Verse
(1) Poems by Cartwright
Absence (‘Fly, O fly sad Sigh, and bear’)
First published in Works (1651), p. 248. Evans, p. 496.
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Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, i + 200 leaves (ff. 129-199 blank), in quarter-vellum over boards. Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown ‘John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776’. c.1776-1804.
Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.
Ariadne deserted by Theseus, as She sits upon a Rock in the Island Naxos, thus complains (‘Theseus! O Theseus heark! but yet in vain’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 238-42. Evans, pp. 488-91.
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Copy, subscribed ‘W: C:’.
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt. Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v. c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. ‘Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt’. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Harley MS’: CoR Δ 5.
This MS collated in Evans.
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Copy, in Lawes's musical settinhg, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller. Mid-17th century.
Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Henry Lawes MS’: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).
Lawes's version published in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653), pp. 1-7. This MS collated in Evans.
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Copy, headed ‘A Songe. Ariadne on ye Rock deserted by Theseus’.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards. The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers. c.Late 1650s.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
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Copy, headed ‘Aryadnee Deserted by Theseus’.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, pp. 4-7.
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Copy, headed ‘Ariadne deserted by Theseus in ye Iland Nepos sitting vpon a rock thus complaines’ and here beginning ‘O Theseus harke, but yet in vaine’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
Beauty and Deniall (‘No, no, it cannot be; for who e'r set’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 218-18. Evans, pp. 470-2.
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Copy, headed ‘Beauty and deniall’, subscribed ‘WC’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.
A Bill of Fare (‘Expect no strange, or puzzling Meat, no Pye’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 227-9. Evans, pp. 479-80.
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Extracts.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of miscellaneous extracts and academic orations, chiefly in Latin, written from both ends, 78 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled probably by a Cambridge University man.
Confession (‘I do confess, O God, my wand'ring Fires’)
First published in Works (1651), p. 320. Evans, p. 563.
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Copy, headed ‘Confession’, subscribed ‘W. Cartwright. poems. p. 320’.
In: A composite quarto verse miscellany, 199 leaves, in calf. Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands. Mid-17th century.
A Continuation of the same to the Prince of Wales (‘But turn we hence to you, as some there be’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 190-1. Evans, pp. 447-8.
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Copy of lines 27-8, headed ‘To ye prince’ and here beginning ‘The late and Tardy stock of Nephews may’.
In: the MS described under CaW 8.
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Copy, headed To ye most Hopefull Charles Prince of Wales and here beginning ‘But turne wee now to You, as some there bee’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather. c.1640s.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.
This MS collated in Evans.
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Copy, headed ‘A Diuersion to ye prince of Wales’, subscribed ‘Will: Cartwright’.
In: the MS described under CaW 2. c.1635.
This MS collated in Evans.
Falshood (‘Still do the Stars impart their light’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 215-16. Evans, pp. 468-70.
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Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘[?] Johannes Philips’. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the ‘John Philips MS’: StW Δ 8.
This MS collated in Evans.
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Copy, headed ‘To his mistris that prou'd false’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.
This MS collated in Evans.
Horat. Carm. lib.4. Ode 13. Audivere Lyce (‘My Prayers are heard, O Lyce, now’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 256-8. Evans, pp. 503-4.
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Copy in: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76). Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names including ‘Will: Cartwright’, ‘Jo: Cartwright’, and ‘Katherin Cartwright’. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.
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Copy, headed ‘Hor: Lib: 4o: Ode 13’, subscribed ‘W: C:’.
In: the MS described under CaW 7. c.1620s-30s.
Love-Teares (‘Brag not a Golden Rain O Jove; we see’)
First published in Works (1651), p. 227. Evans, p. 478.
November or, Signal Dayes Observ'd in that Month in relation to the Crown and Royal Family (‘Thou Sun that shed'st the Dayes, looke downe and see’)
First published as a broadside, undated. Reprinted in London, 1671. Evand, pp. 560-3.
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Copy, headed ‘On November’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
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Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Nouember’, on a single folio leaf, folded as a letter, frayed and slightly imperfect. c.1630s.
In: An unbound collection of verse MSS, in various hands, 145 generally folio leaves. Volume CCXXXVII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly in Berkshire Record Office, in Trumbull Add 17 and 18.
Once owned by Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), lawyer and government official. Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, part of lot 39.
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Copy, headed ‘November’, endorsed Mr Wm Cartwright on ye successes of November. c.1630s.
In: A quarto composite volume of plays, poems and tracts, in various hands.
