The Folger Shakespeare Library, Miscellaneous manuscripts

MS C.c.1(4)

• *BeA 55

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Aphra Behn, Document(s)

MS C.c.1(6)

• *CgW 110

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  William Congreve, Letter(s)

MS C.c.1(7)

• *CgW 118

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  William Congreve, Document(s)

MS C.c.1(13)

• DrJ 375

  No description or publication history available.

  John Dryden, Document(s)

MS C.c.1(14)

• *DrJ 381

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Dryden, Document(s)

MS C.c.1(15)

• *DrJ 329

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Dryden, Letter(s)

MS C.c.1(16)

• *DrJ 330

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Dryden, Letter(s)

MS C.c.1(49)

• *VaJ 26

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

MS C.c.1(50)

• *VaJ 28

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

MS C.c.1(51)

• *VaJ 291

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

MS C.c.1(52)

• *VaJ 303

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

MS C.c.1(53)

• *VaJ 310

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

MS C.c.1(54)

• *VaJ 30

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

MS C.c.1(75)

• CgW 29

  No description or publication history available.

  First published, as Of Improving the Present Time, London, 1729. Summers, IV, 177-8. Dobrée, pp. 400-2. McKenzie, II, 486-8.

  William Congreve, Letter to Viscount Cobham ('Sincerest Critick of my Prose, or Rhime')

MS CC 33(23)

• *CmW 182

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  William Camden, Document(s)

MS E.a.6

• ElQ 227.5 f. 2r-v

  Copy, with a ten-line introduction, Queene Elizabeth cominge to her army at Tilbury where shee lay in the Earle of Leisters Pavillion...whervppon shee toke occation of this speach.

  Beginning My loving people, I have been persuaded by some that are careful of my safety to take heed. how I committed myself to armed multitudes.... Collected Works, Speech 19, pp. 325-6. Selected Works, Speech 10, pp. 77-83. The Queen's authorship supported in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 103-6.

  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeths Armada speech to the Troops at Tilbury, August 9, 1588
• CaE 23 f. 3r

  Copy, headed Written On the Duke of Buckingham's statut.

  A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

  Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

  Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham ('Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am')
• JnB 535 f. 6r-v

  Copy, headed Ben Johnsons newyeares guift to The Lord Treasurer Weston.

  First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.

  Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram ('If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state')
• DaJ 192.5 f. 7r

  Copy, headed On a child and here beginning As carefull mothers vnto sleepe will lay.

  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

  Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
• BcF 207.2 ff. 15r-29r passim

  Extracts from various essays.

  Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

  Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

MS G.a. 1

• RaW 1110 ff. 58r-75r

  Copy, headed A Discourse touching the Marriage w^th. Spaine.

  A tract beginning These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland.... First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine
• OvT 49 ff. 120r-47r

  Copy.

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

  Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

MS G.a.7

• LeC 50

  No description or publication history available.

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

  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

MS G.a.8

• LeC 51

  No description or publication history available.

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

  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

MS G.a.9

• LeC 52

  No description or publication history available.

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

  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

MS G.a.11

• NaR 21 pp. 3-64

  Copy, in a professional mixed hand, a title-page (p. 3) dated An^o: Dni: 1638.

  Edited principally from this MS in Cerovski.

  Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

  Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
• SuJ 152.2 pp. 65-6

  Copy, in a mixed hand, headed An answer to a gentleman of Norfolke concerninge the Scottish business: 1639, subscribed A. C.

  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

MS G.b.1

• NaR 22

  No description or publication history available.

  Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

  Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

MS G.b.2

• NaR 23 ff. 18r-69v

  Copy of a slightly abbreviated version, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ffinis Gloria Trinyni Deo in Æternum i640.

  Edited in part from this MS (erroneously cited as Folger MS 21) in Cerovski

  Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

  Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

MS G.b.3

• ElQ 280 ff. 77v-9v

  Copy of Version I, with introduction: ...And her ma^tie 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).

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

MS G.b.7

• RaW 587 ff. 47r-73r

  Copy, the dedicatory epistle and main text in two different italic hands or styles, some corrections probably in another hand, inscribed by Twysden (f. 48r) The lady Raleigh did assure me this was her husbands doeing, Rog: Twysden: 1622, and the name S^r. Walter Raleigh added to the title possibly by him, subscribed (f. 73r) Finis. Transcriptum Ao. 1622.

  A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
• RaW 779 ff. 135r-8v

  Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand.

  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.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

MS G.b.8

• BcF 161.5 ff. 48v-50r

  Copy.

  First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

  Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith
• RaW 1073 ff. 93v-126v

  Copy.

  A treatise beginning Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse.... First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Military Discourse
• PtG 4.6 ff. 127r-79r

  Copy, headed A Discovrse plainelye proueinge that aswell the sentence of deathe latelye giuen againste that vnfortunat Ladye Marye Late Queene of Scotts. as alsoe the Execution of the same sentence, was Ho^ble: iuste necessarye & Lawefull, w^ch was performed. Anno. 29. Eliz: 1587.

  A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning There hath not happened since the memorie of man…. First published, as A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.

  George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown

MS G.b.9

• RaW 588 ff. 1r-61v

  Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, as by S: Walter Rauleghe...1610.

  A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
• RaW 925 ff. 136v-40v

  Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, of two letters by Ralegh to James I and one to Ralegh's wife, in 1603.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
• ToC 3.5 ff. 145v-9r

  Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, with the dedication to Lady Theodosia Cecil, as Written by M^r: William Turnour and subscribed Guil: Tourneur.

  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
• BcF 373 ff. 151r-3v

  Copy of Bacon's speech at the arraignment of Lord Sanquer, 27 June 1612, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

  Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
• BcF 228.6 ff. 158r-60v

  Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

  Written 25 April 1604. To be published in the forthcoming The Oxford Francis Bacon.

  Francis Bacon, Objections against the Change of the Name of England into the Name of Britain
• RaW 780 ff. 161r-70r

  Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

  Beal, In Praise of Scribe, p. 264 (No. 108.14).

