A medieval MS, inscribed (f. 1r) Liber Willi: Browne. 1612
.
Edwards, No. 16.
Copy, with other tracts, in an octavo volume.
Late 16th century?.Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 184.
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.
A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands.
Owned in 1704 by Sir Thomas Thynne, first Viscount Weymouth (1640-1714).
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 184.
Copy.
Copy, subscribed Sr. Charles Sidley Barrt.
and dated 1695, on 33 folio pages.
This MS recorded in HMC, 3rd report (1872), Appendix, p. 184, and in Sola Pinto, Life, p. 303.
Unpublished tract beginning The present Necessity of raising vast and unpresidented Sumes of Money...
.
A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands.
Copy.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 185.
A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...
. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
A folio volume comprising a journal of the embassy to Sweden in 1653-4 by Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-75), lawyer and politician, with related documents, partly in his hand, partly in several other hands.
c.1654.Copy, in a formal italic hand, headed Anglo suo Marvellius
, on four folio pages.
This MS edited, reproduced in facsimile, and discussed in Edward Holberton, The Textual Transmission of Marvell's A Letter to Doctor Ingelo: The Longleat Manuscript, EMS, 12 (2005), 233-53.
First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 104-7. Lord, pp. 240-3 (with translation pp. 243-7). Smith, pp. 261-4, with English translation (pp. 265-6).
A version of lines 1-70, with an additional unknown couplet, as copied by Jean Scheffer (1621-79) from Marvell's original Letter
(a copy owned in 1751 by Jean Etienne Bernard (1718-93)), was printed in Jean Arckenholtz, Memoires concernant Christine, reine de Suede (Amsterdam, 1751-60), II, Appendix XXXVIII, pp. 68-70: see Hilton Kelliher, Marvell's A Letter to Doctor Ingelo, RES, NS. 20 (1969), 50-7.
Copy of the complete translation, made by Henry Aytoun with the help of Thomas Bellenden, completed 1545 2° february
.
This MS collated in Coldwell and described I, 99-100.
First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's Æneid Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, by David F.C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 30, 25, 27, 28 (Edinburgh & London, 1957-64).
A quarto verse miscellany, neatly written in possibly several italic hands, perhaps connected with Christ Church, Oxford.
Mid-17th century.Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 189.
Copy, in a flourished italic hand, headed A Song
and subscribed Abrah. Cowley
.
First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). At the end of Sylva in Works (London, 1711). Waller, II, 489.
Musical setting by John Blow published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1688).
Copy, in a flourished italic hand, preceded (f. 3r-v) by The Argument of the Fourth booke of Virgill's Aeneis in prose, headed The History of Aeneas & Dido's Love translated out of the Fourth Booke of Virgill By Mr Godolphin
, subscribed at the end in another hand Sid. Godolphin Ed. Waller Esqes
.
First published complete, by Humphrey Moseley, as The Passion of Dido for Aeneas, as it is incomparably exprest in the Fourth Book of Virgil, Translated by Edmund Waller and Sidney Godolphin Esqrs (London, 1658), where it is stated that the translation was done (all but a very little) by …Mr. Sidney Godolphin
. Complete text in The Poems of Sidney Godolphin, ed. William Dighton (Oxford, 1931), pp. 31-55. Godolphin was responsible for the first 454 lines. Waller for the next 131 lines (455-585), beginning All this her weeping sister does repeat
which might possibly be his revision of part of Godolphin's translation of the whole. while the last 113 lines (586-699, beginning Aurora now, leaving her watry bed
) are unassigned but probably also Godolphin's. The portion definitely by Waller is reprinted separately in Waller's Poems (London, 1664), pp. 185-92, and reprinted in Thorn-Drury, II, 29-33.
Copy, headed On the Admirall's taking & destroying the Spanish Silver-fleet wherein was a Marquesse & his family
.
First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.
Copy, on rectos only, in a cursive italic hand, headed To Mr Cowley on his Davideis
, subscribed Ld Brohill
.
Edited from this MS in Ted-Larry Pebworth, The Earl of Orrery and Cowley's Davideis: Recovered Works and New Connections, MP, 76, No. 2 (November 1978), 136-48.
First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1669) [apparently unique existing exemplum in Folger C6681.5].
Copy, on rectos only, subscribed Abr. Cowley
.
First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 406-9.
Copy, with deletions, as by Mr Waller
.
First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 6-7.
Copy, headed Mr Lewis to his loue
.
First published, as The Rapture, by J.D.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
Copy.
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.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
Copy, headed Vpon a Flye
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
A notebook compiled by William Burton (1609-57), Leicestershire antiquary.
c.1630s-40s.A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 181 pages.
