Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799

  • MS 244

    Annotations, supplying titles, incipits. etc., attributed to John Bale, in a 14th- or 15th-century quarto MS volume of tracts by John Wycliffe, 219 vellum leaves (plus blanks), in old speckled leather (rebacked).

    Inscribed (at foot of f. 1r) Robert Cotton Bruceus: i.e. signed by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, first baronet (1571-1631), antiquary and politician.

    This volume recorded in McCusker, The Library (1935), 163. The attribution to Bale is doubtful.

    • BaJ 41
      No description or publication history available.

      Unpublished?

      John Bale, Wycliffe, John. [Opera]

  • MS 284

    A quarto autograph notebook by Andrewes, in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, on Politia Israelis Pphana seu ciuilis and on Ministerium Novi Testamenti, 147 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.

    c.1600s.

    Inscribed (f. 103r) By me S C. Old pressmark C. 2. 21.

    • *AndL 43 item 1
      Autograph

      Systematic autograph notes on biblical chronology relating to government.

      Unpublished.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Politia Israelis
    • *AndL 54.5 item 2
      Autograph

      An autograph narrative outline based on AndL 43.

      A basis for the 1641 edition of A Summary View.

      First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 95-105.

      Lancelot Andrewes, A Speech delivered in the Star-Chamber, concerning Vows, in the Countess of Shrewsbury's Case
    • *AndL 13.5 item 3
      Autograph

      Autograph notes and heavily revised drafts of two Court sermons, Of the Right and Power of Calling Assemblies (for the second Hampton Court Conference, 1606), and for the Gunpowder Plot Anniversiary in 1606.

      Unpublished.

  • MS 293

    A quarto volume of Latin ecclesiastical treatises, compiled by John Dury (1596-1680), preacher.

    c.1634.
    • HlJ 113 ff. 106-7v

      Copy of an epistle by Hall, in Latin, on the doctrine of Justus Lipsius, 25 February 1632/3.

      Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

  • MS 364

    A folio composite compilation of legal and ecclesiastical tracts and notes, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, now bound in two volumes, in modern boards.

    Old pressmark D. 1. 10.

    • *HkR 8 Vol. 2, ff. 68v-84v
      Autograph

      Autograph notes and drafts for the Polity, principally for Book VIII but also for Books V, VI and VII, with corrections and emendations in the hand of Archbishop Ussher, on sixteen folio and quarto leaves.

      Edited in Folger edition, Vol. III, pp. 463-538, Ussher's transcriptiion of Hooker's notes on ff. 68v-71r edited on pp. 540-4, with facsimile of f. 71 on pp. xxii-xxiii. Described, with a facsimile of f. 71r, in P.G. Stanwood, The Richard Hooker Manuscripts, Long Room (Spring-Summer 1975), 7-10. Facsimile of f. 75r in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXI (p. 225).

      Book VII first published in John Gauden's edition of the complete Polity (London 1662). For publication of other Books see individual Books below.

      Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

  • MS 412

    A quarto musical part book, in several neat secretary and italic hands, with some initial-letter decoration, headed (f. 5r) This is the fyrst Buke addit to the four psalme Bukkes, for songis of four or fyue partis, meit and apt for musitians, to recreat..., with (ff. 2r-4r) a table of contents, 63 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

    One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

    Early 17th century.
    • CmT 160 f. 22r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. iii. Davis, p. 61.

      Thomas Campion, 'Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning?'
    • CmT 199 f. 22r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

      Thomas Campion, 'Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate'
    • CmT 236 ff. 23r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
    • SoR 148 f. 23r

      Copy of line 25, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death ('Sith my life from life is parted')
    • CmT 42 ff. 23v-4r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. ix. Davis, p. 95.

      Thomas Campion, 'Good men, shew, if you can tell'
    • SiP 119 f. 28v

      Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 51. this setting first published in Thomas Ravenscroft, Pammelia (London, 1609).

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 5 ('Now thanked be the great God Pan')
    • B&F 210 f. 29r

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Bowers, II, 432. The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (London, 1916), pp. 13, 52-3.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song ('Troule the blacke bowle to mee')
    • B&F 91 f. 30r-v

      Copy of the song, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 60-1 (collated pp. 154-6).

      Dyce, VI, 179-80. Bullen, III, 183. Bowers, V, 66-7.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 24-41. Song ('Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below')
    • JnB 30 f. 31v

      Copy of lines 21-30, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled and here beginning Heave you seen bot a bright lillie grow.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 150-1.

      First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
    • CmT 62 f. 34v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvi. Davis, p. 151.

      Thomas Campion, 'If thou longst so much to learne (sweet boy) what 'tis to love'
    • CmT 149 f. 35r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. iii. Davis, p. 137.