  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.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
• RaW 57 f. 170r-v

  Copy, headed This Epitath ffollowinge was wrytten, by S^r: Walter; Ralegh the night before he dyed, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

  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'
• RaW 313 f. 170v

  Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed S^r Walter Raleigh, on the snuffe of a Candle, the night before he suffered death.

  First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died ('Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout')
• RaW 926 ff. 179v-84v

  Copy of three letters by Ralegh to Queen Anne (1618), to four noblemen (Nottingham, Suffolk, Devonshire, and Cecil, 13 August 1603), and to his wife (14 November 1617), in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
• DaS 36 ff. 185r-205r

  Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, as Written by S^r: Walter Raleigh, Knighte:.

  Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 264 (No. 108.20), with a facsimile of f. 205r on p. 69.

  First published (from a MS found in the Library of a Person of High Quality) as An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England with the Reign of King William the I, ascribed to Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1693). Works of Sir Walter Ralegh (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 509-37. Daniel's probable authorship discussed in Rudolf B. Gottfried, The Authorship of A Breviary of the History of England, SP, 53 (1956), 172-90, and in William Leigh Godshalk, Daniel's History, JEGP, 63.1 (1964), 45-57.

  Samuel Daniel, A Breviary of the History of England
• BcF 118.5 ff. 210r-26r

  Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

  First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, X, 218-34.

  Francis Bacon, Certain Articles or Considerations touching the Union of England and Scotland
• RaW 656 ff. 283r-95r

  Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed A matche propounded by y^e Sauoyan betwene the Ladie Elizabeth and the Prince of Piemont.

  A tract beginning To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Match between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont
• RaW 637 ff. 295v-310v

  Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe.

  A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

MS G.b.10

• BcF 613 f. 70r

  Copy of a letter by Bacon to James I.

  Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

MS G.b.11

• LeC 53

  No description or publication history available.

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

  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

MS G.b.12

• LeC 54

  No description or publication history available.

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

  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

MS G.b.13

• LeC 55

  No description or publication history available.

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

  Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

MS G.b.19

• NaR 24

  No description or publication history available.

  Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

  Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

MS H.b.1

• SiP 97 ff. 2r-216r

  Copy of the complete text, in the professional secretary hand of Richard Robinson (1554/5-1603), scribe and translator, lacking a title-page, the first heading: The first Booke or Acte of the Countess of Pembrookes Arcadia.

  Edited from this MS in Feuillerat. Collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 527, and in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), p. 400, with a facsimile of f. 2r in Plate V after p. 272. A facsimile of f. 2r also in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 122.

  The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the Old Arcadia) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.

  Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia
• SiP 20 ff. 216v-26v

  Copy of sonnets 3-32, headed Dyuers and sondry Sonettes, here beginning The ffyer to see my wronges for anger burneth.

  This MS collated in Ringler.

  First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Ringler, pp. 133-62.

  Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets
• DyE 70 f. 220r

  Copy.

  First published in The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, 3rd edition (London, 1598). Sargent, No. I, p. 176. May, Courtier Poets, p. 302. EV 19124.

  Sir Edward Dyer, Sonnet ('Prometheus, when first from heuen hie')

MS J.a.1

• HrG 324.8 ff. 7r-17v (MS J.a.1.1)

  Copy, in an italic hand, of 42 poems, comprising two of the preliminary poems addressed to James I and Prince Charles and Epigrams i-xl.

  The text follows a copy (on ff. 2r-5r) of Andrew Melville's Pro Supplici Evangelicor[um] Ministroru In Anglia...sive Anti-tami-cami-categoria (here beginning Insolens audax facinus nefandu) which inspired Herbert's response. It was written in 1603-4 and first published in David Calderwood, Parasynagma Perthense (1620).

  A series first published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, pp. 384-403. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 2-61.

  George Herbert, Musae Responsoriae ad Andreae Melvini Scoti Ante-tami-cami-categoriam ('Cvm millena tuam pulsare negotia mentem')
• CoR 302 ff. 93r-104v (MS J.a.1.8)

  Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed Secundum iter Boreale, inscribed at the side Per D^re. Corbet.

  First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

  Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
• RaW 687.5 ff. 161r-5v (MS J.a.1.12)

  Copy of an early version, headed Especiall Notes concerning her Ma^ties Nauie and Sea-Seruice, with a preface addressed to Queen Elizabeth.

  This MS is discussed in Suzanne Gossett, A New History for Ralegh's Notes on the Navy, MP, 85 (1987), 12-26.

  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
• JnB 563 ff. 168r-74v (MS J.a.1.13)

  Copy of an early version, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, entitled Christmas his Showe, without descriptions of the characters, dresses and properties, inscribed in another cursive hand Mock-maske The christmas shewe before the Kinge. 1615.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile example in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2006), p. 172.

  First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 431-47.

  Ben Jonson, Christmas his Masque
• RaW 637.5 ff. 175r-82v (MS J.a.1.14)

  Copy, in a neat secretary hand, the work dated 1611. Early 17th century.

  A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke.... First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
• HoJ 265 f. 183r-v (MS J.a.1.15)

  Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, in double columns, followed by other Latin verse and a play in English.

  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')

MS J.a.2

• SpE 27.8 ff. 51r-79v

  MS of a Latin version by Theodore Bathurst (c.1587-1652), Latin poet and clergyman, beginning Forte puer (nec enim titulo potiore misellus, inscribed Authore M^ro Batters.

  Theodore Bathurst's Latin version was made c.1608 and published in the 1653 edition of Spenser's poems.

  First published in London, 1579. Variorum, Minor Poems, vol. I, 1-120.

  Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
• HoJ 71 ff. 81r-2r

  Copy, in two small italic hands, headed The Parliament fart.

  Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

  John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')
• RaW 927 ff. 86v-7r

  Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, 1603.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
• RaW 58 f. 87r

  Copy, headed Verses found in S^r Walter Rauleighs Bible in y^e Gatehowse.