Owned in 1702 by John Newdegate, of the Inner Temple. Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventry, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
Warwickshire County Record Office, microfilm M1 351/3 & /5, No. 20.
On a Gentlewomans Silk-hood (‘Is there a Sanctity in Love begun’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 232-4. Evans, pp. 483-4.
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Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Vpon a Gentlewomans silke hood’, on one of two conjugate folio leaves of verse. c.1630s.
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
CaW 22
Copy, headed ‘On Gentlewomen's silkehoods’, here beginning ‘Is there a chastity in love begun’, and subscribed ‘Mr Cartwright’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two ‘Indexes’, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College. c.1634-43.
A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his ‘brother Ed: Weston’, 3 May 1714. The name ‘John Saunders’ inscribed on the final leaf.
This MS collated in Evans.
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Copy, headed ‘On Gentlewomeans black hoods’, subscribed ‘T. Cartwright’.
In: the MS described under CaW 11. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Evans.
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Copy, headed ‘The Veil 1675’.
In: A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled Collection of Choice Poemes, in a single neat hand, with a ‘Catalogue’ of contents (ff. 382v-6v), 387 leaves, in half brown morocco gilt. c.1703.
Note of purchase (f. 1r) ‘pd - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703’.
This MS collated in Evans.
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Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt. The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination. c.1640.
Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink ‘Matheus Day me suum vvst’: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.
This MS collated in Evans.
On His Majesties recovery from the small Pox. 1633 (‘I doe confesse the over-forward tongue’)
First published in Pro Rege suo Soteria (1633). Works (1651), p. 192. Evans, pp. 448-9.
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Extract, beginning at line 9 (here ‘Let then yr name be altered, let us say’).
In: the MS described under CaW 8.
On Mr Stokes his Book on the Art of Vaulting (‘Reader, here is such a booke’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 209-12. Evans, pp. 462-5.
CaW 29
Copy, on five pages.
In: A small octavo commonplace book, in various hands, over a period from c.1649 to1815, unpaginated and imperfect, in contemporary calf. Including 64 pages with descriptions of dance steps, fifteen pages of verse, and a number of pages of miscellaneous, household and legal memoranda. Chiefly mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed names passim including ‘Richard Pattricke’, ‘Richard Lewis 1654’,
On one weepeing (‘Sawest thou not that liquid ball’)
First published in The Life and Poems of William Cartwright, ed. R. Cullis Goffin (Cambridge, 1918), pp. 32-4. Evans, 466-7.
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Copy, headed ‘On one weapeing’.
In: the MS described under CaW 22. c.1634-43.
Edited from this MS in Goffin and in Evans.
On the great Frost. 1634 (‘Shew me the flames you brag of, you that be’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 204-6. Evans, pp. 457-9.
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Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
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Copy, headed ‘On ye great frost’ and subscribed ‘W. Cartwrite ex Ade christi’.
In: the MS described under CaW 22. c.1634-43.
This MS collated in Evans.
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Copy, headed ‘On ye last great frost’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
CaW 34
Copy, headed ‘on the great frost and snow’, subscribed ‘W: C:’.
In: the MS described under CaW 7. c.1620s-30s.
CaW 36
Copy, subscribed ‘Will: Cartwright’.
In: the MS described under CaW 2. c.1635.
This MS collated in Evans.
CaW 37
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
On the Imperfections of Christ-Church Buildings (‘Arise thou Sacred Heap, and shew a Frame’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 188-9. Evans, pp. 445-7.
On the Nativity. For the Kings Musick (‘Heark, 'Tis the Nuptiall Day of Heav'n and Earth’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 317-18. Evans, p. 558.
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Copy, headed ‘On the Nativitie. For the Kinges Musicke’, subscribed ‘W. Cartwright. poem. p. 317’.
In: the MS described under CaW 9. Mid-17th century.
A Panegyrick to the most Noble Lucy Countesse of Carlisle (‘Madam, since Jewels by your self are worn’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 183-8. Evans, pp. 441-5.
CaW 42
Extracts, headed ‘His poems: To ye Queene’.
In: the MS described under CaW 8.
This MS recorded in Evans, pp. 676, 809.
Sadness (‘Whiles I this standing Lake’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 220-1. Evans, pp. 473-4.
CaW 43
Copy in: the MS described under CaW 4. c.Late 1650s.
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Copy, headed ‘Sadnese’.
In: the MS described under CaW 5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 21r-v.
A Sigh sent to his absent Love (‘I sent a Sigh unto my Blest ones Eare’)
First published in William Shakespeare, Poems (London, 1640). Evans, pp. 472-3.
