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Untraced Tixal MSS

  • Tixall MS 2

    A small quarto volume of verse, lacking a cover.

    17th century.

    Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

    Selectively edited (as his Second Division: Poems by the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby), in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 83-106.

    • ThG 1 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 88-9.

      Gertrude Thimelby, Contented Poverty ('You that are worldly wise, and vanely boast')
    • ThG 2 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 105-6.

      Gertrude Thimelby, An Epitaph on a Sweet Little Boy of Sir William Persall ('Stay, courteous passenger, this stone')
    • ThG 4 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 85-6.

      Gertrude Thimelby, Mrs Thimelby, on the Death of Her Only Child ('Dear infant, 'twas thy mother's fault')
    • ThG 5 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 95-6.

      Gertrude Thimelby, No Love like that of the Soule ('Some froward heretickes in love ther bee')
    • ThG 6 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 98.

      Gertrude Thimelby, On Faire Mrs Hall Dying in her Prime ('How soone these faire and forward springs')
    • ThG 8 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 100-1.

      Gertrude Thimelby, To Cannall, in Mourning ('What all in black! all mourning! O that wee')
    • ThG 9 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 86.

      Gertrude Thimelby, To her Husband, on New-Years-Day, 1651 ('How swiftly time doth passe away')
    • ThG 10 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 89-90.

      Gertrude Thimelby, To H--- T--- ('Nature, nor art, (should both contest)')
    • ThG 11 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 90-2.

      Gertrude Thimelby, To Mr E--- T---, who holds Selfe-Love in all our Actions ('Selfe-love in all? sure I am not awake!')
    • ThG 12 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 94.

      Gertrude Thimelby, To my Brother and Sister Aston, on their Wedding-Day, being absent ('They whom unlucky accidents remove')
    • ThG 13 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 103-4.

      Gertrude Thimelby, To Sir William and My Lady Persall, upon the Death of theire and our Deare Mall ('We are too much concern'd to dry your teares')
    • ThG 14 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 99-100.

      Gertrude Thimelby, To Sir William and My Lady Persall, uppon the Death of their Little Franke ('Happy parents, mourne no more')
    • ThG 15 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 104-5.

      Gertrude Thimelby, To the Lady Elizabeth Thimelby, on New-Yeares-Day, 1655, Looking dayly for here Sonne from Travaile ('Past is the winter absence of the sunne')
    • ThG 16 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 101-2.

      Gertrude Thimelby, To the Lady Southcot, on her Wedding-Day ('If mongst the happy number this day crowd')
    • ThG 17 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 92-3.

      Gertrude Thimelby, Upon a Command to Write on my Father ('Teares I could soone have brought unto this hearse')
    • ThG 18 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 97.

      Gertrude Thimelby, Upon the Lady Persalls Parting with her Daughter without Teares ('You who a mistick patche's losse can mourne')
    • ThG 19 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 87.

      Gertrude Thimelby, Uppon the Returne from our Friends in Staffordshire ('What? has our progresse from kind friend to friend')

  • Tixall MS 3

    A folio verse miscellany, in vellum.

    Late 17th century?.

    Inscribed on the front cover William Turner his booke, 1662 and, on the rear paste-down Catherine Gage's Booke: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

    Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.

    • RaW 187 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as Despair, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 115-16. Recorded in Latham, p. 104.

      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')
    • ShJ 174 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of the dirge.

      Edited from this MS, as A Moral Song in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 122-3.

      Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

      James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song ('The glories of our blood and state')
    • SdT 31.5 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of the song The delights of the bottle, and the charmes of good wine.

      Edited from this MS, as Another [song], in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 133-4.

      First published in London, 1675. Summers, II, 271-340 (pp. 311, 318, 338).

      Thomas Shadwell, Psyche
    • B&F 188 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as To Sleep, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 134-5.

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

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song ('Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes')
    • RoJ 5.8 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as Inconstancy in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 143-4.

      First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 42-3. Love, p. 34, as Songe of the Earle of Rochesters.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Constancy ('Tell me no more of constancy')
    • DaW 100 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as The Witches Song, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 144-5.

      Dramatic Works, V, 348. Gibbs, pp. 263-4. Spencer, pp. 105-6.

      Sir William Davenant, Macbeth, II, [v]. Song ('Let's have a dance upon the Heath')
    • DrJ 285 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as Concealed Love, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 146-8.

