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MS 4A:1

• BcF 643 pp. 1, 6, 49

  Copy of three letters by Bacon, to Robert Cecil, to the Earl of Essex, and to Queen Elizabeth.

  Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
• EsR 35 p. 7

  Copy, ascribed to My Lo: of Essex.

  May, Poems, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 24641.

  Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Verses made by the Earle of Essex in his Trouble ('The waies on earth have paths and turnings knowne')
• BcF 197 pp. 16-17

  Copy, in a formal secretary hand, headed A direccon for the readinge of historie with profitt made by S^r. ffrances Bacon.

  Edited from this MS, with facsimiles, in Bergeron.

  Directions beginning First you shall observe any law or custome w^ch shalbe worth the noteing.... First published in David M. Bergeron, Francis Bacon: An Unpublished Manuscript, PBSA, 84 (1990).

  Francis Bacon, A Direccon for the readeinge of histories with profitt made by S^r. ffrances Bacon
• RaW 988 p. 18

  Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
• SiP 207 pp. 38-48

  Copy, in a professional mixed hand, the order of some passages rearranged and the text occasionally abridged or slightly paraphrased, headed S^r: P: Sidnes ltre to the Queene agains^t the match with Mouncieur:, the salutation (Most feared & beloved most sweet & gratious Queene) isolated and set out into the margin, subscribed at the end S^r: P: Sidney, on eleven folio pages.

  Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 28.

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

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

  Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
• BmF 46 pp. 50-3

  Copy, headed An elegie upon the death of the faire and vertuous E. late Countesse of Rutland, subscribed Franc: Beamount.

  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

  Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland ('I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep')
• BmF 93 pp. 53-5

  Copy, headed An Elegie.

  First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.

  Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton ('Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see')
• BmF 20 pp. 56-7

  Copy, untitled.

  First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

  Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')

MS 153:10

• GrF 22.5 pp. [23-31]

  Copy.

  An epistolary essay beginning My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance..., dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.

  Fulke Greville, Letter to Grevill Varney on his Travels
• RaW 989 pp. [32-40]

  Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Prince Henry, undated.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

MS Crawford 177

• *WrM 16

  Autograph

  No description or publication history available.

  Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)

MS D153

• RaW 728.275 ff. 40r-81r

  Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603 (here dated 1605).

  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 990 leaves after ff. 40-81

  Copy of letters by Ralegh after his condemnation in 1603.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

MS E103

• HlJ 27.5 f. 130r

  Copy.

  Letter, beginning Gentlemen, For God's sake be wise in your well-meant zeal.... First published in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 113. Wynter, VIII, 272.

  Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

MS E107

MS E205

• FeO 98 Vol. I, ff. 33r-43r

  Copy.

  This MS discussed in Van Strien.

  First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

  Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries
• SiP 206 Vol. I, ff. 44r-59r

  Copy, in a cursive professional hand, the text set out with exceptional clarity, headed A Letter written by S^r. Philip Sidney to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Mons^r. Duke of Aniow and with the salutation (Most feared and beloved, Most sweet and gratious Soveraigne) set out and centred, 31 folio pages.

  Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 27.

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

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

  Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
• DnJ 4067 Vol. I, ff. 59v-63r

  Copy, headed Valour Anatomized in a ffancie By S^r Philip Sidney. An°. 1582.

  First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Cottoni Posthuma (London, 1651), as Valour Anatomiz'd in a Fancie by Sir Philip Sidney. Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). The Prose Works of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. Albert Feuillerat, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1968), III, 308-10 (as Appendix). Hayward, pp. 417-20. Peters, pp. 62-7 (among Dubia). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's An Essay of Valour, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

  John Donne, An Essay of Valour
• CtR 372 Vol. I, ff. 504r-11r

  Copy.

  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]
• RuB 37.5 Vol. II, ff. 8r-12r

  Copy.

  Speech beginning Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible....

  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8
• RuB 119.5 Vol. II, in ff. 51-104

  Copy.

  A speech beginning There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record.... Variant versions include one beginning That there have been many publique censures and recantacions.... See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.

  Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9
• CtR 131 Vol. II, ff. 450r-5r

  Copy, headed A breife discourse proving that the house of Comons hath equall power wt^h the Peeres in point of Judicature, as Written by S^r Robert Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague Anno 1621.

  Baker, No. 1095 (p. 266).

  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 S^r Rob: Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague An^o 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

MS P519

• RaW 560.5 pp. 1-20

  Copy, in two mixed hands, headed S^r Walter Ralegh his Apologie.

  A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

  Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana