Folger Shakespeare Library
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The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series

  • MS V.b.7

    Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on 98 large folio pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

    With a title-page in an italic hand: A briefe discourse of ye right vse of gevinge armes, wth: the Late abusis about that matter, and ye beste meane' by wch. they may be reformid orderly. Written by Henry Howard Earl of Northampton.

    c.1620.

    Baker, No. 420, pp. 76-7. date? early 17c?

    • HoH 24
      No description or publication history available.

      An unpublished treatise on heralds and the office of Earl Marshal. Beginning with the heading Of the first Institutions and function of Heralds and the proues that make for them; the text beginning It cannot as I suppose seeme strange to men of vnderstanding in recordes of historie …, and ending … and the gratitude of persons that are soubbl . will dispence exceptions of base men yt are mutinous. The tract has also been attributed to Ralph Brooke.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A brief discourse of the right use of giving arms

  • MS V.b.27

    Copy, followed after f. 10r by a lengthy series of related precedents, in a professional secretary hand, as By Sr: Robert Cotton, 50 large folio leaves in all, in 19th-century quarter-leather marbled boards.

    c.1630.

    Inscribed (f. 1*r) H.Walter 1811.

    • CtR 86
      No description or publication history available.

      Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire.... First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-79 [i.e. 89].

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...

  • MS V.b.34

    MS of a conflated version of Shakespeare's two Henry IV plays, made by Sir Edward Dering (1598-1644), of Surrenden, Kent, i + 55 folio leaves.

    Based on the Fifth Quarto of 1 Henry IV (1613) and a 1600 Quarto of 2 Henry IV., this play was probably written for a private theatrical performance, the dramatis personæ including members of the Dering family. The MS is largely in the secretary and italic hand of a mr Carington who was paid 4 shillings in February 1622/3 for the task, and bears Dering's autograph corrections and additions, as well as some rubrication.

    c.1622-3.

    Item 1035 in a sale catalogue.

    Edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Shakespeare's Play of King Henry the Fourth Printed from a Contemporary Manuscript, ed. James Orchard Halliwell, Shakespeare Society (London, 1845). A complete facsimile edition, with transcription, as The History of King Henry the Fourth as revised by Sir Edward Dering, ed. George Walton Williams and G. Blakemore Evans (Charlottesville, 1974).

    Collated in Henry IV, Part I, ed. Samuel Burdett Hemingway (Philadelphia & London, 1936), pp. 495-501, and in Henry IV, Part II, ed. Matthias A. Shaaber (Philadelphia & London, 1940), pp. 645-50. Discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, The Dering MS of Shakespeare's Henry IV and Sir Edward Dering, JEGP, 54 (1955), 498-503. Discussed, with a facsimile of the record of payment to Carington (Centre for Kentish Studies, U350 E4), in Laetitia Yeandle, The Dating of Sir Edward Dering's Copy of The History of King Henry the Fourth, Shakespeare Quarterly, 37 (1986), 224-6, where a possible candidate for Carington is suggested as Samuel Carington (d.1641), rector of Wootton, Kent. Discussed, as if a pre-publication and authorial MS, in John Baker, Found: Shakespeare's Manuscript of Henry IV, Elizabethan Review, 4/1 (Spring 1996), 14-46.

    Other facsimile examples in Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 39, and in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 87.

    • ShW 48
      No description or publication history available.

      1 Henry IV first published in London, 1598. 2 Henry IV first published in London, 1600.

      William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Parts I and II

  • MS V.b.41

    A large volio volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in several professional largely secretary hands, 484 pages (including numerous blanks), in half calf on marbled boards.

    c.1630.

    Bookplates of Captain Henry B.H. Beaufoy, FRS (1786-1851), and of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.

    • LeC 56 pp. 137-207

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

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

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
    • EsR 128 pp. 263-80

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

      First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

    • EsR 299 pp. 315-16

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The manner & ende of Robte Earle of Essex in the Tower of London, inscribed in the margin 25 febuarij 1600.

      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 V.b.43

    A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards.

    Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.

    c.1630s.

    Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

    Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

    • CoR 679 f. 1r-v

      Copy, headed Vpon Mistris Mallet, subscribed R C.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

      Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him ('Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold')
    • CoR 270 f. lv

      Copy, subscribed RC.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

      The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's Answer (So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace), and see also CoR 227-46.

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
    • CoR 241 f. 2r

      Copy, headed In Authorum Exauctoratum et Emeritum, subscribed R: C.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

      Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
    • KiH 415 f. 2r-v

      Copy, untitled before the Spanish motto, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.

      Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice ('I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect')
    • KiH 111 ff. 2v-3r

      Copy, headed The Answere, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

      Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
    • KiH 713 ff. 3r-4r

      Copy, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

      Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')
    • KiH 790 f. 4r

      Copy, headed To an Inconstant Mistris, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      Copy, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 160-1.

      Henry King, The Vow-Breaker ('When first the Magick of thine Ey')
    • KiH 593 f. 4r-v

      Copy, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
    • KiH 609 f. 4v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move')
    • KiH 544 f. 4v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes')
    • KiH 635 f. 4v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare')
    • KiH 576 f. 5r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

      Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
    • KiH 522 f. 5r

      Copy, subscribed in monogram format HK

      First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

      Henry King, Sic Vita ('Like to the Falling of a Starr')
    • KiH 427 f. 5r

      Copy, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      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')
    • KiH 705 f. 5r-v

      Copy, headed Vpon the mislike of Christchurch Mariage of the Artes at Woodstock, subscribed in monogram format. HK.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.

      Henry King, To his Freinds of Christchurch upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Artes, acted at Woodstock ('But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play')
    • KiH 359 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy, untitled but for the Latin motto, subscribed in monogram format. HK.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

      Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')
    • CwT 32 f. 6r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Mr Tho: Cary.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

      Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon ('Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood')
    • CwT 1241.8 f. 6r

      Copy.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.

      Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris ('To her whose beautie doth excell')
    • CwT 583 f. 6r-v

      Copy of an eighteen-line version, headed On A sigh and here beginning Come thou gentle Westerne wind.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind')
    • KiH 32 f. 6v

      Copy, headed The Answere, subscribed in monogram format. HK.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • CwT 252 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy, headed Sonnetts:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play')
    • CwT 212 f. 7r

      Copy, headed Sonnet.

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay')
    • StW 863 f. 7v

      Copy, headed Sonnet.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

      William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
    • HeR 298 f. 7v

      Copy, headed Sonnet.

      This MS recorded in Martin.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

      Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid ('Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise')
    • B&F 57 ff. 7v-8r

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 174.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VI, 213-306 (p. 234). Bullen, IV, 1-90, ed. M. Luce (pp. 23-4). Bowers, VIII, 123-202, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 137-8).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The False One, I, ii, 35-44. Song ('Look out, bright eyes, and bless the air')
    • CwT 886 f. 8r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
    • B&F 85 f. 8r-v

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 161-2.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VI, 115-212 (pp. 171-2). Bullen, III, 111-219, ed. R.W. Bond (p. 174). Bowers, V, 11-98, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 58-9).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, III, iv, 49-63. Song ('Go, happy heart! for thou shalt lie')
    • HeR 393 f. 8v

      Copy, headed Upon his periured Mistris and here beginning Whether bee all her false oathes.

      This MS recorded in Martin.

      First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

      Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne')
    • HeR 93 f. 8v

      Copy, headed A Reply to the same.

      This MS recorded in Martin.

      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')
    • StW 813 f. 8v

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman walking in the snow.

      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')
    • JnB 723 f. 9r

      Copy, headed Of Loue and Death.

      First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

      Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell')
    • JnB 292 f. 9v

      Copy, headed vpon an houreglasse.

      Facsimile of this MS in Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), plate 42.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

      Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust')
    • DnJ 92 ff. 9v-10r

      Copy, subscribed Dr: Donne.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      Facsimile of f. 9v in Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), plate 42.

      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')
    • CoR 221 ff. 10r-11v

      Copy, headed A Godly Exhortation to Mr John Haymond in the parish of Beudly for the battering downe of the Vanities of the Gentiles; which are comprehended in a maypole, written by a zealous Brother from the Black-ffrires, subscribed John Harris of Christ-Church.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

      An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of Dr Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

      Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
    • PoW 47 ff. 11v-12r

      Copy, headed On Mrs Poole: whose haire and eyes were black, subscribed Walton poole.

      This MS collated in Wolf (as MS Y).

      First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
    • CoR 706 f. 12r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

      Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse')
    • CoR 69 ff. 12v-13v

      Copy, subscribed R C.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

      Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane ('Am I madd, o noble Festus')
    • CwT 636 ff. 13v-15r

      Copy, subscribed Mr Tho: Carey.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
    • StW 404 f. 16r-v

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman that sung excellently.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute ('Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears')
    • CoR 44 ff. 16v-18r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed R. C.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

      Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made).

      Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge ('It is not yet a fortnight, since')
    • CwT 60 f. 20v

      Copy, headed To a most faire mistris.

      First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold')
    • B&F 143 f. 21r

      Copy, headed Of melancholy.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 186-8.

      Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

      For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
    • StW 661 f. 21r

      Copy.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

      William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring')
    • CwT 1058 f. 21r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.

      Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')
    • CwT 847 f. 21v

      Copy, headed Sonnets.

      First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight ('Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale')
    • CwT 660.5 f. 22r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 46-7.

      Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses ('Reade in these Roses, the sad story')
    • CwT 1277.5 f. 23v

      Copy, headed On a Heart wch a Gentlewoeman wore in her breast, here ascribed to H: B.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.

      Thomas Carew, The mistake ('When on faire Celia I did spie')
    • CwT 1172.5 f. 24v

      Copy, headed On the recouery from the Tooth=ach by a Kiss from a faire lady, here ascribed to R. E.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 109-10.

      Thomas Carew, The tooth-ach cured by a kisse ('Fate's now growne mercifull to men')
    • CwT 516 ff. 24v-5r

      Copy, untitled and subscribed J. A.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

      Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water ('Stand still you floods, doe not deface')
    • CoR 406 f. 25r

      Copy, headed To the Duke of Buckingham, subscribed R. C.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

      Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham ('When I can pay my Parents, or my King')
    • JnB 463 f. 25v

      Copy, here beginning Drinke to me Cælia wth thine eyes, subscribed B: J:.

      First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

      Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia ('Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes')
    • MsP 21 f. 25v

      Copy of a 16-line version of the Citizen's Song of the Courtier, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 168; discussed in Edwards & Gibson, V, 107.

      First published, as by P. M. and N[athan] F[ield], in London, 1632. Edwards & Gibson, I, 13-95 (p. 71).

      Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii, 51-8. Song ('Courtier, if thou needs wilt wiue')
    • MsP 25 f. 26r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 167-8.

      Edwards & Gibson, I, 72.

      Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii 71-86. Song ('Poore Citizen, if thou wilt be')
    • CwT 812 f. 26v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing ('Harke how my Celia, with the choyce')
    • JnB 617 f. 26v

      Copy, headed Looking on A Gentlewomans hand to tell her fortune and here beginning Bless me wonder, here's a booke.

      Herford & Simpson, lines 522-43. Greg, Burley version, lines 447-68.

      Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Lady Purbeck's fortune ('Helpe me wonder, here's a booke')
    • CwT 1140 f. 27r

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman like his mistris, subscribed T: C:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

      Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse ('Fayre copie of my Celia's face')
    • CwT 733 f. 27r-v

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Aske me no more whither doe stray.

      First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray).

      For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

      Thomas Carew, A Song ('Aske me no more whether doth stray')
    • StW 1081 ff. 27v-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

      William Strode, To a frinde ('Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play')
    • StW 982 f. 28r

      Copy, headed Vpon the Resurrection and beginning with the second stanza, here beginning Like to the eyes wch sleepe doth chaine.

      First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.

      MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye.

      William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye')
    • CwT 340 f. 28r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Mr Tho: Carey.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

      Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost ('Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow')
    • CwT 161 f. 28r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Mr Tho: Carey.

      First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned ('Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke')
    • PeW 290 f. 28v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Mr Renolds:.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), p. 75, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by Henry Reynolds.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet ('So glides a long the wanton Brook')
    • JnB 332 ff. 28v-9r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), 176.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

      Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')
    • CwT 532 f. 29r

      Copy, headed Sonnets:.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 48-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, Parting, Celia weepes ('Weepe not (my deare) for I shall goe')
    • MoG 30 ff. 30v-1r

      Copy, headed On the same [i.e. King James]. subscribed Mr Morley.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • KiH 175 f. 31r

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on Prince Henrys Death, subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')
    • BcF 54.106 f. 31v

      Copy, headed On the Duke of Richmond.

      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')
    • KiH 280 ff. 31v-2r

      Copy, headed On the same [i.e. the Earl of Dorset], subscribed in monogram format HK.

      First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

      Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
    • CoR 492 f. 32v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

      Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke')
    • BrW 170 f. 33v

      Copy, headed Vpon one that was drownd in the Snow.

      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 327 f. 34r-v

      Copy of lines 1-49; imperfect, lacking the ending.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')

  • MS V.b.48

    A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, in various largely professional hands, 472 leaves, in half calf on marbled boards.

    Bookplate of William Constable, FRS, FAS.

    • CtR 293 ff. 1r-1Dv

      Copy, in an ungainly secretary hand, headed Extracts out of Records wherin may be collected by what meanes the kings of England haue and may raise moneies, inscribed in a subsequent hand ...written by Sr. Robt. Cotton....

