The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle

  • Letterbook of Sir George Manners

    Letterbook of Sir George Manners.

    • WrM 35 f. 132r

      An autograph letter signed by Sir George Manners, to Lady Mary Wroth, asking to read her manuscript of [Part two of] Urania, 31 May 1640.

      Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Part IV, Rutland, Vol. I (1888), p. 520. Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 244-5.

      Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)
  • Letters & Papers, Vol. VII

    A composite volume of state letters and papers.

    • *CoH 165 [unspecified page numbers]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, 16 January 1583[/4].

      Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), pp. 158-9.

      Henry Constable, Letter(s)
    • *CoH 166 [unspecified page numbers]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Constable, to his father, Sir Robert Constable, 12 September 1584.

      Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 168.

      Henry Constable, Letter(s)
    • *CoH 168 [unspecified page numbers]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, from Paris, 13 March 1585[/6].

      Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 173.

      Henry Constable, Letter(s)
  • Letters & Papers, Vol. XIV

    A composite volume of state letters and papers.

    • EsR 246 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      Recorded in HMC 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), pp. 370-3.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
    • *CoH 172.5 [unspecified page numbers]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, from Paris, 11 ?June 1603.

      Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 391.

      Henry Constable, Letter(s)
  • Letters & Papers, Vol. XVIII

    A composite volume of state letters and papers.

    • *TaJ 63 [unspecified page numbers]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [the Countess of Rutland], from Annesley, 21 June 1658.

      Edited in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix 5, Rutland II (1889), pp. 5-6.

      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
  • Letters & Papers, Verses, Vol. XXV

    A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands.

    c.1612-20.

    In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.

    Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.

    • HrJ 237.5 f. 18r

      Copy, in the secretary hand of George Faulcon, receiver or secretary to Roger Manners (1576-1612), fifth Earl of Rutland, and to George Manners (1580-1641), seventh Earl of Rutland, headed Six holie Sisters, here beginning Six holie sisters of the Purest sect, with another epigram on a single quarto leaf.

      First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

      Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches ('Six of the weakest sex and purest sect')
    • HoJ 268 f. 27r

      Copy.

      Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented), on pp. 288-91.

      John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum ('Quilibet si sit contentus')
    • DrJ 250.4 f. 31r

      Copy of the song.

      California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 239-40.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song ('Wherever I am, and whatever I doe')
    • SiP 108 ff. 32-46v passim

      Verse and prose extracts, including lines from poems No. 2, 4, 6, 14, 19 and 51, transcribed for writing practice by Lady Katherine Manners (1603?-49), who became wife of the first Duke of Buckingham, in a small booklet, the name William Ellis inscribed (f. 45v).

      This MS discussed in Josephine A. Roberts, Extracts from Arcadia in the Manuscript Notebook of Lady Katherine Manners, N&Q, 226 (1981), 35-6.

      The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).

      Sir Philip Sidney, The New Arcadia
    • RaW 410.5 f. 53r

      Copy, here beginning I.C.V.R. brave monser Car.

      First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'ICUR, good Mounser Carr'
    • RoJ 57 f. 66r

      Copy, headed The Debauch disabled, on a single leaf.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')
  • Letters & Papers Supplementary

    A composite volume of state letters and papers.

    • *CoH 178 [unspecified page numbers]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Constable, to [? the Earl of Rutland], 1608?.

      Recorded in HMC, Rutland IV (1905), p. 211.

      Henry Constable, Letter(s)
  • [no shelfmark]

    A fragment of Henslowe's Diary, containing Dekker's autograph receipt for 18 January 1599/1600.

    1600.

    Formerly among the manuscripts of the Egerton-Warburton family. Sotheby's, 16 March 1937, lot 484, to J. K. Fletcher. Currently untraced.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291. Facsimiles in W. W. Greg, A Fragment from Henslowe's Diary, The Library, 4th Ser. 19 (1938-9), 180-4, and in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

    • *DkT 55
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Dekker, Document(s)