The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House

  • Cecil Papers 8/44

    Autograph letter signed, to Lord Burghley, written by Heywood in his seventy-ninth year (1576?).

    Edited in A.W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), pp. 237-8.

    1576?.

    Printed in A.W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), pp. 35-7, 237-8, with a facsimile of part of the first letter facing p. 124.

    • *HyJ 22
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Heywood, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 24/99

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 17 January 1594/5.

    1595.

    Edited in Bond, I, 390.

    • *LyJ 7
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Lyly, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 52/84

    Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

    • *AndL 95
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)
  • Cecil Papers 55/6

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, August 1597.

    1597.

    Edited in Collected Works, II, 289-90.

  • Cecil Papers 55/10

    Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

    • *AndL 91
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)
  • Cecil Papers 55/81

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Wilton, 29 September 1597.

    1597.

    Edited in Collected Works, II, 290.

  • Cecil Papers 59/113

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 23 January 1597/8.

    1598.

    Edited in Bond, I, 391.

    • *LyJ 9
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Lyly, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 61/5

    Autograph letter signed by Harvey, to Sir Robert Cecil, 8 May 1598.

    1598.

    Edited in HMC, Salisbury, VIII (1899), pp. 160-1. Moore Smith, pp. 72-4.

    • *HvG 14
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 64/5

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 9 September 1598.

    1598.

    Edited in Bond, I, 392-3, and in Feuillerat, pp. 557-8.

    • *LyJ 10
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Lyly, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 76/29

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [31 January 1600/1.

    1601.

    McClure, No. 20, p. 88.

    • *HrJ 364
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 77/14

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 27 February 1600/1.

    1601.

    Edited in Bond, I, 395.

    • *LyJ 11
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Lyly, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 80/62

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [from Greenwich, 25 June 1600].

    1600.

    McClure, No. 12, pp. 81-3.

    • *HrJ 357
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 84/69

    Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Paris, 2/12 January 1600/1.

    1601.

    Edited in Chambers, p. xxxix.

    in Chambers, p. xxxix.

    • *ToA 103
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 85/163

    Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Paris, 28 April 1601.

    1601.

    Edited in Chambers, p. xl.

    • *ToA 104
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 86/137

    Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Venice, 4 July 1601.

    1602.

    Edited in Chambers, p. xli.

    • *ToA 107
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 87/23

    Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Venice, 27 July 1601.

    1601.

    Edited in Chambers, pp. xlii-xliii.

    • *ToA 108
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 87/80

    Autograph letter signed (William Alabaster), neatly written as a prisoner at Framlingham Castle, to Sir Robert Cecil, 9 August 1601.

    1601.

    Edited in J.S. Alabaster, pp. 156-7.

    • *AlW 269
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Alabaster, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 87/128

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 22 August 1601.

    1601.

    Synopsis printed in HMC 9, Salisbury MSS, XI (1906), 355.

    • *AndL 61
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 88/28

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [7 September 1601].

    McClure, No. 21, pp. 88-90.

    • *HrJ 365
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 90/147

    Autograph letter signed, to Queen Elizabeth, 1601.

    1601.

    Edited in Collected Works, II, 290-2.

  • Cecil Papers 91/103

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 4 February 1602/3.

    1603.

    Edited in Bond, I, 75. Facsimile in Bond, III, frontispiece.

    • *LyJ 12
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Lyly, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 91/106

    Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Robert Cecil, fParis, 7 February 1602/3.

    1603.

    Edited in Chambers, pp. xlvi-xlvii.

    • *ToA 113
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 93/23

    Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

    • *AndL 92
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)
  • Cecil Papers 93/110

    Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Venice, 3/13 June 1602.

    1602.

    Edited in Chambers, pp.xliii-xliv.

    • *ToA 111
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 93/117

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [from London, 7 June 1602].

    1602.

    McClure, No. 23, pp. 91-3.

    • *HrJ 366
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 93/150

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [22 June 1602].

    1602.

    McClure, No. 24, pp. 93-4.

    • *HrJ 367
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 94/106

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Sidney, from Cardiff Castle, 3 August 1602.

    1602.

    Edited in Collected Works, II, 292-3.

  • Cecil Papers 96/11

    Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, 24 October 1602.

    1602.

    Edited in Chambers, pp. xlv-xlvi.

    • *ToA 112
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 97/54-55

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [October 1603].

    1603.

    McClure, No. 33, pp. 104-7.

    • *HrJ 374
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 100/28

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 21 May 1603].

