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The Marquess of Bute

  • 4° Vol. Petitions to James I, &c, No. 9

    Copy.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 204.

    • DrW 117.25
      No description or publication history available.

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

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

  • D 18

    A small folio volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more probably professional hands.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 203-4.

    • BcF 601 [unspecified item]

      Copy of letter(s) by Bacon.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • HoH 13 item 18

      Copy.

      A tract beginning By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled …. Unpublished?

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt
    • RaW 902 item 21

      Copies of letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to James I (2), to Ralegh's wife; to Sir Robert Carr; and to Francis Bacon.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • LyJ 25 item 24 (ff. 52r-v)

      Copy.

      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 47 item 24 (ff. 52v-3r)

      Copy.

      Recorded in Bond.

      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
    • SiP 180.8 item 25 (f. 53r et seq.)

      Copy.

      A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you.... First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney
    • GrF 17 item 26

      Copy, headed Sir ffulke Greville to a couzin of his residing in ffrance.

      This MS described in Farmer, pp. 140-1.

      An epistolary essay beginning My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance..., dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.

      Fulke Greville, Letter to Grevill Varney on his Travels
    • BcF 726 item 27

      Copy.

      An essay beginning That absolute prerogative according to the king's pleasure revealed by his laws.... Spedding, VI, 597-600 (discussed pp. 592-4). Probably by Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere.

      Francis Bacon, An explanation what manner of persons those should be, that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the King's Prerogative
    • BcF 464 items 35 & 36

      Copies of a submission by Bacon and his 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

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