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  • MS Ogden 7/3

    A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, 27 leaves, in paper wrapper.

    c.1625-40.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 104.8 ff. [1r-11r]

      Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed Touchinge the Comendams att Whitehall the vjth of June Anno 1616: the xiiij Jacobi.

      Unpublished.

      Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. Arguments in the Case De Commenda
    • BcF 413 ff. [18r-27r]

      Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • MS Ogden 7/4

    A folio volume of parliamentary tracts and speeches, in two or more secretary hands, 37 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

    c.1624-8.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 516 ff. [5r-6v]

      Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

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

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
    • BcF 258 f. [8r-v]

      Copy, headed The Lo: Chancelors prayer.

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

      Francis Bacon, A Prayer, or Psalm

  • MS Ogden 7/7

    A quarto commonplace book of extracts, with a tipped-in insert, written from both ends, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf with green ties.

    Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.Mid-late 1630s.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 54.935 ff. 3r-39v passim

      Copious annotations by William Drake in a bound-in set of misnumbered pages 70-103 of the Second Book of a printed exemplum of the 1605 edition of The Advancement of Learning.

      Facsimile of ff. 17v-18r in Sharpe, p. 77.

      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
    • BcF 210.1 f. 43r-v

      Extracts, headed Lord Bacons Essays.

      Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
    • RaW 680.8 ff. 53r-5v

      Extracts, headed Some Obseruations drawen from [Sr Wal: Rawleigh deleted] Instructions to his son.

      A treatise in ten chapters, beginning There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends.... First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Instructions to his Son and to Posterity
    • FloJ 3.7 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1603.

      John Florio, Montaigne's Essays

  • MS Ogden 7/8

    A quarto commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 209 leaves, in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.

    Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1638.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 54.9365 ff. 13r-30v

      Copious annotations by William Drake in a bound-in set of misnumbered pages 79-103 of the Second Book of a printed exemplum of the 1605 edition of The Advancement of Learning.

      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
    • BcF 278 f. 32r

      Extracts.

      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 290.6 f. 196v-r rev.

      Extracts, headed Ex Bacono de Augmentis Scientiarum.

      First published in Opera, tomus primus (London, 1623). Spedding, I, 413-840.

      Francis Bacon, De augmentis scientiarum

  • MS Ogden 7/10

    Miscellany.

    17th century.
    • FloJ 3.8 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1603.

      John Florio, Montaigne's Essays
    • HrE 125.98 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII

  • MS Ogden 7/11

    A quarto commonplace book of extracts from state and legal writings, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.Mid-1630s.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • DaJ 255.5 ff. [13r-16r rev.]

      Extracts.

      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
    • BcF 748 [ff. 20r-1r]

      Extracts.

      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
    • EsR 178 f. 30r

      Extracts, headed Notes taken out of a letter of the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland being to travill.

      The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state....

      First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

      Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
    • CvG 45 f. 31r

      Extracts, headed Notes from Cardinall wolseies life taken out of George Candish his gentlman vsher.

      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
    • BcF 747 ff. 99v-98v rev.

      Extracts, headed Notes taken out of a Manscript called the Office of Compositions for Alienations. supposed to be written by Lo Bacon.

      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
    • DaJ 255.8 ff. 106v-103v rev.

      Extracts, headed Notes taken out of a booke of Sir John Davies in defence of the kings prerogative, with a reference to Stratton (from whom Drake borrowed books).

      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 Ogden 7/13

    An octavo commonplace book, in English and Latin, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 152 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1659.

    Owned by William Drake (1606-69) of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • LoT 16 f. [72r et seq

      Extracts from Lodge's translation, headed Ex Seneca obseruat, on 23 leaves.

      First published in London, 1614.

      Thomas Lodge, The Workes of L.A. Seneca both morrall and naturall
    • SiP 179 ff. [33r-7r]

      Extracts, headed Defence of Poesie by Sr. Phil Sydney.

      First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry

  • MS Ogden 7/17

    An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive italic hand, written from both ends, 151 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

    c.1650s.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000). Facsimile of f. 132 in Sharpe, p. 194.

    • HkR 77 ff. 3r-18v

      Extracts, headed Out of Mr Hookers preface and (f. 11r) Lib 1.

      Richard Hooker, Extracts

  • MS Ogden 7/21

    An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf with traces of ties.

