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  • Bellot Papers, Box 11/22

    A notebook of verse remains of Butler, copied in a professional hand, with corrections and insertions in the hand of the lawyer William Longueville (1639-1721), on c.20 folded folio leaves, in marbled wrappers.

    Late 17th-early 18th century.

    Evidently owned by the librarian Robert Thyer (1709-81), and among papers of the Thyer, Hale, Killer and Bellot families. Bequeathed by Professor Hugh Hale Bellot, 1969.

    Discussed in David Parkes, Documents relating to Samuel Butler (1613-1680), N&Q, 238 (September 1993), 324-5.

    • BuS 8
      No description or publication history available.
      Samuel Butler, Remains

  • English MS 202

    A folio volume of legal and historical tracts and verse, largely in one formal hand employing variant secretary, roman and court scripts, with a few later additions by others, 78 leaves, in 19th-century calf.

    Compiled by one Robert Hassall, who signs and dates many of the texts as wrytten...per me.

    c.1583-1608.

    Inscribed on a flyleaf J H Lecke / Carden Park / Chester / Found at Carden 1886 and rebound 1886.

    • EsR 305 ff. 58v-9v

      Copy of a verse account of Essex's speech and execution, in double columns, headed Vppon the death of Robert Deuereux late Erle of Essex attaynted of treason (beginning Swete Englands pride is gone), subscribed Finis. 29 die Decembr: 1606, among other verses relating to him including (f. 60r-v) A Lamentable mone of a Souldier for the losse of his derely beloued Lorde (beginning Gallants all come mourne with me) which is subscribed Finis tertio die Octobris 1601.

      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

  • English MS 293

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and parliamentary papers, in three secretary hands and one court hand, 132 leaves (foliated 147-245 plus 33 leaves), disbound.

    • CtR 89 ff. 177r-87v

      Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, as Collected by Robert Cotton Esquire at the Comandement of her matie:, imperfect, lacking the ending.

      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...

  • English MS 344/81

    Autograph letter signed, to John Warner, Bishop of Rochester, from Mandinam, 17 November 1655.

    1655.

    Later owned by Thomas Raffles (1788-1863). Sotheby's, 29 June 1891 (Raffles sale, 3rd day), lot 485, to Sotheran for Enriqueta Rylands (1843-1908). Transferred after her death in 1908 to the the John Rylands Library.

    Edited in Eden, I, xliv-xlv.

    • *TaJ 41
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

  • English MS 347/220

    Autograph letter signed, to Sir Henry Thompson, from Westminster, 19 December 1674.

    1674.

    Formerly owned by Thomas Raffles (1788-1863).

    Recorded in HMC, 6th Report, Part I (1877), Appendix, p. 473. Margoliouth, II, 335-6. A facsimile, once owned by Margoliouth, is in Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 119, in ff. 127-40.

    • MaA 553
      No description or publication history available.
      Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

  • English MS 410

    An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    c.1630s-40s.
    • JnB 595 f. 17r

      Copy of the song, in a rounded italic hand, untitled.

      First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.

      Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song ('Still to be neat, still to be drest')
    • RaW 271 f. 20r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • JnB 417.8 f. 21r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed De vnione Brittanniæ, here beginning Was ever contract better driven by fate?.

      First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

      Ben Jonson, On the Vnion ('When was there contract better driuen by Fate?')
    • RaW 144 f. 21r

      Copy of the first stanza, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 450.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit'
    • StW 332 f. 22r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

      William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin')
    • StW 1032 f. 22r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed Vpon playing with his mistresse.

      First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played')
    • RaW 474 f. 22v

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed A ladyes speech to her suitour.

      First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Say not you love, unless you do'
    • GrF 43 f. 22v

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed On treason, here beginning Treason is like a Basilis'cus eye.

      Bullough, II, 118.

      Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 ('Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes')
    • HrJ 268.5 f. 22v

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, following directly on from GrF 43.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

      Sir John Harington, Of Treason ('Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?')
    • KiH 78 f. 23v

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed His answer, following (f. 23r) A black maid to her lover.

      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')
    • B&F 163 f. 28v

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed Carmen consolatorium, here beginning Weepe no more, sigh, nor groane.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 393-486 (p. 448). Bowers, VIII, 10-93, ed. Robert K. Turner (p. 57).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, III, ii. Song ('Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan')
    • MoG 34 ff. 28v-9r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed On the death of king James.

      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')
    • B&F 184 f. 29v

      Copy of the song, in a predominantly italic hand, headed When prince Henry on his death bed could not sleepe.

      Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song ('Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes')
    • CwT 718 f. 31r-v

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale')
    • BcF 38 ff. 32v-3r

      Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.

      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.

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'

  • English MS 521

    A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled (p. 1, in engrossed lettering) Thos. Walker Book of Miscellanies 1712, 252 pages (jumping from p. 56 to 61), in modern half dark green morocco.

    Compiled by Thomas Walker (b.1682), of Mosley, near Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester, including (pp. 105-6, 203) verses by him to his parents etc., dated 1720/1-27.

    c.1712-27.