The Teares (‘If Souls consist of water, I’)
First published in Works (1651), p. 214. Evans, pp. 465-6.
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Copy of lines 7-15, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘O now the certaine Cause I know’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Mid-17th century.
Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Capell MS’: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.
This MS collated in Evans.
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Copy of lines 7-14, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘O Now the Certaine cause I know’.
In: the MS described under CaW 3. Mid-17th century.
To Cupid (‘Thou, who didst never see the Light’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 218-19. Evans, pp. 471-2.
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Copy in: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.
To the memory of a Shipwrackt Virgin (‘Whether thy well-shap'd parts now scattred far’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 223-4. Evans, pp. 475-6.
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Extracts, beginning at line 5 (here ‘Whether close eghs be Diamond...’).
In: the MS described under CaW 8.
To the Right vertuous the Ladie Elizabeth Powlet (‘Could wee iudge here Most vertuous Madam then’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 195-6. Evans, pp. 459-60.
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Copy, headed ‘part of a Large Copy, in Vniuersity Poems 1656 / On a Lady that wrought the Bible story in Needle-work’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, iv + 248 pages, imperfect at the end, in contemporary calf. Compiled by an Oxford University man. End of 17th century.
Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.
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Copy, headed ‘On my Lady Powletts needle worke’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.
Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) ‘Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659’: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]‘R. N. 1663’. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
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Copy, headed ‘To the Right vertuous the Ladie Elizabeth Powlet vpon her Present to the Vniuersitie of Oxon being the Birth, Death, Resurrection and Ascension of our Saviour wrought by her selfe in Needle-worke’, subscribed ‘William Cartwright Mr of Arts of Christ=Church’.
In: A quarto MS of commendatory poems by six Oxford University men (chiefly members of New College), in a semi-calligraphic hand, ii + 12 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt, traces of silk ties. A presentation MS to Lady Elizabeth Paulet. [1636].
To Venus (‘Venus Redress a wrong that's done’)
First published in Works (1651), p. 219. Evans, p. 472.
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Copy, untitled, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under CaW 3. Mid-17th century.
Vpon the death of the Right valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill Knight (‘Not to be wrought by Malice, Gaine, or Pride’)
First published as Verses on the death of the Right Valiant Sr Bevill Grenvill, Knight (1643). Works (1651), pp. 303-6. Evans, pp. 555-8.
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Copy of lines 51-74, here begining ‘When now th' incensed Rebel proudly came’, on a folio leaf attached to a page relating to a monument for Sir Bevil Granvil. Mid-18th century.
In: A large double-folio album containing some 349 antiquarian engravings, drawings, and other items, in diced calf gilt.
Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
CaW 59
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Joseph Hall’ (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.
This MS collated in Evans.
A Valediction (‘Bid me not go where neither Suns nor Show'rs’)
First published in Works (1651), pp. 245-6. Evans, p. 494.
Women (‘Give me a Girle (if one I needs must meet)’)
First published in Works (1651), p. 218. Evans, p. 471.
(2) Poems of Doubtful Authorship
On the Prince Charles death. W.C. (‘Tis vayne to weepe; or in a riming spite’)
First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 570-1.
CaW 63
Copy, headed ‘One the death of King Charles his first Child. W. Cartwright’.
In: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).
Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.
Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.
CaW 64
Copy in: the MS described under CaW 37. c.late 1630s.
CaW 65
Copy, as by ‘W:C.’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
‘Signis hunc vsqua videat libellum’
Unpublished poem against book thieves.
CaW 66
Four lines of Latin verse, in a cursive hand, subscribed ‘Gulielmus Cartwright’, on a pair of conjugate sextodecimo leaves. Possibly written by the poet William Cartwright, but equally likely that it was written by another eponymous member of the Cartwright family of Aynho, Northamptonshire. Mid-17th century.
With a note by one ‘P. B.’ saying that the MS appeared in the ‘1841 sale of Mr Leonard's books of Aynho’ and that ‘It came from an odd volume of the Orations of Cicero printed by Richd Field. Lond. 1600. 12o.’
To his Mrs Walking in ye snow (‘See faire Splendora what a lovely bed’)
First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 569-70.
CaW 67
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs Walking in ye snow’ and subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.
In: the MS described under CaW 22. c.1634-43.
To Splendora A morning Salutation (‘Splendora blesse the morne and Sol's resort’)
First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 567.
CaW 68
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
Edited from this MS by editors.
To Splendora desiring to heare musick (‘Chaunt aloud, yee shrill-mouthd quires’)
First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 565-6.