    1603.

    McClure, No. 29, p. 101.

    • *HrJ 371
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 101/99

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 27 June 1603].

    1603.

    McClure, No. 32, pp. 103-4.

    • *HrJ 379
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 110/97

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, [from Kelston, 20 April 1605].

    1605.

    McClure, No. 43, p. 118.

    • *HrJ 385
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 114/58

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [1605].

    1605.

    Edited in Herford & Simpson, I, 194-6.

    • *JnB 740
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Ben Jonson, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 122/43

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, from Ditchley, 27 July 1607.

    1607.

    Edited in Collected Works, II, 297-8.

  • Cecil Papers 129/177

    Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1620/1, on one page.

    c.1621.
    • BcF 508
      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
  • Cecil Papers 130/37

    Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

    c.1621.
    • BcF 509
      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
  • Cecil Papers 130/117

    Copy, in an undentified hand, of a letter by Wroth to Sir Edward Denny, 15 February [1621/2].

    c.1621.

    Edited in Roberts, Poems, p. 237 (No. VI).

    • WrM 21
      No description or publication history available.
      Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 130/118-19

    Copy (possibly autograph) of a letter by Sir Edward Denny, to Lady Mary Wroth, 26 February 1621/2.

    1622.

    Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems, pp. 238-9.

    • WrM 24
      No description or publication history available.
      Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 130/121

    Copy of a letter by Sir Edward Denny to Lady Mary Wroth, [February-March 1621/2].

    c.1622.

    This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 241.

    • WrM 30
      No description or publication history available.
      Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 130/174

    Autograph letter signed, to Queen Anne, from Baynards Castle, 25 April [c.1608].

    c.1608.

    Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 233-4 (No. I).

    • *WrM 15
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 138/163

    Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on both sides of a folio leaf.

    Late 16th century.

    Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIII, 214-15. Cited in Hartley.

    • ElQ 173
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 113-17.

      Version I. Beginning I love so evil counterfeiting and hate so much dissimulation that I may not suffer you depart.... Hartley, I, 174-5 (Separate version). Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 105-6 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 6, pp. 47-51.

      Version II. Beginning My lords and others, the Commons of this Assembly, although the lord keeper hath, according to order, very well answered in my name.... Hartley, I, 172-3. Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 107-8 (Version 2).

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech Dissolving Parliament, January 2, 1567
  • Cecil Papers 139/108

    Extracts from the introduction, concerning the 3 sorts of religions in Engla[nd]e, closely written in a small mixed hand, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Thomas Phelippes (c.1556-1626?), a servant of Sir Robert Cecil, Some notes for remembrance out of Sir Jo. Harringtons booke on the behalfe of the K. of Sc. succession, once folded as a packet.

    Early 17th century.

    This MS recorded in McClure, p. 29 (n). Discussed in Scott-Warren, pp. 167-8.

    • HrJ 334
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, edited by Clements R. Markham (Roxburghe Club, London, 1880). Reprinted in New York, 1969.

      Sir John Harington, A Tract on the Succession to the Crown
  • Cecil Papers 139/136-138

    Copy, in a secretary hand, on six pages of two conjugate folio leaves, with an endorsement, once folded as a packet.

    c.1602.

    Recorded in HMC, Salisbury, XIV (1923), pp. 239-42, where it is calendared as Suggestions [by Lord Mountejoy] for the Government of Ireland and dated [1602].

    • BcF 176.9
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
  • Cecil Papers 139/139-140

    Autograph, submitted by Ralegh to Sir Robert Cecil, closely written on four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in a contemporary hand Reasons why Q. Eliz. shd not name her Successor.

    [February 1592/3].

    Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1960). Ralegh's letter accompanying this memorandum is Cecil Papers 83/35 (also edited in Lefranc).

    • *RaW 698
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      An untitled memorandum beginning first ther is no good subiect that ought to doubt of her Maiesties care and providence..., addressed to Queen Elizabeth. First published in Pierre Lefranc, Un inédit de Ralegh sur la succession, EA, 13 (1960), 38-46.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Succession
  • Cecil Papers 140/110-111

    Copy of the masque in a French version, beginning Le genie: Ne vous estonnez pas Seigneurs si ceste place and ending Et les loyaux subiectz s'auancent soubz leurs Roys.

    In a stylish italic hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves; presumably a file copy of a translation made for the use of Charles de Lorraine and his party; endorsed in a contemporary hand on a separate leaf French verses at Theobalds 24 May 1607.

