Folger Shakespeare Library
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University of Chicago

  • Bacon MS 4187

    Autograph letter signed, to Lady Anne Drury, [c. January 1608/9?].

    c.1609.
    • *HlJ 86
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

  • Bacon MS 4199

    Drafts on a single leaf.

    • *DnJ 4144 recto
      Autograph

      An autograph draft by Donne for a letter by Sir Robert and Lady Drury to Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, c.December 1611.

      John Donne, Document(s)
    • *DnJ 4145 verso
      Autograph

      An autograph draft by Donne for a letter by Sir Robert and Lady Drury to Sir David Murray, c. December 1611.

      John Donne, Document(s)

  • Bacon MS 4202

    An autograph draft by Donne for a letter by Lady Drury to the Duchesse de Bouillon, [June 1612].

    1612.

    Facsimile in R.C. Bald, Donne & the Drurys (Cambridge, 1959), Plate VI facing p. 101.

    • *DnJ 4146
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Donne, Document(s)

  • Bacon MS 4203

    A copy in Donne's hand, probably made for Sir Robert Drury, of a letter by Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, to Henry Howard, Earl of Nottingham, 8 October [1612].

    1612.

    Facsimile in The Sir Nicholas Bacon Collection: An Exhibition at the Joseph Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago (April-June 1972), p. 79.

    • *DnJ 4147
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Donne, Document(s)

  • Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection / Bacon, Francis [ca. 1621 April 22]

    Copy of Bacon's supplication 21 April 1621, in a professional italic hand, on the first three rectos of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed on the eighth page in another hand 1621 / Submission de Mil: Chanceler faite au Parlemt.

    • BcF 517
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

  • MS 109

    A small quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts, in several hands, 77 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

    Parts once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1631), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 150, to Coleman. Bookplate of Charles Golding (1865). Purchased in 1925 from Lange.

    • AndL 33.5 ff. 22r-7v.

      Copy, in an italic hand, headed Historia de Articulis Lambethanis.

      First published in Articuli Lambethani (London, 1651). LACT, Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine (1846), pp. 287-300.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Judgment of the Lambeth Articles

  • MS 115

    Copy of an abbreviated version, closely written in a single cursive predominantly secretary hand, transcribed from a printed edition, imperfect, lacking the beginning and end, c.240 folio leaves, in vellum boards, inscribed on the cover in red ink Acts and Monuments of the Christian Martrs.

    Early 17th century.

    Coppenheim & Co., sale catalogue No. II (1924), item 160.

    • FxJ 1
      No description or publication history available.

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

      John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

  • MS 220

    A folio volume of antiquarian tracts on parliament, largely in one secretary hand, ii + 60 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.

    c.1630s.

    Once owned by Richard St George (d.1635), Clarenceux Ling of Arms. Sir Henry St George sale, London, 27 November 1738, lot 209. Purchased in 1928 from Dobell.

    • CmW 80 ff. 54v-8r

      Copy, headed The Antiquitie of Parliamts in England written by Mr William Cambden, Authour of the Brittania.

      A tract beginning That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here.... First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

      William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England
    • CtR 73 ff. 59r-60v

      Copy, headed The Antiquitie of Parliamt in England Written by some Anonymous Antiquary.

      A tract beginning As touching the nature of the Right Courte of Parliament, It is nothing else but the Kinges greate councell.... Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.

      Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitie of Parliaments

  • MS 262

    Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, unascribed, 82 quarto pages, in contemporary limp vellum, with traces of ties.

    Early 17th century.

    Middle Hill bookplate of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 22. Phillipps sale 1893, lot 279, to Ellis. In the library of Sir Thomas Brooke. Sale of Sir John A. Brooke, London, 1921, lot 750, to Last. Purchased in 1926.

    • CtR 32
      No description or publication history available.

      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 264

    A quarto volume comprising speeches in Parliament 1640-40/1, in a single mixed hand, 52 leaves, in modern cloth.

    c.1640s.

    Later owned by Edward Dowden (1843-1913), and with a tipped-in letter to him about the MS by David Masson, 4 May 1875. Dowden sale, London 9 June 1914, to Dobell. Purchased in 1928.

    • WaE 797 ff. 19r-13r

      Copy, headed Mr Waller's speech in Parliament April. 15 1640.

      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
    • RuB 174 ff. 27r-30r

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamine Rudder's speech in Parliamt. Nov: 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
    • RuB 184 f. 36r

      Copy, headed Sr Beniamine Ruddierd's speech in Parliamt. 29o. decemb: 1640.

      Speech beginning The principal part of this business is money.... Manning, pp. 166-7.

      Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640

  • MS 551

    A quarto verse miscellany, in possibly one neat rounded hand, entitled A Collection of Miscellany Poems on Different Subjects To which is subjond pastorals by Mr Philips 1730, ii + 37 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

    1730.
    • LeN 11.8 f. 1r

      Copy of Roxana's speech, beginning Away, begone and give a Whirlewind room, headed A Description of passion in its purity without mixture of Reason from Nath: Lees Alexander.

      First published in London, 1677. Stroup & Cooke, I, 211-83.

      Nathaniel Lee, The Rival Queens: or, The Death of Alexander the Great

  • MS 553

    A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end Finis August ye. 6th 1717.

    1715-17.
    • DrJ 397 passim

      Various extracts and copies, notably on pp. 25, 44-5, 104-5, 332-49, 189-90, 189-90.

      John Dryden, Extracts
    • CoA 297 passim

      Various extracts and copies, notably on pp. 2, 4, 44, 47-9, 196, 206, 222, 225-6, 229, 242, 253, 264, 270, 273-5, 280, 282, 286, 350-4.

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • DeJ 22 pp. 6-8

      Copy.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 103-6.

      Sir John Denham, A Dialogue between Sir John Pooley and Mr. Thomas Killigrew ('To thee, Dear Thom. my self addressing')
    • OtT 29 p. 15

      Eight lines of verse, headed Woman and beginning Thou art Woman! a true Copy of ye first, subscribed Otway.

      Thomas Otway, Extracts
    • MnJ 143 p. 19
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Extracts
    • DeJ 7.1 p. 52

      Extracts, fourteen lines headed Covetousness in Old Age and beginning Of Ages Avarice I cannot see, subscribed Denham.

      Banks, pp. 202-32.

      Sir John Denham, Cato Major ('Though all the Actions of your Life are crown'd')
    • MaA 154 pp. 81-6

      Copy.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')
    • RoJ 104.53 pp. 88-92

      Copy, subscribed Rochester.

      See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')
    • DoC 191 p. 110

      Copy, headed On ye. Countess of D--r.

      This MS collated in POAS.

      First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) ('Proud with the spoils of royal cully')
    • RoJ 537 pp. 114-18

      Copy, subscribed Rochester.

      First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells ('At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head')
    • MaA 268 p. 141

      Copy, headed On Blood's stealing ye. Crown.

      First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

      This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')
    • DrJ 131 pp. 153-4

      Copy

      First published (on a leaf also issued separately) in Albion and Albanius (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 456-8. California, XV, 14-15. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 421-3.

      John Dryden, Prologue To the Opera [Albion and Albanius] ('Full twenty years and more, our lab'ring Stage')
    • DrJ 132 pp. 154-6

      Copy, subscribed Dryden.

      First published in later exempla of King Arthur: or, The British Worthy (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 564-5. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 248-52.

      John Dryden, Prologue to the Opera [King Arthur] Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('Sure there's a Dearthy of Wit in this dull Town')
    • BrW 206.8 p. 160

      Copy of lines 1-6, headed On ye Countess of Penbroke.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
    • VaJ 8 p. 183

      Copy, subscribed Vanbrook.

      First published, ascribed to Mr Vanbrook, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

      Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair ('Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse')
    • DrJ 110 pp. 198-9

      Copy.

      First published in Nathaniel Lee, Sophonisba, 2nd edition (London, 1681). Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 211-12. California, I, 160-1. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 413-16.

      John Dryden, The Prologue at Oxford, 1680 ('Thespis, the first Professor of our Art')
    • CgW 25 p. 200

      Copy.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 79. Dobrée, pp. 284-5. McKenzie, II, 369.

      William Congreve, Lesbia ('When Lesbia first I saw so heavn'ly Fair')
    • CgW 13 p. 201

      Copy, subscribed Congreve.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as Amoret). McKenzie, II, 369.

      Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

      William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret ('Fair Amoret is gone astray')
    • CgW 37 p. 201

      Copy, headed A song and here beginning Ah! wt pains, wt racking thoughts he proves.

      First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 75. Dobrée, p. 241 and McKenzie, II, 322 (both as Absence and beginning Ah! what Pains, what racking Thoughts he proves). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 4-8.

      William Congreve, Song ('Alas! what Pains, what racking Thoughts he proves')
    • CgW 40 p. 203

      Copy, subscried Congreve.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 75. Dobrée, pp. 239-40. McKenzie, II, 320.

      William Congreve, Song ('I Look'd, and I sigh'd, and I wish'd, and I wish'd I cou'd speak')
    • DrJ 157 pp. 207-8

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 374-5. California, I, 164-5. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 371-3.

      John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford ('Discord, and Plots which have undone our Age')
    • RoJ 393 p. 208

      Copy of part of the poem, headed Kindness.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

      First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

      Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')
    • DrJ 159 pp. 213-14

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 375-6. California, I, 155-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 304-5.

      John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford ('Tho' Actors cannot much of Learning boast')
    • DrJ 134 pp. 219-20

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 380-1. California, II, 188-9. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 146-7.

      John Dryden, Prologue to the Princess of Cleves ('Ladies! (I hope there's none behind to hear,)')
    • DrJ 39 pp. 220-1

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 381-2. California, II, 189-90. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 147-8.

      John Dryden, Epilogue to the Princess of Cleves ('A Qualm of conscience brings me back agen')
    • RoJ 375 p. 229

      Copy of an eight-line version headed A song, beginning Too late alas! I must confess, and ascribed to Rochester.

      First published, as an additional stanza to the song While on those lovely looks I gaze, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, p. 13. Walker, p. 22. Love, p. 32. An eight-line version beginning Too late, alas! I must confess published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693), in Vieth, p. 174, and in Walker, p. 22.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('At last you'll force me to confess')
    • DrJ 129 pp. 231-2

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS.

      First published (with two Epilogues) in London, 1682. The Duke of Guise (London, 1683). Kinsley, I, 326-7. POAS, III (1968), 274-7. Danchin, IV, 432-6. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 135-9.

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Duke of Guise. Spoken by Mr. Smith ('Our Play's a Parallel: The Holy League')
    • DrJ 33 pp. 232-4

      Copy.

      First published (with the Prologue and Another Epilogue) in London, 1682. The Duke of Guise (London, 1683). Kinsley, I, 327-8. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 139-42.

      John Dryden, Epilogue [to The Duke of Guise] Spoken by Mrs. Cooke ('Much Time and Trouble this poor Play has cost')
    • DrJ 21 pp. 235bis-6

      Copy.

      First published in Don Sebastian, King of Portugal (London, 1690). Kinsley, II, 555-6. California, XV, 218-19. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 230-1.

      John Dryden, Epilogue To Don Sebastian, King of Portugall Spoken betwixt Antonio and Morayma ('I Quak'd at heart for fear the Royal Fashion')
    • DrJ 20 pp. 237-8

      Copy.

      First published in Amphitryon. or, The Two Socia's (London, 1690). Kinsley, II, 559-60. California, XV, 317-18. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 237-8.

      John Dryden, Epilogue [to Amphitryon] spoken by Phaedra. Mrs. Mountfort ('I'm thinking, (and it almost makes me mad,')
    • RoJ 226 p. 241

      Copy.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • DrJ 111 p. 248

      Copy.

      First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 377. California, I, 144. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 266-7.

      John Dryden, Prologue for the Women, when they Acted at the Old Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields ('Were none of you Gallants e're driven so hard')
    • DrJ 252 p. 249

      Copy, headed A Song.

      California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 239-40.

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song ('Wherever I am, and whatever I doe')
    • DrJ 155 pp. 259-60

      Copy.

      First published in The Spanish Fryar or, The Double Discovery (London, 1681). Kinsley, I, 206-7. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 417-20.

      John Dryden, Prologue [to The Spanish Fryar] ('Now Luck for us, and a kind hearty Pit')
    • DrJ 121 pp. 265-6

      Copy.

      First published in Amphitryon. or, The Two Socia's (London, 1690). Kinsley, II, 558-9. California, XV, 227-8. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 234-6.

