
A small quarto volume of legal tracts, 150 leaves.
Copy, incomplete.
This MS recorded (but not seen) in Spedding, VII, 305-6.
First published in Collectanea juridica, ed. F. Hargrave, I (London, 1791), pp. 168-213. Spedding, VII, 681-725.
A folio volume of legal and state tracts, in vellum.
Mid-late 17th century.Later owned by Joseph Edmondson (1732-86), Mowbray Herald of Arms Extraordinary, and by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.
Copy.
First published as The Learned Reading of Sir Francis Bacon...upon the Statute of Uses (London, 1642). Spedding, VII, 389-450.
Copy.
This MS recorded (but not seen) in Spedding, VII, 305.
Unpublished?
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state and legal papers, 161 leaves.
Copy.
Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.
A small quarto volume of works by Sir Arthur Gorges, 37 leaves, in vellum.
Inscribed on the upper cover Matters concerninge Sea-seruice
.
Copy in the hand of an amanuensis, with Gorges's copious autograph deletions and revisions, some overlaid on large strips of paper, with a title-page dated 1 March 1618[/19] and with a Dedication to the Marquess of Buckingham as Lord High Admiral, dated 16 March 1618/[19].
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.
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, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Gorges's copious autograph deletions and revisions.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928). Sections printed from this MS, and the relation between Ralegh's Orders and Gorges's version discussed, in Helen E. Sandison, Ralegh's Orders once more, Mariners' Mirror, 20 (1934), 323-30.
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.
A folio volume of antiquarian collections.
The fifth volume of antiquarian collections belonging to Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.
Copy, untitled.
A tract beginning Some learned men which have discoursed of offices and magistracies...
. First published, as De origine & dignitate Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 93-6. Hearne (1771), II, 327-30.
A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, almost entirely in a single professional secretary hand, 175 leaves (plus a two-leaf insertion), with a table of contents (ff. 168r-75r). in mottled leather.
c.1630s.Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
A tract beginning Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes...
and sometimes entitled in manuscripts The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
. First published, as Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.
Copy, as by Sr. Robert Cotton Kt. and Baronet
.
Tract beginning For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name...
. Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.
Copy, as by Sr. Robt. Cotton Kt. & Bart.
A tract beginning Which office because it was neuer hereditary...
. Unpublished?
Copy, headed A discourse of the office of the Lord Steward of England Collected by Mr. William Cambden
.
A tract beginning Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus...
. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.
Copy, as written by Sr. Robert Cotton Kt. & Bar
.
Tract beginning Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question...
. Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.
Copy, as written by Sr. Robert Cotton knight & Bar.
Tract beginning The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto...
. Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.
Copy of the dedicatory epistle to Northampton, 25 November 1602, headed A Letter to the Earle Howard of Northampton from Sr Ro: Cotton, Concerning Limitations of Arrests, & dispositions of ffellons goods
.
A dedicatory epistle beginning Sir, Yor small tyme, I must Ballance, wth as sclendr Aunswere...
followed by a tract beginning Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne...
.
Copy of an extract, in an italic hand, headed Extracted out of a discourse written in King James his time by the right honble. Henry Howard Earle of Northton. and by him then prsented to his fellow Commissioners for the Office of Earle Marshall of England Intituled A certaine form of Orders to be prescribed to the Officers of Armes For reformation of abuses & prevention of Corruptions deeply rooted & not easie to be removed
, and here beginning Discord betwixt Garter & the Provinciall Kings of Armes hath beene the cheife cause of Corruption & disorder in ye Office of Armes...
.
Apparently beginning Discord betwixt Garter & the Provinciall Kings of Armes hath beene the cheife cause of Corruption & disorder in ye Office of Armes …
. Unless this is a version of the untitled tract on the reformation of the office of arms (
A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 316 leaves, in modern mottled leather.
c.1620s-30s.Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
Copy, headed Seneschallus Angliæ. Of the Office of Steward of England
.
Tract beginning For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name...
. Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.