    Compiled in part by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1630s-48.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • WoH 302 ff. 4r-10v

      A brief synopsis of part of the work, in Drake's hand, headed notes from a Discourse of the State of Christendom in ye yeare 1589, inscribed in the margin Lent me by Mr Stansby August the 10th 1633.

      A lengthy treatise, beginning After that I had lived many years in voluntary exile and banishment.... First published in London, 1657. Wotton's authorship is not certain.

      Sir Henry Wotton, The State of Christendom
    • BcF 100 ff. 15r-16r

      Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed Notes taken from the Argument of Sir ffrancis Bacon in the Case of the Post Nati of of [sic] Scotland in the Exchequer Chamber he being then Solliciter / Mr Hall hath the Originall.

      First published in Three Speeches of The Right Honorable, Sir Francis Bacon (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 637-79.

      Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. Argument in the Case of the Post-Nati of Scotland
    • BcF 414 ff. 17r-18r

      Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed Ex eodem libro Mr Hall, A speech of Naturalization. by Bacon.

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
    • AndL 4.5 ff. 23r-4r

      Extracts from Bishop Andrews on the Commandments, in Drake's hand.

      Unpublished.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons on the Sixth and Seventh Commandments. 17 February 1593/4 - 28 July 1594
    • RaW 679.91 f. 26r

      Extracts, in a cursive hand, headed Sr Walter Rawley of Phillip of Macedon Hist: 135 page.

      First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
    • BrT 5.911 ff. 27r-34v

      Extracts, in a cursive hand, headed Out of Dr Brownes Enquiries.

      First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).

      Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths
    • AndL 13.7 ff. 56r-69v

      Extracts, in a cursive italic hand, headed Out of Dr Andrewes his Sermons.

      Unpublished.

  • MS Ogden 7/22

    An octavo commonplace book, in at least two cursive italic hands, 187 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1650.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 54.937 ff. 125r-6r

      Extracts, headed Sentences out of Bacons Aduancemt.

      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
    • BcF 691 ff. 126v-9v

      Extracts, headed Certaine choice places out of Seneca, Aristot & Bacon.

      Francis Bacon, Extracts
    • BcF 110.2 ff. 130r-47v

      Extracts, in two cursive italic hands, headed Secunda pars Baconi / of friendship.

      A tract beginning I do not find it strange (excellent King).... First published in London, 1603. Spedding, X, 90-9.

      Francis Bacon, A Brief Discourse touching the Happy Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland
    • HbT 19.8 f. 186r-v

      Extracts, headed Mr Hobs his booke of human Nature / Of Prudence.

      First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).

      Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

  • MS Ogden 7/24

    An octavo volume of extracts chiefly from classical and Renaissance historical works, in vellum boards.

    Mid-17th century.
    • FxJ 1.155 passim

      Extracts.

      First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

      John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

  • MS Ogden 7/25

    An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in a single cursive hand, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1640s.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 85.8 f. 3v

      Extracts, headed Ld Bacons judgement of Apothegmes.

      A collection of Bacon's Apothegmes first published in London, 1625. An enlarged collection published in Resuscitatio, 2nd edition (London, 1661). Further enlarged in Spedding, VII, 111-86. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 209-78, 647-52.

      Francis Bacon, Apothegms New and Old
    • BcF 54.938 f. 129r-v

      Extracts, headed Concerning Dispersed occasions from some parables of Salomon by Ld Bacon Aduanc. pag 372.

      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 Ogden 7/26

    An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, 181 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    Partly compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1640s.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 210.3 ff. 179v-175v rev.

      Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed Of Negotiating, inscribed in the margin Bacon.

      Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
    • BcF 215.13 ff. 175r-174v rev.

      Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed Bacons Hen: 7. pag: 204.

      First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

      Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII

  • MS Ogden 7/27

    An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive mixed hand, 197 leaves (including numerous blanks), in old reversed calf.

    c.1650.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 641 ff. 3r-10r

      Copy of several letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Northumberland, and Tobie Mathews, headed Sr franc. Bacons Letts.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • BcF 720 f. 10v

      An abridgement, headed Frs Bacons Essay of a King.

      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 54.939 ff. 22r-34r

      Extracts, headed Sentences out of Bacons Advancement.

      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 Ogden 7/28

    An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive italic hand, 101 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    c.1630s.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 210.4 f. 5r-v

      Extracts, headed Bacons Essays.

      Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
    • WoH 295.8 passim

      Extracts.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (1651), pp. 309-35.

      Sir Henry Wotton, Philosophical Survey of Education

  • MS Ogden 7/29

    An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 193 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.

    Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1635-40s.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 54.941 f. 63r-v

      Extracts, headed Bacons aduancement pag: 73.

      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
    • JnB 731 ff. 141r-2v

      Extracts, headed Ben Johnsons Seianus.

      First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.

      Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall
    • SuJ 161.8 f. 143r

      Extracts from Aglaura, Act I, scene iv, lines 95-103, beginning Ambition seemes all things and yet is none, headed Sr John Suckling.

      First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.

      John Suckling, Aglaura

  • MS Ogden 7/30

    An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in two or more cursive hands, 184 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

    c.1640s-50s.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 210.6 ff. 110v-41r

      Extracts, headed Notes taken out of Bacons Essayes Relateing to Gouernmt and, on f. 134v, Obseruat. out of seueral Essaies.

      Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

  • MS Ogden 7/31

    An octavo commonplace book of extracts from religious and philosophical works, in English and Latin, in a cursive mixed hand, 207 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

    c.1640s.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    • BcF 228.1 f. 202v

      Extract, headed Out of Sr fra. Bacons New Atlantis.

      First published, edited by William Rawley (as A Worke unfinished), with Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1627). Spedding, III, 125-66.

      Francis Bacon, New Atlantis

  • MS Ogden 7/32

    A sextodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in contemporary calf.

    c.1640s-60s.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    • AndL 13.8 f. 23r

      Extracts, headed Dr Andrewes, beginning All things haue a time saith Salomon Eccles. 3.1....

      Unpublished.

  • MS Ogden 7/33

    A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts from historical works, in a cursive hand, written from both ends, 81 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

    Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1640.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • RaW 679.92 f. 25v

      Extract, headed The Character of Epamanondas by Sir Walter Rawley, beginning He was graue and yet very affable....

      First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

  • MS Ogden 7/37

    An octavo commonplace book, largely in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 184 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Owned by, and with some entries in the cursive hand of, William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1640s.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • RaW 679.93 ff. 184v-183v rev.

      Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed Some obseruations out of Sir walter Rawleies history of the world.

      First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

  • MS Ogden 7/38

    A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 117 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards gilt.

    c.1630.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • LeC 80 f. 3r

      Extracts, headed Leicesters Commonwealth.

      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
    • BcF 210.8 f. 115v

      Extract from Bacon's essay Of Innovations, untitled.

      Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
    • RaW 679.94 ff. 116v-r rev. [2v-r rev.]

      Extracts, headed Out of Sr wal: Rauley the Preface.

      First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
    • AsR 3.2 passim

      Extracts from an abridgement made by John Ward (1679?-1758).

      First published in London, 1570. Ed. Lawrence V. Ryan (Ithaca, NY, 1967).

      Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster

  • MS Ogden 7/41

    An octavo volume of state letters, largely in a single mixed hand, 76 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Owned, and annotated at the end, by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1635.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 642 ff. 38r-[73v]

      Copy of over thirty letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Robert Cecil, Sir John Davies, Edward Coke, Northumberland, Toby Mathew, and others.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

  • MS Ogden 7/45

    An octavo commonplace book of tracts and extracts, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 186 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

    Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1640s.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 75.8 ff. 3r-5r

      Copy, headed Touching Suttons Hospitall / Sir ffrancis Bacon to the King.

      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
    • RaW 728.268 ff. 7r-11v

      Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

      Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • FuT 6.6 f. 166v-r rev.

      Extracts, headed ffullers holy State.

      First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).

      Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
    • FuT 5.237 ff. 172v-166v rev.

      Extracts, headed ffullers Holy War.

      First published in Cambridge, 1639.

      Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

  • MS Ogden 7/46

    A folio volume of state treatises, chiefly in two professional secretary hands, 210 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 692 f. [1r-v]

      Extracts, in a non-professional secretary hand, headed Sir ffrancis Bacon and beginning There be two things which the King cannot doe without Parlament....

      Francis Bacon, Extracts
    • DaJ 278 ff. [2r-80r]

      Copy, as by Sr John Davies Kt, in a professional secretary hand.

      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 Ogden 7/51

    An octavo volume of proceedings in Parliament, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 95 leaves, in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.

    Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1640s.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • RuB 197.5 f. 74r rev.

      Copy of a summary of an interjection, six lines, headed Sr Beiamin Rud:, beginning ...[he] said that we should make so many examples..., dated April 1641.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, April 1641

  • MS Ogden 7/52

    An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 156 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

    c.1641.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

    • BcF 415 ff. 2r-15v

      Copies of, or extracts from, several speeches by Bacon, headed Notes taken out of Sir ffrancis Bacons speeches vppon seuerall occasions out of a Mascript, including speeches addressed to Sergeant Hutton, to Sir William Jones, to the judges in Star Chamber, at the arraignments of Lord Sanquier and the Earl of Somerset, and when he became Lord Chancellor (1617).

      Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

  • MS Ogden 8

    Copy, closely written in a professional secretary hand, on five folio leaves, in modern vellum boards.

    Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    c.1592.
    • BcF 74
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract beginning It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised.... First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.

      Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England

  • MS Ogden 16

    A formal partly autograph copy, probably made for presentation, with separate title-pages for the second booke (p. 259) and third booke (p. 323), 478 folio pages, in old purple velvet.

    The Dedication to the Queen (pp. 1-49) entirely in Howard's italic hand and signed Henry Hwward, the main text in the accomplished hand of one of his principal amanuenses; with some of the sidenotes in Books 1 and 2 and all those in Book 3 also in Howard's italic hand.

    Late 16th century.

    Inscribed (down the margin of p. 248) William Trumbull, possibly the son (1594-1668) or grandson (1639-1716) of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), diplomat. Later owned by Lord Brougham and Vaux [? Henry Peter Brougham (1778-1868), first Baron, Lord Chancellor] whose monogram is stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Afterwards in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector.

    Facsimile of p. 442r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate II after p. 272.

    • *HoH 84
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • MS Ogden 36

    A folio volume of four tracts, the first three of them in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, 83 leaves, in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

    c.1625-40.

    Mostyn MS 262 (MS 56 in 1744), from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 361. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 250 (No. 77).

    • ToC 6 ff. [65r-9r]

      Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, as Written by mr: Serill Turneur and Dedicated to the most vnderstandinge, and the most worthie Ladie, the Ladie Theodosia Cecill: Dated, ano [blank], subscribed Serill Tourneur:.

      This MS recorded (but not seen) in Nicoll, pp. 330-6. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 250 (No. 77.2).

      A character, beginning He came of a parent, that counselled the state into piety, honour and power..., and dedicated to Lady Theodosia Cecil. First published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton (Oxford, 1907), II, 487-9. Nicoll, pp. 259-63.

      Cyril Tourneur, The Character of Robert Earl of Salisbury

  • MS Ogden 40

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sr Thomas Overburye His observations vpon ye State of ye 7tene Provinces and of France, and first vpon yt. of the Provinces Vnited, 75 small quarto leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

    Early 17th century.

    Loosely inserted is a letter about the MS by Edward Arleer of Scarborough to its owner L.A.B. Waller, of 5 Talbot Road, Tottenham, 11 August 1883. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    • OvT 55
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract beginning All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State.... First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

      Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

  • MS Ogden 42

    A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

    The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

    c.Late 1650s.

    Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

    • ToA 13 pp. 1-3

      Copy of the full 62-line text, subscribed Philobasileus [i.e. lover of the king].

      Full version unpublished. Fragments of a poem on the death of Charles I, comprising ten lines (versions of lines 51-52, 47-48, 23-26, 35-36), edited in Vita Sackville West, Knole and the Sackvilles (London, 1922), pp. 106-7. Edited thence in Brown, p. 70.

      Aurelian Townshend, An Elegie vpon the best of Kinges CHARLES the first Kinge of Great Brittayne ('So much too much, in many meaner Theames')
    • ToA 2 pp. 5-6

      Copy of the full text, headed The Answere, subscribed AT.

      The Answere

      An unpublished 44-line answer to a previous poem (Ogden MS, pp. 3-4) To my worthy freind A:T: inviteinge him to write somethinge on the Lord Francis Villers slayne in these vnciuill Warrs at Kingston vpon Thames (beginning Friend! Though perhapps you'le say y'are old), subscribed CR [? Carew Ralegh].