      Tract beginning The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates.... First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-200 [i.e. 202].

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

  • MS V.b.50

    A large folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers for c.1530-1631, predominantly in two professional secretary hands, one of them that of the Feathery Scribe, 762 numbered pages (lpp. 148-76 blank, lacking pp. 345-56, plus 28 blanks), in old reversed calf.

    From the library of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian. Acquired c.1924.

    Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 265-7 (No. 109).

    • CtR 261 pp. 1-22

      Copy, as written by Sir Robert Cotton Knight & Baronnett, subscribed Ro: Cotton:.

      Tract beginning For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name.... Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett
    • CmW 42 pp. 22-8

      Copy, headed A Discourse of the office of the Lord Steward of England Collected by master William Camden.

      A tract beginning Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus.... First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.

      William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England
    • CtR 246 pp. 29-34

      Copy, as written by Sr Robert Cotton knight & Baronett, subscribed Ro: Cotton.

      Tract beginning Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question.... Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by Sr: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 63 pp. 35-46

      Copy, as Written by Sir Robert Cotton knight and Baronett.

      Tract beginning The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto.... Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 227 pp. 47-56

      Copy, as written by Sir Robert Cotton Knight.

      A dedicatory epistle beginning Sir, Yor small tyme, I must Ballance, wth as sclendr Aunswere... followed by a tract beginning Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne....

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Antiquitye, and Offyce of the Earle Marshall of England, written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, Att the request of the Lord Henrye Howard, Earle of Northampton [25 November 1602]
    • CmW 31.5 pp. 71-86

      Copy, headed The Etimologie, Antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England.

      A tract beginning Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes... and sometimes entitled in manuscripts The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England. First published, as Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.

      William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
    • RaW 1111 pp. 281-301

      Copy, headed The three greate kingdomes of England, France and Spaine, subscribed Anno Domini 1623.

      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

  • MS V.b.66

    A folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes, fourteen items, in modern boards.

    Papers collected by, and chiefly in the hand of, Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald, in preparation for his Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656).

    Mid-17th century.
    • RaW 941 item 4 (f. 12r-v)

      Copy, in Dugdale's hand, of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr, on both sides of a narrow octavo leaf.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • MS V.b.82

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

    As written by the honorable Knit: Sr: Henry Wotton Prouost of Eaton Colledge, 18 tall folio leaves, in modern boards.

    c.1634-41.

    Phillipps MS 19020. No. 1340 in an unidentified sale.

    • WoH 282
      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 V.b.83

    A tall folio miscellany of extracts from prose romances, 56 leaves (including blanks), largely written on rectos only, in modern half morocco on cloth boards.

    c.1600.

    Note stating this MS was lent to Sidney Lee (1859-1926), literary scholar, by James Lee.

    • LoT 15 ff. 3r-5r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1590. Gosse, Vol. I, last item.

      Thomas Lodge, Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie
    • GrR 2 ff. 5r-8r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1589. Grosart, VII, 95-216.

      Robert Greene, Ciceronis Amor. Tullies Loue
    • GrR 1 ff. 8r-11r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1584. Grosart, III, 171-253.

      Robert Greene, Arbasto: The Anatomie of Fortune
    • LoT 12 ff. 11r-14v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1592. Gosse, Vol. II.

      Thomas Lodge, Euphves Shadow, The Battaile of the Sences
    • GrR 6 ff. 36r-41r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1585. Grosart, V, 1-135.

      Robert Greene, Planetomachia
    • GrR 3 ff. 41r-7r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1591. Grosart, IX, 223-348.

      Robert Greene, Greenes Farewell to Folly
    • GrR 5 ff. 49r-54r

      Extracts.

      First known publication: London, 1599. Grosart, XII, 1-94.

      Robert Greene, Orpharion

  • MS V.b.93

    A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards.

    This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80.

    c.1656-66.

    Formerly MS 469.2.

    This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the master draft, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as Catalogue A on pp. 385-94).

    • BcF 688 passim

      Extracts from several works by Bacon.

      Francis Bacon, Extracts
    • BuR 1.23 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

      Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
    • DkT 61 passim

      Extracts from several plays.

      Thomas Dekker, Extracts
    • FuT 17 passim
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Fuller, Extracts
    • HaW 49.5 passim

      Extracts.

      First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.

      William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act ('Fine, young folly, though you were')
    • HeR 450 passim
      No description or publication history available.
      Robert Herrick, Extracts
    • HyT 16 passim

      Extracts from plays, including If You Know not Me, You Know No Bodie; or, The Troubles of Queene Elizabeth (1605) and The Rape of Lucrece (1609).

      Thomas Heywood, Extracts
    • JnB 770 passim

      Extracts from various works.

      Ben Jonson, Extracts
    • MiT 36 passim
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Middleton, Extracts
    • MnJ 140 passim
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Extracts
    • RaW 678.7 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
    • SaG 64 passim

      Extracts from various works.

      George Sandys, Extracts
    • ShJ 222 passim

      Extracts from plays and poems.

      James Shirley, Extracts
    • SuJ 193 passim

      Extracts from various dramatic works.

      John Suckling, Extracts

  • MS V.b.94

    A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single accomplished professional hand, ii + 222 pages, with an Index, in contemporary calf.

    c.early 1700s.

    Inscribed on the front pastedown to be left at Inbourg's Muff-shop / Pall-Mall and St hovr Singleton. Formerly Folger MS 473.1.

    • EtG 75 pp. 104-6

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.

      Sir George Etherege, A Song on Basset ('Let equipage and dress despair')
    • BeA 1 pp. 110-12

      Copy, headed Song on Mrs M. How-d.

      First published in La Monstre, or, The Lover's Watch (London, 1686). Summers, VI, 29-30.

      Aphra Behn, The Coquet ('Melinda, who had never been')
    • DoC 259 pp. 113-15

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in POAS; collated in Harris.

      First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Bays ('Thou mercenary renegade, thou slave')
    • DoC 361.5 p. 141 et seq,

      Copy.

      First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town')

  • MS V.b.110

    A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, largely in one hand, iv + 544 pages (including numerous blanks), in vellum boards.

    Inscribed, and evidently compiled, by Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70), of Barham, Kent.

    c.1642-70.

    Inscribed Lee Warly. Canterbury. 1764. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.

    • MrC 4 p. [ii]

      Copy, subscribed C. Marlo. Auth: Hero & Lean.

      Edited from this MS in Collier (1844) and in Bowers. Discussed in Mark Eccles, N&Q, 169 (20 July 1935), 39-41.

      First published in The Works of William Shakespeare, ed. John Payne Collier (London, 1844), I, xliv. Bowers, II, 540. Gill et al., I, [220].

      Christopher Marlowe, In obitum honoratissimi viri Rogeri Manwood militis, quaestorii Reginalis Capitalis Baronis ('Noctivagi terror, ganeonis triste flagellum')
    • MrC 5 p. 42

      Copy, subscribed These verses aboue written were made by Christopher Marlo, who was a Shomakers son of Canterbury; it was this Marlo, who made the 2 first bookes of Hero & Leander, witnes Mr Alderich.

      This MS collated in Bowers.

      First published in The Works of William Shakespeare, ed. John Payne Collier (London, 1844), I, xliv. Bowers, II, 540. Gill et al., I, [220].

      Christopher Marlowe, In obitum honoratissimi viri Rogeri Manwood militis, quaestorii Reginalis Capitalis Baronis ('Noctivagi terror, ganeonis triste flagellum')
    • DnJ 2937 p. 43

      Copy of the second stanza, untitled and here beginning If thou beest borne to strange sights.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

      John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
    • KiH 75.5 p. 48

      Copy, untitled, headed ffaire man complaine not that I fly.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • MrC 2 pp. 48, 58

      Copy of eight lines in the Second Sestyad (lines 131-4, 287-90).

      Bowers, II, 448, 452; Tucker Brooke, pp. 507, 511. This MS discussed in Mark Eccles, Marlowe in Kentish Tradition, N&Q, 169 (20 July 1935), 39-41.

      First published in London, 1598. Bowers, II, 423-515 (p. 448). Tucker Brooke, pp. 485-548 (p. 507). Gill et al., I, 175-209. For George Chapman's continuation of the poem, see ChG 3-4.

      Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander ('On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood')
    • HeR 241 p. 49

      Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')
    • CwT 418 p. 49

      Copy, headed On Clarindas lips & eies and here beginning In Clarindas face a question did arise.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

      Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise')
    • MrC 22 p. 58

      Copy of Mortimer's lines beginning Base fortune, now I see, that in thy wheele (V, vi, 59-61).

      Bowers, II, 95; Tucker Brooke, p. 384. This MS discussed in Mark Eccles, Marlowe in Kentish Tradition, N&Q, 169 (20 July 1935), 39-41.

      First published in London, 1594. Bowers, II, 1-119. Tucker Brooke, pp. 307-85. Gill et al., vol. III.

      Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
    • DaJ 12 p. 66

      Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.

      Krueger, p. 132.

      Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 8. In Katam ('Kate being pleasde, wisht that her pleasure coulde')
    • TaJ 19 pp. 162-7

      Extracts, as by Ier Taylor. DD. printed 1656.

      First published in London 1655. Edited by L.P. Smith (Oxford, 1930).

      Jeremy Taylor, The Golden Grove
    • MnJ 53.5 pp. 421-3

      Extracts Ex Ioannis Miltons Angli pro populo Anglicano Defensione secunde Contra infamem libertu anonymum cui tutulus Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus parricidas Anglicanos, Londini Typis Neucomiami 1654.

      First published in London, 1651. Columbia, vol. VII. English translation only in Yale, IV, Part 1, 285-537.

      John Milton, Pro populo anglicano defensio
    • RaW 680.6 pp. 490-5

      Extracts Out of Sr walter Raleighs Instructions to his sone, & to posteritie.

      A treatise in ten chapters, beginning There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends.... First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Instructions to his Son and to Posterity

  • MS V.b.111

    Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, headed Thomas Wolsey Caraman, intituled St: Cicelie, trans Tiberim presbiter, & Lo: Chauncellor of England, his lyffe & death written by George Cavendish, on 51 of 52 folio leaves (some other verse and prose on ff. 51v-2r), in contemporary limp vellum.

    c.1600.

    Inscribed on a flyleaf Roger Bradshaigh Booke 1659. Formerly Folger MS 759.1.

    Sylvester, No. 27.

    • CvG 30
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

      George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

  • MS V.b.132

    A folio volume of state letters principally by Bacon, entirely in the predominantly secretary hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, v + 109 leaves, with an Index (pp. iii-v), in old quarter vellum boards.

    With a title-page: Sundrie Letters Conteyning Matter of Elegancie, Worth & Moment, At seuerall times, & upon seuerall occasions Written to the excellt. Matie. of King James, & diuers other persons of Honor. & Eminencie By Sr Fra Bacon deceased aswell before he was his Maties. Solliciter: as in the after Passages of his life, dignities & fortune wherein are inserted .3. Letters of K. James his owne: & some of others.

    c.1630.

    Bookplate of William North (d.1734), second Baron Grey of Rolleston.

    • BcF 618 pp. 1-15, 7-10, 20-101, 104-9

      Copy of numerous letters by Bacon to Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Essex, James I, Cecil, Northumberland, Tobie Mathew, Sir John Davies, Edward Coke, Bodley, and others.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 187 pp. 15-20

      Copy.

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

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

  • MS V.b.133

    A folio volume comprising two plays by Orrery, in one or possibly two hands, 107 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written on rectos only, in brown crushed morocco gilt.

    Late 17th century.
    • OrR 17 ff. 1r-63r

      Copy, in a professional roman hand up to f. 60r, then continued ff. 60r-3r in a cursive italic hand, untitled.

      First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.

    • OrR 32 ff. 67r-107r

      Copy, in a professional roman hand, with no title-page but headed Mustapha.

      First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

  • MS V.b.142

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, ii + 91 leaves, virtually disbound.

    • ElQ 97 f. 20r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed E. R:.

      This MS cited in Selected Works.

      Beginning Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest.... Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596).

      Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596
    • EsR 129 ff. 32r-9v

      Copy, in several secretary hands.

      First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

    • ElQ 236 f. 62r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled. Early 17th century.

      Beginning Merita et gratitudo sic meam rationem captiuam duxerunt..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 163-5. An English translation, beginning Merits and gratitude have so captured my reason..., in Collected Works, Speech 20, pp. 327-8.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Speech to the Heads of Oxford University, September 28, 1592
    • RaW 728.208 ff. 78r-85r

      Copy of Ralegh's arraignment at Winchester in 1603, in a secretary hand, with related papers.

      Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

  • MS V.b.151

    A Folio composite volume of state tracts, in three hands, 130 leaves, in old calf.

    c.1625-30s.

    Once owned by Henry Powle (1630-92), Master of the Rolls, whose library and MS collection were assembled with the help of John Bagford (1650-1716). Bookplate of Francis North (1704-90), first Earl of Guilford, of Wroxton Abbey. Acquired by Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930) from the Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland (from their London warehouse) in August 1924. Formerly Folger MS 1291.3.

    • SiP 201 ff. 57r-62r

      Copy, in a professional, predominantly secretary hand, headed Sr Phillip Sidney his letter or Treatise to her Matie against Monsieurs Mariage, with the salutation (Most ffeared & beloved, most sweete & Gratious Soveraigne) superscribed and centred.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 22.