      California, IX (1966), p. 177. Kinsley, I, 108. Day, pp. 6-9. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 105.

      John Dryden, Secret-Love, or The Maiden-Queen, Act IV, scene ii, lines 23-38. Song ('I feed a flame within which so torments me')
    • PsK 580 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of the song by Pompey's ghost.

      Edited from this MS, as Pompey's Ghost, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 164-6.

      A recitative air sung by Pompey's ghost. Saintsbury, pp. 611-12. Thomas, I, 244-5, poem 120. Thomas, III, 55-6. This song originally set to music by Dr Peter Pett (1630-99).

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act III, scene iv. Song ('From lasting and unclouded Day')
    • LeN 16 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of the Votaries' chorus.

      Edited from this MS, as The Royal Nun, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 166-8.

      Stroup & Cooke, II, 267-8.

      Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, Act III, scene ii, lines 1-20. Song. ('O, Chrysostom! look down and see')

  • Tixall MS 4

    A miscellaneous collection of MS verse, totally unconnected with each other, and written on backs of letters, or other scraps of paper.

    17th century.

    Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

    Selectively edited (as his Fourth Division: Miscellaneous Poems) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-324.

    • DrJ 108 [unspecified item number]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Clifford; thence in Kinsley and in California.

      First published in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-12. Kinsley, IV, 1804-6. California, III, 204-7. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 193-8.

      John Dryden, On the Marriage of the Fair and Vertuous Lady, Mrs Anastasia Stafford, with that Truly Worthy and Pious Gent. George Holman, Esq. A Pindarique Ode ('When nature, in our northern hemisphere')
    • WaE 782 [unspecified item number]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as Mr Waller when he was at Sea, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 219.

      First published in Philip Neve, Cursory Remarks on some of the Ancient English Poets (London, 1789), pp. 70-1. Thorn-Drury, I, 75.

      Edmund Waller, When he was at Sea ('Whilst I was free I wrote with high conceit')
    • EtG 14 [unspecified item number]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as Ephelia, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 220-2.

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

      Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet ('How far are they deceived who hope in vain')
    • RoJ 620 [unspecified item number]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as An Epistle in Answer to Ephelia, in Clifford, Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 223-5.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')
    • ThG 7 [unspecified item number]

      Copy, subscribed Gert. Aston.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 226.

      Gertrude Thimelby, On Saint Catherines Day ('You glorious saint, tho borne of royall blood')
    • PsK 224 [unspecified item number]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as Upon Mr Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 234-8.

      First published, as Ode. On Retirement, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), pp. 45-8 [apparently unique extant exemplum Folger C6681.5]. as Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode in Poems (1664), pp. 237-42. Poems (1667), pp. 122-4. Saintsbury, pp. 575-7. Thomas, I, 193-5, poem 77.

      Katherine Philips, An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject ('No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast')
    • DrJ 271 [unspecified item number]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as Song, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 348 [i.e. 248].

      Kinsley, I, 41. California, IX, 83-4. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 96.

      John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, Act IV, scene iii, lines 1-16. Song ('Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past')
    • HaW 1 [unspecified item number]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 254-5.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, pp. 147-9.

      William Habington, Cupio dissolvi. Paule ('The soule which doth with God unite')
    • SiP 69 [unspecified item number]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as On Argalus and Parthenia, Epitaph, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 276.

      First published in Arcadia (London, 1593), a blank space having been left for this epitaph in the edition of 1590. Ringler, p. 241.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Epitaph ('His being was in her alone')
    • ThG 3 [unspecified item number]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Tixall Poetry.

      First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 287-8.

      Gertrude Thimelby, From a Sick Poetesse to Mrs St George, on her Feeding the Swans ('Two freezing winters, and one summer's heat')
    • WoH 218 [unspecified item number]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS, as Rusticatio Religiosi in Vacantiis, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 297-300, whence collated in Hannah.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed Ignoto, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations ('Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares')

  • [Walton/Lives]

    A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Walter, Lord Aston of Tixall, with a note by Aston dated 14 June 1671.

    1671.

    Sotheby's, 7 November 1899 (Tixall sale), lot 712, to Sabin. Recorded in Nicolas, I, lxxvi-lxxvii.

    • *WtI 102
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert (London, 1670)

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