      John Dryden, Prologue To Amphitryon. or, The Two Sosia's Spoken by Mrs. Bracegirdle ('The lab'ring Bee, then his sharp Sting is gone')
    • DrJ 124 pp. 271-2

      Copy.

      First published in Don Sebastian, King of Portugal (London, 1690). Kinsley, II, 553-4. California, XV, 73-4. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 226-9.

      John Dryden, Prologue To Don Sebastian King of Portugal Spoken by a Woman ('The Judge remov'd, tho he's no more My Lord')

  • MS 554

    A quarto composite verse miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, 56 pages (including blanks), in 19th-century boards.

    Early-mid-18th century.

    Formerly among the papers of the Fairfax family, of Leeds Castle, Kent. Fairfax sale at Leeds Castle, 1843, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 11141. 1898 Phillipps sale, lot 479, to W. A. Lindsay. His sale London, 14 February 1927, lot 671, to Dobell. Dobell & Radford's sale catalogue The Ingatherer, No. 11 (1930), item 209.

    • JnB 362.5 pp. 9-10

      Copy, headed A Nymph's Passion by Ben Jonson.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (vii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 147-8.

      Ben Jonson, A Nymphs Passion ('I love, and he loves me again')
    • MaA 3 p. 11

      Copy, as by Andrew Marvell, Esqr.

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 44-7. Lord, pp. 41-4. Smith, pp. 136-9.

      Andrew Marvell, Damon the Mower ('Heark how the Mower Damon Sung')
    • ChM 1 p. 16

      Copy, headed The Elevation, by Lady Chudly.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (London, 1703). Ezell, p. 78.

      Mary, Lady Chudleigh, The Elevation ('O how ambitious is my Soul')
    • WaE 402 pp. 31-42

      Copy of lines 1-414, unascribed.

      First published complete, by Humphrey Moseley, as The Passion of Dido for Aeneas, as it is incomparably exprest in the Fourth Book of Virgil, Translated by Edmund Waller and Sidney Godolphin Esqrs (London, 1658), where it is stated that the translation was done (all but a very little) by …Mr. Sidney Godolphin. Complete text in The Poems of Sidney Godolphin, ed. William Dighton (Oxford, 1931), pp. 31-55. Godolphin was responsible for the first 454 lines. Waller for the next 131 lines (455-585), beginning All this her weeping sister does repeat which might possibly be his revision of part of Godolphin's translation of the whole. while the last 113 lines (586-699, beginning Aurora now, leaving her watry bed) are unassigned but probably also Godolphin's. The portion definitely by Waller is reprinted separately in Waller's Poems (London, 1664), pp. 185-92, and reprinted in Thorn-Drury, II, 29-33.

      Edmund Waller, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas ('Meanwhile the Queen fanning a secret fire')

  • MS 558

    A quarto miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, inscribed (f. ir) in another hand A Collection of Religious Poems &c. by an uncertain Author. Some are borrowed from Dr. J. Watts. There is another vol. larger Quarto, iii + 299 leaves, in modern cloth.

    Early 18th century.

    Adam Clarke, sale catalogue (1835), p. 84, item 172. His sale London, 20 June 1836, lot 361. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1027, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9616 = 21542. Dobell & Radford's sale catalogue The Ingatherer, No. 11 (1930), item 211.

    • RaW 162.5 f. 227r-v

      Copy, in double columns, headed An Errand to the Soul, unascribed.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

      This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest')

  • MS 559

    A folio composite miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, in probably several hands, entitled A Collection of all the Secret Poems & Lampoons wrote during the Reigne of the late King William, 72 pages, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards.

    c.1700.
    • DrJ 231 p. 15

      Copy, headed On dundee 1689 by Mr Dryden.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

      John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')
    • DoC 293 pp. 46-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines')

  • MS 586

    A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, relating to history and classical literature, in possibly a single hand with variation over a period, 160 pages, in modern cloth.

    Inscribed (p. 156), probably by the compiler, Richard Oram his Booke Annoque Domini 170[].

    c.1700.
    • DrJ 173.6 pp. 69-70, 72-85

      A series of extracts from the prologues and the satires Englished by Mr Dryden, including Satires 3, 4, 6, 10.