      Thomas Campion, 'Were my hart as some mens are, thy errours would not move me'
    • CmT 120 ff. 35v-6r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. iii. Davis, p. 170.

      Thomas Campion, 'Thou joy'st, fond boy, to be by many loved'
    • CmT 65 f. 36r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvii. Davis, p. 163.

      Thomas Campion, 'Never love unlesse you can'
    • BrN 17 f. 36v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 33>, ascribed to N. Breton (S. Phil. Sidney cancelled). Grosart, I (t), p. 8.

      Nicholas Breton, Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon ('Faire in a morne (o fairest morne)')
    • CmT 138 f. 39v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Robert Jones, A Musical Dreame (London, 1609). Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xvi. Davis, pp. 106-7. Doughtie, pp. 319-20.

      Thomas Campion, 'Though your strangenesse frets my hart'
    • CmT 61 f. 40r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.

      Thomas Campion, 'If Love loves truth, then women doe not love'
    • CmT 6 f. 40r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. x. Davis, p. 144-5.

      Thomas Campion, 'Breake now my heart and dye! Oh no, she may relent'
    • CmT 4 f. 40v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxii. Davis, pp. 190-2.

      Thomas Campion, 'Beauty, since you so much desire'
    • CmT 144 f. 41r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xx. Davis, p. 188.

      Thomas Campion, 'Turne all thy thoughts to eyes'
    • CmT 70 f. 41v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ii. Davis, p. 169.

      Thomas Campion, 'Respect my faith, regard my service past'
    • CmT 142 f. 42r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xviii. Davis, p. 154.

      Thomas Campion, 'Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre'
    • CmT 84 f. 42v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxv. Davis, p. 161.

      Thomas Campion, 'Sleepe, angry beauty, sleep, and feare not me'
    • CmT 152 ff. 42v-3r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xiv. Davis, p. 149.

      Thomas Campion, 'What is it that all men possesse, among themselves conversing?'
    • CmT 82 f. 43r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvi. Davis, p. 162.

      Thomas Campion, 'Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely'
    • CmT 76 f. 43v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxix. Davis, p. 165.

      Thomas Campion, 'Shall I then hope when faith is fled'
    • CmT 177 ff. 43v-4r

      Copy in a musical setting.

      First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

      Thomas Campion, 'Young and simple though I am'
    • CmT 17 f. 46r-v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

      Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse')
    • WoH 126 ff. 46v-7r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • SuH 28 f. 55r-v

      Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?'
    • ShW 108.6 ff. 58v-9r

      Copy of the song, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in J. Stafford Smith, Musica Antiqua (London, 1812), II, 204-5.

      Sir Toby Belch's song.

      William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II, iii, line 105. Song ('Farewell dear heart, since I must needs be gone')

  • MS 419

    A quarto miscellany of metaphysical and academic tracts and extracts, in two or more secretary hands, 185 leaves (plus blanks), in vellum boards.

    c.1625-30.

    Scribbling (f. 1r) including several times the name John Burleigh: i.e. probably John Burley (b.1605/6), of Oriel College, Oxford, and of Chelsea College. Inscribed at the foot of f. 76r Mr Dauies ye 29th of August 1630 or 1650. Old pressmark D. 3. 27.

    • DnJ 4048 ff. 72v-3r

      Dr Duns notes of the sermon as heard, possibly at Chelsea parish church, ye 16th of October 1625, on the 6th psa v 5. or 6.

      This MS discussed in P.G. Stanwood, John Donne's Sermon Notes, RES, NS 29 (1978), 313-17, and by I.A. Shapiro in RES, NS 30 (1979), 194.

      First published in LXXX Sermons (London, 1640), No. 52. Potter & Simpson, V, Nos 18 and 19, pp. 364-89.

      John Donne, Sermon preached upon the Penitential Psalms, on Psalms 6.4, 5
    • DnJ 4049 f. 73r-v

      Notes of the sermon as heard on 16 October 1625, possibly at Chelsea parish church.

      This MS discussed in P.G. Stanwood, John Donne's Sermon Notes, RES, NS 29 (1978), 313-17, and by I. A. Shapiro in RES, NS 30 (1979), 194.

      First published in LXXX Sermons (London, 1640), No. 52. Potter & Simpson, V, Nos 18 and 19, pp. 364-89.

      John Donne, Sermon preached upon the Penitential Psalms, on Psalms 6.4, 5
    • DnJ 4039 ff. 75r-6r

      Notes of the sermon, possibly as heard repeated in 1625, headed Dr Dun. Coll. 1. 24.

      This MS discussed in P.G. Stanwood, John Donne's Sermon Notes, RES, NS 29 (1978), 313-17.

      First published in Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 16. Potter & Simpson, III, No. 16, pp. 332-47.

      John Donne, Sermon preached at Lincoln's Inn, on Colossians 1.24

  • MS 480

    Copy, in at least two probably professional cursive secretary hands, with a formal title-page Leicesters Comon=Wealth / The Coppie of a Letter...[etc.], 65 tall folio leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Early 17th century.

    Old pressmark E. 1. 25.

    This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

    • LeC 76
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • MS 481

    Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, untitled, with a supplied title roughly inscribed in another hand Leycesters comonwealth a Better Copy see (*: 3 :/, 53 folio pages, in later calf.

    Late 16th-early 17th century.

    Former call number E. 2. 18.

    This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

    • LeC 77
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • MS 482

    Copy, in a single secretary hand, with a title-page Leicesters Comon Weale / The Coppie of a letter...Anno Dni. 1593, including the meditation of Job, 60 small quarto leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

    The title-page subscribed John Aynworth, probably the copyist of the MS.

    c.1593.

    Old pressmark E. 5. 27.

    This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.

    • LeC 78
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • MS 483

    Copy, mainly in a probably professional secretary hand, a mixed hand on ff. 48r-50v, on the first 69 leaves in a quarto volume comprising two MSS bound together, 109 leaves in all (plus blanks) including (ff. 69v-109v) notes, tracts and a catalogue in later hands, with additions dated 1693/4, in old vellum boards.

    Mid-17th century.

    Scribbling (f. 1r) including the name Ai Bealken. Old pressmark F. 4. 21.

    This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

    • LeC 79
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • MS 497

    Autograph annotations by Camden on at least f. 161r (eight lines), in a 14th-century MS volume of chronicles, 271 folio leaves of vellum, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

    Inscribed (f. 1r) by Sir Robert Cotton Ro. Cottoni Brucei ex dono Domini Guillimi Camdeni amicorum prestantissimorum...1609, and signed by Camden on f. 271v.

    c.1609.
    • *CmW 133.5
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Rupescissa, Johannes de. Vade-Mecum in Tribulatione [etc.]

  • MS 532

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 273 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1635-40.

    Old pressmark E. 2. 7.

    • KiT 17 ff. 99r-115r

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed Mr Thomas Kilgrewes Letter of his Travayles Dated the seaventh of December newe stile 1635.

      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
    • RaW 1124 ff. 129r-45r

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, unascribed.

      This MS discussed in Richard H. Popkin, A Manuscript of Ralegh's The Scepticke, PQ, 36 (1857), 253-9.

      A tract beginning The Scepticke doth neither affirm nor deny any position.... First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 548-56. William M. Hamlin, A Lost Translation Found? An Edition of The Sceptick (c.1590), ELR, 31/1 (Winter 2001), 34-51 (pp. 42-51).

      A translation of extracts from the Hypotyposes of Sextus Empiricus. See S.E. Sprott, Ralegh's Sceptic and the Elizabethan Translation of Sextus Empiricus, PQ, 42 (1963), 166-75, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 66-7.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Scepticke
    • BcF 104.5 ff. 147r-78v

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand.

      Unpublished.

      Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. Arguments in the Case De Commenda
    • CtR 494 ff. 185r-204r

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed A Treatise Written by Sr Robert Cotton knight and Barronett concerning the Soueraignes presence in the great Councells or assemblies of State of the Kingdome by Comand from King James.

      Tract beginning Since at these Assemblies few Diaries, or exact Iournall Books are remaining.... First published as A Treatise, shewing that the Soveraignes Person is Required in the great Councells or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the conclusions, London, 1641. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [41]-57.

      Sir Robert Cotton, That the Soveraignes Person is Required in the Great Covncells, or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the Conclusions

  • MS 535

    A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings on 2 April 1571, in a single professional secretary hand, 36 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum.

    Late 16th century.

    Old pressmark E. 2. 9.

    • ElQ 179 f. 1v

      Copy, introduced ...After a long stay shee spake a fewe words to this effect, or thus.

      Edited from this MS in Hartley.

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

      Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech Opening the 1571 Parliament, April 2, 1571

  • MS 541

    A folio composite volume of proceedings in Parliament in November 1640, in secretary hands, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

    Old pressmark E. 2. 10.

    • RuB 171 ff. 30r-6r

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Rudyards speech in Parliament 7th Nouemb: 1640.

      Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

  • MS 545

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hand, with a table of contents, i + 221 pages (including some blanks), in old vellum boards.

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Old pressmark E. 1. 36.

    • RaW 646 pp. 1-10

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sr Walter Rawleigh, dated 1612.

      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.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
    • CtR 368 pp. 133-9

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as Written by Sr: Robt Cotton 27th: of Aprill 1624.