Copy, headed Of the Steward of ye Household
, subscribed Ro: Cotton
.
A tract beginning Which office because it was neuer hereditary...
. Unpublished?
Copy, headed Steward of England
, subscribed Will: Camden
.
A tract beginning Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus...
. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.
Copy, untitled, subscribed Robert Cotton
.
Tract beginning Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question...
. Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.
Copy, untitled, subscribed R. Cott: B. 1609
.
Tract beginning Where difference could not be determined...
. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [59]-[71]. Hearne (1771), II, 172-80.
Copy, unascribed.
Paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, beginning Our Question is of the antiquity and manner of lawful combats...
, dated 22 May 1601. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 180-7. Grosart, III, 293-302.
Copy, subscribed Yor Lops most humble servt to be commanded Ed Cooke
.
A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to my very good Lord
, beginning Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter …
, the tract beginning The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed …
. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.
Copy, subscribed Ro: Cotton
.
Tract beginning The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto...
. Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.
A copy of the dedicatory epistle to Northampton [25 November 1602], untitled, subscribed Ro: Cotton
.
A dedicatory epistle beginning Sir, Yor small tyme, I must Ballance, wth as sclendr Aunswere...
followed by a tract beginning Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne...
.
Copy, headed The Etymologie, Antiquity and Office of Earle Marshall of England
, unascribed.
A tract beginning Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes...
and sometimes entitled in manuscripts The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
. First published, as Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.
A folio volume of antiquarian and legal tracts, 77 leaves.
Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary, and afterwards by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary and collector.
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.
A folio volume of tracts and of heraldic and genealogical material, written from both ends, with (ff. 3r-6r) an alphabetical index, 118 leaves, in modern morocco.
Inscribed (flyleaf) John Holland No 28
and (f. 2r) Jefferies of Derbyshr
.
Copy, with a title-page, in a professional predominantly 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).
An abridged history of the Willoughby family, based on of Cassandra Willoughby's genealogical work, in a neat cursive hand, followed (ff. 32v-43r) by tipped-in folded genealogies in another hand, 43 folio leaves, originally in contemporary vellum, now all mounted in a guardbook.
c.1766.Bookplate of Augusta Anna Brydges (daughter of Henry, second Duke of Chandos), dated 1766.
Cassandra Willoughby's An Account of the Willughby's of Wollaton, in two volumes, unfinished and unpublished in full. The greater part of Vol. I edited in HMC, Lord Middleton, Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (1911), pp. 504-608. Volume II edited as The Continuation of the History of the Willoughby Family by Cassandra Duchess of Chandos, ed. A.C. Wood (Eton, Windsor, 1958).
Composite volume of letters.
Autograph letter signed, to John Evelyn, from Barn Elms, [29 March 1663].
Edited in Isaac D'Israeli, Calamities of Authors, 2 vols (London, 1812), I. 83-4. Reprinted in Nethercot, p. 237. Facsimiles in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 73, and in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXVII(d).
Autograph draft by Dryden of a dedicatory epistle to Charles Seymour, sixth Duke of Somerset, written for Purcell's use (and published with Purcell as the signatory) on the first and last pages of two conjugate quarto leaves also containing (f. 35) a draft advertisement by or on behalf of Jacob Tonson, with a note in a contemporary hand: This Epistle in the handwriteing of John Dryden Esq ... the foul draught of an Epistle Dedicatory to some Opera's of Mr Purcell, and writ at his Request & for his use
, the MS possibly used as printer's copy.
Edited from this MS in Roswell G. Ham, Dryden's Dedication for The Music of The Prophetess, 1691, PMLA, 50 (1935), 1065-75, and in California. Recorded in Kinsley, IV, 1997. Facsimile of the first page in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XV, after p. xxiv.
First published (as by Purcell) in Henry Purcell, The Vocal and Instrumental Musick of The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian (London, 1691). California, XVII, 324-6.
Composite volume of MSS.
Late 17th century.Copy, with alterations, on six pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.
This MS collated in Margoliouth.
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).
