Folger Shakespeare Library
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The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey

  • HMC MS No. 12

    A folio volume of state letters and papers, in several hands, written from both ends, 531 pages, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

    Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1620s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • DaS 39.1 pp. 1-26 rev.

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Daniels History.

      First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

      Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England

  • HMC MS No. 18

    An octavo commonplace book, largely in one mixed hand, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 185 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

    Owned by, and with additions and annotations in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • DnJ 4052.8 ff. 1r-6r

      Extracts, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Collections out of Dr Dunns funerall Sermon for the Lady Dauers.

      First published in London, 1627. Potter & Simpson, VIII, 61-93.

      John Donne, A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers, Late Wife of Sir John Danvers, 1627
    • RaW 611.5 ff. 106r-11r

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Collections out of Sr Walter Raleghs discourse of War.

      A tract beginning The ordinary theme and argument of history is war.... First published (in part), as The Misery of Invasive Warre, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War

  • HMC MS No. 19

    A quarto commonplace book, in a single rugged italic hand, with a table of contents in another hand, written from both ends, begun 16 December 1616, 389 pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

    The text entirely in the hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1616-30.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • DnJ 4173 pp. 29-34

      Extracts, headed Dunss Satire.

      John Donne, Extracts
    • DnJ 4174 pp. 101-13

      Extracts, headed Dunns sermon and Notes out of Doc Duns sermon at court.

      John Donne, Extracts
    • JnB 765 pp. 224-8

      Extracts from Jonson's poems on women, headed Johnsons verses.

      Ben Jonson, Extracts

  • HMC MS No. 20

    A folio commonplace book, in two hands, written from both ends, begun 26 November 1622, 426 pages, in old calf (rebacked).

    Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the hand of an amanuensis.

    c.1622-30.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • DnJ 4175 pp. 42-3

      Extracts, headed D Dunn / John: 11. 38.

      John Donne, Extracts
    • DnJ 4176 pp. 151-4

      Extracts, headed Duns....

      John Donne, Extracts

  • HMC MS No. 21

    A folio commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, with a table of subject headings, begun 7 March 1624/5, 358 pages of text (plus blanks),

    Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others.

    c.1625-30s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • DnJ 4177 p. 1

      Extracts from a sermon, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Dean of Poels dunn Mathew 19 ve 16.

      John Donne, Extracts
    • CoR 765.5 p. 16

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Corbet at court / 2 Corin. 4: 8 and indexed in the table of headings as by Dr Corbett.

      Unpublished.

      Richard Corbett, Sermon at Court, on 2 Corinthians 4. 8
    • DnJ 1587.5 pp. 25-6

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Dunns verses vpon marqiss Hamletoun.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

      John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton ('Whether that soule which now comes up to you')
    • BcF 677 pp. 57-9

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Lo St Albanse.

      Francis Bacon, Extracts
    • BcF 121.8 pp. 70-1

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Lo. St Albans reformation of the church of Ingland.

      First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

      Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England
    • BcF 166.5 pp. 72-5

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Considerations touching a warr with Spayn, indexed in the Earl's hand in the table of headings as by Lo St Albons.

      A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain
    • CoR 806 pp. 103-4

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Docter Corbet at Oxford Parlement.

      Richard Corbett, Extracts
    • HrJ 328.5 pp. 133-6

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Sr John Haritons addishons to Goodwins works about Bishops.

      First published, as A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England, edited by John Chetwind (London, 1653). Edited by R.H. Miller (Potomac, 1979).

      Sir John Harington, A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to ye Yeare 1608
    • HlJ 65 pp. 175-6

      Extracts from a sermon, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Doctor Hall Salm 68: 19.

      Joseph Hall, Extracts
    • AndL 55.6 pp. 176, 178

      Extracts from sermons, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Andres at St Martins and again Andres (both indexed by a scribe in the table of headings as by Dr Andrewes).

      First published in London, 1609.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Tortura torti
    • DnJ 4178 pp. 179-80

      Extracts (from sermons?), in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Docter dunn.

      John Donne, Extracts
    • CoR 807 p. 181

      Extracts (from a sermon?), in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Docter Corbet and beginning That Creture which hase last made service....

      Richard Corbett, Extracts
    • GgA 131 pp. 189-94

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Sr Arthur Gorges of the Iland Viage.

      First published, as A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage (but without any dedicatory epistle), in Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition of Purchas, XX (1907), 34-129. According to Purchas the work was written in 1607 and dedicated to Prince Henry.