  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'

MS J.b.3

• B&F 192

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VII, 95-210. Edited by George B. Ferguson (The Hague, 1966). Bowers, IV, 15-117, ed. Fredson Bowers.

  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Woman's Prize

MS J.b.5

• B&F 1

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, IX, 1-104. Bullen, II, 339-453, ed. P.A. Daniel. Bowers, III (1976), 246-331, ed. Fredson Bowers.

  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush

MS J.b.6

• MiT 22

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, 1661. Bullen, II, 1-115. Oxford Middleton, pp. 1451-87. Generally known as Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Queenborough.

  Thomas Middleton, The Mayor of Queenborough

MS J.b.8

• MrC 23

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, [1594?]. Bowers, I, 353-417. Tucker Brooke, pp. 440-84. Gill et al., V, 317-62.

  Christopher Marlowe, The Massacre at Paris

MS L.a.758

• RaW 928

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

MS L.b.37

• *RaW 929

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

MS L.b.526

• *DnJ 4098

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.527

• *DnJ 4099

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.528

• *DnJ 4100

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.529

• *DnJ 4101

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.530

• *DnJ 4102

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.532

• *DnJ 4106

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.533

• *DnJ 4107

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.534

• *DnJ 4103

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.535

• *DnJ 4113

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.537

• *DnJ 4118

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.538

• *DnJ 4121

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.539

• *DnJ 4119

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.540

• *DnJ 4136

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.541

• DnJ 4065.2

  No description or publication history available.

  Donne's Latin epitaph on his wife Ann More, who died 15 August 1617. First published in John Stow, The Survey of London (London, 1633). Edited and discussed in M. Thomas Hester, miserrimum dictu: Donne's Epitaph for His Wife, JEGP, 94/4 (October 1995), 513-29. Variorum, 8 (1995), 187.

  John Donne, Epitaph for Ann Donne ('Fæminæ lectissimæ, dilectissimæque')

MS L.b.542

• *DnJ 4141

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Letter(s)

MS L.b.543

• *DnJ 4143

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Donne, Document(s)

MS L.b.675

• CrR 29 pp. 2-3

  Copy, headed An Elegie vpon his most worth[y, lea]rned and truly Vertuous Kinsm[an,] C[hr]istopher Rouse, Esq^r.

  First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 404-5.

  Richard Crashaw, An Elegy upon the death of M^r Christopher Rouse Esquire ('Rich, purest rose, prime flowre of blooming youth')
• CrR 35 p. 3

  Copy, subscribed at the foot of the page in another hand Phil. Cornwaleys, possibly Cornwallis's autograph signature.

  First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), p. 405.

  Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph ('Heere in deaths closett, Reader, know')

MS L.b.708

• CrR 297 ff. 2r-3v

  Copy, headed Vpon y^e Duke of Yorke.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich.

  First published in Voces votivae ab academicis Cantabrigiensibus (Cambridge, 1640). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 176-81.

  Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke ('Brittaine, the mighty Oceans lovely Bride')
• CrR 133 ff. 4r-6v

  Copy, headed Fidicinis et Philomelææ bellum musicum.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich.

  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 149-53.

  Richard Crashaw, Musicks Duell ('Now Westward Sol had spent the richest Beames')
• CrR 291 ff. 7r-8r

  Copy, untitled.

  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 168-170.

  Richard Crashaw, Vpon the death of the most desired Mr. Herrys ('Death, what dost? ô hold thy Blow')
• CrR 9 ff. 8r-9r

  Copy, untitled, run immediately on from Vpon the death of the most desired Mr. Herrys (CrR 291).

  This MS collated in Yoklavich.

  First published in The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 170-2.

  Richard Crashaw, Another ('If ever Pitty were acquainted')
• CrR 58 ff. 9v-10r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich.

  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 172-4.

  Richard Crashaw, His Epitaph ('Passenger who e're thou art')
• CrR 143 ff. 10v-11r

  Copy, headed In Itinere cum nebulis vrgeretur matutinum coelum, tali carmine invitabatur serenitas.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich.

  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 181-2.

  Richard Crashaw, On a foule Morning, being then to take a journey ('Where art thou Sol, while thus the blind-fold Day')
• CrR 203 ff. 11v-12v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich.

  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 159-61.

  Richard Crashaw, Out of the Greeke Cupid's Cryer ('Love is lost, nor can his Mother')
• CrR 54 f. 13r

  Copy, headed Vpon a Dwarfe riding on an Elephant.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).

  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 161.

  Richard Crashaw, 'High mounted on an Ant Nanus the tall'
• CrR 39 f. 13r

  Copy, headed Vpon y^e Death of Docter Brooks.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich.

  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 175.

  Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph. Vpon Doctor Brooke ('A Brooke whose streame so great, so good')
• CrR 424 f. 13r

  This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).

  First published in Epigrammata sacrorum liber (Cambridge, 1634). Martin p. 28.

  Richard Crashaw, Matth. 28. Ecce locus ubi jacuit Dominus ('Ipsum, Ipsum (precor) ô potiùs mihi (candide) monstra')
• CrR 127 f. 13v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).

  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 87.

  Richard Crashaw, Mat. 28. Come see the place where the Lord lay ('Show me himselfe, himselfe (bright Sir) O show')
• CrR 390 f. 13v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).

  First published in Epigrammatum sacrorum liber (Cambridge, 1634). Martin, p. 32.

  Richard Crashaw, Joann. 3. In aquam baptismi Dominici ('Felix, ô, sacros cui sic licet ire per artus!')
• CrR 188 f. 13v

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).

  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 85.

  Richard Crashaw, On the water of our Lords Baptisme ('Each blest drop, on each blest limme')
• CrR 422 f. 13v

  Copy, headed Ad Christum.

  This MS collated in yoklavich (no variants recorded).

  First published in Epigrammata sacrorum liber (Cambridge, 1634). Martin, p. 16.