      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
    • RaW 665 ff. 63r-73r

      Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as written by Sr Walter Raleigh the first yeare of ye Kinge 1602.

      A tract addressed to James I and beginning It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands.... First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands

  • MS V.b.154

    A folio commonplace book of extracts largely from religious works, under headings, in English and Latin, in a single cursive mixed hand, c.580 pages, in old boards.

    c.1680.
    • HkR 72 pp. 20, 250
      No description or publication history available.
      Richard Hooker, Extracts
    • HbT 178 passim

      Extracts, including references on pp. 26 and 34.

      Thomas Hobbes, Extracts

  • MS V.b.159

    A folio volume of state letters, the great majority by Francis Bacon to James I, comprising warrants for the King to pass grants in 1607-9, in a single professional secretary hand, 75 leaves (plus 41 blanks), in contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • BcF 619
      No description or publication history available.
      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

  • MS V.b.172

    Copy, in a secretary hand, on thirty large sheets of paper tied head to head (Exchequer-style), subscribed ffr.St. Alban Canc.

    Headed To the Right Honorable the Lordes of Parliamt: in the vpper house assembled. The humble submission and Supplicacon of the L: Chancellor.

    1621.

    From the archives of the Hastings family. Eevidently an official copy owned by Henry Hastings (1586-1643), fifth Earl of Huntingdon, who was chairman of the Lords committee relating to the case.

    • BcF 479
      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 V.b.173

    A large folio of state tracts and parliamentary speeches and proceedings, in several professional hands, 263 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

    Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

    • RaW 1112 ff. 26r-35v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in another hand Of the match wth Spayne.

      Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90.

      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
    • ElQ 177 f. 38r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, introduced ...The Queen began to speake a fewe wordes to this effect or thus:....

      Brief speech beginning My right loving lords and you all, our right faithful and obedient subjects, we in the name of God..... First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), p. 137. Hartley, I, 195. Collected Works, Speech 11, pp. 108-9.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech Opening the 1571 Parliament, April 2, 1571
    • BcF 377 f. 92r-v

      Copy of a speech by Bacon, in a professional secretary hand.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • BcF 378 f. 132r-3r

      Copy of Bacon's speech, 8 March 1592, in a professional secretary hand.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • MS V.b.192

    A fragment of a copy of the play(s), in a professional secretary hand, 17 small folio leaves, in old calf.

    Paginated 17-28, 37-38, with running heads The first dayes playe, and 43-58, 63-66, with running head The second dayes playe.

    c.1580-1630.

    Bookplate of T. Brayne, Oswestry, Shropshire.

    Edited from this MS, with facsimiles of pp. 23, 50-1, in Malone Society edition. The MS recorded in Davies, p. 237 (xi).

    • BaJ 32
      No description or publication history available.

      A miracle play of c.1530-60 of unknown authorship, but possibly by Bale, who lists among his own works two plays on the buriall and resurrection of Christ. First published, ed. J. Dover Wilson, Bertram Dobell, and W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1912).

      John Bale, The Resurrection of Our Lord

  • MS V.b.195

    Copy of an abbreviated version of part of the tract, in a professional hand, on eight folio leaves.

    Beginning with the heading What Inconueniences & abuses haue falne out by suffringe the kings att Armes to giue Coats and text beginning The originall word which Ierome translats Nobilem implies notabilenes... and ending ...soe that their owne faint collors may be deerly purchased &c. Finis.

    c.1620.

    Formerly Folger MS 1743.1.

    A transcript of this MS made c.1900, on 15 folio pages, is Folger MS W.b.20.

    • HoH 25
      No description or publication history available.

      An unpublished treatise on heralds and the office of Earl Marshal. Beginning with the heading Of the first Institutions and function of Heralds and the proues that make for them; the text beginning It cannot as I suppose seeme strange to men of vnderstanding in recordes of historie …, and ending … and the gratitude of persons that are soubbl . will dispence exceptions of base men yt are mutinous. The tract has also been attributed to Ralph Brooke.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A brief discourse of the right use of giving arms

  • MS V.b.197

    A folio songbook, largely in one hand, written from both ends, vi + 241 pages including blanks(Part I: pp. 1-207; Part II: pp. 1-34), in contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked).

    Early 18th century.

    Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8th 1721; John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764; and (Part II, p. 2) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die; Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent; and Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab. Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.

    • DrJ 105 Part I, p. [iii]

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published (with a musical setting by John Blow) in London, 1696. Kinsley, II, 863-4. California, IV, 467-9. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 362-4.

      John Dryden, An Ode, On the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell. Late Servant to his Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St. Peter's Westminster ('Mark how the Lark and Linnet Sing')
    • CoA 157.5 Part I, pp. 1-2

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The Rich Rival. Words out of Cowley.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 108-9. Sparrow, pp. 106-7. Collected Works, II, No. 41, p. 70.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Theater of Music (London, 1685). Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 171-3.

      Abraham Cowley, The Rich Rival ('They say you're angry, and rant mightilie')
    • CgW 70 Part I, pp. 1 bis-3

      Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

      Summers, I, 194. Davis, p. 71. McKenzie, I, 64.

      William Congreve, The Old Batchelour, III, x, lines 1-25. ('As Amoret and Thyrsis, lay')
    • CoA 287 Part I, pp. [5-6]

      Extracts from works by Cowley

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • DrJ 183 Part I, pp. 23-6

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 441. California, III, 89-90. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 388. Musical setting by Robert King published in The Theater of Music (London, 1685), I, 30. Day, pp. 73-5. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Orpheus Britannicus, 3rd edition (London, 1721). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 133-6.

      John Dryden, Song ('Go tell Amynta gentle Swain')
    • HeR 94 Part I, pp. 32-4

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.

      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')
    • EtG 59 Part I, pp. 48-9

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, Fourth Book (London, 1687). Thorpe, p. 33.

      Sir George Etherege, Song ('Cease, ansious World, your fruitless pain')
    • CoA 111.5 Part I, pp. 78-81

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The words by Mr Cowley.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 26. Sparrow, pp. 33-4.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1688). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 69-73.

      Abraham Cowley, Ode ('Here's to thee Dick. this whining Love despise')
    • CoA 186.5 Part I, pp. 82-4

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The Thraldom. The words by Mr Cowley.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 67-8. Sparrow, pp. 63-4. Collected Works, II, No. 2, pp. 21-2.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698). Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 67-71.

      Abraham Cowley, The Thraldome ('I Came, I Saw, and was undone')
    • CgW 56 Part I, pp. 90-1

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed A Song in ye Double Dealer.

      First published in London, 1694. Summers, II, 1-77 (p. 31). Davis, pp. 117-204 (p. 143). McKenzie, I, 125-245 (p. 157). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus (London, 1694). The Works of Henry Purcell, XVI (London, 1906), pp. 207-10.

      William Congreve, The Double-Dealer, II, iii, lines 29-41. Song ('Cynthia frowns when'er I Woo her')
    • PsK 196 Part I, pp. 110-11

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed A song on a Ground, The Words by Madam Phillips.

      This MS recorded in Zimmerman, No. 406; also in Claudia A. Limbert, The Unison of Well-Tun'd Hearts: Katherine Philips' Friendships with Male Writers, ELN, 19 (1991), 25-37 (p. 35).

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 170-83. Saintsbury, pp. 601-4. Thomas, III, 94-102.

      A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris…The First Book (London, 1687), p. 18. The Theater of Music…The Fourth and Last Book (London, 1687), p. 57. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV, ed. Arthur Somervell (London, 1928), pp. 137-40; revised edition, ed. Margaret Laurie (1985), pp. 75-9.

      Katherine Philips, La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished ('O! Solitude my sweetest choice')
    • CgW 48 Part I, pp. 118-21

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The Words by Mr Congreve.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Purcell, Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698), Book I, p. 112. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 120-4. Dobrée, p. 376. McKenzie, II, 466-7.

      William Congreve, A Two-part Song, the Words by Mr. Congreve ('There ne'er was so wretched a Lover as I')
    • CoA 95.5 Part I, pp. 128-9

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed A Song upon A Ground.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 144-5. Sparrow, p. 145. Collected Works, II, No. 79, pp. 116-17.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683). Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 156-8.

      Abraham Cowley, Honour ('She Loves, and she confesses too')
    • LeN 9 Part I, pp. 134-5

      Copy of Genius's song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed A Song in ye Play calld ye Massacre in Paris.

      First published in London, 1690. Stroup & Cooke, II, 1-63 (p. 48). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in A Collection of Songs Set to Musick by Mr. Henry Purcell & Mr. John Eccles (London, 1696). The song published separately [1697?] (Wing L881).

      Nathaniel Lee, The Massacre of Paris, Act V, scene i, lines 17-29. Song ('Thy Genius, lo, from the sweet Bed of rest')

  • MS V.b.198

    A tall folio composite volume chiefly of verse, entitled The workes of the Lady Ann Southwell Decemb: 2o 1626, assembled from the papers of Lady Ann Southwell (1573-1636), including (ff. 59r, 60v-1r) an inventory of her goods and (f. 64v-5v) a list of her books, in several hands, including hers and that of her second husband Henry Sibthorpe, as well as that of John Sibthorpe (? Henry's father), whose brief contributions date from 1588, 74 leaves (plus a few tipped-in), in 19th-century calf gilt.

    c.1626-36.

    Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1032. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8581. Sotheby's, 19808 (Phillipps same), lot 699, to Bertram Dobell. Acquired from P.J. and A.E. Dobell by Henry Clay Folger in 1927. Formerly Folger MS 1669.1.

    Complete edition of this volume, with facsimile examples, in The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b.198, ed. Jean Klene, C.S.C. (Tempe, Arizona, 1997). Also discussed by Jean Klene, with facsimile examples, in Monuments of an Endless affection: Folger MS V.b.198 and Lady Anne Southwell, EMS, 9 (2000), 165-86, and discussed, with facsimiles of f. 9r-v, in Victoria E. Burke, Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41.

    • SoA 28 f. 1r

      Facsimile of f. 1r in Klene (1997), p. [164].

      Klene (1997), p. 1.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnett: 1a. ('ffly from the world, ô fly, thow poore distrest')
    • SoA 29 f. 1r

      Facsimile of f. 1r in Klene (1997), p. [164].

      Klene (1997), p. 1.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnett: 2a. ('When I sitt reading all alone that secret booke')
    • SoA 30 f. 1r

      Facsimile of f. 1r in Klene (1997), p. [164].

      Klene (1997), pp. 1-2.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonn: 3a. ('ffarewell fond World, the onely Schoole of Error')
    • SoA 31 f. 1r

      Facsimile of f. 1r in Klene (1997), p. [164].

      Klene (1997), p. 2.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnett 4a. ('If in the flesh where thow indrench'd do'st ly')
    • SoA 32 f. 1r

      Facsimile of f. 1r in Klene (1997), p. [164].

      Klene (1997), p. 2.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnett. 5a. ('Shall I sublyme my Soule to frame a letter')
    • RaW 165 f. 2r

      Copy, in an italic hand, with corrections in another hand, untitled, subscribed in another hand Anne Southwell.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 130. Edited in Klene (1997), pp. 2-4, with a facsimile on p. [165]. Facsimile and transcription also in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 336-7, 339.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

      This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')
    • SoA 51 f. 3r-v

      Copy of a formal letter about poetry, addressed to Lady Ridgeway. in a neat italic hand, headed To my worthy Muse that doth these lines infuse / the Lady Ridgeway, subscribed Anne Southwell / vera Copia....

      Klene, pp. 4-5. Also edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 3r, in Jean C. Cavanaugh, Lady Southwell's Defense of Poetry, in Women in the Renaissance, ed. Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman, and Arthur F. Kinney (Amherst, 1988), 175-8.

    • SoA 52 f. 4r

      Copy of a letter by Lady Southwell, to Lord Falkland, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1628.

      Klene, pp. 5-6.

    • SoA 16 f. 5r

      Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 6-7.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, A Hym to Christ ('Alpha Omega, Oh thow first and Last')
    • SoA 23.5 ff. 7r-8r

      Copy.

      Klene (1997), pp. 9-11.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, [Psalm 25, to the Earl of Castlehaven] Writen by the ladie A B--------to ye first Earle of Castle hayen ('To thee my soule I rayse')
    • SoA 23 f. 8r-v

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 11-12.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, A paraphrase vppon Lucius Anneus Sececa on his booke of Prouidence ('It is an easy taske to pleade the Cause')
    • SoA 4 f. 8v

      Copy, in an italic hand, with an autograph revision.

      Klene (1997), pp. 12-13.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Blessed Life: ('Seest thow a man that's vassaliz'd to pleasure')
    • SoA 3 f. 8v

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), p. 13.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Anger ('Anger proceedes from a surcharged Gaule')
    • SoA 6 f. 9r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 13-14.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Dialouge: ('Anger what art thow? Hast thow treuth to tell:')
    • SoA 25 f. 9r

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

      Klene (1997), p. 14.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnet ('Beauty, Honour, yeouth, and fortune')
    • SoA 26 f. 9v

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 14-15.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnet: ('Like to a lampe wherein the light is dead')
    • SoA 27 f. 9v

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), p. 15.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnett ('O how happy were I dearest')
    • SoA 14 f. 10r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 15-16.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'ffrayle Loue is like faire flowrie fields'
    • SoA 21 f. 11r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 16-17.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'Nature, Mistris off affection'
    • SoA 15 ff. 12r-13r

      Copy, in an italic hand, the heading partly cropped.