      Aurelian Townshend, An Answere ('Sr / It is too true! Lord Francis is deceast')
    • MaA 23.5 pp. 6-7

      Copy.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda ('When Death, shall part us from these Kids')
    • CaW 43 pp. 8-9

      Copy.

      First published in Works (1651), pp. 220-1. Evans, pp. 473-4.

      William Cartwright, Sadness ('Whiles I this standing Lake')
    • HeR 207.8 pp. 9-10

      Copy, headed A Diologue vpon the Princes Birth sung betweene Amintas, Mirtillo & Amarillis.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.

      Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere ('Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse')
    • WaE 111.8 pp. 12-16

      Copy, headed The Lady Katherine Howards Voyage and Enterteynement, aboard the Triumph by the Earle of Northumberland he being then Lord High Admirall.

      This MS collated in Raylor, with a facsimile of p. 12 on p. 215.

      Firsr published, and attributed to Waller, in Timothy Raylor, A new poem by Waller? Lady Katherine Howard, the Earl of Northumberland, and an Entertainment on board the Triumph, EMS, 13 (2007), 211-31 (pp. 223-7). The attribution supported in John Burrows, A Computational Approach to the Authorship of Lady Katherine Howard's Voyage, EMS, 13 (2007), 232-49.

      Edmund Waller, The Lady Katherine Howards Voyage and Enterteynement, aboard the Triumph by the Earle of Northumberland he being then Lord High Admirall ('Madame / Mixt with the Greatest, a Grand Day at Court')
    • ToA 39 pp. 26-9

      Copy.

      First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

      Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox ('There is no Lover, hee or shee')
    • CwT 1064.5 pp. 32-3

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.

      Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris ('Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)')
    • HeR 327.9 pp. 33-4

      Copy, headed Innocent Love, subscribed in another hand AT.

      First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

      Robert Herrick, 'Hide not thy love and mine shall be'
    • ToA 78 pp. 34-5

      Copy, headed Vpon a Smile of the Lady May, here beginning Yr Smiles are not as other woemens are.

      First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889). p. 126. Chambers, p. 17. Brown, p. 23.

      Aurelian Townshend, 'Your smiles are not as other womens bee'
    • StW 866.5 p. 54

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Keepe on your Vayle, & hide your Eye.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

      William Strode, Song ('Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye')
    • B&F 26.5 p. 55

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song ('Take o take those lipps away')
    • CaW 102 p. 56

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      Henry Lawes's musical setting of the first six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.

      William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song ('Come from a Dungeon to the Throne')
    • CmT 177.5 pp. 68-9

      Copy, untitled.

      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'
    • JnB 674.4 pp. 71-3

      Copy, untitled.

      First published together with The Masques of Blackness and Beauty (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 243-63 (p. 252).

      Ben Jonson, The Haddington Masque, lines 86 et seq. Song ('Beauties, haue yee seene this toy')
    • LoR 44.8 pp. 74-5

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

      Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
    • B&F 8.8 pp. 77-8

      Copy of the song, untitled, here beginning Cast your Caps & Care away.

      Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song ('Cast our Caps and cares away!')
    • CaW 4 pp. 82-5

      Copy, headed A Songe. Ariadne on ye Rock deserted by Theseus.

      First published in Works (1651), pp. 238-42. Evans, pp. 488-91.

      William Cartwright, Ariadne deserted by Theseus, as She sits upon a Rock in the Island Naxos, thus complains ('Theseus! O Theseus heark! but yet in vain')
    • KiW 11 p. 88

      Copy of the song, untitled.

      Sir William Killigrew, Selindra, Act III. Song ('Come come thou glorious obiect of my sight')
    • GrJ 7 pp. 90-1

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning A Restless Lover I espy'd, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'A Lover once I did espy'
    • ShJ 74.5 p. 92

      Copy, headed A Song.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6. Also in The Cardinal, Act V, scene iii, printed in Six New Playes (London, 1652-3). Gifford & Dyce, V, 271-352 (pp. 344-5). Musical setting by William Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652) and in John Playford, The Musical Companion, 2nd edition (London, 1673). Edited from the latter in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E.M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), p. 162.

      James Shirley, Strephon, Daphne ('Come my Daphne, come away')
    • DaW 50.5 pp. 96-8

      Copy, untitled.

      First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 168-70, 311-12.

      Sir William Davenant, Song. The Dying Lover ('Dear Love let me this Evening dy!')
    • CmT 74.5 pp. 105-6

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 152-3.