      Sir Arthur Gorges, The Islands Voyage
    • BcF 232.1 pp. 4-5 rev.

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed My Lo: St Albans of a digest to be made of the laws of england.

      Spedding, XIV, 358-64.

      Francis Bacon, Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England
    • DnJ 4179 pp. 62-5 rev.

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Dr. Dunns Sermuns uppon the deth of K. Jeamse.

      John Donne, Extracts

  • HMC MS No. 22

    A folio commonplace book, in several hands, begun 18 May 1626, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 415 pages of text, in contemporary leather with traces of metal clasps.

    Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1626-30s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • CtR 444 pp. 9-13

      Copy of a version, in a professional secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed A speech by Sr. Robert Cotton, before ye lords of the Councill 1626 2o Caroli Regis, followed (pp. 13-17) by the answere of the Committees.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]
    • RuB 12 pp. 11-12

      Copy of Version 1, in a neat secretary hand, with a correction in the fourth Earl of Bedford's hand, headed The effect of Sr Beniamine Ruddiers three speeches in Parliament 4o Carol 1628 / 1. speech.

      Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8
    • RuB 107 pp. 13-14

      Extracts, in a neat secretary hand, as 3 Speech under the heading The effect of Sr Beniamine Ruddiers three speeches in Parliament 4o Carol 1628

      Speech beginning I hold the same ground still that I brought with me....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.11 June 1628
    • GrF 47 pp. 54, 56

      Extracts from a poem, in a secretary hand, headed Verses out of my ould lord Brooke, here beginning Man dreame noe more of Curious misteries.

      Fulke Greville, Extracts
    • HlJ 66 pp. 64-7

      Extracts, in a predominantly italic hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed The Bishop of Exeters opinion touchinge mariage wth a sisters daughter.

      Joseph Hall, Extracts
    • JnB 746 pp. 68-9

      Extracts from a letter, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Ben Johnsons to Sr Kenelme Digby on the Lord Digbies opinion concerning Barcleys Euphonnio, here beginning If as that great examiner, and iudge of benefitts hath decreed..., followed (p. 69) by Notes out of my Lord Digbies Reply.

      Ben Jonson, Letter(s)

  • HMC MS No. 23

    A tall folio commonplace book, chiefly of naval tracts and sermons, in two hands, begun 23 May 1629, 322 pages of text (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

    Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis.

    c.1629-30s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • BcF 166.8 pp. 1-9

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Considerations touchinge a warre with Spaine by the hoble: Lo: Verulam Vicount St Alban.

      A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France.... First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain
    • BcF 55.2 pp. 9-17

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed An advertisement touchinge a holy warre written Anno 1622: by: ffr: St Albans.

      First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VII, 1-36. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 183-206.

      Francis Bacon, Advertisement touching a Holy War
    • BcF 232.2 pp. 17-18

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed Of a digest to be made of the lawes of England.

      Spedding, XIV, 358-64.

      Francis Bacon, Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England
    • BcF 215.1 p. 18

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford.

      First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

      Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
    • RaW 1121 pp. 28-34

      Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Sr Walter Rawleighs Skepticke.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Scepticke
    • GgA 130 pp. 61-4

      Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, as by Sr Arthur Gorge.

      A tract beginning The loue and amitie betweene the realme of England and the vnited Provinces....

      Sir Arthur Gorges, A discourse concerning vs and the vnited Provinces of the Lowe Countries
    • GgA 127 pp. 65-75

      Copy, possibly incomplete, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford Written by Sir Ar Gorg to my Lo: D of Buckingam.

      A letter to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning And what in ballancing of the scales....

      Sir Arthur Gorges, Advice to a favorite
    • GgA 138 pp. 77-9

      Copy, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford including the ascription Written by Sr Arthur Gorg to Lo Du of Buckingam, the tract dated 1 March: 1618.

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

      Sir Arthur Gorges, Observations & Overtures for a Seafight
    • RaW 701.5 pp. 93-105

      Copy of Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's orders, in a mixed hand, headed A forme of Orders and directions to be given by an Admiral....

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Orders to be observed by the Commanders of the Fleet with Land Companies. 3 May 1617
    • GgA 143 pp. 111-14

      Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, as Sr Arthur Gorge his observations....

      Unpublished tract beginning Soe again we doe find....