      Klene (1997), pp. 17-20.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Honor thy father and mother that the dayes may be long in the lande wch the lord thy god gyveth thee ('If to be borne the Image of the Lord')
    • SoA 2 f. 16r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), p. 20.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'All.married.men.desire.to.haue good wifes'
    • SoA 12 f. 17r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 20-1.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Fayne would I dye whil'st thy braue muse doth liue ('Quaintest of all the Heliconian traine')
    • SoA 19 ff. 18r-19r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 21-4.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, A Letter to Doctor Adam Bpp of Limerick by the Lady A:S: ('Adam first preist, first Prophet and first Kinge')
    • SoA 7 ff. 19v-20v

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 24-7.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, An Elegie written by the Lady A: S: to the Countesse of London Derrye. supposeinge hir to be dead by hir longe silence ('Since thou fayre soule, art warbleinge to a spheare')
    • SoA 8 f. 21r

      Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed A. S:.

      Klene (1997), pp. 27-8.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, An Epitaph vppon Cassandra MackWilliams wife to Sr Thomas Ridgway Earle of London Derry. by ye Lady A: S ('Now let my pen bee choakt wth gall')
    • SoA 48 f. 21r

      Copy, subscribed A: S.

      Klene (1997), p. 28.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Written in commendations of Mr Coxe (the Lecturer of Acton) his booke of the birth of Christ ('Thou faythfull Harrold of the morne')
    • KiH 343.5 ff. 21v-2r

      Copy, in double columns, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed An Elegie Writen by Mr Barnard brother to Mres Jernegan yt dyed at Acton.

      Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 28-32.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
    • SoA 45 f. 22r

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

      Klene (1997), pp. 31-2.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'What if I wante the dross of Tagus Strann'
    • SoA 20 f. 22r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), p. 32.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, A Letter to ye Duches of Lineox; from the Ladie Anne Southwell: ('Vouchsafe this fauor; as to tell me how')
    • SoA 10 f. 22r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), p. 32.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, An Epitaph vpon the king of Bohemia; written by the ladye Anne Southwell ('Here lyes a king, and gods anoynted')
    • SoA 11 f. 22r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 32-3.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, An Epitaph vpon ye king of Swede ('Maliciouse fate enuyinge humaine glorie')
    • *SoA 5 ff. 22v
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions, untitled.

      Klene (1997), pp. 33-4.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'Come forth foule Monster, at truthes barr to stand'
    • SoA 9 f. 23r

      Copy.

      Klene (1997), pp. 34-5.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, An Epitaph vpon the Countess of Sommersett ('To tell the shrine that its faire saint is gone')
    • SoA 22 f. 23v
      No description or publication history available.

      Klene (1997), pp. 35-6.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'Only eight soules, the waued tost Church did keepe'
    • KiH 236.5 f. 24r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 36-9.

      First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')
    • SoA 33 f. 25r

      Copy, in an italic hand.

      Klene (1997), pp. 39-40.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'The more my soule doth shrinke from loue, ye more, loue doth inflame her'
    • SoA 44 f. 26r

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

      Klene (1997), pp. 40-2.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'Vnless himselfe against himselfe weare bent'
    • SoA 24 f. 26v

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

      Klene (1997), pp. 42-3.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'Sr. giue mee leaue to plead my Grandams cause'
    • SoA 18 f. 27r-v

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

      Klene (1997), pp. 43-4.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'In this frayle worlde, where soules in earth are cladd'
    • SoA 13 ff. 28r-9v

      Copy, subscribed A: S.

      Klene (1997), pp. 44-8.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, The ffirst Commandement. Thou shalt haue noe other gods before mee ('Raise vp thy ffacultyes my Soule ti's time')
    • SoA 1 f. 30v

      Copy.

      Klene (1997), pp. 48-51.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, An abstract of The liues of the Romaine Emperours; as the haue bine related vnto vs by Plinie Plutarch; and Suetonius and first of the first ('Fortie twoe yeares; before oure sauiours birth')
    • SoA 46 ff. 30v-2v

      Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

      Klene (1997), pp. 48-57.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, 'Who euer sawe himself but in a myrrour'
    • *SoA 17 ff. 32v-3v
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      Klene (1997), pp. 51-4.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, I am thy god thatt brought thee oute of the house of bondage thou shalt haue noe others [god] but mee ('I tooke thee oute of claye, and gaue thee lyfe')
    • *SoA 39 ff. 34r-5r
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      Klene (1997), pp. 54-7.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likenes of anything ('Noe man may see the face of god and liue')
    • SoA 42 ff. 35r-7r

      Copy.

      Klene (1997), pp. 57-60.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt not take the name of god in vayne ('In this our hartes corruption is most exprest')
    • *SoA 37 ff. 37r-44r
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions.

      Facsimile of f. 42v in Victoria E. Burke, Medium and meaning in the manuscripts of Anne, Lady Southwell, in Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800, ed. George L. Justice and Nathan Tinker (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 94-120 (p. 107).

      Klene (1997), pp. 60-72.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt keepe holy the saboth daye ('In six dayes god made this admyred balle')
    • SoA 34 ff. 44v-6r

      Autograph drafts, untitled.

      Facsimile of ff. 44v-6r in Klene (1997), pp. [166-9].

      112 lines of miscellaneous draft verse. Klene (1997), pp. 72-6.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, [Southwell drafts, #1] ('why doth she buid us haue thim still in mind')
    • *SoA 38 ff. 47v-51v
      Autograph

      Copy, with autograph revisions, the heading partly cropped.

      Klene (1997), pp. 76-84.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt not commit Adooltery ('God doth with doggs the adulterate weights exempte')
    • *SoA 40 ff. 52r-3r, 54r-5r, 56r-7r
      Autograph

      Copy, in an italic hand, with autograph revisions.

      Klene (1997), pp. 84-91.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt not steale ('Harken you potentates and mighty kinggs')
    • SoA 35 ff. 57r-8v

      Autograph drafts, untitled.

      Facsimile of ff. 57r-8v in Klene (1997), pp. [170-3], and of f. 58r in Klene, EMS (2000), p. 168.

      66 lines of miscellaneousdraft verse. Klene (1997), pp. 91-3.

      Anne, Lady Southwell, [Southwell drafts, #2] ('riches ar unto men as ar thar foode')

  • MS V.b.206

    A folio volume comprising two works, the second a speech by Justice Crooke, in a single professional secretary hand, 60 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum (now detached) within 19th-century boards.

    Sotheby's, 1871 (Lilly sale). Phillipps MS 26061.

    • DaJ 272 pp. 1-45

      Copy, with a title-page in italic majuscules, as By his Maties Attvrney Generall of Ireland, the dedicatory epistle subscribed Jo: Dauis.

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

      Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

  • MS V.b.208

    Copy of Part I, in a single professional hand, on 49 folio pages (plus a title-page and some blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

    Entitled The First Part of Cecilia and Clorinda Or Love in Armes A Tragæ comedy. The Scene Lumbardy Written by Thomas Killigrew In Turin Dedicated to the Lady Anne Villiers, Countesse of Morton.

    c.1650.

    Inscribed at the end Anna Maria Joynes. Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury sale), lot 2407 (erroneously described as autograph). Item 25 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 4458.

    • *KiT 3
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 215-309.

      Thomas Killigrew, Cicilia and Clorinda, or, Love in arms, a tragi-comedy, Parts I and II

  • MS V.b.209

    Manuscript of a play by T. Killigrew including a song by T. Carew, in a professional secretary hand, 51 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

    c.1650.

    Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury sale), lot 2407 (erroneously described as autograph). Formerly Folger MS 4458.

    • *KiT 4 pp. 1-50
      Autograph

      Copy of Part II, on 50 folio leaves (plus title-page and some blanks), entitled The second Part of Cecilia and Clorinda or Loue in Armes A Trage-Comedy Written in Florence By Thomas Killigrew Dedicated to the Lady Dorothy Sidney Countesse of Svnderland.

      First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 215-309.

      Thomas Killigrew, Cicilia and Clorinda, or, Love in arms, a tragi-comedy, Parts I and II
    • CwT 313 pp. 50-1

      Copy of the first song, the Chorus of Jealousy, headed The song in Parts, subscribed with Killigrew's Apologie beginning This Chorus was written by Mr. Thomas Carew Cupbearer to Charles the first, and Sung in a Masque at Whitehall Anno 1633. And I presume to make vse of it here, because in the first designe, 'twas writt at my request, upon a dispute held betwixt Mres Cicilia Crofts and my self….

      This version is printed in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 308-9.

      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')

  • MS V.b.210

    A folio miscellany chiefly of verse, formally set out in a single neat secretary hand, compiled between 6 April and 17 November 1604, 80 pages, in modern marbled boards.

    1604.

    Phillipps MS 9062. Sotheby's (Phillipps sale), lot 00. Inscribed in pencil (f. [iir]) as owned on 11 May 1903 by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. Items 185 and 624 respectively in two unidentified sale catalogues.

    • DrM 45 pp. 19-30

      Copy, in double columns, complete with dedication to Sir Walter Aston (beginning For the shrill Trumpet, and sterne Tragick sounds), transcribed from the edition of 1604, subscribed FINIS xxi Die Aprilis, Anno 1604.

      This MS recorded in Hebel, V (1961), 283. A photocopy is in the Bodleian, Juel-Jensen Drayton Collection.

      First published in London, 1604. Hebel, II, 477-514.

      Michael Drayton, The Owle ('What time the the Sunne by his all-quickning Power')
    • FlJ 7.5 p. 45
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, subscribed I. F., in John Weever, The Whipping of the Satyre (London, 1601). Edited, and attributed to Fletcher, in Charles Cathcart, John Fletcher in 1600-1601: Two Early Poems, an Involvement in the Poets' War, and a Network of Literary Connections, PQ, 81/1 (Winter 2002), 33-51.

      John Fletcher, To his friend ('You that come by, and chance this booke to see')
    • BrN 50 pp. 59-69

      Copy, in double columns, subscribed FINIS. xxo Die Mensis Maij Anno Dni 1604.

      First published in London, 1600. Grosart, I (e).

      Nicholas Breton, Pasqvils Mad-cappe ('Why should man loue this wretched world so much')

  • MS V.b.212

    Copy, in a neat mixed hand, with scene and stage directions added in a secretary hand (on ff. 2r, 3r, 7v, 18v, 20r, 23v, 24r, and 25r), on 26 folio leaves (cropped at the top), in modern calf.

    With a title-page (f. 1r) The Royall Slaue A Trage-Comedy, and including prologues and epilogues to the King and Queen and University.

    c.1636.

    Item 65 in an unidentified American (?Rosenbach) sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 7044.

    This MS collated in Evans, with a facsimile of f. 25r opposite p. 168.

    • CaW 88
      No description or publication history available.

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

      William Cartwright, The Royal Slave

  • MS V.b.213

    Two Elizabethan works bound together (the second being parliamentary speeches in 1558-63), in two different secretary hands, 25 folio pages, remains of later half-calf marbled boards.

    • BcF 312 pp. 1-13

      Copy of six speeches, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed Reminbrances for the king of Spaine Speaches Deliuered to her Matie: on the 17th: Day of Nouember 1595 A Dialogue Betweene A 1. Melancholy dreaming Hermite. 2. A Mutinous brainesicke Soldier and 3. A busie, tedious-Secretarie, including two speeches by the Squire.

      Edited from this MS in Birch.

      First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.

      Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595

  • MS V.b.214

    A thick folio volume of state letters and tracts, a number relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several largely secretary hands, 271 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    Early 1600s.

    Inscribed (front pastedown) Die veneris. Julij: 1o 1601. per me Richardu Greenen and Thomas Scott; (f. 3r) G. Scott; (f. 271v) Thomas Scott, Thomas Payne, Willm Scott. Bookplate Ex Libris Chambrun-Longworth. Formerly Folger MS 6185.1.

    This volume discussed in James G. McManaway, Elizabeth, Essex, and James, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 219-30 (p. 221 et seq.).

    • EsR 130 ff. 61r-4r

      Copy, 1597 in margin.

      First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

    • EsR 171 ff. 64v-7r

      Copy, headed The Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland. Jan: 4: 1594.

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

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

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

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
    • ElQ 253 f. 67v

      Copy, in an italic hand, headed Oratio seu responsio Dnæ Reginæ facta oratori regis Poloniæ die lunæ 25to Julij 1597o.

      This MS cited in Collected Works.

      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
    • ElQ 237 ff. 67v-8r

      Copy, added at the foot of the two pages in an italic hand, headed in the margin Oratio Reginæ Elizabethæ ad Oxoniæ studiosos.

      Beginning Merita et gratitudo sic meam rationem captiuam duxerunt..., in Autograph Compositions, pp. 163-5. An English translation, beginning Merits and gratitude have so captured my reason..., in Collected Works, Speech 20, pp. 327-8.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Speech to the Heads of Oxford University, September 28, 1592
    • RaW 942 ff. 106v-9r

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his Noble Cosin relating to Cadiz, 21 January 1596/7.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • SpE 54 ff. 136v-93r

      Copy, in at least two secretary hands, apparently transcribed from SpE 63, subscribed Ao. Di. 1597.

      Formerly Folger MS 6185. Collated in Variorum.