    1607.

    Recorded in HMC, 9 Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XIX (1965), 138.

    • JnB 577
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Ben Jonson, An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds, 22 May 1607
  • Cecil Papers 140/114

    Copy of Song iiij, thirteen lines beginning Will then these gloryes part away?), in a stylish hand (similar to but not identical with Jonson's), on one side of a small folio leaf, endorsed 1607 Songs.

    1607.

    Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIX, pp. 490-2. The third song in the sequence is not known to survive.

    • JnB 574.8
      No description or publication history available.

      Songs from an entertainment evidently for the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1607, first published in HMC, Salisbury, XIX (1965), pp. 490-2. Identification by James Knowles, Gabriel Heaton, et al., announced by Dalya Alberge in New songs reveal Ben Jonson the party animal, The Times, 24 July 2001, 7.

      Ben Jonson, An Entertainment for the Merchant Taylors' Company
  • Cecil Papers 140/116

    Autograph, untitled, on the first page of two small octavo conjugate leaves, endorsed Epitaph on Ld Salisbury.

    [1612].

    Edited from this MS in Krueger and also with his diplomatic transcription (p. 72).

    • *PeW 13
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Krueger, p. 57, among Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts. Also in online Early Stuart Libels.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Epitaph on Robert, Earl of Salisbury ('You that read in passing by')
  • Cecil Papers 140/128-129

    Copy, in an accomplished italic hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Ballad probably in Kg. Ch.i.

    Mid-17th century.

    Recorded in HMC 9, Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XXIV (1976), p. 283.

    • DeJ 90
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.

      Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee ('But will you now to Peace incline')
  • Cecil Papers 140/132

    Copy, in a neat secretary hand, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves; endorsed in a contemporary hand Verses 1602.

    c.1602.

    Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), p. 603.

    • RaW 201
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Walter Oakeshott, An Unknown Ralegh MS, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7. Rudick, No. 23, pp. 46-7.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Now we have present made'
  • Cecil Papers 141/307

    Copy of Bacon's submission on 30 April 1621, on 31 pages.

    c.1621.
    • BcF 510
      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
  • Cecil Papers 144/158

    Copy, in a neat italic hand, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

    Early 17th century.
    • BcF 256
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.

      Francis Bacon, A Prayer, or Psalm
  • Cecil Papers 144/238

    Autograph, on one side of a folio leaf.

    Late 16th century.

    Edited from this MS by all editors.

    • *RaW 146
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, p. 24. Rudick, No. 24, p. 47.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'If Synthia be a Queene, a princes, and supreame'
  • Cecil Papers 144/239v

    Autograph.

    Late 16th century.

    Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimiles in T.N. Brushfield, A Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh Knt, 2nd edition (Exeter, 1908), facing p. 143; in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, Plate 2; and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 13.

    • *RaW 188
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, pp. 24-5. Rudick, No. 25, p. 48.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'My boddy in the walls captived'
  • Cecil Papers 144/240-247

    Autograph, on seventeen folio pages.

    Late 16th century.

    Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile examples in Philip Edwards, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1953), facing p. 96; in John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), facing p. 122; in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXVIII; and in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 60, p. 134.

    The heading discussed in Stacy M. Clinton, The Number of Sir Walter Ralegh's Booke of the Ocean to Scinthia, SP, 82 (1985), 200-11 (with facsimile examples of the MS and letters by Ralegh); Douglas and Mary Brooks-Davies, The Numbering of Sir Walter Ralegh's Ocean to Scinthia: A Problem Solved, N&Q, 236 (March 1991), 31-4; and Peter Beal's review of Rudick in TLS, 29 December 2000, p. 7.

    • *RaW 8
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, pp. 25-34 (as The 11th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia). Rudick, No. 26, pp. 48-66 (as The 21th and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The 12th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia ('Sufficeth it to yow my ioyes interred')
  • Cecil Papers 144/247

    Autograph, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

    Late 16th century.

    Edited from this MS in Latham, p. 44.

    • *RaW 9
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, p. 44. Rudick, Nos 27, 32 and 33 (three versions, pp. 66, 72-77).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The end of the bookes, of the Oceans love to Scinthia, and the beginninge of the 12 Boock, entreatinge of Sorrow ('My dayes delights, my springetyme ioies fordvnn')
  • Cecil Papers 144/266

    Autograph fair copy, headed To the most Worthy of his Honors. Robert, Earle of Salisbury. Epigramme, together with JnB 505, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page in a contemporary hand 1606 Mr Johnsons Epigr.