Compiled by, and principally in the hand of, William Burton (1609-57), antiquary.
c.1637-46.Copy.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 82.
Copy, headed Thomas Cary. Upon a Gentlewomans face represented in ye River, as in a mirrour
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.
Copy.
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).
Copy, headed Vita Beata...
.
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).
Copy, headed Vita Misera. Ill. D. Fr. Baconus
.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
Copy, ascribed to D'Avenant
.
Unpublished. Ascribed to D'Avenant
by William Burton, but perhaps only because reminiscent of Davenant's song My lodging it is on the Cold ground (Gibbs, p. 267).
Copy, untitled, subscribed Eliz. Fowler
.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
Copy, in a professional hand, on 64 folio pages.
Late 17th century.This MS recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 189. Collated in Foxcroft (as MS D
) and in Brown, I, 345-96.
First published, ascribed to the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry]
, in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.
A small quarto volume of state tracts and letters, in a single professional secretary hand, 149 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Early 17th century.Copy, with a title-page.
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.
Copy.
Composite volume of papers.
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, [c.15 August 1578].
Edited in Collected Works, II, 285.
Autograph letter signed by Harvey, to the Earl of Leicester, from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 24 April 1579.
Recorded in E.M. Tenison, Elizabethan England, Vol. V (1936), p. 152, n. 1.
A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 209 leaves.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in another hand Q: Elizth: speech in Parliament
, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.
This MS cited in Hartley.
Beginning Williams, I have heard by you the common request of my Commons...
. First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 80-3. Hartley, I, 94-5. Collected Works, Speech 5, pp. 70-2. Selected Works, Speech 3, pp. 37-41.
A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands.
Drawing of a scene and the text of speeches by Tamora, Titus and Aaron (I, i, 104-20; V, i, 125-44; I, i, 121, 125), on a single leaf, signed Henricus Peacham
and endorsed in another hand Henrye Peachams Hande 1595
; the text possibly not in the same hand as the drawing but perhaps copied later from the First Folio (1623).
This MS discussed in E. K. Chambers, The First Illustration to Shakespeare
, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1924-5), 326-30, and in John Dover Wilson, Titus Andronicus on the Stage in 1595, SS, 1 (1948), 17-22. Other discussions include G. Harold Metz, Titus Andronicus: A Watermark in the Longleat Manuscript, Shakespeare Quarterly, 36/4 Winter 1985), 450-3; René Breier, The Longleat Manuscript: Tamora's Great Belly, ELN, 35/3 (March 1998), 20-2; Herbert Berry, The Date on the Peacham
Manuscript, Shakespeare Bulletin, 17/2 (Spring 1999), 5-6; and Richard Levin, The Longleat Manuscript and Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare Quarterly, 53/3 (Fall 2002), 323-40.
Facsimiles also in Chambers; in W. Moelwyn Merchant, Shakespeare and the Artist (London, 1959), facing p. 16; in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (Oxford, 1975), p. 122; in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 302; in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 43; and elsewere.
First published in London, 1594.
A folio composite volume of state letters and documents, in various hands, 238 leaves.
Extracts from the first canto. Early-mid-17th century.
Six verses, unpublished.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Certaine hellish verses devysed by that Athiest and traitor Rawley as yet is sayd viz
, subscribed finis R. W / als
, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed Verses written by Sr Walter Rawleye 1603
. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 52, and in Jean Jacquot, Ralegh's Hellish Verses and the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus, MLR, 48 (1953), 1-9.
First published as part of the anonymous play The First Part of the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus (London, 1594). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173. Rudick, No. 28, pp. 67-9.
Copy, in an italic hand, probably transcribed from
First published as part of the anonymous play The First Part of the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus (London, 1594). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173. Rudick, No. 28, pp. 67-9.
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood, in a secretary hand, on a single folio leaf.
Autograph letter signed, to Henry, Prince of Wales, originally accompanying a presentation exemplum of Pseudo-Martyr (London, 1610).
Edited in Hayward, pp. 462-3.
MS volume of correspondence.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 22 March 1705/6.
Edited in Sherburn, I, 14-15, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 205-6. An adapted extract from the letter edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 227.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 11 November 1707.
Edited in Sherburn, I, 29-30, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 206-7. An adapted version edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 229-30.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 6 December 1707.
Edited in Sherburn, I, 34,6, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 207-8.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, from Shrewsbury, 19 January 1707/8.
Edited in Sherburn, I, 38-40, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 208-10.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 13 November 1708.
Edited in Sherburn, I, 52-4, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 210-11.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 19 February 1708/9.