      First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

      Spenser's authorship of this View is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr, ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

      Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland
    • BcF 620 f. 197r-v

      Copy of a letter by Bacon to Essex, inscribed in the margin An answer to ye precedent Lre: Both written by Fra. Bacon., following (on ff. 195r-6v a letter ny Anthony Bacon (?) dated 17 February 1600/1.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 316 f. 200r

      Copy of the Secretary's speech, headed (as an addition in a cursive secretary hand) A speach at ye tilt by ye of Essex.

      First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.

      Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595
    • EsR 131 ff. 213r-25v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

      First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

    • ElQ 98 f. 226r

      Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled.

      This MS cited in Selected Works.

      Beginning Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest.... Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596).

      Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596

  • MS V.b.215

    A large folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament, in one or more professional hands, 600 pages (plus blanks), in mottled calf.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

    • ElQ 283 pp. 388-95

      Copy of Version I, introduced ...her Majestie began thus to Answr herselfe 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 V.b.218

    A large folio composite volume of antiquarian and heraldic papers, in various hands, 368 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

    Bookplate of Sir George Nayler (1764-1831), Garter King of Arms. Formerly Folger MS 7033.

    • *CmW 157 passim
      Autograph

      Various documents belonging to Camden, partly autograph, including extensive and heavily revised drafts by Ralph Brooke (c.1563-1625), partly in his autograph, of his critiques of Camden's Britannia, notably (ff. 321-68v) A Second Discoverie of Certaine Errovrs Published in the much comended Britannia 1594 Very preiudiciall to the Discentes and successions of the auncient Nobilitie of this Realme, with a reply to Mr Camdens apologie, ad Lectorem in his firsr edicon 1610. By Ra: Brooke Yorke Herauld.

      Brooke's A Second Discoverie was first published, from this MS, in an edition by John Anstis (London, 1723).

      William Camden, Collectanea

  • MS V.b.222

    A folio volume of academic plays and orations, in Latin and English, the majority associated with Cambridge University, in several neat hands, with some later notes added c.1671, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    c.1635.
    • AlW 264 ff. 29r-37v

      Copy of an English version, in a small mixed hand, in double columns, subscribed I B scriptore, otherwise unascribed.

      First acted at Trinity College, Cambridge c.1595?. First published in London, 1632. A translation by Dana F. Sutton put online in 1998 by the University of California at Irvine.

    • StW 1473 f. 95r-v

      Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed Cora Carole Rege p mag: Stroude.

      Unpublished oration, beginning Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro ….

      William Strode, Speech to Charles I at Woodstock, 30 August 1635

  • MS V.b.223

    A folio volume comprising two independent works (the second by George Buchanan), in different hands, 40 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9060. The front pastedown inscribed in June 1906 by Sir Israel Gollancz (1863-1930), literary scholar. Formerly Folger MS 421118.1.

    A facsimile of this MS is in the University of London Library (MS/F 142).

    • GrF 30 ff. 1r-28r

      Copy of an early version, in a professional italic hand, the Chorus added at the end (f. 28r-v) in possibly another italic hand.

      Edited principally from this MS in Wilkes, II, 481-545. Briefly discussed in Ronald A. Rebholz, Life of Fulke Greville (Oxford, 1971), 101-2.

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

      Fulke Greville, Mustapha

  • MS V.b.230

    Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, unascribed, on 31 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    Early 17th century.
    • RaW 589
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • MS V.b.231

    A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    An exact transcript of the 1669 edition of Philips's Poems (including all 122 poems by her, her two plays, and the preliminary commendatory poems by others), here preceded by twenty lines of verse headed Cassandra preferr'd to Orinda and beginning Let Cowley and the Rest theire fancy try, a complimentary poem indicating possible presentation of this MS to Cassandra [? the widowed Cecily Philips].

    c.1670.

    Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer, No. 25 (August 1932), item 244, and No. 28 (December 1932). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 323. Formerly Folger MS 440314.1.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Folger MS: PsK Δ 9.

    • CoA 125 ff. 7v-8v

      Copy, headed Upon Mrs: K: Phillips her Poems.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 404-6.

      Abraham Cowley, On Orinda's Poems. Ode ('We allow'd You Beauty, and we did submit')
    • CoA 132 ff. 14r-15r

      Copy.

      First published, among Verses written on several Occasions, in Works (London, 1668). Grosart, I, 165. Waller, I, 441-3.

      Abraham Cowley, On the death of Mrs. Katherine Philips ('Cruel disease! Ah, could it not suffice')
    • PsK 536 f. 17r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 1-3. Poems (1667), pp. 1-2. Saintsbury, p. 507. Hageman (1987), pp. 584-5. Thomas, I, 69-70, poem 1.

      Katherine Philips, Upon the double murther of K. Charles, in answer to a libellous rime made by V.P. ('I thinke not on the state, nor am concern'd')
    • PsK 273 f. 17v

      Copy, headed On the numerous Access of the English to wait upon the King in Flanders..

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 3-4. Poems (1667), p. 2. Saintsbury, pp. 507-8. Thomas, I, 70-1, poem 2.

      Katherine Philips, On the numerous accesse of the English to waite upon the King in Holland ('Hasten (great prince) unto thy British Isles')
    • PsK 25 f. 18r-v

      Copy.

      First published, as Arion to a Dolphin, On his Majesty's passage into England, in Poems (1664), pp. 5-9. Poems (1667), pp. 3-5. Saintsbury, pp. 508-9. Thomas, I, 71-3, poem 3.

      Katherine Philips, Arion on a Dolphin to his Majestie in his passadge into England ('Whom doth this stately navy bring?')
    • PsK 265 f. 19r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.

      Katherine Philips, On the faire weather at the Coronacon ('So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms')
    • PsK 481 f. 19r-v

      Copy.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1662). Poems (1664), pp. 10-13. Poems (1667), pp. 5-7. Saintsbury, pp. 509-10. Thomas, I, 74-5, poem 5.

      Two known exempla of the broadside at Harvard (*pEB65 A100 662t) and at Worcester College, Oxford. Discussed, with a facsimile of the Harvard exemplum, in Elizabeth H. Hageman, The false printed Broadside of Katherine Philips's To the Queens Majesty on her Happy Arrival, The Library, 6th Ser. 17/4 (December 1995), 321-6. The Worcester College exemplum is illustrated in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), p. 158.

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen on her arrivall at Portsmouth. May. 1662 ('Now that the seas and winds so kind are growne')
    • PsK 485 f. 20r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 13-16. Poems (1667), pp. 7-8. Saintsbury, pp. 510-11. Thomas, I, 75-7, poem 6.

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen's majesty, Jan. 1. 1660/1 ('You justly may forsake a land which you')
    • PsK 305 ff. 20v-1r

      Copy, headed Vpon the Princess Royal her Return into England.

      First published, as Upon the Princess Royal her Return into England, in Poems (1664), pp. 16-18. Poems (1667), pp. 8-9. Saintsbury, pp. 511-12. Thomas, I, 77-8, poem 7.

      Katherine Philips, The Princess royall's Returne into England ('Welcome sure pledge of reconciled powers')
    • PsK 255 f. 21r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 18-22. Poems (1667), pp. 9-11. Saintsbury, pp. 512-13. Thomas, I, 78-9, poem 8.

      Katherine Philips, On the death of the Duke of Gloucester ('Great Gloucester's dead, and yet in this we must')
    • PsK 363 f. 22r

      Copy, headed To Her Royall Highness the Dutchess of York, on her commanding me to send her some things that I had written.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 22-4. Poems (1667), pp. 11-12. Saintsbury, pp. 513-14. Thomas, I, 80, poem 9.

      Katherine Philips, To her royall highnesse, the Dutchesse of Yorke, on her command to send her some things I had wrote ('To you, whose dignitie strikes us with awe')
    • PsK 259 ff. 22v-3r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 24-7. Poems (1667), pp. 12-13. Saintsbury, pp. 514-15. Thomas, I, 81-2, poem 10.

      Katherine Philips, On the death of the Queen of Bohemia ('Although the most do with officious heat')
    • PsK 279 f. 23r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 27-9. Poems (1667), pp. 13-14. Saintsbury, p. 515. Hageman (1987), pp. 585-6. Thomas, I, 82-3, poem 11.

      Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 ('As when the Glorious Magazine of Light')
    • PsK 472 ff. 23v-4r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 29-31. Poems (1667), pp. 14-15. Saintsbury, pp. 515-16. Hageman (1987), pp. 586-7. Thomas, I, 83-4, poem 12.

      Katherine Philips, To the noble Palaemon on his incomparable discourse of Friendship ('We had been still undone, wrapt in disguise')
    • PsK 495 f. 24r-v

      Copy, headed To the Right Honourable Alice Countess of Carbury, at her coming into Wales.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 31-3. Poems (1667), pp. 16-17. Saintsbury, pp. 516-17. Thomas, I, 84-5, poem 13.

      Katherine Philips, To the Right Honobl. Alice, Countess of Carberry, at her enriching Wales with her presence ('Madam, / As when the first day dawn'd, man's greedy ey')
    • PsK 521 ff. 24v-5r

      Copy, with the preamble, headed To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomons Traffick to Ophir.

      First published, as To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomon's Traffick to Ophir, in Poems (1664), pp. 34-6. Poems (1667), pp. 17-18. Saintsbury, pp. 517-18. Thomas, I, 86-7, poem 14.

      Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Sir Ed: Dering (the worthy Silvander) on his dream, and navy ('Sir, to be noble, when 'twas voted down')
    • PsK 516 f. 25r-v

      Copy, headed To Mr. Henry Lawes.

      First published, as To the much honoured Mr. Henry Lawes, On his Excellent Compositions in Musick, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). As To Mr. Henry Lawes in Poems (1664), pp. 37-9. Poems (1667), pp. 18-19. Saintsbury, pp. 518-19. Hageman (1987), pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 87-8, poem 15.

      Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Mr Henry Lawes ('Nature, which is the vast creation's soule')
    • PsK 330 f. 26r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 39-42. Poems (1667), pp. 19-21. Saintsbury, pp. 519-20. Thomas, I, 88-90, poem 16.

      Katherine Philips, A sea voyage from tenby to Bristoll, 5 of September 1652. Sent to Lucasia 8th September 1652 ('Hoise up the saile, cry'd they who understand')
    • PsK 114 ff. 26v-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Poems (1664), pp. 43-5. Poems (1667), pp. 21-2. Saintsbury, p. 520. Hageman (1987), pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 90-1, poem 17.

      Katherine Philips, Friendship's Mysterys, to my dearest Lucasia. (set by Mr. H. Lawes.) ('Come, my Lucasia, since we see')
    • PsK 33 ff. 27r-8r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 45-50. Poems (1667), pp. 22-5. Saintsbury, pp. 520-2. Thomas, I, 91-4, poem 18.

      Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia ('Content, the false world's best disguise')
    • PsK 61 f. 28v

      Copy, headed A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda, Set by Mr. Hen. Lawes.

      First published, as A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda. Set by Mr. Hen. Lawes, in Poems (1664), pp. 50-2. Poems (1667), pp. 25-6. Saintsbury, p. 522. Hageman (1987), pp. 589-90. Thomas, I, 94-5, poem 19.

      Katherine Philips, A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda ('Say, my Orinda, why so sad?')
    • PsK 409 f. 29r

      Copy, headed To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her Marriage.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.

      Katherine Philips, To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her nuptialls ('We will not like those men our offerings pay')
    • PsK 376 f. 29v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 54-6. Poems (1667), pp. 27-8. Saintsbury, p. 523. Thomas, I, 96-7, poem 21.

      Katherine Philips, To Mr. Henry Vaughan, Silurist, on his Poems ('Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence')
    • PsK 312 f. 30r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 56-9. Poems (1667), pp. 28-9. Saintsbury, p. 524. Hageman (1987), pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 97-8, poem 22.

      Katherine Philips, A Retir'd friendship, to Ardelia. 23d Augo 1651 ('Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre')
    • PsK 397 ff. 30v-1

      Copy, headed To Mrs. Mary Carne, when Philaster courted her.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 59-61. Poems (1667), pp. 30-1. Saintsbury, pp. 524-5. Thomas, I, 99-100, poem 23.

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs M. Karne, when J. Jeffreys Esqre courted her ('As some great Conquerour, who knows no bounds')
    • PsK 381 f. 31r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 62-4. Poems (1667), pp. 31-2. Saintsbury, pp. 525-6. Thomas, I, 100-1, poem 24.

      Katherine Philips, To Mr. J.B. the noble Cratander, upon a composition of his, which he was not willing to own publiquely ('As when some Injur'd Prince assumes disguise')
    • PsK 464 f. 32r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 102-3. Poems (1667), pp. 32-3. Saintsbury, p. 526. Thomas, I, 101-2, poem 25.

      Katherine Philips, To the excellent Mrs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society 29 Decemb 1651 ('We are compleat. and faith hath now')
    • PsK 511 f. 32v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 93-4. Poems (1667), pp. 33-4. Saintsbury, pp. 526-7. Thomas, I, 102-3, poem 26.

      Katherine Philips, To the truly noble, and obleiging Mrs: Anne Owen (on my first approaches) ('As in a triumph conquerours admit')
    • PsK 214 f. 33r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 64-8. Poems (1667), pp. 34-5. Saintsbury, pp. 527-8. Thomas, I, 103-5, poem 27.