    1606.

    This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile in T. Bolt, The Manuscripts at Hatfield House, The Connoisseur, 8 (January-April 1904), 32-6 (p. 36).

    • *JnB 504
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Epigrammes (xliii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40-1.

      Ben Jonson, To Robert Earle of Salisbvrie ('What need hast thou of me? or of my Muse?')
  • Cecil Papers 144/266

    Autograph fair copy, headed Another, following JnB 504 on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page in a contemporary hand 1606 Mr Johnsons Epigr.

    1606.

    This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile in The Connoisseur, 8 (1904), p. 36.

    • *JnB 505
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Epigrammes (lxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 47.

      Ben Jonson, To Robert Earl of Salisbvrie ('Who can consider thy right courses run')
  • Cecil Papers 144/267

    Copy of Song i, 30 lines beginning Jolly Mate, Looke forthe & see, in a stylish hand (similar to but not identical with Jonson's), on the first page of two conjugate small folio leaves, endorsed 1607.

    1607.

    Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIX, pp. 490-2. The third song in the sequence is not known to survive.

    • JnB 574.4
      No description or publication history available.

      Songs from an entertainment evidently for the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1607, first published in HMC, Salisbury, XIX (1965), pp. 490-2. Identification by James Knowles, Gabriel Heaton, et al., announced by Dalya Alberge in New songs reveal Ben Jonson the party animal, The Times, 24 July 2001, 7.

      Ben Jonson, An Entertainment for the Merchant Taylors' Company
  • Cecil Papers 144/268-269

    Copy of some of the songs in the masque, beginning with Flora's songe (Now hath Flora rob'd her bowres), in a neat secretary hand, untitled, on three pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Verses of the Maske 1606, once folded as a packet.

    1606.

    Recorded in HMC, 9 Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XIX (1965), p. 2.

    • CmT 248
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as The Discription of a Maske...in honour of the Lord Hayes (London, 1607). Davis, pp. 203-30. Also published, with illustrations of costume designs [?], in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 115-20.

      Thomas Campion, The Lord Hay's Masque
  • Cecil Papers 144/271

    Copy of the concluding song, in the italic hand of Robert Kirkham, a secretary of Sir Robert Cecil, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in a contemporary hand 1606 Song.

    1606.

    This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

    • JnB 579
      No description or publication history available.
      Ben Jonson, An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds, 22 May 1607, lines 130-41. Song ('O blessed change!')
  • Cecil Papers 144/272

    Autograph of the opening speech, lines 8-15, here beginning Enter, o long'd-for Princes, with alterations in another hand (?Robert Kirkham's), on one side of a small folio leaf; endorsed in a contemporary hand Sp: 1607.

    1607.

    Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VII, 147 (where it is incorrectly stated that the corrections are in the hand of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury).

    • *JnB 580
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 145-50.

      Ben Jonson, The Entertainment of the Two Kings at Theobalds. 24 July 1606
  • Cecil Papers 144/273

    Copy of Song ij, eighteen lines beginning To fill yr wellcome Stomaches, Mirth & Cheere, in a stylish hand (similar to but not identical with Jonson's), on the first page of two conjugate small folio leaves, endorsed 1607.

    1607.

    Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIX, pp. 490-2. The third song in the sequence is not known to survive.

    • JnB 574.6
      No description or publication history available.

      Songs from an entertainment evidently for the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1607, first published in HMC, Salisbury, XIX (1965), pp. 490-2. Identification by James Knowles, Gabriel Heaton, et al., announced by Dalya Alberge in New songs reveal Ben Jonson the party animal, The Times, 24 July 2001, 7.

      Ben Jonson, An Entertainment for the Merchant Taylors' Company
  • Cecil Papers 144/275

    Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled, here beginning Great Verulam is very laime the goute of goe out feelinge, on one side of a folio leaf.

    c.1620s.
    • HoJ 227
      No description or publication history available.

      Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

      John Hoskyns, Sr Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount St Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling')
  • Cecil Papers 147/150-154

    Autograph draft, with deletions and revisions, on nine folio pages.

    c.1590.

    Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions and, together with an English translation, in Steven W. May and Anne Lake Prescott, The French Verses of Elizabeth I, ELR, 24, No. 1 (Winter 1994), 9-43.