      Tract, addressed to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ... [27 April 1624]
    • EsR 146 pp. 147-69

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

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

    • WoH 289 pp. 173-87

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

  • MS 580

    A tall folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, with (f. 1r-v) a table of contents, 141 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

    Old pressmark E. 3. 8.

    • CtR 30 ff. 36r-58v

      Copy, in three secretary and italic hands, unascribed, possibly incomplete.

      A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

      Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

  • MS 588

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, with (f. 1r) a table of contents, 232 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

    Purchased in December 1806 from Mr Mercier. Old pressmark E. 3. 25.

    Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 222 (No. 17).

    • SiP 212 ff. 2r-16r

      Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, with a title-page The: Coppye: Off: a; Letter: wrytten by Sr: Phillipp Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth. Touchinge her Marryage, wth Mownsieur &tc., inscribed AA May. 7. 1641 (or 1691) and N. 52.

      This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 222 (No. 17) and p. 280 (No. 34), with a facsimile of f. 10v on p. 138.

      First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

      This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

  • MS 589

    Copy, in a single secretary hand, unascribed, subscribed Finis 1596, 141 folio pages, the first leaf imperfect, in half-vellum marbled boards.

    c.1596-early 17th century.

    Owned by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, scholar. Formerly MS E.3.26.

    Edited from this MS in Ware's edition of 1633. Collated in Variorum.

    • SpE 62
      No description or publication history available.

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

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

      Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

  • MS 619

    Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, the headings in italic, with a title-page An Abridgement of the Parliamentary Rolls from Ed: 2: to Rich: 3. Collected by Sr Robt Cotton, 634 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1630s.

    Old pressmark G. 1. 5.

    • CtR 271
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as Collected by Sr. R. Cotton, in London, 1657. Probably collected rather by William and Robert Bowyer, Keepers of the Records in the Tower, and revised and edited by William Prynne.

      Sir Robert Cotton, An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London, from the reign of Edward the Second unto Richard the Third, of all the Parliaments holden in each King's reign

  • MS 623

    A folio volume of speeches in Parliament, in two professional secretary hands, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 44 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum with ties.

    c.1640s.

    Purchased from Mr Mercier, December 1806. Old pressmark I. 3. 17.

    • WaE 795 ff. 7v-12r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Mr Wallers speech in the howse of Comons Anno 1640.

      Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

      A speech beginning I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them … First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries.

      Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640

  • MS 651

    Copy, in probably two professional secretary hands, with a title-page, on 63 folio leaves (plus blanks), ff. 67v-65r at the reverse end occupied by a tract on ecclesiastical law in another hand, in old blind-stamped calf.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Old pressmark P. 4. 8.

    • DaJ 274
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

  • MS 652

    A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, 368 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

    Folios 357r-68v comprising a portion of a quarto verse miscellany, in a neat italic hand, probably associated with the Inns of Court.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Old pressmark F. 4. 20.

    • DaJ 275 ff. 71r-113r

      Copy, in a single predominantly secretary hand, the first page heavily stained.

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

      Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions
    • HoJ 174 f. 357r

      Copy, headed John Hoskins in Coriat.

      Osborn, No. XXIX (pp. 199-202), in English and Latin.

      John Hoskyns, Incipit Johannes Hoskins ('Even as the waues of brainelesse butter'd fish')
    • CoR 551 ff. 357v-8r

      Copy, headed On Tom Coriat. Dr Corbet.

      First published in Coryats Crudities (London, 1611). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 4-5.

      Richard Corbett, A Poeme Upon Tom Coriatts Crudities. in Commendation of the Author, and Worke ('I do not wonder Coryate that thou hast')
    • DaJ 41 f. 358r

      Copy, headed Epigram: Sr Jo: Dauijs.

      Krueger, p. 179.

      First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 179.

      Sir John Davies, Love's All ('I love thee not for sacred chastitie')
    • DaJ 60 f. 358v

      Copy, headed Epigram: Sr Jo: Dauijs.

      First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

      Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion ('Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes')
    • DaJ 68 f. 358v

      Copy, headed Epigram: Jo. Dauijs.

      First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (Middleborugh [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, pp. 180-1.

      Sir John Davies, No Muskie Courtier ('Sweet wench I love thee, yet I wil not sue')
    • BcF 54.113 f. 359r

      Copy, headed An Elegey on the Duke of Richmond who died on the Parliament day.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

      Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox ('Are all diseases dead? or will death say')
    • CoR 646 ff. 359r-60v

      Copy, headed Doctor Corbetts encounter wth the Guarde at winsor and here beginning at line 111 (Here might I end my Lo: and then subscribe).

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

      Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North ('My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes')
    • CoR 278 f. 360v

      Copy, headed Dr. Corbett against Dr. Price's Anniversarys on Prince Henery.