A 15th-16th-century quarto MS of an English translation of a work by Guillaume Deguileville, inscribed (f. 1r) W. Browne:
and with Browne's annotations.
Edwards, No. 7.
Manuscript of poems by Sir John Beaumont, 16 folio leaves (including 2 blanks).
In a professional (but sometimes inaccurate) secretary hand; the contents including (f. 15v) a ten-line poem on Beaumont (beginning Expect noe more: this latest line containes
).
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 137-8.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 138.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 135-6.
Copy, headed Of the true greatnesse of my Lord Marquesse of Buckingham
.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 140-2.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 138-9.
Copy.
Thi MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 136-7.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 114-15.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 113-14.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 113.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 110-11.
Copy, here beginning When first my reason dawned like the day
.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 105-6.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 110.
Copy, here beginning Whoe is that attends so high
.
Edited from this MS in Kenyon and in Sell.
First published by F.G. Kenyon in The Athenaeum (1889), p. 524. Sell, pp. 177-8.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 100-1.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 158-9.
Copy, lacking 16 lines.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 154-6.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 111-13.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 109.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 86.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 86.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 108-9.
Copy, headed Vpon the two greate Feasts of the Incarnation and Resurrection falling on the same Day: March: 25: i627
.
This MS collated in Sell.
First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 98-9.
A small folio volume of 102 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a professional predominantly italic hand, the poems often subscribed with bunch-of-grapes decorations, 114 leaves (plus blanks), with an alphabetical Table
(ff. 112v-14r), in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collections of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-71). Later owned by the fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM as Stowe MS I
:
Copy, headed Satyre
, subscribed Finis / A P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
Copy, headed Satyre
, subscribed Finis
with an inverted P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
Copy, headed Satyre
, subscribed Finis / A P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
Copy, subscribed Finis / A P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.
Copy, subscribed Finis / A P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 218-20. Milgate, Satires, pp. 100-2. Shawcross, No. 136.
Copy, headed To the Countess of Bedforde
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
Copy, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
Copy, headed A funeral Elegie vpon the Deathe of the Ladie Markham
, subscribed Finis / A P
.
First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
Copy, headed A Funerall Elegie vpon the Death of the Ladie Markham
, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
Copy, headed To the Ladie Carey
, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Reecorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
Copy, headed Elegie
, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.
Copy, headed Elegie
, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
Copy, headed Elegie
, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.
Copy, headed Elegie
, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
Copy, headed Elegie
, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.
Copy, headed Elegie
, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. 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.
Copy, headed Elegie on his Mistres, desiringe to be disguisd, and to goe like a Page, with him
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
Copy, headed Elegie
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.
Copy, headed Elegie
, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.
Copy, headed A Funerall Elegie vpon the Death of Mrs Boulstred
, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
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.
Copy, subscribed Finis / P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
Copy, headed Elegie. Autumnall on the Ladie Shandoys
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
Copy, complete with the 11-poem Epithalamion, subscribed Finis / AP
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
Copy, headed Epithalamion on a Citisen
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.
Copy, headed Elegie on Loues Progresse
.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
Copy, headed Elegie
.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published, in a 42-line version as Elegie XIIII
, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as Elegie XII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).
Copy, headed Elegie
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
Copy, headed Elegie
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
Copy, headed Elegie
.
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.
Copy, headed Springe
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
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.
Copy, headed Elegie
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Copy, headed Mummy
.
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.
Copy, headed Picture
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
Copy, headed Canonizatio
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
Copy, headed A Valediction: of teares
.
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.
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
Copy, headed An Apparition
, subscribed Finis / P A
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
Copy, headed Dreame
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross. A facsimile of f. 63r is in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), p. 26, and one also appears in the British Library's Literary Engagement Diary 2001 (opposite 1 March).
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
Copy, headed A letter to Rowland Woodwarde
, subscribed Finis / AP
.
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.
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
Copy, subscribed Finis / A P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
Copy, headed Ad Liviam
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
Copy, headed Testamentum
.