    Facsimiles of the first page in Collected Works, p. 412, and of f. 151r and the top of f. 152v in May & Prescott, Plates 1 & 2 after p. 32.

    • *ElQ 33
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      The French text, beginning Avecq l'aueugler si estrange, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 85-94. An English verse translation in Collected Works, Poem 15, pp. 413-21.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Twenty-seven stanzas in French, composed circa 1590 ('With the blinding so strange')
  • Cecil Papers 147/155

    Copy, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

    c.1590s.

    Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

    • *ElQ 83
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Beginning Most powerful and largest-giving God, whose ears it hath pleased so benignly to grace the petitions of us Thy devoted servant.... Collected Works, Prayer 36, p. 423. Autograph Compositions, pp. 84-5. Selected Works, Prayer 3, pp. 252-3 (as Undated, possibly written after the 1591 expedition to France).

      Queen Elizabeth I, On the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588
  • Cecil Papers 147/207-213

    Autograph MS, with revisions, on seven leaves.

    c.1590.

    Edited from this MS in Collected Works, with a facsimile of f. 207r on p. 412.

    • *ElQ 34
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      The French text, beginning Avecq l'aueugler si estrange, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 85-94. An English verse translation in Collected Works, Poem 15, pp. 413-21.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Twenty-seven stanzas in French, composed circa 1590 ('With the blinding so strange')
  • Cecil Papers 147/214

    Autograph draft.

    Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions, and in Collected Works, with a facsimile on p. 422.

    • ElQ 83.5
      No description or publication history available.

      Beginning Most powerful and largest-giving God, whose ears it hath pleased so benignly to grace the petitions of us Thy devoted servant.... Collected Works, Prayer 36, p. 423. Autograph Compositions, pp. 84-5. Selected Works, Prayer 3, pp. 252-3 (as Undated, possibly written after the 1591 expedition to France).

      Queen Elizabeth I, On the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588
  • Cecil Papers 153/138

    Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a folio leaf.

    Late 16th century.

    This MS cited in Hartley. Recorded in HMC, Salisbury, I, 272.

    • ElQ 146
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

      Beginning Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words.... Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon
  • Cecil Papers 161/98

    A letter signed by Sir John Throckmorton, to Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, notifying him of the London sheriff's apprehension (wth some difficultie) of his brother-in-law George Puttenham and requesting leave now to repair to his own house, 21 December 1578.

    1578.

    HMC, Salisbury MSS, Part 2 (1888), p. 226.

    • PtG 108
      No description or publication history available.
      George Puttenham, Document(s)
  • Cecil Papers 187/66

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, June 1603].

    1603.

    McClure, No. 30, pp. 101-2.

    • *HrJ 372
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 187/69

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 10 June 1603].

    1603.

    McClure, No. 31, pp. 102-3.

    • *HrJ 373
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 188/2

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [17 June 1604].

    1604.

    McClure, No. 40, pp. 115-16.

    • *HrJ 382
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 188/110

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [20 May 1604].

    1604.

    McClure, No. 37, pp. 112-14.

    • *HrJ 378
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 188/126

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 7 June 1604].

    1604.

    McClure, No. 38, p. 114.

    • *HrJ 380
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 188/129

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 12 June 1604].

    1604.

    McClure, No. 39, p. 115.

    • *HrJ 381
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 188/137

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essendon, [8 July 1604].

    1604.

    McClure, No. 41, pp. 116-17.

    • *HrJ 383
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 189/38

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, [3 November 1604].

    1604.

    McClure, No. 42, pp. 117-18.

    • *HrJ 384
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 191/68

    Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, [9 November 1607].

    1607.

    McClure, No. 50, pp. 129-30.

    • *HrJ 394
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 191/123

    Autograph letter signed by Daniel, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranbourne, [1605].

    [1605].

    Edited in Sellers, p. 51.

    • *DaS 58
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Samuel Daniel, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 196/66

    Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

    • *AndL 93
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)
  • Cecil Papers 196/70

    Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

    • *AndL 94
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)
  • Cecil Papers 196/84

    Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

    • *AndL 90
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)
  • Cecil Papers 202/73-74

    Autograph letter signed by Robert Horne, Bishop of Winchester, to Sir William Cecil, strongly opposing the appointment as a Justice of the Peace of George Puttenham, who is a notorious enemie to god's truthe and Sure his evel Life, his troublesom behavour is not vnknowne, 21 January 1568/9.

    1569.

    HMC, Salisbury MSS, Part I (1883), p. 392. Quoted in Willis, pp. 398-9.