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

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

      Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem ('Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on')
    • CoR 246 f. 361r-v

      Copy, headed Doctor Corbetts Replye.

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

      Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum ('Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory')
    • CoR 160 ff. 361v-2v

      Copy, headed An Elegie on the death of the La: Haddington; Dr: Corbett.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')

  • MS 658

    Copy, in a single mixed hand but for p. 5 in another hand, 253 quarto pages (plus blanks etc.), in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

    Late 17th century.

    Three pages among blanks at the end containing, in another hand, a short catalogue of books of John Stearne (1660-1745), Bishop of Clogher, dated March: 18. [16]83[/4].

    This MS discussed in Belford.

    • ClE 39
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme

  • MS 659

    A small quarto miscellany, in several hands, the greater part in one rounded mixed hand, written from both ends, 357 pages, in old blind-stamped calf.

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Bookplate of Thomas Madden, of the Inner Temple and Rousky Castle, Fermanagh. Also once owned by John Sterne (1660-1745), Bishop of Clogher. Old pressmark F. 4. 28.

    • CrR 338 pp. 73-172

      Copy of all Crashaw's epigrams published in 1634 except the final one and the end of the penultimate one, in a rounded mixed hand, 104 Epigrams in the first part (pp. 73-121) headed Epigrammata Divina Siue Occurrentia Quæda ex Xti: Uitâ et Quatuor Euangelijs decerpta, 74 Epigrams in the Secunda Pars (pp. 121-72), all apparently transcribed from a MS source.

      This MS selectively collated in Martin and described pp. lvii-lviii.

      First published in Cambridge, 1634. Martin, pp. 5-64.

      Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum sacrorum liber

  • MS 672

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers largely relating to Ireland, in various hands, 318 leaves, in vellum boards.

    Old pressmark F. 3. 15.

    • RaW 985 ff. 93v-4v

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, [1603], in a secretary hand.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • MS 676

    A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect.

    c.1600.
    • SoR 39.5 p. 159

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich ('I dwell in grace's courte')
    • HrJ 247.5 p. 160

      Copy.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 16. McClure No. 270, p. 259.

      Sir John Harington, Of Lynus borrowing ('Lynus came late to me, sixe crownes to borrow')
    • SoR 254.5 p. 161

      Copy.

      First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 5 (a doubtful version also on p. 117).

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Virgins salutation ('Spell Eva backe and Ave shall you finde')
    • SoR 98.5 p. 161

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life ('Who lives in love, loves least to live')
    • SoR 111.5 p. 162

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies ('Shun delaies, they breede remorse')
    • SoR 92.5 p. 163

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Life is but Losse ('By force I live, in will I wish to die')
    • SoR 70.5 p. 163

      Copy, here beginning life who lettest.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye alive ('O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?')
    • SoR 255.5 p. 164

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, What joy to live? ('I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy')
    • SoR 237.5 p. 164

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Time goe by turnes ('The lopped tree in time may grow againe')
    • SoR 13.5 p. 165

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce ('Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child')
    • DaJ 113.5 p. 363b-365b

      Copy of poems 1-3, 6, 9-12 (The Courtier, The Divine, The Souldier, The Merchaunt, The Married Man, The Wyfe, The Widowe, The Mayde).

      First published as Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

      Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis ('Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while')

  • MS 690

    A duodecimo miscellany, of verse and generally religious prose, in Latin and English, in several hands, largely in one small cursive predominantly italic hand, written from both ends, 151 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.

    Compiled by a Cambridge University man.

    c.late 1630s.

    Inscribed name (f. 151v) John graves. Old pressmark F. 5. 24.

    • RnT 469 f. 4r

      Copy, headed A terrible true troublesome tragicall relation of a duell fought at Wisbech.

      (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

      Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name')
    • HrJ 289 f. 140v

      Copy, witten along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, untitled.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

      Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues ('You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young')
    • HrJ 98 f. 150v rev.

      Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled and here beginning It was not certaine when a cteine teacher.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

      Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man ('There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher')

  • MS 698

    A formal copy of the Title of Lady Anne Clifford to the baronies of Clifford, Westmorland and Vesey, in a single professional secretary and italic hand, with a table of contents, iii + 135 tall folio pages, in contemporary vellum boards.

    Mid-17th century.

    Old pressmark G.1.3.

    • CdA 13
      No description or publication history available.

      Lady Anne Clifford's evidences for her claim to the title and baronies of Clifford, Westmorland and Vesey, 1606.

      Lady Anne Clifford, The title of the La: Anne Clifford...to the style and title of...three Baronies

  • MS 710

    A folio composite commonplace book, arranged under subject headings, much in double columns, in possibly several secretary and italic hands, two predominating, 156 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

    Early-mid-17th century.