  Richard Crashaw, Matth. 16. 25. Quisquis perdiderit animam suam meâ causâ, inveniet eam ('I vita. I, perdam: mihi mors tua, Christe, reperta est')
• CrR 119 f. 13v

  Copy, untitled, run on directly from Matth. 16. 25. Quisquis perdiderit animam suam meâ causâ, inveniet eam.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).

  First published in Waller (1904), p. 343. Martin, p. 381.

  Richard Crashaw, Math. 16.25. Whosoeuer shall loose his life &c. ('Soe I may gaine thy death, my life I'le giue')
• CrR 393 f. 14r

  This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).

  First published in Epigrammatum sacrorum liber (Cambridge, 1634). Martin, p. 16.

  Richard Crashaw, Joann. 6. Quinque panes ad quinque hominum millia ('En mensae faciles, rediviváque vulnera coenae')
• CrR 182 f. 14r

  Copy, untitled.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).

  First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 86.

  Richard Crashaw, On the miracle of multiplyed loaves ('See here an easie Feast that knowes no wound')
• CrR 196 f. 14r

  Copy, headed Vivamus mea Lesbia.

  This MS collated in Yoklavich.

  First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 194.

  Richard Crashaw, Out of Catullus ('Come and let us live my Deare')

MS M.a.47

• ShW 124 pp. 1-59 passim

  Numerous extracts from Shakespeare's plays, including apocrypha.

  William Shakespeare, Extracts
• DrJ 299 pp. 68-72

  Copy, headed An Essay on Tragedy: Being a MS of M^r. Dryden's against M^r Rymer &c, subscribed Here M^r. Dryden ends. N.B. This MS. is now at Tonson's.

  Edited from this MS in Scott-Saintsbury; collated in California.

  First published in The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher, 7 vols. (London, 1711), I, xii-xxvi. Samuel Johnson, Preface to Dryden in Prefaces…to the Works of the English Poets, Vol. III (London, 1779). Scott-Saintsbury, XV, 378-92. California, XVII, 185-93.

  John Dryden, Heads of an Answer to Rymer
• SuJ 161.2 f. 82

  Extracts.

  First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.

  John Suckling, Aglaura
• SeC 147 p. 112

  Extracts from Sedley's dramatic works.

  Sir Charles Sedley, Extracts
• DrJ 391 pp. 119-32b

  Extracts from plays by Dryden.

  John Dryden, Extracts
• CaW 130 p. 133c

  Extract from Cartwight.

  William Cartwright, Extracts
• DaW 157 pp. 133c-e, 150-2, 156, 162-5, 170, 174

  Extracts from Davenant's plays.

  Sir William Davenant, Extracts
• LeN 11.6 pp. 133[f]-44, 177

  Extracts.

  First published in London, 1677. Stroup & Cooke, I, 211-83.

  Nathaniel Lee, The Rival Queens: or, The Death of Alexander the Great
• HyT 15 p. 154

  Extracts from A Woman Killed with Kindness.

  Thomas Heywood, Extracts
• WeJ 15 pp. 159-60

  Extracts.

  First published in London, 1612. Lucas, I. Cambridge edition, I, 139-254.

  John Webster, The White Devil
• ShJ 221 p. 168 et passim

  Extracts from plays by Shirley, including The Traitor.

  James Shirley, Extracts
• MnJ 139 pp. 171-4

  Extracts from Milton's dramatic works.

  John Milton, Extracts

MS M.a.104

• RoJ 119 p. 39

  Copy of a version headed King Charles 2^ds: Epitaph and beginning Here lies our Sovereign the King, subscribed Earl of Rochester.

  This MS recorded in Vieth.

  First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II ('God bless our good and gracious King')

MS M.a.187

• CoA 284 f. 3r

  Extracts, in double columns, headed M^r Abraham Cowley in y^e like manner return'd from business, as his poems tells us.

  Abraham Cowley, Extracts
• HrG 216.8 ff. 50r-1r

  Copy, in double columns, headed M^r Herberts Poem upon Providence.

  First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 116-21.

  George Herbert, Providence ('O sacred Providence, who from end to end')
• RoJ 228 f. 165r

  Copy, in double columns, headed E: Rotchester on Romes pardons.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')

MS M.b.12

• SdT 3 f. 6v

  Copy of lines 3-24, untitled and here beginning Ale that makes Tinker mighty Witty.

  First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Summers, V, 227-9.

  Thomas Shadwell, A Letter from Mr. Shadwell to Mr. Wicherley ('Inspir'd with high and mighty Ale')
• RoJ 160 ff. 10v-12v

  Copy of lines 171-264, headed Satyr By Ld: Rochester and here beginning You smile to see me (whom the World perchance

  This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

  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.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')
• WoH 188.5 f. 15r

  Copy, headed On the Death of S^r: Albert Morton's Wife.

  First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

  This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')
• MaA 163.9 ff. 18r-26r

  Copy, headed Dream of the Cabal.

  A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of y^e Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

  Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')
• RoJ 394 ff. 31v-2r

  Copy. The text followed (f. 32r-v) by Lady Rochester's answer.

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

  First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

  Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')
• RoJ 427 ff. 32v-3r

  This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

  First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')
• MaA 308 ff. 39v-42v

  This MS collated in POAS, I.

  First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….

  Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')
• WaE 773 ff. 57v-9r

  Copy in a section entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Printed.

  First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 68-9. Thorn-Drury, II, 82-3.

  Edmund Waller, To the Prince of Orange, 1677 ('Welcome, great Prince, unto this land')
• MaA 181 ff. 80v-2r

  Copy, headed Royal Resolutions.

  This MS collated in POAS, I.

  First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

  Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')
• CwT 309 ff. 85v-8v

  Copy of the four songs.

  First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.

  Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine ('From whence was first this furie hurld')
• MaA 225 ff. 93r-4v

  Copy, headed On the Statue at Charing Cross.

  This MS collated in POAS, I.

  First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

  Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')
• MaA 73 ff. 104v-8v

  Copy, without The Answer, headed The Chequer Inn . To the Tune of I tell thee Dick &c By M^r. H. Savile 1673.