      First published (…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus) in London, 1693 [i.e. 1692] (as By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory Discourse concerning Satire and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 3-137.

      John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis ('Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score')
    • DrJ 177.3 pp. 71, 87-99

      Substantial extracts from the prologue and Satire 1 Englished by Mr John Dryden.

      First published in London, 1693. California, IV, 253-361.

      John Dryden, The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus ('I never did on cleft Parnassus dream')
    • CgW 46.3 pp. 85-6

      Copy, subscribed W: Con:.

      First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 23-4. Dobrée, pp. 252-3. McKenzie, II, 335-6.

      William Congreve, To Mr. Dryden, On his Translation of Persius ('As when of Old Heroique Story tells')

  • MS 592

    Copy, in a professional italic hand, 125 large folio pages (plus two blank leaves), in modern cloth.

    c.1670.

    Inscribed (f. ir) Katherine Brudenell.

    • OrR 35
      No description or publication history available.

      First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

  • MS 639

    A commonplace book compiled by Richard Porson (1758-1805).

    c.1780.
    • BuS 1.7 p. 84

      Extracts.

      Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

      Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')

  • MS 690

    A small pocket notebook (11.5 x 5.5 cm.), largely in one small hand, unpaginated, in contemporary calf.

    Probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (fl.1712-34): his inscription Patricious Senhouse 1722.

    c.1720s.

    Also inscribed Humphray Senhouse. Together with another commonplace book probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (Patt Senhouse 1720), an octavo in contemporary limp vellum, also inscribed John Senhouse.

    • RoJ 217.6 [unnumbered page]

      Copy, headed On Rooms Pardons, here beginning If room can Pardon sins as papists hold.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons ('If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold')
    • RoJ 269.5 [unnumbered pages]

      Copy.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as Lampoone. Love, p. 42, as Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town ('Too long the wise Commons have been in debate')
    • DoC 316.5 [unnumbered pages]

      Copy, headed Malden.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as Regime d'viver among Poems possibly by Rochester). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee ('I rise at eleven, I dine about two')

  • MS 786

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled A Breife Declaracon Concerning the vse of the Lawe, unascribed, 43 folio leaves, in modern cloth.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • BcF 759
      No description or publication history available.

      A discourse beginning The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things.... Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.

      Francis Bacon, The Use of the Law

  • MS 824

    A quarto volume of works by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, largely in a single stylish hand, with later additions after f. 106v probably in another hand, 113 leaves (ff. 29v-106v blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Probably chiefly in the hand of Andrew Card, who inscribes f. 5r Ex libris Andreæ Card 1674.

    c.1674-84.

    Bookplate of Richard Cranmer [i.e. Richard Dixon (d.1828), of the manor of Mitcham, Surrey, who claimed descent from Archbishop Cranmer.

    • RaW 728.27 f. 7r-25v

      Accounts of Ralegh's arraignments in 1603 and 1618.

      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)
    • RaW 445 f. 27r-v

      Copy, headed Sir Walter Raws: Pilgramage.

      First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

      This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage ('Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet')
    • RaW 50 f. 27v

      Copy, headed Sir W: Rawleighs Epitaph made by himselfe.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • RaW 312 f. 27v

      Copy, headed Sir W: Raw: on ye Snuffe of a Candle ye night before he Dyed.

      First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died ('Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout')
    • RaW 772 ff. 28r-9r

      Copy, headed Sir Walter Rawleighs Speech Imediately before he was Beheaded.

      Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
    • RoJ 126.5 f. 107r

      Copy of a version headed Thus [Englished deleted] Paraphras'd by an English gen and beginning Lorain hee stole; by fraud hee gott Burgundy, following a Latin version headed in the margin Sett in some remarkable places att Paris, all under the general heading To the French King 1684.

      First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy')
    • ShW 46 f. 113r

      Extracts from Polonius's speech to Laertes (I, iii, 59-69, 75-8), headed Advice to a Young man, here beginning Give thy thought noe tongue, and subscribed Sh:.

      First published in London, 1603.

  • MS 870

    A quarto volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 92 leaves, in old calf gilt.

    c.1620s-30s.

    G.N. Last's sale catalogue 200 (1934), item 773.

