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  • MS Add. 122

    A quarto miscellany of religious and political prose and verse, in English and Latin, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 318 leaves (including blanks, foliated on versos), in contemporary vellum boards.

    Compiled over a period (entries dated between 1621 and 1667) by members of the family of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, shipowner and royalist soldier.

    Mid-17th century.

    Inscribed (f. 278r) Mary Elliston october the 27 1763 and Mary Elliston Collchester. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.

    • RaW 101 f. 34v

      Copy, headed Sr walter 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'
    • ShJ 172.5 f. 78r

      Copy of the dirge, untitled, here beginning the Glories of our birth & state.

      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')
    • CoA 28 f. 82r

      Copy, headed in the margin A songe of drincke, here beginning The Thirsty Earth drinckes in ye Raine.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

      Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking ('The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain')
    • DeJ 123.8 ff. 164v-9v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.

      Sir John Denham, The Sophy
    • FuT 6.7 ff. 169v-74v, 249r-59r

      Extracts, headed Notations out of D. Ful: Ho: St:.

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

      Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
    • RnT 427.8 ff. 310r-13v

      Extracts, headed Out of Randalls Jea: Lo:.

      First published in Cambridge, 1632.

      Thomas Randolph, The Jealous Lovers

  • MS Add. 151

    A quarto volume of Catholic tracts, in three different hands, 82 leaves (plus 46 blanks), in old blind-stamped calf.

    c.1600.

    Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue (1841), item 786. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.

    • SoR 306 ff. 68r-81r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, lacking the title-page.

      Epistle, beginning In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty.... First published as An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)

  • MS Add. 298, Part II

    Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

    • CmW 199
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Document(s)

  • MS M. 5. S

    A set of three oblong quarto musical part books, each formally entitled A Colection of 120 or more of the Choicest Divine Hymns or Anthemnes English and Latin, that have binne Extant within this 110 or 120 yeeres, to this present yeere 1688, the lyrics probably in a single neat rounded hand.

    Comprising (i) Bassus part, ix + 155 leaves, in modern vellum. (ii) Treble part, viii + 136 leaves, in contemporary vellum. (iii) Bassus continuo part, iv + 109 leaves (lacking ff. 39-44), in contemporary vellum.

    1688.
    • CoA 62 (ii) ff. 78v-9r; (iii) ff. 64v-5r

      Copies, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio, both marked for Basso Continuo, untitled.

      Waller, I, 344. Sparrow, pp. 191-2.

      Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680]. Setting by John Blow published in Choice Ayres and Songs. The Third Book (London, 1681).

      Abraham Cowley, Davideis, Book III, Song ('Awake, awake my Lyre')
    • CoA 89 (ii) f. 136v

      Copy, in a musical setting, as a canon for three voices, untitled.

      First published, at the end of the essay Of Liberty, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386.

      Abraham Cowley, 'For the few Houres of Life allotted me'
    • RaW 293.5 (i) ff. 49v-50r; (ii) ff. 45v-6v; (iii) ff. 45v-6v

      Copies, in a musical setting by Orlando Gibbons, for five voices, tenor, and quintus respectively.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man ('What is our life? a play of passion')
    • CoA 38 (i) ff. 54v-5r; (ii) ff. 50r-1r; (iii) f. 51v

      Copies, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, marked for three voices, Cantus primus, and three voices respectively, the Bassus continuo part (iii) with the incipit only, untitled.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 402-4.

      Musical setting by Henry Bowman published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman (Oxford, 1679).

      Abraham Cowley, Christs Passion, Taken out of a Greek Ode, written by Mr. Masters of New College in Oxford ('Enough, my Muse, of Earthly things')

  • MS M. 12. S

    An oblong quarto songbook, in one or possibly two hands, with a table of contents, vi + 128 pages, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

    c.1705-39.

    Owned, and possibly compiled, by William Knight (1684-1739), vicar choral (from 1712) and subchanter (from 1722) at York Minster.

    • CgW 49 pp. 8-16

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Purcell, Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698), Book I, p. 112. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 120-4. Dobrée, p. 376. McKenzie, II, 466-7.

      William Congreve, A Two-part Song, the Words by Mr. Congreve ('There ne'er was so wretched a Lover as I')
    • SuJ 162.8 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of the second stanza, beginning The Macedon youth left behind, in Purcell's musical setting.

      Beaurline, Plays, p. 201. The second stanza, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, published in The Second Book of the Pleasant Musical Companion (London, 1686).

      John Suckling, Brennoralt, Act II, scene i, lines 95-106. Song ('Come let the State stay')
    • OtT 14 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

      Recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 290.

      A song attributed to Otway in early printed sources and possibly by him. First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, The Second Book (London, 1685).