      Sir Arthur Gorges, Observations concerninge the abuse of our lawes in matters Criminall
    • GgA 129 pp. 114-31

      Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed A dialouge discourse betweene the marchant venturer and a Sea Captaine, of the Sea fight betweene the Navies of England and Spaine on the Narrowe Seas in the yeare: 1588 -- written by Sr Arthur Gorge Knight.

      Unpublished tract.

      Sir Arthur Gorges, A dialouge discourse betweene the marchant venturer and a Sea Captaine
    • HlJ 62 pp. 132-4

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Notes out of a Sermon preacht at Court the 28 of ffebruary 1629 by Jos: Exon, called the hipocrite / The text: 2 Tim: 5: 3.

      Unpublished?

      Joseph Hall, Sermon on 2 Timothy 5. 3
    • GrF 26.5 pp. 246-65

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Notes out of a dedication of the ould Lo: Brookes to Sr Phillip Sidney.

      Generally entitled A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney. First published in London, 1652. Grosart, IV, 1-224. Edited by Nowell Smith (Oxford, 1907). Gouw, pp. 3-135.

      Fulke Greville, Life of Sir Philip Sidney
    • GrF 15.6 pp. 265-70

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Notes out of a Letter written to an honoble Ladie.

      First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 233-99. Gouws, pp. 137-76.

      Fulke Greville, A Letter to an Honourable Lady
    • GrF 28.5 pp. 281-301

      Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Notes out of my ould lord Brookes tragidye of Mustapha.

      An early version first published in London, 1609. A later version first published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, II, 63-137. Wilkes, I, 210-97.

      Fulke Greville, Mustapha

  • HMC MS No. 24

    A quarto commonplace book, in several hands, begun 1 May 1634, written from both ends, 262 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    Compiled by, and largely in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1634-5.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • CwT 1022.8 ff. 35r, 36r

      Copy, in a neat mixed hand, headed To Benn Johnson uppo occation of his Ode of defiance to the Age, inscribed by the fourth Earl of Bedford by Cary the poet.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

      Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (''Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand')
    • WaE 618.5 f. 91r

      Copy, in a neat mixed hand, headed by the fourth Earl of Bedford Wallers verses.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

      Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')
    • SuJ 189 ff. 195r-205r (rectos only)

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Sr Jo. Sucklins Play, here beginning Ther if prettier knots about you then this we see....

      John Suckling, Extracts
    • SuJ 153.5 ff. 231r-3r

      Copy, in a mixed hands, headed Sr John Sucklins letter to Tom: Cary the Poet.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 155-6.

      John Suckling, A Letter to a Friend to diswade him from marrying a Widow which he formerly had been in Love with, and quitted

  • HMC MS No. 25

    A folio commonplace book of tracts and verses, in several hands, begun 1 October 1639, written from both ends, 35 leaves from the front, 241 pages (plus numerous blanks) at the reverse end, in old calf gilt.

    Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1639.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • ToC 6.5 ff. [5r-7v]

      Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand, headed The Character of Robert Late Earle of Salisbury, unascribed.

      A character, beginning He came of a parent, that counselled the state into piety, honour and power..., and dedicated to Lady Theodosia Cecil. First published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton (Oxford, 1907), II, 487-9. Nicoll, pp. 259-63.

      Cyril Tourneur, The Character of Robert Earl of Salisbury
    • MyJ 30 pp. 8-9 rev.

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, subscribed Jasper Mayne.

      Jasper Mayne, 'Wert thou an ancient Corse of a grey head'
    • SuJ 149.5 pp. 26-7 rev.

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, as by Sr John Suckling.

      First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.

      John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business

  • HMC MS No. 26

    A tall folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in a single hand, 139 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the Bedford MS) in Peter Beal, More Donne Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).

    • DnJ 4180 f. 23r

      Extracts, headed Dunn of justifying faith.

      John Donne, Extracts
    • DnJ 4081.5 ff. 44r-7r

      Copy of seventeen Problems and Paradoxes, headed dunnse problems.

      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 DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

      John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
    • RaW 11.5 f. 49r

      Copy, headed By Sr wal: Rawly the night befoer his heading and here beginning Euen shuch is tiem that holds in trust.

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

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • EsR 154 f. 49r-v

      Copy, headed The Erle of Essex letter to the Erle of Rutland.

      The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state....

      First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

      Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
    • DnJ 280.5 f. 50r

      Copy in a 39-line abridgement, untitled.

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

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
    • DnJ 1984.5 f. 50v

      Extracts, untitled.