    Old pressmark G. 2. 8.

    • BcF 54.934 f. 139v

      Extract from Bac: Aduanc: of Learn, in a predominantly secretary hand, under a heading Tepiditas.

      First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

  • MS 713

    A folio commonplace book, with entries in Latin, English and Greek, under subject headings, largely in one secretary hand, mainly in triple columns, 348 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

    c.1640.

    Inscribed (five times) Roger Boyle: i.e. Roger Boyle (1617/18?-87), Scholar of Trinity College Dublin (1638, Fellow 1646), later Bishop of Down and Connor and of Clogher. Inscribed also Daniell Clay (deleted) and again with the date 1640 August 26: i.e. probably Daniel Clay, student of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1637. Old pressmark G. 2.12.

    • SiP 243 passim

      Various extracts, including entries on ff. 28r, 37v, 45r, and 53r.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Extracts

  • MS 717

    A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in three professional hands, 261 leaves (plus numerous blanks), dated in ink on the fore-edge 1637, in contemporary calf.

    c.1637.

    Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 3. 5.

    • CmW 23.8 ff. 1r-3v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The Etimology Antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England, unascribed.

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

      William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
    • CtR 264 ff. 24v-9r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sr Robt Cotton knight and Baronett.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett
    • CmW 33.8 ff. 29r-30r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A discourse of the office of the Lo: Steward of England Collected by mr Willm Cambden.

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

      William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England
    • CtR 250 ff. 30v-1v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sr Robt Cotton knigh [sic] and Baronett.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by Sr: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 67 ff. 31v-4r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sr. Robt Cotton knight and Baronett.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
    • CtR 231 ff. 34r-8r

      Copy, complete with letter to Northampton, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sr Robt Cotton knight.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Antiquitye, and Offyce of the Earle Marshall of England, written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, Att the request of the Lord Henrye Howard, Earle of Northampton [25 November 1602]
    • HoH 67 ff. 56r-62r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by the lord H: Howard Earle of Northampton Anno dni [blank].

      A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to my very good Lord, beginning Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter …, the tract beginning The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed …. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.

  • MS 723

    A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and parliamentary speeches, in several professional hands, written and paginated from both ends, 238 pages, in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.

    c.1630s-40s.

    Purchased in December 1806 from Mr Mercier. Old pressmark I. 3. 18.

    • CtR 441 pp. 35-42

      Copy, in a professional rounded predominantly secretary hand, as Written by Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronett, dated Anno dni 1625.

      Speech beginning Mr. Speaker, Although the constant Wisdome of this House of Commons.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [271]-281.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Delivered in the Lower House of Parliament Assembled at Oxford: In the first year of the Reign of King Charles [6 August 1625]
    • CtR 312 pp. 43-70

      Copy, in two professional predominantly secretary hands, as Written by Sir Robert Cotton knight and Baronett Jacobi Regis Annoque Dni 1609.

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

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
    • CtR 95 pp. 73-82

      Copy (first of four in this volume), in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as Collected by Ser Robert Cotton Esqr At the Comandment of her Maty Anno dni 1590.

      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...
    • CtR 96 pp. 83-9

      Copy (second of four in this volume), in a professional secretary hand, as Collected by Sr Robert Cotton Esqr at the Comandment of her Maty Anno Dni 1590.

      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...
    • CtR 97 pp. 91-6

      Copy (third of four in this volume).

      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...
    • CtR 98 p. 97

      Copy (fourth of four in this volume), in a professional secretary hand, as Collected by Sr Robert Cotton Esqr at the Comandment of her Maty Anno Domini 1590, incomplete, comprising only the title and first paragraph before the copy was abandoned.

      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...
    • BcF 745 pp. 9-27 rev.

      Copy, in an accomplished professional secretary hand, headed Of the lately Erected seruice called the Office of Compositions for Alyenations / Written by The Right Honoble: ffrancis Lord Verulam late Chauncellour of England.

      A tract, beginning All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England.... Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

      Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

  • MS 727

    A quarto volume of state tracts and speeches, in possibly a single professional secretary hand, with a table of contents, 129 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    c.1630s.

    Inscribed on the last page Elizabeth Tyrrell. Old pressmark K. 4. 15.

    • BcF 718 ff. 8v-10r

      Copy, headed An Essaij of a kinge, by Sr ffrances Bacon.

      Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth.... Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).

      Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King
    • RuB 80 ff. 63r-5v

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamin Rudiards his speech the 28. of April 1628 in the House of Commons.

      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

  • MS 731

    A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in several professional hands, 586 leaves, in old calf.

    c.late 1620s-30s.

    Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Former pressmark G. 4. 9.

    Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 222-3 (No. 17A).

    • HoH 83 ff. 1r-54r

      Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, in a professional secretary hand, headed An answere to the Coppy of a rayleing Invectiue against the Regiment of Woemen, in generall, with certaine Malipart exceptions to diverse and sundry matters of State, written to Queene Elizabeth by the right honble Henry lord Howard late Earle of Northton.

      An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's railing invective against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign …; the main text, in three books, beginning It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge …, and ending … Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women
    • CvG 44 ff. 55r-174r

      Copy, in probably three professional secretary hands, with a title-page The Negotiacons of Thomas Woolsey the greate Cardinall of England Conteyninge his Life & Death...Composed by one of his own servntes being his Gentlemn. Vsher.

      This MS recorded in Sylvester, p. 286.

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

      George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
    • RaW 1054 ff. 175r-220v

      Copy, the title-page and most of ff. 176r-83v in an unidentified professional secretary hand, ff. 183v-220v in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, entitled Observations Polliticall and Civil, unascribed.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 222 (No. 17A.1).

      A treatise beginning A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families.... First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface To the Reader, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

      Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include T.B., for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, A Note on the Ralegh Canon, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State
    • NaR 33 ff. 221r-68v

      Copy, the title-page only in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, the rest in another professional secretary hand.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 222 (No. 17A.2).

      Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

      Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
    • ClE 12.5 ff. 318r-36v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page The Disparitie betweene the Earle of Essex and the late Duke of Buck:.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), where it is ascribed to Sir Henry Wotton. First ascribed to Clarendon in the third edition (1672). First published separately as The characters of Robert Earl of Essex … and George Duke of Buckingham (London, 1706). Reprinted in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (London, 1724), pp. 247-71, and in A Collection of several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727), I, 247-71.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Difference and Disparity betweene the Estates and Condicions of George Duke Buckingham and Robert Earle of Essex
    • WoH 262.7 ff. 337r-60r

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
    • CtR 369 ff. 571r-7v

      Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, as Wrytten by Sr: Robte Cotton, Knight, and Barronett, xxvijo: Aprill, 1624: By expresse Comaund, ffrom the Duke: of Buckingham.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 223 (No. 17A.4).

      Tract, addressed to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ... [27 April 1624]

  • MS 732

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe, 385 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.

    Once owned by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4.10.

    Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 223 (No. 18).

    • SiP 213 ff. 33r-45r

      Copy, ff. 38r-45r in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, as well as his title-page (f. 33r) The Coppye Off a Lre written by Sr: Phillipp: Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth, touching hir Marryage wth: Mounsieur, ff. 34r-7v in another professional secretary hand.

      This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 223 (No. 18.1) and p. 280 (No. 35), with facsimiles of ff. 33r and 45r on pp. 133 and 137.

      First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

      This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
    • RaW 618 ff. 68r-83r

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, with a title-page A Discourse of Warr Written by Sr Walter Raleigh followed by the fuller heading.

      A tract beginning The ordinary theme and argument of history is war.... First published (in part), as The Misery of Invasive Warre, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War
    • RaW 1063 ff. 103r-32v

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as Written by Sr Walter Raleigh.

      A treatise beginning Most writers accord that Mahomet which name in the Arabique signifies Indignation or Furie.... First published in London, 1637, with a dedication to Carew Ralegh. This is a synopsis of a translation (or a translation of a synopsis) of a work by Miguel de Luna: see Lefranc (1968), pp. 65-6.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Life and Death of Mahomet
    • DaJ 276 ff. 284r-385v

      Copy, ff. 285r-385v in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe but for a correction on f. 294r; the title-page (f. 284r) and two-line heading on f. 285r in yet another professional cursive secretary hand.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 223 (No. 18.2).

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

      Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

  • MS 734

    A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 390 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf.

    c.1635-40.

    Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4.12.

    Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 223-4 (No. 19).

    • KiT 18 ff. 191r-8r

      Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed The Coppye Off a Letter written by Mr: Thomas Killegrewe, dated att Orleans, the, vijo: daye of december, newe stile, 1635.

      Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 224 (No. 19.8).

      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
    • BcF 639 ff. 199r-208v

      Copy of a letter of advice by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke, in two professional secretary hands.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 75.7 ff. 208v-17r

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand.

      Written c.January 1611/12. First published in Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 265-70. Spedding, XI, 249-54.

      Francis Bacon, Advice to the King touching Sutton's Estate
    • BcF 719 ff. 217v-20v

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as writen by Sir francis Bacon.

      Spedding, VI, 595-7; discussed 592-4.

      Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth.... Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).

      Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King
    • BcF 728 ff. 220v-5r

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as written by the saide Sr frances Bacon late Lo: Chanc: of St Albans.