      Katherine Philips, Lucasia ('Not to obleige Lucasia by my voice')
    • PsK 562 f. 34r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 68-70. Poems (1667), p. 36. Saintsbury, p. 528. Thomas, I, 105-6, poem 28.

      Katherine Philips, Wiston=Vault ('And why this Vault and Tomb? alike we must')
    • PsK 109 ff. 34v-5v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 70-5. Poems (1667), pp. 36-9. Saintsbury, p. 529. Thomas, I, 106-8, poem 29.

      Katherine Philips, Friendship in Emblem, or the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia ('The hearts thus intermixed speak')
    • PsK 137 ff. 35v-7r

      Copy.

      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')
    • PsK 155 ff. 37r-8r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 81-7. Poems (1667), pp. 42-4. Saintsbury, pp. 531-3. Thomas, I, 111-14, poem 31.

      Katherine Philips, In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbighshire, who dy'd the 13th of November 1656, soon after she came thither from Pembrokeshire ('I cannot hold, for though to write be rude')
    • PsK 506 ff. 38v-9r

      Copy, the name in the title here given as J. J..

      First published, with J. Jones in the title, in Poems (1664), pp. 87-91. With J.J. in the title, in Poems (1667), pp. 45-6. Saintsbury, pp. 533-5. Thomas, I, 114-16, poem 32.

      Katherine Philips, To (the truly competent Judge of Honour) Lucasia, upon a scandalous libell made by J. Jones ('Honour, which differs man from man much more')
    • PsK 358 f. 39v

      Copy, headed To Antenor, on a Paper of mine which J.J. threatens to publish to prejudice him.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 91-2. Poems (1667), p. 47. Saintsbury, p. 535. Thomas, I, 116-17, poem 33.

      Katherine Philips, To Antenor, on a paper of mine wch J. Jones threatens to publish to his prejudice ('Must then my crimes become thy scandall too?')
    • PsK 318 ff. 40r-1r

      Copy, headed Rosania shadowed whilest Mrs. Mary Awbrey.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 94-9. Poems (1667), pp. 48-50. Saintsbury, pp. 535-7. Thomas, I, 117-20, poem 34.

      Katherine Philips, Rosania shaddow'd whilest Mrs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 ('If any could my dear Rosania hate')
    • PsK 477 f. 41r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 100-1. Poems (1667), pp. 50-1. Saintsbury, p. 537. Thomas, I, 120-1, poem 35.

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen of inconstancie, Regina, in Antwerp ('Unworthy, since thou hast decreed')
    • PsK 422 f. 41v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 104-5. Poems (1667), pp. 51-2. Saintsbury, p. 537. Hageman (1987), pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 121-2, poem 36 (dating the poem 1651).

      Katherine Philips, To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship. 17th. July 1651 ('I did not live untill this time')
    • PsK 325 f. 42r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 106-8. Poems (1667), pp. 52-3. Saintsbury, p. 538. Thomas, I, 122-3, poem 37.

      Katherine Philips, Rosania's privage marriage ('It was a wise and kind design of fagte')
    • PsK 165 ff. 42v-3r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.

      Katherine Philips, Injuria amici ('Lovely apostate! what was my offence?')
    • PsK 89 f. 43r-v

      Copy.

      First published, as To Regina Collier, on her Cruelty to Philaster, in Poems (1664), pp. 112-13. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, pp. 539-40. Hageman (1987), p. 594. Thomas, I, 125, poem 39.

      Katherine Philips, For Regina ('Triumphant Queen of scorne, how ill doth sit')
    • PsK 371 f. 43v

      Copy, headed To Philaster on his Melancholy for Regina.

      First published, as To Philaster, on his Melancholy for Regina, in Poems (1664), p. 113. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, p. 540. Hageman (1987), p. 595. Thomas, I, 126, poem 40.

      Katherine Philips, To J.J. esq: upon his melancholly for Regina ('Give over now thy teares, thou vain')
    • PsK 301 f. 43v

      Copy, headed Philoclea parting.

      First published, with the date Feb. 25. 1650, in Poems (1664), p. 114. Poems (1667), p. 56. Saintsbury, p. 540. Thomas, I, 126, poem 41.

      Katherine Philips, Philoclea's parting. Mrs M. Stedman. Feb: 25. 1650 ('Kinder then a condemned man's reprieve')
    • PsK 455 f. 44r-v

      Copy.

      First published, with the date Septemb. 25. 1652, in Poems (1664), pp. 115-18. Poems (1667), pp. 56-8. Saintsbury, pp. 540-1. Thomas, I, 127-8, poem 42.

      Katherine Philips, To Rosania (now Mrs Mountague) being with her, 25th September. 1652 ('As men that are with visions grac'd')
    • PsK 443 ff. 44v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 118-20. Poems (1667), pp. 58-9. Saintsbury, p. 541. Thomas, I, 128-9, poem 43.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia ('Let dull Philosophers enquire no more')
    • PsK 231 ff. 46r-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 120-4. Poems (1667), pp. 59-61. Saintsbury, pp. 542-3. Thomas, I, 130-2, poem 44.

      Katherine Philips, On Controversies in Religion ('Religion, which true policy befriends')
    • PsK 501 ff. 47r-9r

      Copy, headed To the Honoured Lady E.C..

      First published, as To the Honoured Lady E.C., in Poems (1664), pp. 124-33. Poems (1667), pp. 61-5. Saintsbury, pp. 543-6. Thomas, I, 132-6, poem 45.

      Katherine Philips, To the Rt Hono: the Lady E.C. ('Madam / I do not write to you that men may know')
    • PsK 293 f. 49r-v

      Copy, headed Parting with Lucasia, A Song.

      First published, with the date Jan 13. 1657, in Poems (1664), pp. 133-5. Poems (1667), pp. 65-6. Saintsbury, p. 546. Hageman (1987), pp. 595-6. Thomas, I, 136-7, poem 46.

      Katherine Philips, Parting with Lucasia 13th Janury 1657/8 A song ('Well! we will doe that rigid thing')
    • PsK 14 ff. 49v-50r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.

      Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by Dr Coleman ('There's no such thing as pleasure here')
    • PsK 120 ff. 50r-1r

      Copy, headed A Prayer and without the quotation from More.

      First published, untitled (but with quotation from Henry More), in Poems (1664), pp. 137-42. Poems (1667), pp. 68-9, as A Prayer. Saintsbury, pp. 547-8. Thomas, I, 138-41, poem 48.

      Katherine Philips, God ('Eternal reason! glorious majestie!')
    • PsK 387 f. 51r

      Copy, headed To Mris. M.A. upon Absence.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 142-4. Poems (1667), pp. 69-70. Saintsbury, p. 548. Thomas, I, 141-2, poem 49.

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs. M.A. upon absence (set by Mr Henry Law's) 12. Decemb 1650 (''Tis now since I began to dy')
    • PsK 209 f. 51v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), p. 144. Poems (1667), pp. 70-1. Saintsbury, pp. 548-9. Thomas, I, 142, poem 50.

      Katherine Philips, L'amitié: To Mrs. M. Awbrey. 6t Aprill 1651 ('Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!')
    • PsK 145 ff. 51v-2r

      Copy.

      First published, as To the Memory of the most Ingenious and Vertuous Gentleman Mr. Wil: Cartwright, my much valued Friend, in William Cartwright, Comedies, Tragi-Comedies with other Poems (London, 1651). Poems (1664), pp. 145-6. Poems (1667), p. 71. Saintsbury, p. 549. Thomas, I, 143, poem 51.

      Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mr Cartwright ('Stay, prince of Fancy, stay, we are not fit')
    • PsK 242 ff. 52r-3r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 146-50. Poems (1667), pp. 72-3. Saintsbury, pp. 549-50. Thomas, I, 143-5, poem 52.

      Katherine Philips, On Mr Francis Finch (the excellent Palemon) ('This is confest presumption. for had I')
    • PsK 392 ff. 53r-4r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 150-4. Poems (1667), pp. 74-6. Saintsbury, pp. 550-1. Thomas, I, 145-7, poem 53.

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting ('I have examin'd, and do find')
    • PsK 415 f. 54r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 155-7. Poems (1667), pp. 76-7. Saintsbury, pp. 551-2. Hageman (1987), pp. 596-7. Thomas, I, 148-9, poem 54.

      Katherine Philips, To my dearest Antenor on his parting ('Though it be Just to grieve when I must part')
    • PsK 70 f. 54v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, with the place in the title given as Bedlington, in Poems (1664), p. 157. Poems (1667), p. 77. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 55.

      Katherine Philips, Engraved on Mr. John Collyer's Tombstone at Beddington ('Here what remaines of him does ly')
    • PsK 237 f. 55r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), p. 158. Poems (1667), p. 78. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 56.

      Katherine Philips, On Little Regina Collyer, on the same tombstone ('Vertue's blossom, beauty's bud')
    • PsK 104 ff. 55r-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 158-61. Poems (1667), pp. 78-9. Saintsbury, pp. 552-3. Thomas, I, 150-1, poem 57.

      Katherine Philips, Friendship ('Let the dull brutish world that know not love')
    • PsK 287 ff. 84r-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 139-41. Saintsbury, pp. 585-7. Thomas, I, 211-13, poem 93.

      Katherine Philips, Orinda to Lucasia parting, October 1661. at London ('Adieu, dear Object of my Love's excess')
    • PsK 74 f. 56r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 162-5. Poems (1667), pp. 80-1. Saintsbury, pp. 553-4. Thomas, I, 151-3, poem 58.

      Katherine Philips, The Enquiry ('If we no old historian's name')
    • PsK 448 ff. 57r-8r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 165-71. Poems (1667), pp. 82-5. Saintsbury, pp. 554-6. Thomas, I, 153-6, poem 59.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia, in defence of declared friendship ('O! my Lucasia, let us speak our Love')
    • PsK 182 ff. 58v-9v

      Copy.

      First published, as La Grandeur d'esprit, in Poems (1664), pp. 171-6. in Poems (1667), pp. 86-8, as A Resvery. Saintsbury, pp. 556-8. Thomas, I, 157-9, poem 60.

      Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit ('A chosen privacy, a cheap content')
    • PsK 42 ff. 60r-1r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).

      Katherine Philips, A Countrey life ('How sacred and how innocent')
    • PsK 403 ff. 61r-2r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 182-4. Poems (1667), pp. 91-2. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 162-3, poem 62.

      Katherine Philips, To Mrs Wogan, my honour'd friend, on the Death of her husband ('Dry up your teares, there's ennow shed by you')
    • PsK 160 ff. 62r-3r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 185-8. Poems (1667), pp. 92-4. Saintsbury, pp. 559-61. Thomas, I, 163-5, poem 63.

      Katherine Philips, In memory of the most Justly honour'd Mrs Owen of Orielton ('As when the ancient world by reason Liv'd')
    • PsK 96 ff. 63r-4v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.

      Katherine Philips, A Friend ('Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule')
    • PsK 203 ff. 64v-6v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 195-203. Poems (1667), pp. 98-103. Saintsbury, pp. 563-4. Thomas, I, 169-73, poem 65.

      Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien ('Order, by which all things were made')
    • PsK 170 ff. 66v-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 203-6. Poems (1667), pp. 103-4. Saintsbury, pp. 564-5. Thomas, I, 173-5, poem 66.

      Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey ('Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true')
    • PsK 150 ff. 67r-8r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 206-9. Poems (1667), pp. 104-6. Saintsbury, pp. 565-6. Thomas, I, 175-6, poem 67.

      Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mrs. E. Hering ('As some choice Plant, cherish'd by sun and aire')
    • PsK 244 f. 68r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 106. Saintsbury, pp. 566-7. Thomas, I, 176-7, poem 68. Kissing the Rod, pp. 194-5.

      Katherine Philips, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship ('Great Soul of Friendship, wither art thou fled?')
    • PsK 426 f. 68v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 107. Saintsbury, p. 567. Thomas, I, 177-8, poem 69.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lady Elizabeth Boyle, Singing — Since affairs of the State &ca. ('Subduing Fayre! what will you win')
    • PsK 350 ff. 69r-70r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 209-13. Poems (1667), pp. 108-10. Saintsbury, pp. 567-9. Thomas, I, 178-81, poem 70.

      Katherine Philips, Submission (''Tis so. and humbly I my will resign')
    • PsK 530 f. 70r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 214-16. Poems (1667), pp. 110-11. Saintsbury, p. 569. Thomas, I, 181-2, poem 71.

      Katherine Philips, 2 Corinth. 5. 19. v. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 8to Aprilis 1653 ('When God, contracted to humanity')
    • PsK 570 ff. 70v-2r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

      Katherine Philips, The World ('Wee falsly think it due unto our friends')
    • PsK 342 ff. 72r-3v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

      Katherine Philips, The Soule ('How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part')
    • PsK 128 ff. 73v-4v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.

      Katherine Philips, Happyness ('Nature courts happiness, although it be')
    • PsK 55 ff. 74v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 232-4. Poems (1667), pp. 119-20. Saintsbury, p. 574. Thomas, I, 190-1, poem 75.

      Katherine Philips, Death ('How weak a Star doth rule mankind')
    • PsK 487 f. 75r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 234-6. Poems (1667), pp. 121-2. Saintsbury, pp. 574-5. Thomas, I, 191-2, poem 76.

      Katherine Philips, To the Queen's Majesty, on her late Sickness and Recovery ('The publick Gladness that's to us restor'd')
    • PsK 223 ff. 75v-7r

      Copy, headed Vpon Mr. Abraham Cowley's retirement. Ode.