      Thomas Campion, 'Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee'
    • KiH 583.5 p. 109

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

      Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
    • KiH 599.5 pp. 109-10

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

      Henry King, Sonnet ('Tell mee no more how faire shee is')
    • KiH 133.5 pp. 110-11

      Copy, untitled and here beginning Why slight'st thou her whom I approve?.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

      Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
    • RaW 185.8 p. 113

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Like Hermit poore in pensive place obscure.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore ('Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure')
    • ToA 22 p. 114

      Copy, untitled and unascribed.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 34. Chambers, p. 3. Brown, pp. 66-7.

      Aurelian Townshend, 'Let not thy beauty make thee proud'
    • LoR 19.5 pp. 114-15

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 24. (1930), pp. 26-7. A musical setting by Thomas Charles published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Richard Lovelace, The Scrutinie. Song ('Why should you sweare I am forsworn')
    • KiH 368.6 p. 133

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Farewell! farewell fond Love under whose childish whipp.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

      Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')
    • SuJ 55.5 p. 138

      Copy, untitled, here beginning No more fayre Heretick, it needs must be.

      First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene iv, lines 4-23. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 63-4.

      A musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662) published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). See also John P. Cutts, Drexel Manuscript 4041, MD, 18 (1946), 151-202 (p. 166), where it is argued that the setting is probably by William Lawes (1602-45).

      John Suckling, Song ('No, no faire Heretique, it needs must bee')
    • ToA 68 pp. 145-6

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

      Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury ('Victorious beauty, though your eyes')
    • GrJ 76 pp. 150-1

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Since ev'ry one I come among.

      First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'Since every man I come among'
    • WaE 438.5 pp. 157-8

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Chloris farewell I needs must goe.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Chloris! farewell. I now must go')
    • DaW 11.8 pp. 203-7

      Copy.

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 158-62.

      Sir William Davenant, Epithalamium. The morning after the Marriage of the Earl of Barymore with Mrs. Martha Laurence ('A Lover is a high and mighty Thing!')
    • ToA 15 pp. 209-10

      Copy, headed An Elegie on the Death of the Right honble Mr Edward Sackvile.

      First published in C.J. Phillips, History of the Sackville Family, 2 vols (London, 1930), II, 383-4. Brown, pp. 68-9.

      Aurelian Townshend, An Elegie upon the untymely death of the rightly honorable Edward Sackville ('There was a Tyme and that not long agoe')
    • PsK 248.5 p. 215

      Copy, headed Mis Phillipps Elegie On The Death of her sonn and here beginning Twice forty month of wedlock I did stay.

      First published, as Orinda upon little Hector Philips, in Poems (1667), pp. 148-9. Saintsbury, pp. 590-1. Hageman (1987), p. 599. Thomas, I, 220, poem 101.

      Katherine Philips, On the death of my first and dearest childe, Hector Philipps, borne the 23d of Aprill, and dy'd the 2d of May 1655, set by Mr Lawes ('Twice Forty moneths in wedlock I did stay')
    • PsK 318.8 pp. 217-20

      Copy, headed Orinda, To Parthenia A shaddow of Rosania and subscribed Ka. Ph:.

      First published in Poems (1664), pp. 94-9. Poems (1667), pp. 48-50. Saintsbury, pp. 535-7. Thomas, I, 117-20, poem 34.

      Katherine Philips, Rosania shaddow'd whilest Mrs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 ('If any could my dear Rosania hate')
    • PsK 588 p. 221

      Copy of a letter by Philips (Orinda), to Lady Fletcher (the noble Parthenia), undated.

      Edited and discussed in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (Oxford, 1998), pp. 148, 281.

      Katherine Philips, Letter(s)
    • DeJ 39.5 pp. 230-1

      Copy, headed Song.

      First published in Sportive Wit (London, 1656). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 180-1.

      Sir John Denham, Martial. Epigram Out of an Epigram of Martial ('Prithee die and set me free')
    • ToA 41 pp. 237-8

      Copy, headed A Dialogue betwixt Tyme & a Pilgrim, subscribed AT.

      Unpublished song of five sestains.

      Aurelian Townshend, Song ('I have bene Northward o' tother side Trent')
    • ToA 75 pp. 238-9

      Copy, headed Partinge, subscribed A T.

      First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 19. Chambers, p. 12. Brown, p. 61.