  This MS collated in POAS, I.

  First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

  Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene')
• BeA 17 ff. 129r-33r

  Copy in a section entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Printed.

  First published in Lycidas: or the Lover in Fashion…together with a Miscellany of New Poems by Several Hands (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 350-6. Todd, I, No. 76, pp. 275-80.

  Aphra Behn, A Pastoral Pindarick. On the Marriage of the Right Honourable the Earle of Dorset and Middlesex, to the Lady Mary Compton. A Dialogue. Between Damon and Aminta ('Whither, young Damon, whither in such hast')
• HaG 34 ff. 172v-5r

  Copy of 33 maxims, headed The following Maxims were found by a Jew amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor, 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. The text followed (ff. 175r-6r) by 14 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 178 f. 181r

  Copy, headed On the Lady Dorchester. By E. Dorset 1694.

  This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) ('Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes')
• DoC 192 f. 181r

  Copy, untitled, run on directly from Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes (DoC 178).

  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 204 f. 181v

  Copy, headed Another By the same Hand.

  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 15 ff. 188v-9r

  Copy, the poem here dated 1696/7, subscribed By E of Dorset (deleted), then in a different ink M^r Congreve, inscribed at the side 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')
• VaJ 9 f. 202r-v

  Copy, the poem dated 1699 and subscribed M^r Vanbrok.

  First published, ascribed to Mr Vanbrook, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair ('Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse')
• VaJ 2 ff. 215v-16r

  Copy, the poem here dated 1699, subscribed By M^r. Vanbrook, the name then deleted and subscribed in another ink Walsh.

  This MS also formerly recorded in IELM as Sir George Etherege, EtG 111. Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 138-9.

  First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), p. 317. Possibly by William Walsh (but not included in his Works (London, 1736)). Also attributed (less likely) to Sir George Etherege. Thorpe, p. 61.

  Sir John Vanbrugh, The Rival ('Of all the Torments, all the Cares')

MS N.b.49

• SkJ 5.5 p. 1

  Copy by Haslewood, headed On Cardinal Wolsey.

  A couplet, first published in Edward Halle, Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke (London, 1568), sig. TTt2^v. Scattergood, p. 358.

  John Skelton, 'Gentle Paule, laie down thy sweard'
• SkJ 10.5 pp. 11-22

  Copy by Haslewood.

  Carlson, pp. 66-7.

  Canon, C41, p. 12. Lines 3-237 first published in Certaine bokes copyled by mayster Skelto (London, [c.1545]). A text of 513 lines first published in Dyce (1843), II, 1-25. Scattergood, pp. 230-46.

  John Skelton, Speke, Parrot ('My name is Parrot, a byrd of paradyse')
• SkJ 9.5 pp. 23-38

  Copy by Haslewood.

  Carlson, p. 67.

  Canon, C2, p. 3. First published in Dyce (1843), I, 116-31. Scattergood, pp. 121-34.

  John Skelton, Poems against Garnesche ('Sithe ye haue me chalyngyd, Master Garnesche')
• SkJ 31 p. 39

  Copy by Haslewood of Skelton's two autograph Latin poems in SkJ 30.

  Carlson, pp. 67-8.

  Canon, C31, pp. 9-10.

  John Skelton, Chronique de Rains
• SkJ 7.5 p. 43

  Copy by Haslewood.

  Carlson, pp. 68-9.

  Canon, C37, p. 11. First published in Sir John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (London, 1776), III, 2. Dyce, I, 28-9. Scattergood, pp. 35-6.

  John Skelton, Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale ('Ay, besherewe yow, be my fay')
• SkJ 27.5 pp. 45-6

  Copy by Haslewood of a 55-line version.

  Edited in Carlson, pp. 69-70, 72-3.

  Skelton wrote a Wofully araid but it is uncertain whether his version can be identified with any extant poem incorporating these words: see Canon, L118, pp. 32-3. First published in Sir John Hawkins, General History of the Science and Practice of Music (London, 1776), III, 2. Dyce (1843), I, 141-3.

  John Skelton, 'Wofully araid'

MS W.a.118

• BrW 170.5 f. 4v

  Copy, headed Upon one dead in the Snow. p. 78.

  First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
• KiH 452.5 f. 5v

  Copy, headed On Man. pag. 80.

  First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

  Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
• DnJ 92.5 f. 6r-v

  Copy, headed On the praise of an ill-favour'd Gentlewoman.

  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')
• PeW 239 ff. 6v-7v

  Copy, headed A Paradox on the praise of a painted face p. 97.

  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].

  William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman ('Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression')
• FeO 4 ff. 9v-10r

  Copy, headed Against Ben: Johnson. p. 154.

  A version first published, as Against Ben: Johnson, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.

  Owen Felltham, An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c. ('Come leave this saucy way')

MS W.a.135

• RoJ 127 f. 6r

  Copy, here beginning Lorrain he Stole, by Fraud he got Burgundy, following the Latin text.

  Edited from this MS in Walker.

  First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy')
• DoC 362 f. 9v

  Copy, headed On King W^m y^e. 3^d's Comming over & settled and here beginning Heaven first ordain'd William should Reign & then.

  This MS recorded in Harris.

  First published in J. J. Alexander, An Otterton Notebook, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 50 (1918), 493-502 (p. 495). Edited in Harris (1940), p. 118. Discussed in Harris (1979), pp. 183-4.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Under the King's Picture ('First Heaven resolv'd William should reign, and then')
• MaA 269 f. 35v

  Copy, headed On Blood's Stealing y^e Crown by A Marvel Esq^r:.

  First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

  This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

  Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
• RoJ 351 f. 36v

  Copy, headed On K: C: II^d: by y^e: E of Roch—r; For w^ch he was banish'd y^e. Court, & turn'd Mountebank.

  This MS recorded in Walker.

  First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')
• MaA 204 ff. 56v-7r

  Copy of a version headed Nostradamus's Prophecy. By And: Marvel, Esq^r: and beginning For Faults & Follies London's Doom shall fix.

  First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

  Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy ('The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix')
• MaA 309 ff. 57v-8v

  Copy, headed On y^e L^d. May^r & Court of Aldermen's p^rsenting y^e. late King Charles & D: of York each with a Copy of their Fredoms, A°: Dni 1674. A: Marvel Esq^r..

  First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….

  Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')
• CoA 288 f. 73v

  Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

  Abraham Cowley, Extracts
• MaA 156 ff. 77v-80r

  Copy, the poem here dated 1674.

  First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

  Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')
• WaE 721 ff. 82v-3r

  Copy, headed On The Storm & Death of Oliver Cromwell By M^r Waller. The text followed (f. 83r-v) by Godolphin's Answer.

  First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

  Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same ('We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim')
• MaA 168 ff. 84r-6r

  Copy, as By A: Marvel Esq^r:.

  First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

  Andrew Marvell, An Historical Poem ('Of a tall Stature and of sable hue')
• MaA 182 ff. 87v-8r

  Copy, headed Royal Resolutions: by A: Marvell Esq^r:.

  First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

  Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')
• DaW 159 passim

  Extracts from Davenant's plays and poems.

  Sir William Davenant, Extracts

MS W.a.220

• DrJ 244.4

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (Third Book of the Georgics only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).

  John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] ('Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate')

MS W.a.300

• StW 814 f. 5v

  Copy on a slip pasted in.

  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).

  William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
• LeJ 84.8 ff. 145r-8v

  Extracts, headed From y^e Itinerary of John Leland. vol. 1. published by John Hearne. 8^o. Oxf. 1710.

  John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

MS W.a.303

• RaW 615.5 pp. 29-31

  Extracts, inscribed S^r Walter Rawleigh in a Manuscript discourse entitled A Discourse of the Original...& necessary war...this manuscript is now in y^e hands of M^r Combs of Dainty in Northamptonshire, it is imperfect at y^e end.

  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
• CmW 7.1 p. 35

  Extracts.

  Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

  William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

MS W.b.455

• CmW 102.8 [unspecified page numbers]

  Extracts.

  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
• ClJ 197 p. 3

  Copy, headed On the E. of Strafford.

  First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

  John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust')
• RnT 496 p. 15

  Copy.

  Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

  Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton ('Do pious marble let thy readers know')
• RaW 66.5 p. 25

  Copy.

  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'
• PsK 138 p. 41

  Copy of a six-line version of the first ten lines, headed On Mary Morris 1695 aged 3 Quartrs and 9 days.

  First published in Poems (1664), pp. 75-80. Poems (1667), pp. 39-42. Saintsbury, pp. 530-1. Thomas, I, 109-11, poem 30.

  Katherine Philips, In memory of F.P. who dyed at Acton 24 May.1660 — 13th of her age ('If I could ever write a lasting verse')
• BcF 54.105 p. 47

  Copy.

  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

  Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
• BrW 179.8 p. 67

  Copy, headed On y^e Countess of Pemb^k. S^r Phil. Sidney's Sister.

  First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

  William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
• WoH 190.4 p. 67

  Copy, headed On Two Lovers who dy'd before they were marry'd, here beginning She first deceas'd He for a little try'd.

  First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

  This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

  Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife ('He first deceased. she for a little tried')

MS W.b.474

• *CgW 119 p. 71

  Autograph

  A receipt for money received from John Dominick Nardvice, signed W^m Congreve, on one side of an oblong quarto leaf, 27 July 1710.

  Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. ix.

  William Congreve, Document(s)

MS W.b.515

• ShW 103.2 p. 5

  Copy, in a musical setting by Pelham Humphrey.

  William Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, i, 88-94. Song ('Where the bee sucks, there suck I')
• MaA 19 pp. 11-15

  Copy in a musical setting by Matthew Locke.

  First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

  Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda ('When Death, shall part us from these Kids')
• PsK 20 p. 30

  Copy, untitled and here beginning Forbear, bold youth, all heavens hear, in a musical setting (attributed in a later hand to Henry Hall [? the Elder (1655?-1707]).

  This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 206-9.

  First published in Poems (1667), p. 155. Saintsbury, p. 594. Hageman (1987), p. 600. Thomas, I, 227-8, poem 108.

  Katherine Philips, An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage ('Forbear bold Youth, all's Heaven here')
• RoJ 395 p. 56

  Copy, in a musical setting as By Jo: Blundevile.

  First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

  Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

  John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')
• HeR 94.5 pp. 57-80

  Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.

  First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

  Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')

MS W.b.537

• DaW 95

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, 1673. Dramatic Works, V, 295-394. Edited by Christopher Spencer (New Haven, 1961).

  Sir William Davenant, Macbeth

MS X.c.45

• RaW 930

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

MS X.c.128

• *EsR 182

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

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

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Third Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

MS X.d.5

• DrJ 91

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.

  The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

  John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')

MS X.d.6 (1)

• DrJ 43.83

  No description or publication history available.

  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.

  John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')

MS X.d.6(2)

• DrJ 43.84

  No description or publication history available.

  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.

  John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')

MS X.d.6(3)

• DrJ 43.85

  No description or publication history available.

  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.

  John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')

MS X.d.6(5)

• DrJ 43.86

  No description or publication history available.

  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.

  John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')

MS X.d.10

• *DrJ 311

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  John Dryden, Letter(s)

MS X.d.12 (1-4)

• DrJ 379

  No description or publication history available.

  John Dryden, Document(s)

MS X.d.13(2)

• DrJ 373

  No description or publication history available.

  John Dryden, Document(s)

MS X.d.18

MS X.d.21

• *CdA 26

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Lady Anne Clifford, Document(s)

MS X.d.30 (47-49, 58)

• *AndL 89

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)

MS X.d.74

• HkR 30

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.

  Richard Hooker, Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council

MS X.d.151

• BcF 476

  No description or publication history available.

  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 X.d.152

• ElQ 281

  No description or publication history available.