      First published, as Ode. On Retirement, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), pp. 45-8 [apparently unique extant exemplum Folger C6681.5]. as Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode in Poems (1664), pp. 237-42. Poems (1667), pp. 122-4. Saintsbury, pp. 575-7. Thomas, I, 193-5, poem 77.

      Katherine Philips, An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject ('No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast')
    • PsK 174 f. 77r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), p. 54 [apparently unique extant exemplar Folger, C6681.5]. Poems (1667), p. 125. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 195-6, poem 78.

      Katherine Philips, The Irish Greyhound ('Behold this Creature's Form and state')
    • PsK 333 f. 77v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 126. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 196-7, poem 79.

      Katherine Philips, Song, to the tune of, Sommes nous pas trop heureux ('How prodigious is my Fate')
    • PsK 63 f. 78r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 126-7. Saintsbury, pp. 577-8. Thomas, I, 197-8, poem 80.

      Katherine Philips, A Dialogue Betwixt Lucasia & Rosania, Imitating that of Gentle Thirsis ('My Lucasia, leave the Mountain tops')
    • PsK 435 f. 78v

      Copy, headed Song to the tune of Adieu Phillis.

      First published, as Song to the Tune of Adieu Phillis, in Poems (1667), p. 127. Saintsbury, p. 578. Thomas, I, 198, poem 81.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lord Biron's tune of — Adieu Phillis ('Tis true, our life is but a long disease')
    • PsK 80 ff. 78v-9r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 128-9. Saintsbury, pp. 578-9. Thomas, I, 198-9, poem 82.

      Katherine Philips, Epitaph. On my honour'd Mother in Law: Mrs Phillips of Portheynon in Cardiganshire, who dy'd. Jan: 1st. A°: 1662/3 ('Reader, stay, it is but Just')
    • PsK 217 f. 79r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 129-30. Saintsbury, p. 579. Thomas, I, 200-1, poem 83.

      Katherine Philips, Lucasia, Rosania, and Orinda parting at a Fountain. July 1663. ('Here, here are our enjoyments done')
    • PsK 83 f. 79v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 201, poem 84.

      Katherine Philips, A Farwell to Rosania ('My Dear Rosania, sometimes be so kind')
    • PsK 424 ff. 79v-80r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130-1. Saintsbury, pp. 579-80. Thomas, I, 201-2, poem 85.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lady Ann Boyle's saying I look'd angrily upon her ('Ador'd Valeria, and can you conclude')
    • PsK 283 f. 80r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 131-2. Saintsbury, pp. 580-1. Thomas, I, 202-3, poem 86.

      Katherine Philips, On the Welch Language ('If honour to an ancient name be due')
    • PsK 459 ff. 80v-1v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 132-4. Saintsbury, pp. 581-2. Thomas, I, 203-5, poem 87.

      Katherine Philips, To the Countess of Thanet, upon her Marriage ('Since you who Credit to all wonders bring')
    • PsK 77 f. 81v

      Copy.

      First published, as Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred, in Poems (1667), p. 134. Saintsbury, p. 582. Hageman (1987), pp. 598-9. Thomas, I, 205, poem 88.

      Katherine Philips, Epitaph. On Hector Phillips at St Sith's Church ('What on Earth deserves our Trust?')
    • PsK 251 f. 82r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 135-6. Saintsbury, pp. 582-3. Thomas, I, 206-7, poem 89.

      Katherine Philips, On the Death of my Lord Rich, Only Son to the Earle of Warwick, who dy'd of the Small Pox. 1664 ('Have not so many precious lives of late')
    • PsK 547 f. 82v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

      Katherine Philips, The Virgin ('The things that make a Virgin please')
    • PsK 538 f. 83r

      Copy, headed Vpon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks.

      First published, as Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks, in Poems (1667), p. 137. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 208, poem 91. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII, ed. W. Barclay Squire and J.A. Fuller-Maitland (London, 1922), pp. 153-4.

      Katherine Philips, Upon the engraving. K:P: on a Tree in the short walke at Barn=Elms ('Alass! how barbarous are we')
    • PsK 416 ff. 83r-4r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 137-9. Saintsbury, pp. 584-5. Thomas, I, 208-10, poem 92.

      Katherine Philips, To my dearest friend, her greatest loss, which she suffer'd the 27th. Decemb: 1655 ('As when two sister rivelets, who crept')
    • PsK 268 f. 85r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 141-2. Saintsbury, p. 587. Thomas, I, 213, poem 94.

      Katherine Philips, On the 1. January 1657 ('Th' Eternal Centre of my life and me')
    • PsK 427 ff. 85v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 142. Saintsbury, p. 587. Thomas, I, 213-14, poem 95.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lady M. Cavendish, chosing the name of Policrite ('That Nature in your frame has taken care')
    • PsK 4 f. 86r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.

      Katherine Philips, Against Love ('Hence, Cupid! with your cheating Toies')
    • PsK 64 f. 86r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 143-4. Saintsbury, p. 588. Thomas, I, 215-16, poem 97.

      Katherine Philips, A Dialogue of Friendship multiplyed ('Will you unto one single sense')
    • PsK 320 ff. 86v-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 144-5. Saintsbury, pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 216-17, poem 98.

      Katherine Philips, Rosania to Lucasia on her Letters ('Ah! strike outright, or else forbear')
    • PsK 404 f. 87r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 145-6. Saintsbury, p. 589. Kissing the Rod, pp. 200-1. Thomas, I, 217-18, poem 99.

      Katherine Philips, To my Antenor, March 16. 1661/2 ('My dear Antenor, now give o're')
    • PsK 524 ff. 87v-8r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 146-8. Saintsbury, pp. 589-90. Thomas, I, 218-19, poem 100.

      Katherine Philips, A Triton to Lucasia going to Sea, shortly after the Queen's arrival ('My Master Neptune took such pains of late')
    • PsK 248 f. 88r-v

      Copy, headed Orinda upon little Hector Philips.

      First published, as Orinda upon little Hector Philips, in Poems (1667), pp. 148-9. Saintsbury, pp. 590-1. Hageman (1987), p. 599. Thomas, I, 220, poem 101.

      Katherine Philips, On the death of my first and dearest childe, Hector Philipps, borne the 23d of Aprill, and dy'd the 2d of May 1655, set by Mr Lawes ('Twice Forty moneths in wedlock I did stay')
    • PsK 465 ff. 88v-9r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 149-50. Saintsbury, p. 591. Thomas, I, 221-3, poem 102.

      Katherine Philips, To the Lady E. Boyl ('Ah lovely Celimena! why')
    • PsK 438 f. 89r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 150-1. Saintsbury, pp. 591-2. Thomas, I, 222-3, poem 103.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the discovery of the late Plot ('Though you (Great Sir) be Heaven's immediate Care')
    • PsK 457 ff. 89v-90r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 151-2. Saintsbury, p. 592. Thomas, I, 223-4, poem 104.

      Katherine Philips, To the Countess of Roscommon, with a Copy of Pompey ('Great Pompey's Fame from Egypt made escape')
    • PsK 261 ff. 90r-1r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 152-3. Saintsbury, pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 224-5, poem 105.

      Katherine Philips, On the death of the truly honourable Sir Walter Lloid Knight ('At Obsequies where so much grief is due')
    • PsK 285 f. 91r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 153-4. Saintsbury, pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 226, poem 106.

      Katherine Philips, Orinda to Lucasia ('Observe the weary birds e're night be done')
    • PsK 359 f. 91r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 154. Saintsbury, p. 594. Thomas, I, 227, poem 107.

      Katherine Philips, To Celimena ('Forbear, fond heart (say I) torment no more')
    • PsK 19 f. 91v

      Copy.

      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')
    • PsK 215 ff. 91v-2r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 156. Saintsbury, pp. 594-5. Thomas, I, 228, poem 109.

      Katherine Philips, Lucasia and Orinda parting with Pastora and Phillis at Ipswich ('In your converse we best can read')
    • PsK 81 f. 92r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 156-7. Saintsbury, p. 595. Thomas, I, 229-30, poem 110.

      Katherine Philips, Epitaph on my truly honoured Publius Scipio ('To the officious Marble we commit')
    • PsK 382 ff. 92v-3r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 158-9. Saintsbury, p. 596. Thomas, I, 230-1, poem 111.

      Katherine Philips, To Mr. Sam Cooper, having taken Lucasia's Picture given December 14. 1660 ('If noble things can noble thoughts infuse')
    • PsK 288 ff. 93r-4r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 159-61. Saintsbury, pp. 596-7. Thomas, I, 231-3, poem 112.

      Katherine Philips, Parting with a Friend ('Whoever thinks that Joyes below')
    • PsK 417 f. 94r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 161-3. Saintsbury, pp. 597-8. Thomas, I, 233-5, poem 113.

      Katherine Philips, To my dearest Friend, upon her shunning Grandeur ('Shine out, rich Soul! to greatness be')
    • PsK 449 f. 95r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 163-5. Saintsbury, p. 598. Thomas, I, 235-7, poem 114.

      Katherine Philips, To Pastora being with her Friend ('While you the double joy obtain')
    • PsK 428 ff. 95v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 165-6. Saintsbury, pp. 599-600. Thomas, I, 237-9, poem 115.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lord and Lady Dungannon on their Marriage 11. May 1662 ('To you, who, in your selves, do comprehend')
    • PsK 430 ff. 96v-7r

      Copy.

      First published, as To his Grace Gilbert Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, July 10. 1664, in Poems (1667), pp. 166-8. Saintsbury, pp. 600-1. Thomas, I, 239-40, poem 116.

      Katherine Philips, To my Lord Arch:Bishop of Canterbury his Grace 1664 ('That private shade, wherein my Muse was bred')
    • PsK 187 ff. 98v-105r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 170-83. Saintsbury, pp. 601-4. Thomas, III, 94-102.

      A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris…The First Book (London, 1687), p. 18. The Theater of Music…The Fourth and Last Book (London, 1687), p. 57. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV, ed. Arthur Somervell (London, 1928), pp. 137-40; revised edition, ed. Margaret Laurie (1985), pp. 75-9.

      Katherine Philips, La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished ('O! Solitude my sweetest choice')
    • PsK 18 f. 105v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 184. Saintsbury, p. 604. Thomas, III, 93.

      Katherine Philips, Amanti ch'in pianti &c. ('Lovers who in complaints your selves consume')
    • PsK 353 f. 105v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), p. 184. Saintsbury, p. 604. Thomas, III, 92.

      Katherine Philips, Tendres desers out of a French prose ('Go soft desires, Love's gentle Progeny')
    • PsK 295 ff. 105v-11v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 184-96. Saintsbury, pp. 604-9. Thomas, III, 102-16.

      Katherine Philips, A Pastoral of Mons. de Scudery's in the first volume of Almahide, Englished ('Slothful deceiver, come away')
    • PsK 523 ff. 111v-12v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 196-8. Saintsbury, pp. 609-10. Thomas, III, 116-18.

      Katherine Philips, Translation of Thomas a Kempis into Verse, out of Mons. Corneille's lib. 3. Cap. 2. Englished ('Speak, Gracious Lord, thy servant hears')
    • PsK 577 ff. 113r-44v

      Copy, complete with title-page, preliminaries, Dramatis Personae, Prologue and Epilogue.

      Translated from Pierre Corneille's La Mort de Pompée. Tragédie (Paris, 1644). First published in Dublin, 1663. London, 1663. Poems (1667). Thomas, III, 1-91.

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy
    • PsK 497 f. 114r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Pompey (London, 1667). Thomas, I, 241-2, poem 117.

      Katherine Philips, To the Right Honourable the Countess of Cork ('Madam, / As some untimely Flower, whose bashful head')
    • PsK 574 ff. 145r-70r

      Copy.

      Translated from Pierre Corneille's Horace. Tragédie (Paris, 1641). First published (unfinished) with Poems (London, 1667). Sir John Denham's translation of the end of the Fourth Act and the Fifth Act added in Poems (London, 1669). Thomas, III, 119-81 (Philips's text), 247-59 (Denham's text).

      Katherine Philips, Horace. A Tragedy. Translated from Monsieur Corneille

  • MS V.b.233

    A tall folio comprising dramatic works by the Earl of Rochester, in a cursive rounded hand, with occasional corrections possibly in another hand, ii + 56 folio leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Late 17th century.

    Inscribed (f. [iir] M Portman. Bookplate of Henry Seymour Esqr. Possibly this MS or RoJ 645 the MS of Lord Rochester's Lucina's Rape, or the Tragedy of Valentinian offered in Thomas and John Egerton's Catalogue of Books comprising Several Libraries lately purchased, Military Library, Whitehall (1792), item 1421. Similarly either this volume or British Library Add. MS 28692 offered in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of books, manuscripts and autograph letters [June 1848], p. 34.

    • RoJ 646 ff. [1r-52r]

      Copy of an early version, with a title-page Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Valentinian, By the Earle of Rochester added afterwards.

      This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, loc. cit., pp. 183-4.

      The first recorded performance was at Court, 11 February 1683/4. First published in London, 1685. Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 161-238. Love, pp. 133-231, as Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, with (pp. 232-40) [A Mask for the Tragedy of Valentinian] [by Sir Francis Fane].