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.
Copy, headed A letter to Sr Edwarde Harbert
, subscribed Finis / A P
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
Copy, headed Valedictio
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.
Copy.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
Copy, headed A Paradoxe of a painted face
, subscribed Finis / A P
.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.
. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie
, was first published, as A Maids Denyall
, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Doughtie, pp. 609-11. Recorded in Gardner. See also
First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
Copy, untitled, immediately following on from Stay, O sweet, and do not rise
(
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.
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 70-1. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 82-3. Shawcross, No. 79.
Copy, headed Songe
.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
Copy, headed A letter
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.
Copy, headed Songe
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
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.
Copy, headed Songe
.
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.
Copy, headed Elegie
.
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.
Copy, headed Ad Lesbiam
.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 78.
Copy, headed Epigram
and here beginning If in his study Hamon hath such Care
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care
), 8 (as Antiquary
), and 11.
Copy, headed Songe
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
Copy, headed Songe
.
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.
Copy, headed Shaddowe
.
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.
Copy, headed Sonnett
.
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.
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS 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).
Copy, headed Funerall Elegie
.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as A Funeral Elegy). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as Elegia
.
Copy, headed Elegie
.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
Copy, headed Ad Solem
.
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.
Copy, headed Amoris Dieta
.
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.
Copy, headed Picture
.
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.
Copy, headed Vpon the partinge from his Mistris
.
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.
Copy, headed Elegie
.
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.
Copy, headed Ad amicum
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.
Copy of stanzas 1-2, untitled, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
Copy, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
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.
Copy, headed Elegie
, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.
Copy, headed The Blossome
, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.
Copy, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.
Copy, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
Copy, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
Copy, headed Upon the ingrauinge of his name with a Diamonde in his mistris windowe when he was to trauaile
, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
Copy, headed The Bracelett: To a Ladie, whose Chaine was lost
, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
Copy, untitled, under a general heading Diuine Meditations
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as Holy Sonnets. I). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 12-13. Shawcross, No. 174. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 103 (in three sequences).
Copy, ungtitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as Holy Sonnets. I). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. III, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 323 (as Holy Sonnets. III). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 176. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 104 (in three sequences).
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. XII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as Holy Sonnets. XVI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. II, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as Holy Sonnets. IV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as Holy Sonnets. VI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. V, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 324 (as Holy Sonnets. V). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 13. Shawcross, No. 175. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 105 (in three sequences).
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as Holy Sonnets. VII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. V, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as Holy Sonnets. IX). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. VIII, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 325 (as Holy Sonnets. VIII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 14. Shawcross, No. 177.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as Holy Sonnets. X). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Holy Sonnets. XI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as Holy Sonnets. XV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.
Copy, headed Good Fryday: 1613
, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets, headed The Crowne
, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.
Copy, headed Vpon the Annuntiation and Passion falling vpon one Day: Anno: 1608
, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608). Shawcross, No. 183.
Copy, headed A Letanie
, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.
Copy, headed Christo Saluatori
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
Copy, headed At the Seaside, goinge ouer weth the Lorde Doncaster. 1619
, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.
Copy, subscribed with a monogram resembling JP
.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 368-9. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 192.
A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.
Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.
c.1637.Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II
: Stowe MS
:
Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 19 Problems, headed Parradoxes p John Done
.
This MS discussed by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 413.
Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see Dubia
) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.
Copy, headed A description of a Scott at first sight
.
This MS recorded by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 413.
First published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 414-15. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among Dubia
). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's An Essay of Valour
, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.
Copy, headed A Dunce
, under a general heading Characters p John Done
.
This MS recorded by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 413.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 415-17. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among Dubia
). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's An Essay of Valour
, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.
Copy of 13 characters, with no general heading, beginning with A Childe
.
First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).
Copy, headed A farewell to ye world, p Sir Kell Digby. 1635
.
This MS collated in Krueger.