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

      John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
    • DnJ 3708.8 f. 50v

      Extracts, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

      John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
    • DnJ 3086.3 ff. 50v-1r

      Extracts, ungtitled.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

      John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
    • DnJ 569.5 f. 51r

      Extracts.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

      John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
    • DnJ 1086.5 f. 51r

      Extracts, headed epitaph La: Markam.

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

      John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
    • DnJ 452.5 f. 51v

      Copy in a slight abridgement, untitled.

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

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')
    • DnJ 1894.5 f. 51v

      Extracts, headed A leter to the La Cary at Esex Rich:.

      First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

      John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
    • DnJ 2149.5 ff. 51v-2r

      Extracts, headed Elegy.

      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.

      John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
    • DnJ 2356.5 f. 52r-v

      Copy, headed Elegy.

      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.

      John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
    • DnJ 74.5 f. 52v

      Copy, headed elegy.

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

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
    • DnJ 2224 f. 52v

      Extracts, headed Elegy.

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

      John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
    • DnJ 2785.3 f. 53r-v

      Extracts, headed Satier.

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

      John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
    • DnJ 3191.5 ff. 53v-4r

      Extracts.

      First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

      The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
    • DnJ 1946.5 f. 54r-v

      Extracts, relating to the Trinity, angels, patriarchs, and prophets.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

      John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
    • HrE 19.5 ff. 54v-5r

      Extracts, headed Mr Ed Harbert of the prince and beginning at line 3 (here My Soule Layd up in you).

      First published among Sundry Funeral Elegies appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince ('Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add')
    • BcF 678 f. 73v

      Extracts from work by Bacon.

      Francis Bacon, Extracts
    • DnJ 4181 ff. 87r-8r

      Extracts from a sermon at Whitehall in Lent 1621.

      John Donne, Extracts
    • CoR 766 f. 92r, 93r

      Copy or extracts, headed Whithall D: Corbet:: 1621, here beginning Sorow is the elder brother to prayer....

      Unpublished.

      Richard Corbett, Sermon at Whitehall, 1621
    • HlJ 60.5 f. 99r

      Extracts, headed Bish Exeter Can / Whithall April 1622.

      Unpublished.

      Joseph Hall, Sermon on Psalms 41.4
    • HlJ 67 ff. 105r, 107r

      Extracts, headed Docter Hall dedication.

      Joseph Hall, Extracts
    • BcF 679 ff. 136r-8r

      Extracts, headed My Lo: St Albans / Historia....

      Francis Bacon, Extracts

  • HMC MS No. 27

    A tall folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in several hands, with a table of contents, 153 pages, in contemporary vellum.

    Assembled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • BcF 254.5 pp. 1-2

      Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves once folded as a letter or packet.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.

      Francis Bacon, A Prayer, or Psalm
    • JnB 669.5 p. 3

      Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a small folio leaf once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed by the fourth Earl of Bedford Johnsons verses.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

      For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song ('ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge')
    • DaS 39.2 pp. 87-8

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Daniels cronicall.

      First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

      Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England
    • BcF 429 pp. 122-7

      Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1622, in a professional secretary hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as letters or packets, the first bifolium endorsed by the fourth Earl of Bedford for my lo: Russell. Lo. Chancers Letter to the London parlement.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • BcF 215.2 pp. 135-8

      Extracts, in a secretary hand, in double columns, headed Notes out of the lord verulams Historie of Henrie. 7.

      First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

      Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
    • HlJ 68 pp. 146-51

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Out of Hall.

      Joseph Hall, Extracts

  • HMC MS No. 28

    An octavo commonplace book of extracts from state tracts and proceedings, largely in one mixed hand, paginated 1-133 (but lacking many leaves), in paper wrappers.

    Annotated in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1630s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • WiG 12.4 passim

      Extracts.

      First published, with preliminary material including a dedication to Chares I, in London, 1628. Spenser Society, Nos 28-29 (1980; reprinted in New York, 1967).

      George Wither, Britain's Remembrancer ('One Storm is past, & though some clouds appear')

  • HMC MS No. 31

    A folio commonplace book of extracts from devotional and miscellaneous works, largely in two secretary hands, 241 pages (plus 37 blank pages), in contemporary reversed calf with remains of metal clasps.

    Partly written, and annotated, in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1630s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

    • CmW 102.1 pp. 99-140

      Copy of portions of the work, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, subscribed in another hand Here wee left 19 Aprilis 1630.

      First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).