      Spedding, VI, 597-600; discussed 592-4.

      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 280 ff. 225r-6v

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as By Syr ffrances Bacon.

      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
    • BcF 723 ff. 227r-35r

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as by the Lo: Chancellor. Bacon.

      Spedding, VI, 600-4 (discussed p. 594).

      Francis Bacon, An Essay on Death
    • BcF 640 ff. 335r, 343r-57v, 359r-60r, 378v-87v

      Copy of various letters by Bacon, to Burghley, Essex, James I, Northampton, Sir John Davies, Tobie Mathews, Sir Edward Coke, and others, in a prefessional secretary hand, with a general title-page (f. 335r) Remarkable letters of the Lord Chancellors Bacons and others followed by a list of them partly in another hand.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 514 ff. 360v-65r

      Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1620/1, in a professional secretary hand.

      The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

  • MS 774

    A tall folio composite volume of ecclesiastical writings chiefly by Hooker, in various hands and paper sizes, with an index at the end, 85 leaves (plus some blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

    Collected, and sometimes annotated, by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, scholar.

    c.1640.

    Old pressmark D. 3. 3.

    • HkR 1 f. 56r-v

      Copy, in the predominantly italic hand of a scribe who worked for Archbishop Ussher and who also wrote HkR 2, HkR 6 and HkR 12, with corrections and annotations in Ussher's hand.

      This MS used as the printer's copy in 1641. Its authenticity discussed in Keble, I, xlviii-xlix. Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume III, with a facsimile of f. 56r on p. 450.

      First published in Certain briefe Treatises, written by diverse learned men, concerning the ancient and modern Government of the Church (Oxford, 1641). Keble, III, 460-5. Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 455-9.

      Richard Hooker, The Causes of the continuance of these Contentions concerning Church-government
    • HkR 26 ff. 56v-7r

      Copy, in the hand of Archbishop Ussher.

      Edited from this MS in Elrington and in Folger, Volume V. Discussed and attributed to Hooker in Laetitia Yeandle and P.G. Stanwood, Three Manuscript Sermon Fragments by Richard Hooker, Manuscripta, 21, No. 1 (March 1977), 33-7.

      A sermon beginning There is a dereliction of probation and reprobation, of utter refuseal, and a dereliction of triall onely. First published in Elrington, XVII (1864), xxiv-xxvi. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 399-401.

      Richard Hooker, Sermon on Matthew xxvii. 46
    • HkR 24 ff. 57r-9r

      Copy, in the hand of Archbishop Ussher.

      Edited from this MS in Elrington. Discussed and attributed to Hooker in Laetitia Yeandle and P.G. Stanwood, Three Manuscript Sermon Fragments by Richard Hooker, Manuscripta, 21, No. 1 (March 1977), 33-7.

      A sermon beginning God gave his people, the Jewes, a law, which law is set down in the 25th of Leviticus.... First published in Elrington, XVII (1864), xxvii-xxxviii. Folger edition, Volume V. pp. 402-13.

      Richard Hooker, Sermon on Hebrews ii. 14, 15
    • HkR 27 f. 59v

      Copy of part of a sermon, in the hand of Archbishop Ussher, imperfect, lacking the ending.

      Edited from this MS in Elrington and in Folger edition, Volume V, with a facsimile on p. 415. Discussed and attributed to Hooker in Laetitia Yeandle and P.G. Stanwood, Three Manuscript Sermon Fragments by Richard Hooker, Manuscripta, 21, No. 1 (March 1977), 33-7.

      Part of a sermon, beginning Unto the precept of honouring the Lord with our riches.... First published in Elrington, XVII (1864), xxxix-xli. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 414-17.

      Richard Hooker, Sermon on Proverbs iii. 9, 10
    • HkR 7 f. 60r

      A few notes taken from the first part of the sermon (that published in 1612) in the hand of Archbishop Ussher.

      First portion published in Oxford, 1612. Additional portion first published in Keble (1836). Keble (1888), III, 597-642. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 309-61.

      Richard Hooker, A Learned Sermon of the Nature of Pride
    • HkR 22 f. 60r

      A few brief references to the sermon, in the hand of Archbishop Ussher, beginning Mr. Hookers Remedye against sorrow....

      First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 643-53. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 367-77.

      Richard Hooker, A Remedy against Sorrow and Fear: Delivered in a Funeral Sermon
    • HkR 9 ff. 68v-71r

      Notes made by Archbishop Usser from Hooker's autograph notes (HkR 8), chiefly relating to Lib. VIII.

      Facsimile of f. 68v in Folger edition, Volume III, p. 541.

      Book VII first published in John Gauden's edition of the complete Polity (London 1662). For publication of other Books see individual Books below.

      Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

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