      Thomas Otway, 'Would you know how we meet'

  • MS M. 22. S

    A folio songbook of catches, in a rounded hand, ten leaves, in cardboard boards.

    Early-mid-18th century.

    Inscribed inside the front cover Tho: Benson.

    • HeR 107 ff. 5r-6r

      Copy, in a musical setting, headed Go Perjur'd man wth Symphonies by Dr. John Blow.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

      Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')

  • MS XVI. D. 1

    Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed (in another hand) The life of Cardinall wolsey, 68 folio leaves, in old vellum boards.

    Mid-late 16th century.

    Inscribed (ff. 1r, 68v) Robert Matthew. From the library of Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York.

    Sylvester, No. 26.

    • CvG 57
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • MS XVI. K. 18

    A quarto volume of ecclesiastical treatises, in three secretary hands, 96 leaves, in vellum boards.

    Early 17th century.
    • HrJ 335 ff. [66r-82v]

      Copy of the last chapter, in a secretary hand, headed The eight chapiter; of quyeting the contrauersies of Religion, inscribed in a different hand Out of Sr John Haringtons boke.

      First published, edited by Clements R. Markham (Roxburghe Club, London, 1880). Reprinted in New York, 1969.

      Sir John Harington, A Tract on the Succession to the Crown
    • HrJ 313.2 f. [81r]

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

      Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
    • HrJ 83.5 f. [83r]

      Copy, headed An Epigram showing how England might be reformed and here beginning England men say of late is bancrout grown, subscribed with the date 10 December 1602.

      Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

      Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed ('Men say that England late is bankrout grown')

  • MS XVI. L. 6

    A quarto volume, comprising a treatise by Sir John Harington, to which was subsequently added (pp. 263-8), in a cursive secretary hand, after 1623, a tract relating to a prognostication by Sebalt Brandt Schweizer, xiv + 268 pages, in contemporary vellum.

    The treatise in the hands of Harington's servant Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis.

    1602 (and later).
    • HrJ 333 pp. 3-261

      Copy, in the formal secretary hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, untitled and beginning To all trew Englishmen that feare God and honor the Queene. the protesting, Catholique, Puritan sendeth greeting. The MS presumably presented to Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York.

      Incorporating (p. 3) a copy of King James VI's letter to Harington of 23 December 1591.

      Edited from this MS, and the title supplied, in Markham's edition (1880). Scott-Warren (pp. 158-67) thinks that the evidence that this MS was a presentation copy is equivocal. Facsimile of pp. 80-1 in Gerard Kilroy, Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's Directions in the Margent, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110 (p. 101).

      First published, edited by Clements R. Markham (Roxburghe Club, London, 1880). Reprinted in New York, 1969.

      Sir John Harington, A Tract on the Succession to the Crown
    • SiP 6.5 p. 200

      Copy of sonnet 75, concerning Edward IV, here introduced Of whome the Noble Sr Phillip Sydney in a pleasant Sonnet giues this testimonye, and here beginning Of all the King's that euer heer did raigne.

      Edited from this MS in H.R. Woudhuysen, Astrophel and Stella 75: A New Text, RES, NS 37 (1986), 388-92.

      Ringler, p. 204.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 75 ('Of all the kings that ever here did raigne')
    • HrJ 313.4 p. 257

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

      Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
    • HrJ 83.8 p. 261

      Copy, headed An Epigram shewing how England might be reformed and here beginning England men say of late is bankerout grown, dated 18. December. .1602.

      Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

      Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed ('Men say that England late is bankrout grown')

  • MS XVI. L. 15

    A quarto miscellany of prose and verse, in two or more cursive secretary hands, 24 leaves (including fragments of three leaves), in contemporary vellum.

    Compiled principally by one Jacob Blenkinsop, whose name appears on f. [23r rev.] with the date 30Mrch 1639, his entry on f. [16v] dated 30th Aug: about 2 afternoone 1640.

    1639-40.
    • HrJ 16 ff. [1r, 2r-9v]

      Copy of Sr John Harrington his apologie of poetrie, in a closely written cursive secretary hand, subscribed The preface or rather a briefe apologie of poetrie, the apologie of Sr: John Harrington worke of translation called Orlando: furioso finis / scriptum p me Jacob Blenkinsop.

      Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso. A Preface or Rather, A Briefe Apologie of Poetrie and of the Author and Translator of this Poem

  • V/3.K.199

    An exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages (sigs E1v, E2r, E3v, E4r, [F1r-3r]) supplied in MS, bound with nine other printed works.

    Once owned by Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York. Donated in 1629 by Mrs Frances Matthew.

    • BcF 130.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

      Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

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