      William Camden, Remaines of a Greater Worke concerning Britaine
    • HlJ 63 pp. 237-41

      Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Doctor Halles via media.

      First published 1619. Wynter, IX, 488-519.

      Joseph Hall, Via Media: The Way of Peace

  • HMC MS 186

    A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in a single accomplished mixed hand, i + 352 pages, in contemporary limp vellum with ties.

    Possibly in the hand of Edward Paynton or Peyton, whose name, dated 1633, also appears in A Discourse of Court and Courtiers in HMC MS No. 266.

    c.1630.

    Woburn bookplate dated 1873, but probably owned earlier at the time of the fourth Earl of Bedford.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.

    • LeC 3 pp. 1-273

      Copy, with a formal title-page subscribed written in the yeare: 1630: Peytons booke, including (pp. 271-3) the meditation of Job, the rear cover of the volume inscribed Leicesters Common Wealth.

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

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
    • EsR 99 pp. 274-335

      Copy, the full title-page dated Anno: 1598.

      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.

  • HMC MS No. 189

    A folio volume of Hayward Townsend's journal of parliamentary proceedings from 27 October to 19 December 1601, in two or more secretary hands, unfoliated (2 inches thick), in later speckled leather gilt.

    Early 17th century.

    Bookplate of William, Earl of Bedford, 1867.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.

    • ElQ 257 unnumbered pages

      Copy of Version I, on several pages.

      First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

      Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate.... Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

      Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me.... Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

      Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent.... Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

      Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved.... Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

  • HMC MS No. 190

    A folio volume of letters by Francis Bacon, in a single professional predominantly secretary hand, 79 leaves (plus 64 blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt.

    Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.

    • BcF 547 ff. 4r-45v, 55v-79r

      Copy of a series of letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, James I, Burghley, Essex, Robert Cecil, Northampton, Buckhurst, Edward Coke, Sir John Davies, Toby Mathews and others, with a title-page A true Copie of the Lord Chancellor Bacons Letters of State from the time of his being Sollicitor till his Death.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 176.2 ff. 46r-55r

      Copy.

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

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

  • HMC MS No. 191

    Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed Of the latelie Erected Service called the office of Composicons for Alienacons Written by the right honble ffrancis Lord Verulam, visc St. Alban late Lord Chancellor of England, on ten folio leaves, in modern cloth.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.

    • BcF 737
      No description or publication history available.

      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 Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

      Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

  • HMC MS No. 192

    A folio volume of speeches principally by Francis Bacon, in two or more neat secretary hands, 204 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

    Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1628-30s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.

    • BcF 323 pp. 1-111, 143-65

      Copy of a series of charges by Bacon, including those touching Duells...against Preist and Wright, in the Star Chamber, against William Talbot, in the case of Lady Shrewsbury, against Whitlock, against the Countess and Earl of Somerset, against Owen, and in the Irish Parliament.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • BcF 324 pp. 111bis-42, 179-82

      Copy of a series of speeches by Bacon, including those when he received the seal of Lord Chancellor (1617), in the Star Chamber (1617), to Sir William Jones, Sir John Denham and Sergeant Hatton, and on the first day of Parliament 17 March 1618/19.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • RuB 13 pp. 195-8

      Copy, headed Beniamin Rudyeard.

      Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8
    • RuB 56 pp. 201-4

      Copy, untitled.

      Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628

  • HMC MS No. 198

    A folio composite volume of parliamentary tracts, in various hands, written from both ends, 370 pages (plus blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 3.

    • CtR 438 pp. 24-31

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as by Sr R. Cotton Kt and Bart, and dated 1625.

      Speech beginning Mr. Speaker, Although the constant Wisdome of this House of Commons.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [271]-281.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Delivered in the Lower House of Parliament Assembled at Oxford: In the first year of the Reign of King Charles [6 August 1625]
    • CtR 487 pp. 268-80

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as Written by Sr R. Cotton Kt. and Baronett.

      Tract beginning Since at these Assemblies few Diaries, or exact Iournall Books are remaining.... First published as A Treatise, shewing that the Soveraignes Person is Required in the great Councells or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the conclusions, London, 1641. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [41]-57.

      Sir Robert Cotton, That the Soveraignes Person is Required in the Great Covncells, or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the Conclusions

  • HMC No. 200

    A tall folio volume of parliamentary proceedings against Clarendon in 1667, in a professional rounded hand, 268 pages, in modern cloth.

    Late 17th century.
    • ClE 94
      No description or publication history available.

