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  • 88/9/25

    Series of original letters by Sir John Vanbrugh.

    • *VaJ 344 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 7 September 1722.

      Edited in Clyve Jones, To dispose in earnest, of a place I got in jest: Eight New Letters of Sir John Vanbrugh, 1722-1726, N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (p. 463).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 346 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 27 June 1723.

      Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 463-4).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 370 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from Hartford Bridge, 11 May 1725.

      Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 464-5).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 371 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 1 June 1725.

      Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (p. 465-6).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 372 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 29 June 1725.

      Edited in Clyve Jones, N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 466-7).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 378 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 21 October 1725.

      Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (p. 467).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 381 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from Greenwich, 16 November 1725.

      Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 467-8).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
    • *VaJ 383 [unnumbered item]
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 3 February 1725/6.

      Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 468-9).

      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

  • 161/90A

    A large folio book of medical receipts and prescriptions.

    Late 17th century.

    In the Cole Park Collection deriving from the papers of the Lovell, Willes, and Harvey families.

    • RaW 723 p. 135 bis

      Copy of Sr Walter Raleighs Great Cordiall Sr Robert Killigrews way. See also RaW 713.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

  • 161/198

    A quarto account book of George Downing relating to legal matters, subsequently used as a commonplace book by a member of the Willes or Lovell families, 80 pages.

    1785-9 [-c.1800].
    • LeN 11.9 f. [12r]

      Extract.

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

      Nathaniel Lee, The Rival Queens: or, The Death of Alexander the Great
    • RoJ 237 p. 54

      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')
    • MnJ 144 [unspecified page numbers]
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Extracts

  • 213/420

    Copy.

    • ClE 88
      No description or publication history available.

      Petition beginning I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain.... Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?], and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

      Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667

  • 413/445

    A miscellany, including state papers, in several hands, in vellum.

    Compiled by members of the Benett family, of Pythouse, Tisbury.

    c.1660.

    Inscribed inside the cover Chaloner freville.

    • BcF 650 ff. [17r-28v]

      Copy of letters by Bacon.

      Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
    • RaW 995 f. [41r-v]

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 710.28 f. [42r-4r]

      Copy of Ralegh's Appologie.

      Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana
    • BcF 528 ff. [51r-2v]

      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

  • 865/500

    A folio miscellany of poems and state papers, in secretary hands, written from both ends, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    c.1620s.

    Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock family, formerly of Zeals House, Mere, and probably deriving from the papers of the Chafyn family of Bulford and Chisenbury or the Reymes family of Waddon, near Dorchester.

    • MrC 18 f. [11v]

      Copy of an eight-stanza version (plus two lines), in a left-hand column, headed Blundwells exercise.

      First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's Answer see RaW 189-99.

      Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love ('Come live with mee, and be my love')
    • RaW 199 f. [11v]

      Copy of a five-stanza version, in a right-hand column, headed Respon: and here beginning If now the world & love were younge.

      One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as Her answer to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as The Milk maids mothers answer) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's reply, see MrC 10-19.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard ('If all the world and loue were young')
    • EsR 315 ff.[19v-20v]

      Copy.

      Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
    • HoJ 113 f. [26r]

      Copy of the shortened version, headed Mrs hoskins petition to the kings matie: her husband. being imprisoned in the tower vpon the kings high indignation An: 1615., here beginning The worst is knowne the best is hid.

      Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

      A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning the worst is tolld, the best is hidd and ending he errd but once, once king forgiue, was widely circulated.

      John Hoskyns, A Dreame ('Me thought I walked in a dreame')
    • RaW 135 f. [27r]

      Copy, in six quatrains, in a left-hand column, headed A sonnett.

      Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, poem 7a, pp. 14-15, and in Rudick, No. 15D, p. 22.

      Six lines cited in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589). Latham, p. 9. The full text first published as a broadside in London, 1592 (?): see TLS (12 September 1968), p. 1032. This poem is related to the song Fortune my foe: see TLS, 30 May 1968, p. 553. Rudick, Nos 15A, 15B, 15C and 15D (four versions, pp. 19-22), followed by the Queen's answer (p. 23: see ElQ 38).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Fortune hath taken thee away my love'
    • ElQ 39 f. [27r]

      Copy of the complete 24-line poem, in a right-hand column, headed An aunswer.

      Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, poem 7a, pp. 14-15, and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe Arizona, 1999), p. 23.

      Collected Works, Poem 12, pp. 307-9. Selected Works, Poem 7, pp. 14-18.

      Queen Elizabeth I, Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh, circa 1587 ('Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?')
    • RaW 996 ff. [28r-30r]

      Copy of four letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Ralegh's wife, and to Sir Robert Carr.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 378 f. [32v]

      Copy, under a general heading Scurrillous epitaphes and here beginning Heare lyeth Hobinoll our shepherd whileare.

      First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

      Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury ('Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere')
    • BcF 529 ff. [35r-6r]

      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

  • 865/502

    A folio notebook of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Compiled by John Clavell (1601-43), writer and highwayman.

    c.1633-42.

    Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock and Chafyn Grove families, of Zeals House, Mere.

    Discussed, with facsimile examples, in John Pafford, John Clavell 1601-43 Highwayman, Author, Lawyer, Doctor (Oxford, 1993).

    • KiH 781 f. [5v]

      Copy, headed Vppon his maties returne from Scotland.

      Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 153-4.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

      Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland ('So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun')
    • RnT 137 f. [6r-v]

      Copy, headed A gratulatory to Ben: Jonson for his voluntary Adoption of mee to bee His Sonn.

      Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 192-4.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.

      Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son ('I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare')
    • PoW 74 ff. [8v-9r]

      Copy.

      First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence'
    • MsP 3 ff. [11r-12r rev.]

      Copy of a 108-line elegy, subscribed Written by his truly devoted servant Philip Massenger.

      Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 209-12, and initially in his A New Poem by Philip Massinger, N&Q, 223 (December 1978), 503-5, with corrections in N&Q, 224 (August 1979), 347, and further corrections in C.A. Gibson, The New Massinger Elegy, N&Q, 227 (December 1982), 489-90.

      First published in J.H.P. Pafford, A New Poem by Philip Massinger, N&Q, 223 (December 1978), 503-5.

      Philip Massinger, A funerall Poem Sacred to the memorie of the trewly noble and most accomplishid gentleman Sr Warham Sentliger Knight lineally descended from &c: ('Such were his noble Ancesters, and yet')

  • 865/581

    Copy, in a professional hand, untitled and unascribed, thirteen folio pages, unbound.

    c.1620s.

    Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock family, formerly of Zeals House, Mere.

    • CtR 428
      No description or publication history available.

      Treatise, written c.1614 and Presented to King James, beginning Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms.... First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

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