Edited in Sherburn, I, 54-6, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 211-13. An adapted and abridged version (redated Feb. 19, 1706/7
) edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 228-9.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 17 May 1709.
Edited in Sherburn, I, 58-9, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 213-14. An abridged version edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 235.
Copy of Wycherley's letter to Alexander Pope, 23 May 1709.
Edited from this copy in Sherburn, I, 61-2, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 214-15.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 14 June 1709.
Edited in Sherburn, I, 64-6, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889, misdated June 4
) in Summers, II, 215-17.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, from London, 14 February 1709[/10].
Edited in Sherburn, I, 78-9, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 217-18.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 1 April 1710.
Edited in Sherburn, I, 79-80, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 218-19. A slightly abridged version edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 238-9.
Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, 27 April 1710.
Edited in Sherburn, I, 84-5, and (from W.J. Courthope's printed transcript of 1889) in Summers, II, 219-20. A slightly abridged version edited by Pope in The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Vol. II (London, 1729), and in Letters of Mr. Pope (London, 1735). Reprinted in Summers II, 240.
A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 185 leaves.
Copy, headed Song - by ye E. of Dorset
[upon Ms Waldegrave by whom he had a Daughter that was Lady Shannon
added in another hand], with other poems, on two conjugate folio leaves.
First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.
Copy, on one page of two conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-18th century.
First published in The Museum: or, The Literary and Historical Register, Vol. III, No. 31 (23 May 1747), p. 156. Vieth, p. 23. Walker, p. 121. Love, p. 31.
Copy of twelve letters by Rochester, on two pairs of conjugate small folio leaves.
Copy, in a stylish professional hand, headed Lord Dorset[s Ballad added in a second hand] at Sea [in ye Dutch War added in second hand] An Old Song [deleted] not Printed
, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 18th century.
First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.
Copy, in a cursive italic hand, subscribed By ye E--R--
, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on f. 78v R. upon Nothing
.
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed A Dialogue between Woolchurch & Charing-Cross Horses
, on leaves forming part of a folio verse miscellany. Early 18th century.
First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's
. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy of the two letters, the second dated April 3d 71
.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
A composite folio volume of papers chiefly relating to the Clifford family, largely in a single hand, apparently that of Margaret Cavendish Harley Bentinck (1715-85), Duchess of Portsmouth, 117 leaves, erratically numbered.
Late 18th century.Copy, in a modern hand, of a letter by Daniel to Margaret, Dowager Countess of Cumberland, [late] February 1615/16.
Possibly made from a volume of transcripts of letters belonging to descendants of the Clifford family.
Edited from this MS in Pitcher, Brotherton MS, pp. 168-9.
Copy of Lady Anne Clifford's journals for 1603 and 1616-19, in the hand of Margaret Cavendish Harley Bentinck (1715-85), Duchess of Portsmouth, 117 folio leaves.
Edited from this MS in Acheson, pp. 41-189, and the handwriting identified, pp. 37-8, with a facsimile of f. 80r on p. 24.
A quarto composite volume of letters and papers, in various hands, 448 pages.
Among the papers of Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet and diplomat.
Copy, untitled, quoted in a letter by Richard Powys to Matthew Prior, introduced by the statement Sr. Godfrey Kneller hath drawn at length the Picture of your freind Jacob Tonson, which he shewed Mr. Dryden, who desired to give it a touch of his Pensill, and underneath it writt these three verses
, dated 14 July 1698.
This MS quoted in HMC 58, Bath III (1908), pp. 238-9; thence in Kinsley, IV, 2084.
First published (quoted) in William Shippen, Faction Display'd. A Poem (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1766. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 26.
A folio composite volume of verse MSS and papers, in various hands, 147 leaves.
Among the papers of Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet and diplomat.
Copy, in the neat italic hand of Matthew Prior's secretary, Adrian Drift, headed Epigram
.
This MS collated in Wright & Spears and in Harris.
First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity
). Harris, pp. 101-2.
Copy, in an unidentified hand, untitled, docketed at the top Transcribed D
, on a single oblong-octavo leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
Edited from this MS in Wright & Spears. Collated in Harris.
First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among Works of Doubtful Authenticity
). Harris, pp. 101-2.
Autograph letter signed by Daniel, to James Kirton, 20 May 1608.
1608.Edited in the Rev. Canon Jackson, Longleat Papers No. 4, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 18 (1879), 257-85 (pp. 273-4), and in Sellers, pp. 52-3.
Autograph letter signed by Daniel, to James Kirton, 31 May 1608.
1608.Edited in the Rev. Canon Jackson, Longleat Papers No. 4, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 18 (1879), 257-85 (pp. 274-5), and in Sellers, p. 53.
A folio composite volume of papers.
