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The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall

  • MS 256

    A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament, 406 pages.

    c.1625-30s.

    Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

    Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 361.

    • BcF 490 pp. 91-9, 122-38

      Copy of two submissions by Bacon, here dated 24 and 26 April 1621.

      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

  • MS 677

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, over 500 leaves.

    Formerly belonging to Sir Andrew Fountaine of Narford. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

    Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, pp. 364-7.

    • CtR 338 item 50

      Copy, as by R. Cotton, on nine pages.

      Unpublished tract beginning I doubt not my honourable lord.... Ascribed to Cotton in MS.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Reasons to maintain the navigation of the English merchants with the East and West Indies
    • FxJ 1.145 ff. 496r-8r

      Extracts.

      First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

      John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

  • MS 684

    A folio volume of state papers.

    Owned in 1633-5, and partly compiled, by William Heveningham, of Heveningham Hall, Suffolk.

    c.1633-49.

    Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

    Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, pp. 369-70.

    • ElQ 291 item 1

      Copy of a version.

      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
    • StW 1284.8 [unnumbered pages]

      Copy, headed Verses to be reade two wayes.

      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.

      William Strode, Jack on both Sides ('I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes')

  • MS 686

    A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection Of the choicest Poems, Satyrs, and Lampoons from the beginning of the late Revolution in 1688 to 1698, x + 336 pages plus index.

    c.1700.

    Probably once owned by the Heveningham family. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

    Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix.

    • DrJ 232 p. 22

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on Dundee 1689.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

      John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')
    • DoC 295 pp. 51-3

      Copy, headed An Excellent New Ballad Giving....

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines')
    • HaG 35 pp. 144-9

      Copy of 33 maxims, headed The following Maxims were found by a Jew amongst the Papers of the Great Amanzor, and tho' they must loose a good deal of their Originall Spirit by the Translation, yet they seem to be so applicable to all tymes, that it is thought no disservice to make them publick, followed (pp. 149-50) 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
    • DoC 179 pp. 161-2

      Copy, headed On the Countesse of Dorchester. 1694.

      Edited from this MS in POAS. Collated in Harris.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) ('Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes')
    • DoC 193 p. 162

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) ('Proud with the spoils of royal cully')
    • DoC 205 p. 177

      Copy, headed On the Lady Dorchester. 1696.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) ('Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay')
    • CgW 16 pp. 183-4

      Copy, the poem here dated 1697, with a note Lady Fitzhardys Daughter.

      This MS recorded in Harris.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.

      Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

      William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')
    • DoC 167 p. 262

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Courage dear Dol, and drive away despair.

      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.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester ('Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair')

  • MS 687

    A folio miscellany, compiled by one John Cooper, a prisoner on board HM Fleet in 1678-9, 530 pages.

    c.1678-9.

    Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

    Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, pp. 370-1.

    • MaA 457 pp. 9-12

      Copy, headed Advice to A Painter, &c, subscribed Finis sinestea.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')

  • MS 688

    Copy, 30 leaves.

    Copy, on 30 quarto leaves.

    Mid-17th century.

    Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester.

    Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

    • BrT 60
      No description or publication history available.

      Written as a letter to the Earl of Dorset, 23 December 1642. First published in London, 1643. Edited in Wilkin, II, 118-52.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on Religio Medici

  • MS 691

    A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

    Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

    • WhA 26 f. [1r]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 14, pp. 169-71.

      Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the 53 of Isaiah ('Who hath beleived on Earth what we report')
    • WhA 45 f. [2r]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in A New Miscellany of Original Poems (London, 1701). Greer & Hastings, No. 13, pp. 166-8.

      Anne Wharton, Thoughts occasion'd by her retirement into the Countrey ('All fly the vnhappy & all would fly')
    • WhA 65 f. [4r]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 12, p. 165.

      Anne Wharton, To the Lady Ann Cooke ('Nine times the Spring return'd & with it brought')
    • WhA 3 f. [5r]

      Copy of lines 1-33, headed On Knowledge.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.

      Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by Mrs Wharton ('The use of Knowledge is to find it poor')
    • WhA 11 f. [6r]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). Greer & Hastings, No. 7, pp. 140-2.

      Anne Wharton, Elegie on John Earle of Rochester ('Deep Waters silent roul, so greifs like mine')
    • WhA 8 ff. [8r-9v]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 11, pp. 163-4.

      Anne Wharton, Elegie on Charles Earle of Rochester ('Insatiate graue yeild back thy mighty Treasure')
    • WhA 21 f. [11r]

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 240-1. Greer & Hastings, No. 9, p. 144.

      Anne Wharton, On the Storm between Gravesend and Dieppe; Made at that Time ('When the Tempestuous Sea did foam and roar')
    • WhA 28 f. [12v]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 6, pp. 138-9.

      Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the last speech of Dido in Virgil's Æneas ('Now Dido trembles with amaze and rage')
    • WhA 36 f. [14r]

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in The Idea of Christian Love (London, 1688), pp. xix-xxiii. Greer & Hastings, No. 15, pp. 172-4.

      Anne Wharton, Mrs. Wharton's Paraphrase Upon the 103d Psalm ('Advance my Soul, and all thy Pow'rs incline')
    • WhA 38 f. [15r]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 16, pp. 175-6.

      Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the 145 Psalme ('Thy Glory Lord I would for ever raise')
    • WhA 4 f. [16r]

      Copy of all 55 lines, headed The Despare.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.

      Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by Mrs Wharton ('The use of Knowledge is to find it poor')
    • WaE 171 ff. [19r-21r]

      Copy, headed A Divine Poesy. Two Cantons occationed on ye sight of the :53: chapter of Isaiah Turn'd into Verse by Mrs: Whard.

      First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

      Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos ('Poets we prize, when in their verse we find')
    • WhA 55 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of a 58-line version.

      This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

      First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.

      Anne Wharton, To Mr. Waller ('Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill')

  • MS 745

    MS.

    • CmW 190 passim

      Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

      William Camden, Document(s)

  • MS 758

    Copy, with the dedication to Queen Elizabeth, in the hand of an amanuensis, the formal MS presented to Edward Coke, Attorney-General, with Davies's autograph dedication to him (beginning Great Procurator of your Princes state).

    [1598-9].

    Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

    This MS recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 375. Collated and the dedication to Coke edited in Krueger and described, p. 440. Microfilms are in the Bodleian and at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 479).

    • *DaJ 71
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      A philosophical poem, with dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning To that clear Majesty, which in the North. First published in London, 1599. Krueger, pp. 1-67.

      Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum ('Why did my parents send me to the schooles')

  • [no shelfmark]

    An exemplum of the first edition (1620), a folio bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt.

    Presented to Bacon's great rival, Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), and bearing Coke's caustic remark inscribed on the title page, It deserveth not to be read in schooles | but to be fraughted in the ship of fooles).

    1620.
    • BcF 659
      No description or publication history available.
      Francis Bacon, Bacon, Francis. Instauratio magna (London, 1620)

  • [no shelfmark]

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    In the library of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

    Stern, p. 200.

    • *HvG 34
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Aristotle. Aristotelis de Arte Dicendi Libri Tres...a Petro Victorio correcti & emendati. Ildem Latinate donati per Hermolaum Barbarum (Paris, 1549)

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