    • RaW 584 ff. 1r-53v

      Copy, as Written by Sr Walter Raleighe.

      A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
    • CmW 81 ff. 64r-6v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed Willm Camden.

      A tract beginning That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here.... First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

      William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

  • MS 873

    A small quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, in several neat hands, 61 leaves (including a number of blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Early 18th century.
    • BcF 255.5 ff. 18v-17v rev.

      Copy, headed A Prayer or Psalm made by Ld. Bacon Ld. Chancelor of England.

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

      Francis Bacon, A Prayer, or Psalm

  • MS 878

    A folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 176 leaves (plus a few blanks), in contemporary vellum with metal clasps.

    In various professional hands, including those of the Feathery Scribe and Ralph Starkey.

    Item 142 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

    Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 222 (No. 16).

    • CtR 130 ff. 90r-8v

      Copy, in a professional rounded mixed hand, as Written by Sr: Robert Cotton knight & Barronet to Sr: Edward Mountague Anno Domini 1621, subscribed R: C: B:.

      Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can.... First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature
    • CtR 48 ff. 99r-113v

      Copy, in a professional rounded mixed hand, as Written by Sr: Robert Cotton knight & Baronett.

      Tract beginning What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.

      Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men
    • CtR 460 ff. 114r-18v

      Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, with some alterations in another hand, headed A: Speech Deliuered by Sr: Robte Cotton, knight, and Barronett att the Councell Table the < > daye of September, 1626: Touchinge debaseinge of Coyne:.

      Followed, in the same scribe's hand, by related texts: (ff. 119r-21r: see CtR 436), (ff. 121v-2r) Questions proposed to the Marchants Myntmaisters, and Goldsmithes Conscerninge the Alteracon of Silver Monyes; and (ff. 122v-3r) The State of Goulde and Silver as it is att this prsent The ffirst of September 1626.

      Facsimile of f. 117v in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 97.

      The tract on ff. 121v-2r is in Cottoni Posthuma (1651), pp. 302 -3. That on ff. 122v-3r is apparently unpublished.

      Speech beginning My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626 and Questions to be proposed, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]
    • CtR 436 ff. 119r-21r

      Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed In the presence Off the Kinge att Whitehall: Certayne: generall Rules Collected Conscerninge Monye, and Bullyon, out of the Late consultacon att Cort by Sr: Robte Cotton.

      Speech, beginning Gold and silver haue a twofoeld estimacon in extrinsicke as they are moneyes..., relating to Cotton's principal speech on coinage. Cottoni Posthuma (1651), pp. 303-7.

      Sir Robert Cotton, Sr Robert Cottons Speeche to his matie: on Sonday ye .3. of September at the Councell table aboute the alteracion of the moneys. 1626
    • CtR 495 ff. 124r-9v

      Copy, in the secretary hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, as written by Sr Robarte Cotton knight & Baronet in Januarie. 1623, and subscribed Ro: Cotton.

      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
    • CtR 381 ff. 132r-5v

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A declaration against the Spanish Match penned by Sir Robert Cotton by the command of King James during the Parliament 1624, Ann: 22 Jac:.

      Tract beginning Most excellent Majesty, Wee your Lords Spirituall and Temporal, and the Commons of your Realm assembled.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [91]-107.

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Remonstrance of the Treaties of Amitie and Marriage before time, and of late, of the House of Austria and Spaine, with the Kinges of England, to advance themselves to the Monarchy of Europe

  • PR 2297.L8 160

    An exemplum of the fourth printed edition [1603-7] with numerous MS annotations, recording entrance and exits, music, stage effects, and some deleted and additional text, evidently used as a prompt book by a London theatrical company, imperfect, lacking the original title-page, a small quarto, in modern calf gilt.

    Early 17th century.

    Later owned by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-95), poet.

    Recorded in Grosart, XIV, 2. Described, with facsimile pages, in Charles Read Baskerville, A Prompt Copy of A Looking Glass for London and England, MP, 30 (1932-3), 29-51.

    • GrR 8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published London, 1594. Grosart, XIV, 1-113. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1932). See also Berta Sturman, A Date and a Printer for A Looking Glasse for London and England, Q4, SB, 21 (1968), 248-53.

      Robert Greene, A Looking Glasse for London and England

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