      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.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

  • HMC MS No. 246

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 90 folio leaves, imperfect at the beginning, lacking a title and opening of the dedicatory epistle to James I, in modern cloth.

    c.1620s.

    Owned by Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 3.

    • DaJ 256
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely.... First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

      Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

  • HMC MS No. 261

    A folio volume of tracts and letters relating to seafaring, in several professional secretary hands, 560 pages (plus a table of contents and blanks), in contemporary limp vellum gilt.

    Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4.

    • RaW 605 pp. 19-64

      Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, a title-page in italic, as Written by Sr Walter Raleigh Kt.

      This MS recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4.

      An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself.... First published, as Upon the first Invention of Shipping, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c.
    • RaW 611 pp. 65-138

      Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, the title in italic, unascribed.

      A tract beginning The ordinary theme and argument of history is war.... First published (in part), as The Misery of Invasive Warre, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War
    • RaW 683 pp. 388-437

      Copy, in a secretary hand, as Written by Sr Wa: Raleigh.

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

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea-Service
    • RaW 710.92 pp. 438-43

      Copy, in a secretary hand.

      This MS recorded in Latham & Youings.

      A letter to Prince Henry, written from the Tower, c.November 1607, beginning If the ship your highness intends to build be bigger than the Victory.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650), pp. 8-15. Works (1829), VIII, 627-9. Youings, No. 194, pp. 301-4.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh unto Prince Henry touching the Model of a Ship
    • RaW 543 pp. 444-518

      Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, under the general title in another hand Sir Walter Raleiges large Apologie for his last voyage to Guiana with certaine letters of his written to the King, his wife and others.

      A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
    • RaW 827 pp. 519-60

      Copy of six letters by Ralegh, to his wife (2), to James I (2), to Ralph Winwood (both parts), and to Sir Robert Carr, in at least two secretary hands, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • HMC MS No.269

    A formal copy, in a professional cursive secretary headed Obseruations Pollitical Ciuill, the Argument (f. ivr-v) subscribed T* B*, vi + 138 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.

    Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1630s.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4.

    • RaW 1042
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise beginning A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families.... First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface To the Reader, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

      Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include T.B., for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, A Note on the Ralegh Canon, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

  • HMC MS No. 270

    A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, entitled (probably mistakenly) Certain Select Manuscripts on Several Subjects Collected by George late Marq. of Halifax, in two or more professional rounded hands, with a table of contents, x + 320 pages, in contemporary vellum boards gilt.

    c.early 1700s.

    Booklabel of Wriothesley Russell (1680-1711), second Duke of Bedford, dated 1703.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4.

    • HaG 27 pp. 71-80

      Copy of 33 maxims, headed Maxims of State or Obsevations on Government by the late Marqs. of H--x: 1694. The text followed (on pp. 81-4) by fourteen supplementary maxims by Charles Montagu.

      This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.

      First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor… [&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.

      George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor
    • SeC 112 pp. 85-94

      Copy of 47 maxims, headed Certain Maxims or Moral Reflections. By the late Sr Cha: Sidley. 1700, beginning A man that knows how to Mingle business and pleasure, is never taken up intirely with either of them....

      Unpublished.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Certain Maxims or Moral Reflections

  • HMC MS No. 295

    Copy, in a neat mixed hand, with a title-page The Royall Slaue A Tragi: Comedy, complete with prologue to the University and epilogues to the King and Queen and to the University, 35 folio pages, in modern cloth.

    c.1636-8.

    Owned by Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4. This MS collated in Evans.

    • CaW 80
      No description or publication history available.

      First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.

      William Cartwright, The Royal Slave

  • MS 4E-43

    A folio commonplace book, in an least two secretary hands, inscribed at one point (p. 133) Heere wee left 30th Nov. 1628, 238 pages, in remains of contemporary vellum.

    Annotated in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1628.
    • HlJ 56.1 pp. 1-81

      Extensive extracts, in secretary hands, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed Dr. Halls book on meditations & vows.

      First published in London, 1605. Wynter, VII, 439-521.

      Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vows. Divine and Moral. Three Centuries

  • MS 4E-44

    A folio commonplace book of extracts, in secretary hand(s), 255 pages, in contemporary calf.

    Annotated in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • HlJ 16.8 pp. 134-46

      Extracts.

      First published, in four volumes, in London, 1612-18. Wynter, I and II, 1-290.

      Joseph Hall, Contemplations upon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie

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