A brief letter by the Countess of Pembroke, in the hand of an amanuensis, with her autograph subscription and signature, to John Thynne, 1 October 1595.
Edited, with a facsimile, in Steven W. May, Two Unpublished Letters by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, EMS, 9 (2000), 88-97.
A folio composite volume of papers.
Letter by the Countess of Pembroke, in the hand of an amanuensis, with her autograph subscription and signature, to Sir John Thynne, 27 September 1603.
Edited, with a facsimile, in Steven W. May, Two Unpublished Letters by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, EMS, 9 (2000), 88-97.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.
Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand.
Early 18th century.Inscribed (several times) Alex: Malet
: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874
.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS:
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Love.
First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.
Copy.
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
Copy.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.
Copy, headed To Cælia for Inconstancy. Song
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.
Copy, headed Song by severall Hands / Mrs Whorton
; the text followed (f. 45r-v) by Lady Rochester's answer
.
First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms
) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.
Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire
), her autograph of which is in
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.
Copy.
First published in The Museum: or, The Literary and Historical Register, Vol. III, No. 31 (23 May 1747), p. 156. Vieth, p. 23. Walker, p. 121. Love, p. 31.
Copy of eight letters by Rochester.
Copy, headed Song
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.
Copy, headed Woman Honour. Song
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.
Copy, headed Song
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 39-40, and the version How perfect Cloris, and how free
on pp. 40-1, and in Love, pp. 23-4. See also David Vieth, A Textual Paradox: Rochester's To a Lady in a Letter, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3).
Copy, headed Song Love & Life
.
First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.
Copy, headed Song The Fall
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.
First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.
Copy, headed Song
.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 87-8. Walker, pp. 29-30. Love, pp. 27-9, as Song.
Copy.
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 18-19. Walker, pp. 16-17. Love, pp. 8-9.
Copy, here beginning Caelia yt faithfull servant you disown
.
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 17-18. Walker, pp. 15-16. Love, pp. 10-11.
Copy.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 88-9. Walker, pp. 38-9. Love, p. 29.
Copy, incomplete, beginning at stanza 5 (Love like other little boys
).
First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 7-9. Walker, pp. 12-14. Love (two versions), pp. 300-1, as [Epigram on Samuel Pordage], among Impromptus.
Copy.
First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.
Copy, headed Part of an Epistolary Essay from M:G: to G:B: upon ye Mutuall poems
and here beginning Dr Friend, It seems ys town does so abound
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
Copy.
First published, in a truncated version headed The Expostulation, in Female Poems On Several Occasions. Written by Ephelia, 2nd edition (London, 1682). Valentinian (London, 1685), Act IV, scene ii, p. 42. Vieth, p. 160. Walker, p. 28. Love, p. 16.
Copy of lines 1-4, headed Song / A young Lady to her Antient Lover
.
First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, p. 53. Walker, p. 19. Love, p. 17.
Copy of lines 1-4, headed Song / A young Lady to her Antient Lover
.
First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 89-90. Walker, pp. 32-3. Love, p. 30.
Autograph additions (some substantial), in mixed italic and secretary scripts, on several pages (notably Nos 11 and 12) in papers of Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-75), politician, concerning the preparations, expenses and staging of Shirley's masque The Triumph of Peace by the Inns of Court on 3 and 13 February 1633/4.
Shirley's additions were identified by I.A. Shapiro: see his letter in TLS (8 August 1986), p. 865. Facsimile of a page in No. 11, a stage arrangement entirely in Shirley's hand, in Trois Masques à la Cour de Charles Ier d'Angleterre, ed. Murray Lefkowitz (Paris, 1970), Plate VIII, and, also, very reduced, in I.A. Shapiro, The Melbourne MS, TLS (8 August 1986), p. 865. A microfilm of the MSS is at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (XR 54, reel 15).
Copy of a petition by Davenant, to the Council of State, from the Tower, [1650].
1650.Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 192. Cited in Nethercot, p. 279.
Letter by Milton to Bulstrode Whitelocke, entirely in the hand of an amanuensis, 12 February 1651/2.
1652.Edited in J. Milton French, A New Letter by John Milton
, PMLA, 49 (1934), 1069-70; in Columbia, XII, 326-7; in LR, III, 172-3; and in Yale, IV, Part 2, 846-7.
Copy.
c.1633.Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 236.
The first line sometimes reading Now did Oceanus Charioteer, the great daies Starr
.
Printed exemplum inscribed by Camden, recording its presentation to him by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), geographer.
Late 16th century.Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in [John Collins], A Short Account of the Library at Longleat House, Warminster, Wilts (Sotheby's, 1980), p. 21.