First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
Copy, headed To his Ms: in absence: A Shipp
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
Cooy, headed Vppon the death of the Countesse of Rutland
, subscribed ffr. Beamond
.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease
, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
Copy, headed A paradox on a paynted face
, subscribed J: D: finis
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed P.
. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as A Paradox of a Painted Face, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie
, was first published, as A Maids Denyall
, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
Copy, headed Loue in absence
.
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).
Copy, headed A storme from the Iland voyage wth the Earle of Essex to his freinde.Ben Jonson
, subscribed Finis p JD
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
Copy, untitled, here beginning Why should thy eies requite soe ill All other eyes
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), p. 77, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
.
Copy, headed In prayse of ons Mrs:
, subscribed p ffr:Beamont
.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
Copy, headed A songe
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
Copy, headed The censure of the Parliamet fart
, subscribed p Jo: Hoskines
.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses
in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Copy, headed Vppon a fayre Complexion a blacke hayre & a blacke eye
.
First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman
. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes
and superscribed R
; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961:
Copy, headed Dor: Corbet to the honerable Lo: Mordant
.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
Copy, headed Testamentum, Or Loues Legacie
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
Copy, headed On the death of the Lady Markham
, subscribed F: Beamont
.
First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
Copy, headed on the margin An Elegie on vndressinge of ons mistresse
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
Copy, headed A Childs Epitaph
and here beginning As carefull mothers do to sleepinge lay
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
Copy, untitled, subscribed Sir Walter Rawlyegh
.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
Copy, untitled.
Copy, headed Amoris Dieta. p J. Dun.
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
Copy, headed Valedictio Amoris
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.
Copy, subscribed F: B:
.
First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
Copy, headed Elegye
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
Copy, headed Canonizatio
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
Copy, headed Vppon the death of Mrs: Boulstred
.
First published in John A. Harper, Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
Copy, headed Uppon the partinge from his mistresse
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
Copy, headed An Epitaph
, here beginning Wilt thou heare what man can say
, subscribed Ben: Johnson
.
First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
Copy, headed Twitnam garden
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
Copy, headed An Elegie vppon the death of Mrs: Boulstred
.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
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.
Copy, untitled, immediately following
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
Copy, headed Satyre 1: Agaynst Poets and Lawyers
, subscribed J. D:
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
Copy, headed On the Humorist
and, in the margin, Satyre 2
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
Copy, headed Satyre. 3. Uppon Religion
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
Copy, headed Satyre 4. Of the Courte
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
Copy, headed Satyre 5. Of the miserie of the poore suitors at Covrt
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.
Copy, headed A Letter
, subscribed J: Donn
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
Copy, headed in the margin A Songe
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
Copy, headed The Earle of Pembrocke
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed P.
. Krueger, p. 2, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd
.
Copy, headed Answere
.
Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed R
. Krueger, p. 3, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd
.
Copy, headed An Elegie Autumnall
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Grierson, I, 427.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.
Copy, headed A Letanie p J: D.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.
Copy, headed Of The Crosse
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
Copy, headed Playinge for kisses
.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
Copy, headed Shadowe
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
Copy, headed A Valediction of teares
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
Copy, headed Dreame
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
Copy, headed in the margin Songe
, Triple foole
added later.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
Copy, headed Songe ad Solem
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
Copy, headed in the margin Songe
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
Copy, headed A Valediction of his name, in the Windowe
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
Copy, headed Songe
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
Copy.
First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning A Restless Lover I espy'd, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
Copy, headed An Apparitione
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
Copy, headed Mumie
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
Copy, headed Elelegie
.
This MS 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.
Copy, headed in the margin Sonnett
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
Copy, headed in the margin Sonnett
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
Copy, headed Ellegie
.
This MS recorded in Shaawcross.
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.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.
Copy, headed in the margin Rawleigh one a Candle snuffe
.
First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 147.
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
Copy, headed in the margin Elligie
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and 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.
Copy, headed Ellegie
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, in a 42-line version as Elegie XIIII
, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as Elegie XII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).