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Valentinian, or Lucina's Rape
    • RoJ 635 ff. [53r-6v]

      Copy, headed A Scæn of Sr Robert Howards Play, Written by the Earle of Rochester.

      This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, loc. cit., pp. 183-4.

      A scene for Howard's play The Conquest of China by the Tartars. First published in Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 239-47. Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1964), pp. 61-9. Love, pp. 124-32. See also Allardyce Nicoll, Dryden, Howard and Rochester, TLS (13 January 1921), 27; J. Harold Wilson, The Dating of Rochester's Scaen, RES, 13 (1937), 455-8; and Jeremy Treglown, The Dating of Rochester's Scaen, RES, NS 30 (1979), 434-6.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Scaen of Sir Robert Howard's Play

  • MS V.b.234

    A folio volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 1050 pages (plus a 24-page Tabula of contents at the end), in calf.

    c.1630s.

    Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

    • LyJ 32 pp. 32-4

      Copy, headed A Petitionarie Letter from John Lillie to Queene Elizabeth.

      Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yor Highnes wth many wordes.... Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

      John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
    • LyJ 54 pp. 34-6

      Copy, headed Another Letter to Queene Elizabeth from John Lillie.

      Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme.... Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

      John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
    • BcF 621 pp. 88-113, 222-4, 237-97, 696-9

      Copy of numerous letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Cecil, Northumberland, John Davies, James I, Edward Coke, Tobie Mathew, and others.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 188 pp. 113-29

      Copy, subscribed ffrancis Bacon.

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

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
    • BcF 480 pp. 297-305

      Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621.

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

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • RaW 943 pp. 649-86

      Copy of letters by Ralegh to his wife, Winwood, James I, and Sir Robert Carr.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 65 p. 675

      Copy, headed Verses found in Sr Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gate house.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

      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'
    • BcF 135.8 p. 718 et seq.

      Copy of the letter on the Queen's religious policies.

      A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels.... First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

      A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, A Letter on the Queen's religious policies, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

      Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
    • AndL 78 pp. 838-9

      Copy of Andrewes's letter to the Archdeacon, 15 August 1622.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)
    • HlJ 24.2 pp. 954-6

      Copy, headed Doctor Josua Hall Bpp: of Excetter his letter to the lower hous of Parliament, the name Josua corrected to Joseph in another hand.

      Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.

      Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
    • SpE 81 p. 961-88

      Copy, headed Sr Kenolme Digby to Sr Ed: Stradling... [etc.], subscribed Kellam Digbie.

      First published in London, 1643; the text is printed in Variorum, II, 472-8.

      One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities.... First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.

      Edmund Spenser, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on the 22 Stanza in the 9th. Canto of the 2d. book of Spensers Faery Queen

  • MS V.b.235

    A composite folio volume of verse and drama, in different hands, 99 leaves, in modern black morocco elaborately gilt.

    Comprising principally (ff. 1r-73r) works by William Basse (1653), in italic hands.

    Once owned by the Rev Mr Payne, Prebendary of Wells, who showed it to Thomas Warton (1728-90), poet and historian. Also variously owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector; Corser sale, sold to F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector, who showed it to John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 83, to Ellis. In the Rowfant Library of Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-95), poet. Also owned by William Keeney Bixby (1857-1931), American industrialist and collector, and by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector (inscription 1 May 1911). Inscribed (f. 77v) With W Luptons kindest wishes to T J Pettigrew Esqre. Item 89 in an unidentified American sale catalogue (?Rosenbach). Formerly Folger MS 421118.2.

    • DrJ 291 pp. 78-98

      Copy, in a professional mixed hand, headed The fall of Angells or Man in innocency, unascribed.

      First published in London, 1677. Scott-Saintsbury, V, 93-178. See Vinton A. Dearing, Textual Analysis of Dryden's State of Innocence, TEXT, 2 (1985), 12-23.

      John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man

  • MS V.b.240

    Copy of part of Act III, sc.v, and Act IV, sc. i-v, in a single hand, on eight folio leaves, written to supply the missing text in a promptbook prepared for use by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, in half morocco on marbled boards.

    For the rest of the promptbook (part of a Third Folio) see Folger PROMPT 3d Folio M.W. Smock Alley (ShW 64.8).

    c.1670s-1700s.

    Recorded in Shattuck, p. 303 (No. 3).

    • ShW 65
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1602.

      William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

  • MS V.b.276

    Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, as written in the Toure of Londo by Sr walter Raulegh...in ano. 1610, 52 folio leaves, disbound.

    c.1620.

    Sotheby's, 2 March 1965, lot 311, to Dawson. Formerly Folger MS Add. 447.

    • RaW 590
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • MS V.b.280

    The lute book of John Dowland, partly in his hand, 34 leaves.

    c.1600.

    A facsimile edition of this volume published as The Folger Dowland Manuscript, intro. Ian Harwood (Lute Society, 2003).

    • EsR 97 f. 16r

      Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by John Dowland.

      First published in John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597). Discussed and attribution to Essex rejected in May, Poems, pp. 114-15. EV 4476.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, 'Can she excuse my wrongs with vertues cloake'

  • MS V.b.284

    A folio commonplace book of extracts, in a small predominantly italic hand, 174 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1660.

    Numerous names inscribed on the front pastedown and f. 2r, including This was Mr Jno White's, John Lambert and Elinor Corneforth married the 22 June. 1659, Jane Todd Maij 13. 1655, and members of the Jackson and Johnson families. Bookplate of John Towlerton Leather (1804-85), hydraulic engineer, inscribed Ex libris Brent Maxfield.

    • TaJ 25 ff. 148r-55v

      Extracts, headed Jer: Taylor. holie living.

      First published in London, 1650.

      Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
    • TaJ 21 ff. 156r-65v

      Extracts, headed The great exemplar.

      First published in London, 1649.

      Jeremy Taylor, The Great Exemplar
    • TaJ 32 ff. 166r-9r

      Extracts, headed Vnum mecessarium, or the doctrine and practise of repentance. By Jer: Taylor.

      First published in London, 1655.

      Jeremy Taylor, Unum Necessarium

  • MS V.b.296

    A folio memorandum book, in English and Latin, entitled (p. 1) A book of Divers necessary remembraunces, in various hands, 376 pages (including many blanks, a few leaves detached), in a wallet binding of embossed leather, straps and one remaining buckle.

    Compiled over a period by Richard Dering (d.1612), of Surrenden, Kent, his son Anthony (1558-1635), and his grandson Sir Edward Dering (1598-1644).

    c.1603-44.

    Formerly Folger MS Add. 450.

    • WoH 35 p. 342

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed H. W.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

      Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')

  • MS V.b.299

    A large folio volume, containing a large collection of pedigrees and arms of noble families, in several hands, with later 19th-century notes, c.350 pages (plus two indexes), in contemporary calf.

    With a title-page: Illorum Magnatum stemata quorum hæreditas, deficientibus masculis, as feminas deuoluta est.

    c.1610.

    Inscribed (on front pastedown) as Ex Bibl... 1838 of William Morton Pitt, MP (1754-1836), of Kingston House, Dorset. Phillipps MS 7437. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 41, to Myers. Formerly Folger MS Add. 469.

    A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 26).

    • *CmW 158 passim
      Autograph

      Various coats of arms and pedigrees in Camden's hand or annotated by him.

      William Camden, Collectanea

  • MS V.b.303

    A folio volume of state tracts, in several secretary hands, with a title-page A manuscript containing seuerall Discourses the heades thereof are in the next Page following...1641, 350 pages, in half calf marbled boards.

    c.1642.

    Bookplate of the Honourable Frederic North. Phillipps MS 7511. Sotheby's, 26 June 1967, lot 596 (incorrectly described as a commonplace book of Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons (d.1634)). Formerly Folger MS Add. 538.

    A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 154).

    • BcF 623 p. 220

      Copy of a letter by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • RaW 944 p. 229

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, [24 September 1618].

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 66 p. 229

      Copy, headed The wourdes vnderwritten he wrote the nighte before he suffred.

      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 731 pp. 229-30

      Copy, headed Thes wordes following he put into his Ladyes pocket the night before he suffered. and charged hir not to publish them till he was dead.

      Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley.... First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note
    • MoG 31 p. 261

      Copy, headed In obitu Regis Jacobi, here beginning All who haue eyes nowe waile and weepe, a partly deleted inscription in the margin at the top: Sir Thurston Smyth scripsit.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep')
    • RaW 782 pp. 271-5

      Copy, headed Sr Walther Rawleigh's speech a little before his execution beinge the 19th of October 1618.

      A facsimile of p. 271 in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2008), p. 37.

      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 V.b.310

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, including (ff. 7v-15v) The Answer by the Committees, on fifteen folio leaves, in old calf.

    Headed A Discovrse Pronounced by Sr: Robert Cotton Knight & Baronet, before the Lords...secundo die Mensis Septembris...Annoque Dni 1626 & sithence by him reduced into Writing.

    c.1630.

    Inscribed Mary Arms Edmonds, New York, 1936.

    • CtR 455
      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]

  • MA V.b.312

    A tall folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, including pedigrees, coats of arms drawn in trick, and other heraldic, historical and genealogical notes, in various hands, c.88 pages (plus blanks), in Middle Hill boards.

    Late 16th-early 17th century.

    Once owned by the St George Family of heralds. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 166832. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 42, to Jantzen. Formerly Folger MS Add. 576.

    A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 438).

    • *CmW 159 passim
      Autograph

      Various genealogical and heraldic papers of Camden, a number autograph.

      William Camden, Collectanea

  • MS V.b.314

    Copy of Earle's translation into Latin of the Preface and Books I-V of Hooker's Polity, almost entirely in a single cursive italic hand, lacking a general title, 224 folio leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1650s-60s.

    This MS recorded by W. Speed Hill in TLS (31 January 1975), p. 112.

  • MS V.b.317

    A large folio volume of state tracts, speeches and letters, in a single professional secretary hand, 93 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt.

    Late 16th century.

    Inscribed This Manuscript was in ye Library at ye late Mr Pitts at Kingston, in Dorsetshire, it was bought at his sale by Mr Rodd ye bookseller, from whom I had it in 1838. Ev: M: Shirley. Bookplate of Evelyn Philip Shirley, being MS 9 of the Shirley family library at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 31 January 1956, lot 407. Sold by John F. Fleming (1910-87), New York bookseller, in April 1975. Formerly Folger MS Add. 670.

    Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 00.

    • ElQ 20 f. 20v

      Copy, in triple columns, headed Verses made by the Q. Maiestie and here beginning The doubt of future foes, subscribed Viuat Regina.

      Edited from this MS in Collected Works, in Selected Works, and in Steven W. May, Queen Elizabeth's Future Foes: Editing Manuscripts with the First-Line Index of Elizabethan Verse (a Future Friend), in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 1-12.

      A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

      Queen Elizabeth I, 'The doubt of future foes'

  • MS V.b.320

    Copy, in a neat secretary hand, on nineteen folio leaves, in quarter crushed morocco on boards.

    Headed A Private Shewe presented on a Fast night to the Seniours and fellowes of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge the Custome of it being laid downe before for the space of seaven yeares in respect the fellowes had found themselues agreeved at it for theire abuse, and now againe revived by one Randolphe, one of the Schollers of the same house.

    c. late 1620s.

    Sotheby's, 25 July 1978, lot 430. Formerly Folger MS Add. 753.

    Facsimile of f. 1r in Jean Preston and Laetitia Yeandle, English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual (Binghamton, NY, 1992), No. 30, p. 95.

    • RnT 421
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 1-34.

      Thomas Randolph, Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher

  • MS V.b.331

    A folio commonplace book of extracts and private journal, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 46 leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Compiled by Sir William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes House, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1631-44.
    • BcF 201.2 f. 26r-v

      Extracts, headed Out of a Discourse vppon the Commission of Bridewell and beginning The law is that of any Charter that if any Charter be granted by the king....

      A tract beginning Inter magnalia regni, amongst the greatest and most haughty things of this kingdom.... First published in Briefe Collections out of Magna Charta (London, 1643) [Wing B4557]. Spedding, VII, 505-16.

      Francis Bacon, Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell

  • MS V.b.338

    A folio volume comprising two tracts relating to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, in a professional hand, 259 pages, in modern red cloth.

    Late 17th century.

    Formerly in the Stoke-on-Trent City Libraries, Horace Barks Reference Library. Acquired from Mark Sieling in 2008. Formerly Folger MS Add. 264552.

    • ClE 67 pp. 1-42

      Copy.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours agst Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663
    • ClE 113.5 pp. 1-217 (second series)

      Copy.

      Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

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

  • MS V.b.355

    Copy, in a single professional hand, with a title-page The Tragedie of Mustapha By the Earle of Orrery, on 126 folio pages, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Late 17th century.

    Acquired from Hotmann & Freeman, October 1974. Formerly MS Add. 650.

    • OrR 28
      No description or publication history available.

      First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

  • MS V.b.360

    A double-folio-size scrapbook of miscellaneous MSS and prints, 147 pages, in 19th-century half-morocco.

    Bookplates of H. Rushton Barnes and of Captain Arthur C. Crawford of Cartsburn. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 12-13 June 2003, lot 589. Formerly MS Add. 1246.

    A set of photocopies of this collection is in the British Library, RP 8302.

    • DrW 117.31 pp. 132-3

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Quinque sensus, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page Quinque Sensus. Verses to the Kinge and on the Kinge, once folded as a letter or packet, frayed.

      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')

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