      Aurelian Townshend, 'When we were parted'
    • ToA 43 pp. 239-40

      Copy, headed Youth & Beauty, subscribed AT..

      First published, in a musical setting by Lawes and headed Youth and Beauty, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 29. Chambers, p. 5. Brown, pp. 62-3.

      Aurelian Townshend, 'Thou art soe faire, and young withall'
    • ToA 5 pp. 240-1

      Copy, headed Sufferance, subscribed AT.

      First published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 20. Chambers, p. 11. Brown, pp. 64-5.

      Aurelian Townshend, 'Delicate Beauty, why should you disdaine'
    • ToA 25 p. 241

      Copy, headed On his hearing her Matie sing, subscribed AT.

      First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 21. Chambers, p. 13. Brown, pp. 46-7.

      Aurelian Townshend, On hearing her Majesty sing ('I have beene in Heav'n, I thinke')
    • ToA 46 pp. 242-3

      Copy, headed A Description of Cloris, subscribed AT.

      First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 20. Chambers, pp. 9-10. Brown, pp. 57-9.

      Aurelian Townshend, 'Thou Shepheard, whose intentive eye'
    • ToA 7 pp. 243-4

      Copy, headed A Dialogue betwixt Tyme & a Pilgrim, subscribed AT.

      First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 3. Chambers, pp. 6-7. Brown, pp. 43-5.

      Aurelian Townshend, A Dialogue betwixt Time and a Pilgrime ('Aged man, that mowes these fields')
    • ToA 93 pp. 244-5

      Copy, headed A Bacchanall and here beginning Bacchus J'accus fill our Braynes, subscribed AT.

      First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 9. Chambers, pp. 7-8. Brown, pp. 115-16.

      Aurelian Townshend, A Bacchanall in a maske before their Majestys, 1636 ('Bacchus, I-acchus, fill our braines')
    • ToA 72 p. 246

      Copy, headed To Henry & William Lawes Brothers Servants to his Matie vppon ye setting of Mr Sandys's Psalmes into musique, subscribed A. T:.

      First published among commendatory verses in Choice Psalms put into Musicke, for three Voices. Composed by Henry and William Lawes, Brothers: and Seervants to his Majestie (London, 1648). Chambers, pp. 44-5. Brown, p. 122.

      Aurelian Townshend, To the Incomparable Brothers, Mr. Henry, and Mr. William Lawes (Servants to His Majestie) upon the setting of these Psalmes ('The various Musick, both for Aire and Art')
    • ToA 1 pp. 248-9

      Copy, subscribed AT.

      Unpublished poem of three quatrains.

      Aurelian Townshend, Adoration to Sylvia (''Tis Summer now since thou art come')
    • StW 68.5 pp. 249, 249 bis, 250

      Copy, headed A Song Made when King Charles was at Plimouth and here beginning A Riddle a Riddle me neighbour John.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, A Devonshire Song, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

      William Strode, A Devonshire Song ('Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan')

  • MS Ogden 48

    A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 76 leaves (plus blanks), in later calf gilt.

    Inscribed (f. 76v) good mr / Mr W / Mr Wally. Bookplate of James P. R. Lyell (1871-1948), book collector. Afterwards in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector

    • CtR 371 ff. [15v-20v]

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by Sr Robert Cotton the 27 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]
    • CtR 518 ff. [48r-76r]

      Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed Considerations for the represseing of the increase of Preistes Jesuites and Recusantes without Draweinge of Blood by Sr Robt Cotton.

      Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads..., dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

  • Ogden A 50

    A printed exemplum presented to Alexander Dicsone by Bruno, with the latter's inscribed dedication to him D Alexandro Dicsono Bonarum literarum optime merito...in sui memoriam, & amicitiæ..., in contemporary vellum gilt.

    c.1584.

    Later owned by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary. Afterwards sold by David and Robert Freebairn, Edinburgh book auctioners (fl. 1703-37).

    Recorded in Beal, Sidney's Letter, p. 40, n. 13. Facsimiles of the inscription in Rita Sturlese, Un nuovo autografo del Bruno, Rinascimento, 27 (1987), 387-91, and in John Bossy, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair (New Haven & London, 1991), p. 277.

    • DiA 8
      No description or publication history available.
      Alexander Dicsone, Bruno, Giordano. De umbris idearum (Paris, 1582)

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