Copy, headed An Ellegie on the fayre and vertuouse La: Penelope, late La: Clyfton
, subscribed Francis Beamont
.
First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.
Copy, headed in the margin Clora
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see
Copy.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
Copy.
Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses
, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (
Copy, headed The boddy
.
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
Copy, untitled.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo
) and 10.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Nave arsa
) and 10.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as Caso d'vn muro
), and 10 (as Fall of a Wall
).
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care
), 8 (as Antiquary
), and 11.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 103. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 9 and 11.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
Copy, headed The blossome
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner; collated in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
Copy, with an additional stanza headed To be placed after (Take heed of loueinge me in pag: 128
and beginning Yet loue a satire bee
, on f. 212r.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin J: R:
[i.e. John Roe].
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.
Copy, headed in the margin On K. Ja: death
, here beginning Those that haue eyes now wayle & weepe
, subscribed p G: Morley
.
A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James
and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep
, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see
Copy, headed Of the Vnion
and here beginning Neuer was Contract better driuen of fate
.
First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.
Copy, headed To his mistresse
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 78.
Copy, headed in the margin Songe
.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.
Copy, headed in the margin Songe
.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.
Copy, headed in the margin Of Mortalitie
.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
Copy, untitled, subscribed H: W:
.
First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's O Faithless World: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
Copy, untitled.
Copy, untitled, here beginning Cloris sight & songe and wept
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 170. Poems (1660), p. 104, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among Pembroke's Poems
.
Copy, headed Of a happie life
, here beginning How happie is he borne or taught
.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Copy, headed The minde
.
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.
Copy of a twelve-line version headed On Cloris goinge in the snow
and beginning with the second line in first position (here When feathered rayne cam sofly downe
).
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
Copy of lines 21-30, untitled, here beginning Have you seene ye white lilly growe
.
First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light
) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
Copy, headed in the margin The madd Louer yt sent his hart to his Mrs:
.
First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VI, 115-212 (pp. 171-2). Bullen, III, 111-219, ed. R.W. Bond (p. 174). Bowers, V, 11-98, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 58-9).
Copy of stanzas 1-7, headed The Lord Walden to ye princesse Eliz:
and here beginning Wronge not deere mistresse of my hart
.
This MS recorded in Gullans.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames (see
This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).
Second copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as Elegie X). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 70-1. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 82-3. Shawcross, No. 79.
Copy, untitled, here beginning I'le tell you whence the rose did first grow redd
.
First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy, headed Vppon his Mistresse
.
First published, as The Rapture, by J.D.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
Copy.
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.
Copy, headed The Operatione of Musicke
.
First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.
Copy, headed Epitaph
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 139.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.
Copy, headed ffrom the Court
.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
Copy, headed Ellegie
.
This MS 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.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
Copy, headed Ellegie
.
This MS 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.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
Copy, headed To a Lady whose chayne was lost
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
Copy of lines 21-64, 73-8, headed ffragmet to his mrs: when shee would haue gone as his footboy
, here beginning Now why should loue a footboyes place despise
.
Poems (1660), pp. 7-11, superscribed R.
. Krueger, pp. 5-9, among Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
Copy, headed in the margin Epitaph of the pliamet fart
.
Edited from this MS in Colclough, p. 377.
Copy, untitled, subscribed J: D:
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
Copy, headed An Epitaph vppon a ffly
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
Copy, headed in the margin Satyre
.
First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 475.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Forey.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded 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.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
Copy, untitled and here beginning In yor fayre eyes two pitts doe lye
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.
Copy, headed E: R: On Mounsieurs depture
.
This MS collated in Bradner. Cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.
Collected Works, Poem 9, pp. 302-3. Selected Works, Poem 6, pp. 12-13. Bradner, p. 5.
Copy.
First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.
Copy, subscribed Tho: Carewe
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
Copy, untitled, subscribed T: C:
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 46-7.
Copy, untitled, subscribed T: C:
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.
Copy, subscribed T: C:
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.