    Later owned by Sir Charles Bradbury (his sale December 1864, lot 2819), to Haywood, thence bought by Sir Thomas Baker. Bernard Halliday, bookseller of Leicester, February 1930.

    • HlJ 3.6 p. 23

      Copy.

      First published, as An Epitaph upon King Charles 1st, in Eikon Basilike (1649), p. 312.

      Joseph Hall, On his Majestyes Death & his Incomparable Booke ('Soe falls that stately Coedar, while it stood')
    • RnT 170.5 pp. 35-6

      Copy, under a general heading Randolphs Poems.

      First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 141-3.

      Thomas Randolph, In praise of Woemen in Generall ('He is a Parricide to his mothers name')
    • RnT 121.5 pp. 43-4

      Copy, beginning at line 47 (O bless them both! Let their affections meet), headed An Epithalamion or Wedding Song per Tho: Randolph.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 71-5.

      Thomas Randolph, An Epithalamium to Mr. F. H. ('Francke, when this Morne the harbinger of day')
    • RoJ 217.2 p. 46

      Copy, headed E. Rochester. On Romes Pardon.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • HrJ 69.5 pp. 47-8

      Copy, headed A Caution agt Travelling Husbands.

      First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

      Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer ('A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome')
    • RoJ 409.5 p. 69

      Copy, headed Satyr upon Women by ye Earl of Rochester.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as Love to a Woman.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Love a woman? You're an ass!')
    • EtG 7.5 p. 236

      Copy, headed An Epistle from Ephelia to Bajazet: A Satyr: by ye Earl of Rochester.

      First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

      Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
    • RoJ 609.5 pp. 238-40

      Copy.

      First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
    • BeA 15.8 pp. 241-2

      Copy, headed Another on the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester. & in part. p. Mrs. Bhenn. Behn.

      First published in Miscellany, Being A Collection of Poems By several Hands (London, 1685). Todd, Works, I, No. 53, pp. 161-3.

      Aphra Behn, On the Death of the late Earl of Rochester ('Mourn, Mourn, ye Muses, all your loss deplore')

  • English MS 522

    A folio volume of parliamentary debates in 1627/8-9, in several professional secretary hands, 351 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, with traces of ties.

    Bookplate of the Earl of Aylesford, Packington, Warwickshire. Bernard Halliday, Leicester, sale catalogue 1930, item 568.

    • HoJ 348 f. 76r

      Copy of a seven-line summary, ascribed to Serieaunt Hoskins.

      Speech, beginning (in a brief summary) That knowing our own rights we might be better enabled to give....

      John Hoskyns, Speech in the House of Commons, 2 April 1628
    • RuB 72 ff. 81r-3v

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamine Ruddiers speech 28 Aprill 1628.

      Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
    • HlJ 25.8 ff. 84v-5v

      Copy, headed The Buishop of Exceters lre sent to the house of Commons 28 Aprill 1628.

      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
    • RuB 102 ff. 268r-70v

      Copy, headed Sr: Beniamin Ruddierds speech to the Committee for Religion.

      Speech beginning I did not think to have spoken.... First published, as Sir Benjamin Rudierd His speech in Behalfe of the Clergie and of Parishes destitute of Instruction through want of Maintenance, Oxford, 1628. Manning, pp. 135-8. Yale 1628, III, 17-19, where it is dated probably 21 April 1628.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?22 May 1628

  • English MS 875

    A quarto volume of state and miscellaneous tracts, two by women, in a single predominantly secretary hand, one EA, 274 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked), with traces of clasps.

    1631-9.

    Later owned by the Rev. Dr Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary (his No. 98), and then by the Gurney family of Norfolk. Sotheby's, 31 March 1936 (Gurney sale), lot 159.

    • MrT 102 ff. 7r-86r

      Copy, untitled, subscribed EA. 16. Septemb: 1631.

      First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

      Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More
    • LeC 64 ff. 88r-199v

      Copy, with full title and date 1584, subscribed ffinis./31. August 1633. EA, with the meditation from Job on f. 200r-v, subscribed ffinis. 1 Sept 1633. EA., inscribed in the margin by a reader (f. 88r) This is the same bock with that intitul'd Leicesters Common wealth wrote by Father Robart Parsons.

      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

  • Legh of Lyme Correspondence, Box 3

    An unbound collection of manuscript newsletters, written chiefly in 1679-87, sent to Richard Legh, MP (d.1687), of Lyme Hall, near Disley, Cheshire.

    • MaA 516.5 [unnumbered item, at the end]

      Copy, in a professional cursive hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, sent as a letter, the fourth page with the address panel These Mr Legh att his house Lime in Chesshire / Deliver, with red wax seals, slightly imperfect, frayed at the edges.

      A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business.... First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

      Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

  • R16270

    An exemplum signed by Cotton on the title-page (now partly erased).

    Late 17th century.
    • *CnC 175
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Charles Cotton, Davenant, Sir William. The Works of Sr William D'avenant Kt (London, 1673)

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