  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

MS X.d.161

• MnJ 109

  No description or publication history available.

  John Milton, Document(s)

MS X.d.172

• DaJ 291 ff. 4v-6r

  Copy, in a secretary hand, of The devyses [to] entertayne hir M^ty att Harfielde, the house of S^r Thomas Egerton Lo. Keeper and his Wife the Countess of Darbye. In hir Ma^ts progresse. 1602, comprising The humble Peticon of a guiltles Lady, headed The humble peticion of a giltles sainte, wherw^th y^e gowne of rainebowes was p^rsented to hir ma^ty, in hir progresse 1602 and here beginning Beawtyes rose & vertues booke; the 2 mariners song (beginning Cynthia queene of seas & landes); and a short speech, and 34 lots.

  Edited from this MS in Peter Cunningham, The Device to entertayne hir Ma^ty att Harfields…1602, The Shakespeare Society's Papers, II (London, 1845), 65-75, and in Krueger, pp. 207-16. Described (erroneously cited as MS. V.a.172) in Krueger, pp. 437-8.

  Facsimiles of f. 5r in Elizabeth I Then and Now, ed. Georgianna Ziegler (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2003), p. 49, and in in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments from George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson (Oxford, 2010), p. 113.

  The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.

  Sir John Davies, An Entertainment at Harefield

MS X.d.174

• BcF 614

  No description or publication history available.

  Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

MS X.d.177

• PlG 24 passim

  Misquotation from the play.

  First published in London, 1595. Edited by Frank S. Hook in Prouty, III, 385-421.

  George Peele, The Old Wives Tale
• TiC 35 f. 8r

  Copy of the last two lines, untitled and here beginning The day is past & yet I saw no sunne.

  Facsimile in Zarnowiecki, p. 59.

  First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

  Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')

MS X.d.178

• ElQ 251

  No description or publication history available.

  Beginning Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint..., in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

  Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597

MS X.d.181

• DoC 109

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Harris (1979), p. 176.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Innocent Conjugates or The Maiden Bridegroom and Virgin Bride ('Inflam'd by love and led by blind desires')

MS X.d.184

• DoC 67

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.

  Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel ('Of Clineas' and Dametas' sharper fight')

MS X.d.205

• BcF 757

  No description or publication history available.

  A discourse beginning The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things.... Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.

  Francis Bacon, The Use of the Law

MS X.d.210

• SiP 202

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

  This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

  Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

MS X.d.214

• *AlW 143

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sutton, pp. 10-11 (No. XIII), with translation.

  William Alabaster, In Phillipvm Mornævm ('Quid male relligio meruit, gentilibus armis')

MS X.d.235

• DrW 117.32

  No description or publication history available.

  Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

  William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')

MS X.d.240

• EsR 75

  No description or publication history available.

  First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')

MS X.d.241

• RaW 931 f. 1r-v

  Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, 2 January 1603/4, in a mixed hand.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
• RaW 932 ff. 3v-4r

  Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, 24 September 1618, in a predominantly italic hand.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
• RaW 818 ff. 4v-5r

  Account of Ralegh's speech in a letter written in the predominantly italic hand of John South to an unidentified person (Right Worshipfull).

  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.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

MS X.d.244

• WoH 283

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

  Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

MS X.d.245

• JnB 480 f. [1r]

  Copy, headed An Epigram vpon Inego Jones to a freind, subscribed Ben: Jonson.

  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.

  Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him ('S^r Inigo doth feare it as I heare')
• JnB 494 f. [1r-v]

  Copy, subscribed Ben: Johnson.

  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.

  Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary ('But cause thou hearst y^e mighty k. of Spaine')
• JnB 253 ff. [1v-3r]

  Copy, subscribed Ben Jonson.

  First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.

  Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon w^th Inigo Iones ('Mr Suruey^r, you y^t first begann')

MS X.d.246

• JnB 423 f. 1r

  Copy.

  Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury, Little Ark, and in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 108.

  A version of And must I sing?... (see JnB 1) first published in G. Thorn-Drury, A Little Ark (London, 1921), p. 1. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 108.

  Ben Jonson, Proludium ('An elegie? no. muse. yt askes a straine')
• JnB 148 ff. 1r-2r

  Copy, headed Epos.

  This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

  First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 109-13.

  Ben Jonson, Epode ('Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state')

MS X.d.250

• BeA 16

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Lycidas: or the Lover in Fashion…together with a Miscellany of New Poems by Several Hands (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 361-3. Todd, I, No. 79, pp. 286-7.

  Aphra Behn, On the first discovery of falseness in Amintas ('Make hast! make hast! my miserable Soul')

MS X.d.309

• *WaE 144

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.

  Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea ('Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain')

MS X.d.314

• *DaW 154

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir William Davenant, Gondibert (4to, London, 1651)

MS X.d.319

• *DkT 51 recto

  Autograph

  An autograph receipt signed by Dekker, for 20 shillings from Philip Henslowe for Dekker's play Truth's Supplication to Candle Light, dated 18 January 1598/9.

  Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 16 March 1937 (Egerton-Warburton sale), lot 484.

  Thomas Dekker, Document(s)
• DkT 52 verso

  A receipt in Dekker's hand, signed by him and others, 22 January 1598/9.

  Thomas Dekker, Document(s)

MS X.d.322

• *KiW 52

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Sir William Killigrew, Document(s)

MS X.d.335

• CtR 454

  No description or publication history available.

  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]

MS X.d.383

• WhA 60

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in Lycidus (London, 1688), pp. 95-6. Greer & Hastings, No. 23, p. 189.

  Anne Wharton, To Mr. Wolesly ('To you, this Generous Task belongs alone')

MS X.d.429

• BcF 615

  No description or publication history available.

  Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

MS X.d.459 (13a)

• MrC 9

  No description or publication history available.

  Bowers, II, 345-6. Tucker Brooke, pp. 585-6. Gill et al., I, 39-41.

  Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. II, iv ('I meane not to defend the scapes of any')

MS X.d.475

• JnB 578 ff. 1v-2v

  Copy of an 89-line version, in a secretary hand, headed A spech made at Tibaldes the xxii^th of may^o when the Queene tooke posession beinge acompanied with the kinge, yonge prince a great peare of ffrance and many nobles.

  This MS discussed, and the scribe identified as (Sir) John Kaye, of The Queens' College, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple, in Gabriel Heaton, The Copyist of a Ben Jonson Manuscript Identified, N&Q, 246 (December 2001), 385-8.

  First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 151-8.

  Ben Jonson, An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds, 22 May 1607

MS X.d.505

• *WiG 29

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in J. Milton French, George Wither's Verses to Dr. John Raven, PMLA, 63 (1948), 749-51.

  George Wither, To his worthie & much honored ffreind, John Raven Doctor of Phisike, &c George Wither wisheth all happines, & sendeth as a token of his hartie love and thankfullnes, these following Poems ('It cannot, Sir, in Reason well be thought')

MS X.d.520

• *SpE 65

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Edmund Spenser, Document(s)

MS X.d.532

• MrT 28.5

  No description or publication history available.

  Devout Instructions &c. first published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1405-18. Yale, Vol. 13, with English translation.

  Sir Thomas More, Devout Instructions, Meditations and Prayers

MS X.d.533

• *InE 32

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Self portrait.

MS X.d.535

• HaG 25

  No description or publication history available.

  First published, anonymously, in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 379-424. Brown, II, 363-406.

  George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter

MS X.d.555

• EsR 296 ff. [9r-10r]

  Copy of an account of Essex's execution, including his speech and prayer.

  Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
• EsR 297 f. 11r-v

  Copy of another account.

  Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

MS X.d.562

• ShW 31.5

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, 1593.

  William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis ('Even as the sun with purple-coloured face')

MS X.d.570

• CnC 153

  No description or publication history available.

  Charles Cotton, Document(s)

MS X.d.580

• DnJ 2752.5 ff. 1r-3v

  Copy, headed Satire i.

  Facsimile of the first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

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

  John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
• DnJ 2785.6 ff. 3v-6r

  Copy, omitting line 46, headed Satire 2^d.

  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 4153 f. 7r-v

  A list of thirty MS poems by Donne, Carew, Drayton, Henry King and others lent to M^r Murhouse, 7 December 1632.

  Edited in Peter Beal, An Authorial Collection of Poems by Thomas Carew: The Gower Manuscript, EMS, 8: Seventeenth-Century Poetry, Music and Drama (2000), 160-85 (as Appendix II on pp. 181-3).

  John Donne, Document(s)

MS X.d.606

• MrJ 39.5

  No description or publication history available.

  John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')

MS Y.d.28

• DrJ 377

  No description or publication history available.

  John Dryden, Document(s)

MS Y.d.129

• SeC 92.5

  No description or publication history available.

  Unpublished?

  Sir Charles Sedley, Batheaston, a new Ballad on Musick, Poetry & Painting, to be sung not said ('At Batheaston, such Breakfasts each Thursday are seen')

MS Y.d.130

• SeC 108.8

  No description or publication history available.

  Unpublished?

  Sir Charles Sedley, Subject: Pleasure of the Town & Country S^r C Sedley ('Oh! the charms the Country yields')

MS Y.d.147

• CeS 2

  No description or publication history available.

  First published in London, 1714.

  Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder

MS Y.d.484(1)

• *CgW 133

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  William Congreve, Document(s)

MS Y.d.484(2)

• *CgW 140

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  William Congreve, Document(s)

MS Z.c.20(7)

• *CmW 183

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  William Camden, Document(s)

MS Z.c.22(1)

• *CmW 184

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  William Camden, Document(s)

MS Z.c.28(7)

• CmW 185

  No description or publication history available.

  William Camden, Document(s)

MS Z.c.33(23)

• *CmW 186

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  William Camden, Document(s)

MS Z.c.34(28)

• *CmW 187

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  William Camden, Document(s)

MS Z.e.1

• RaW 933 No. 8

  Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, [c.27 July 1603], in Smyth's accomplished secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
• RaW 934 No. 9

  Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Ralph Winwood, [21 March 1617/18], in a professional secretary hand, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
• RaW 710.235 No. 10

  Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

  Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana
• RaW 783 No. 11

  Copy, in Smyth's accomplished secretary hand, headed S^r walter Rawleighes speech at his death, who was beheaded at the old Pallace at Westminster the 28. of October .1618. betweene .8. and .9. of the Clocke in the morninge.

  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.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
• BcF 477 No. 16

  Copy of the submission of 22 April 1621 (here dated May), in Smyth's accomplished secretary hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

  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 Z.e.28

• SoR 267.6 Part II, ff. 73r-82r

  Copy, in two neat secretary hands, headed written against Christmas: 1587. / his musick in Christmas of the miserie of man in this life the paines of hell & the ioye of heaven, and, in the margin, Of the miserie of ma in this life.

  First published, as By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.

  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things ('O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges')
• MrC 13 Part II, f. 100v

  Copy of a seven-stanza version, in an italic hand, untitled, unascribed.

  This MS collated in Bowers and in Tucker Brooke. Facsimile in A.D. Wraight and V.F. Stern, In Search of Christopher Marlowe (London, 1965), p. 130.

  First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see RaW 189-99.

  Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love ('Come live with mee, and be my love')
• RaW 194 Part II, f. 101r

  Copy, in an italic hand, headed in the margin Responc, unascribed.

  This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112. Facsimile in A.D. Wraight and V.F. Stern, In Search of Christopher Marlowe (London, 1965), p. 130.

  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 MrC 10-19.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard ('If all the world and loue were young')
• DaJ 294 Part II, ff. 102r-3v

  Copy of the dialogues Between y^e Bailiffe and the Dairie maides and Betweene Time & Place, in possibly two somewhat untidy secretary hands.

  The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.

  Sir John Davies, An Entertainment at Harefield