Copy, untitled.
First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy, headed An Execratione vppon Vulcan by Ben: Jonson occasioned by the burninge of his Deske of writinges
.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.
Second copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
Copy, subscribed G: Morley
.
A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single hand, 63 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt.
c.1700.Copy, headed Sr George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton
.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.
Copy, headed A Letter from Mr Dryden To Sr George Etheridge
.
This MS collated in California.
First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.
Copy, headed Sr . George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton
.
This MS collated in Thorpe
First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.
A quarto composite volume of verse, in several (possibly female) rounded hands, 79 leaves, in 19th-cntury half-morocco.
c.1730.Copy of lines 1-2, 11-20, 27-30.
This MS recorded in Banks, p. 153.
First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
Two extracts, headed On a young Heir
: (i) eighteen lines beginning at line 56 (here The female sex, 'tho born like monarcks free
): (ii) ten lines, headed On Love
, beginning at line 40 (here, Love the most generous passion of the mind
), transcribed from a printed source.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
Copy, headed My Lord Dorsets Verses on Lady N
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.
A six-line extract, headed Out of Amprition by Mr Dryden -- on woman
and here beginning I gave them beauty to subdue the strong
.
First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.
A quarto verse miscellany, in a single possibly female hand, 36 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Mid-18th century.Inscribed (f. 36r) M Lowthers Jun:
, by a member of the Lowther family, Baronets and later Earls of Lonsdale.
Extract, from Act IV, scene vi, lines 10-21 (Edgar's Come on, Sir, here's the place...
), headed Out of King Lear
.
First published in London, 1608.
Extracts from Dryden's works, including The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and The Indian Emperour.
Copy, untitled.
First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 387.
Extract, six lines beginning To you Good Gods, I make my last Appeal
.
This MS recorded in California, XIII, 584.
By Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden. First published in London, 1679. Stroup & Cooke, I, 367-449. California edition of Dryden's works, XIII (1962), 114-215.
Copy of lines 73-95, headed Dryden
and here beginning The first Physicians by Debauch were made
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Kinsley, IV, 1529-35. California, VII, 196-202. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 190-201.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.
Copy of Hamlet's soliloquy To be or not to be
, headed Out of Hamlet / Shakespear's
.
First published in London, 1603.
Copy, headed Mrs Molesworth
.
Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London
, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.
A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.
c.1630s.Copy, headed A Farewell to the Vanities of the World, said to be written by Sr Henry Wotton
.
First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
Copy, headed The Milk-Maid's Mothers's Answer to Mr Marlow's Milk-Maid's Song. written by Sr Walter Raleigh
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One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as Her answer to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as The Milk maids mothers answer) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's reply
, see
Copy, headed Sr Henry Wotton, on Contentment
, here beginning How happy is He, born or taught
.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
A quarto volume of antiquarian tracts and papers, 40 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.
Early 17th century.Owned by John Anstis (1669-1744), Garter King of Arms, antiquary, and by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.
Copy, chiefly in a professional secretary hand, the ending on ff. 13r-15v in a second hand, as writen by Sir ffrancis Bacon knight, his Maiesties Solicitor Generall, anno Domini 1608
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First published in Cases of Treason (London 1641). Spedding, VII, 745-54.
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).
A duodecimo notebook of historical, topographical and antiquarian collections, in probably three cursive hands, written from both ends, 81 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Late 17th-early 18th century.Inscribed (inside the front cover) Ex Dono Caroli Stanhope filij vnici Arthuri Stanhope de East Stoat Comitatu Nottinghamiæ et Collegij Mertonensis generosi Comensatis Anno Dni 1667
: i.e
. Charles Stanhope (1655-1711/12), of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. Also inscribed (f. 1r) Gowin Knight
.
Extracts taken from Hearne's edition, headed E Joannis Lelandi Antiquani de Rebus Britan. Collectaneiis, Edit. pr Tho. Hearn. A: M. Oxon
, from Volumes I, III and IV respectively.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiv.