    • PtG 45
      No description or publication history available.
      George Puttenham, Document(s)
  • Cecil Papers 204/43

    Copy, with additional verses and endorsed Mr. Hoskins' verses, sent on 1 December 1598 to Mr Percivall...at the house of...Sir Robert Cecill by a Mr Warwicke of Winton.

    This MS cited, and additional verses edited, in Osborn, pp. 280-1.

    • HoJ 279
      No description or publication history available.

      Osborn, No. II (pp. 168-9).

      John Hoskyns, In Syllabam Cos; in Pentecost Dom. in Schola Wintoniensi ('Dic mihi Semesas Lipsi serutate figuras')
  • Cecil Papers 206/100r-v

    Copy.

    HMC 9, Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XXII (1971), pp. 252-3.

    • DrW 117.47
      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')
  • Cecil Papers 242

    A folio volume of state papers, in probably professional cursive secretary hands, 74 leaves.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • RaW 979 ff. 12r-17v

      Copy of Ralegh's letter (both parts) to Winwood after his last return from Guiana.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • BcF 276 ff. 22v-3v

      Copy, on two folio pages.

      Edited from this MS in HMC, 9 Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XXII (1971), p. 437.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, VII, 105-10. Spedding notes (VII, 107) Basil Montagu's reference to an unspecified MS in the British Museum, but he could not find it.

      Francis Bacon, Short Notes for Civil Conversation
    • CtR 92 ff. 38r-45v

      Copy, as Collected by Sr Robt Cotton Kt at her Mats: Commaundmt:.

      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...
  • Cecil Papers 251/121

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [3 July 1600].

    1600.

    McClure No. 13, p. 83.

    • *HrJ 358
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
  • Cecil Papers 253/3

    A folio book of parliament speeches in 1627/8-1629, in a professional secretary hand, on thirteen pages, in a folio composite volume of state papers and printed tracts.

    c.1630s.
    • CtR 189 ff. [2r-3r]

      Copy, the heading superscribed Sr Robert Cottons speach in the Parlyament- Anno tertio et 4 Charoli Regis Anoque Dom: 1617, correctly dated in the margin Ano Dom 1627.

      Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine.... First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
    • CoR 6.6 f. [7r]

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

      Most MS texts followed by an anonymous Answer beginning The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, Richard Corbett's Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628 and the Anonymous Rejoinder, An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

      Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 ('The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd')
  • Cecil Papers 253/4

    Copy.

    c.1636.
    • KiT 16
      No description or publication history available.

      Letter, to Lord Goring, beginning Being thus far from London.... Published in European Magazine, 43 (1803), 102-6. Edited in J. Lough and D. E. L. Crane, Thomas Killigrew and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun: The Text of a Letter of 1635, Durham University Journal, 78 (1986), 259-68.

      Thomas Killigrew, Letter about the possessed Nuns of Tours, from Orleans, 7 December 1635
  • Cecil Papers 265

    Copy, including colour illustrations, presented to the Marquess of Salisbury in 1814.

    18th-19th-century.
    • SaG 38
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1615.

      George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610
  • Cecil Papers 286

    A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in probably two professional secretary hands, compiled chiefly by Simon Willis, a secretary (until 1602) of Robert Cecil (1563-1612), first Earl of Salisbury, and inscribed Mr Robert Cecilles booke, 32 leaves (including blanks).

    [c.1600-12].
    • GrF 9 ff. [21r-2r]

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, subscribed finis Sr F. G.

      This MS edited in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, A Newly Discovered Poem by Fulke Greville, ELR, 9 (1979), 64-8, with a facsimile example.

      First published in Hughey, Arundel Harington MS (1960), I, No. 69, pp. 113-15. Wilkes, II, 555-61, as of uncertain authorship.

      Fulke Greville, A tale put in verse by Mr Grevell ('A tale I once did heare a true man tell')
    • PlG 19 f. [32r]

      Copy in the italic hand of Simon Willis.

      First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court: The Texts and Authorship of His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.

      George Peele, A Sonet ('His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd')
  • [no shelfmark]

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, p. 219.

    • *HvG 99
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Harvey, Gabriel. Gabrielis Harvej Ciceronianus, Vel Oratio post reditum, habita Cantabrigiae ad suos Auditores (London, 1577)
  • [no shelfmark]

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, pp. 219-20.

    • *HvG 101
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Harvey, Gabriel. Gratulationum Valdinensium quatuor (London, 1578)

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