To Splendora hauing seene and spoke with her through a window (‘I looked, and through the window chanced to spye’)
First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 565.
To Splendora not to be perswaded (‘Still so obdurate, hast thou vowed to liue’)
First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 564.
To Splendora on the Same occasion (‘Why doe these orient drops distill’)
First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 568-9.
To Splendora weeping (‘Oh now the certaine cause I know’)
First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 568.
CaW 74
Copy, in a musical setting, headed ‘To a Lady Weeping / Mr Cartwright’.
In: A square-shaped folio volume of vocal and instrumental music, in two or more cursive italic hands, written from both ends, with (ff. 1v-2v, 96v rev) a table of contents, 97 leaves, in modern half red morocco. c.1760s.
Bookplate of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher, and probably the compiler. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
Dramatic Works
The Lady-Errant
First published in Works (1651). Evans, pp. 89-161.
CaW 75
The printed text marked up as a promptbook for the Duke's Company, with copious cuts, emendations, entrances and exits, and other business.
In: And exemplum of William Cartwright, Comedies Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems (London, 1651).
Later owned by Professor T. W. Baldwin.
Discussed and collated in Evans, with a facsimile of pp. 44-5 opposite p. 86. A complete facsimile of the promptbook in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale and Edwardsville), No. 17, pp. 339-80, and discussed pp. 52-3.
The Ordinary
First published in Works (1651). Evans, pp. 269-351.
CaW 77
The printed text marked up as a promptbook for the Duke's Company, with copious cuts, emendations, entrances and exits, and other business, inscribed at the end with the Master of the Revels's license to act: ‘This Comedy, called the Ordinary the Reformations observed may bee Acted not otherwise January 15. 1671[/2]. Henry Herbert MR.’
In: the MS described under CaW 75.
Discussed and collated in Evans, with a facsimile of pp. 88-9 opposite p. 260. A complete facsimile of the promptbook in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale and Edwardsville), No. 16, pp. 295-338, and discussed pp. 50-1.
The Ordinary, Act IV, scene iii, line 1263 et seq. Song (‘Come o come, I brook no stay’)
Evans, pp. 311-12.
CaW 79
Copy of the song, untitled and subscribed ‘W: Cartwright’, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man. c.1630.
In: A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf. Copy, headed ‘An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme’.
The Royal Slave
First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.
CaW 80
Copy, in a neat mixed hand, with a title-page ‘The Royall Slaue A Tragi: Comedy’, complete with prologue to the University and epilogues to the King and Queen and to the University, 35 folio pages, in modern cloth. c.1636-8.
Owned by Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4. This MS collated in Evans.
CaW 82
Extracts.
In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts from various authors, some under headings, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, iv + 558 pages (the majority blank), in contemporary vellum. Late 17th century.
CaW 83
Two detached proofsheets for the edition of 1639, mounted in a composite volume of printed sheets and pamphlets. Perfected sheet A and both formes of sheet I2 imposed for work and turn, with MS proof corrections in the three Prologues to the King and Queen and the University, in the list of Dramatis Personae, and in ‘The Epilogue to their Majesties’; one sheet bearing a ten-line MS inscription in which Nicholas Swanne of London challenges Robert Milles to a duel. c.1639.
Discussed and reproduced in facsimile (Plates II -IV) in D.F. Foxon, ‘The Varieties of Early Proof: Cartwright's Royal Slave, 1639, 1640’, The Library, 25 (1970), 151-4. Jan Moore, p. 71.
CaW 84
Two proofsheet fragments (the versos blank) for the edition of 1640, mounted in a composite volume of printed sheets and pamphlets. Comprising sigs B1v and 4r, including MS proof corrections in Act I, scene i, lines 39-66, and Act I, scene ii, lines 210-31. c.1640.
One leaf endorsed ‘This book belongs to ye Library of Milding’.
Discussed and reproduced in facsimile (Plate V) in D.F. Foxon, ‘The Varieties of Early Proof: Cartwright's Royal Slave, 1639, 1640’, The Library, 25 (1970), 151-4. Jan Moore, p. 71, and art cit.
CaW 85
Proofsheet, of the outer forme of sheet G (G1r .2v .3r .4v), in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1639. 1639.
Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor.
Discussed in D. F. Foxon, ‘The Varieties of Early Proof: Cartwright's Royal Slave, 1639, 1640’, The Library, 25 (1970), 151-4. Jan Moore, p. 71.
CaW 86
Copy, in a single hand, entitled ‘The Royall Slaue A Tragi-Comedy’, including dramatis personae and prologues and epilogues to the King and Queen and to the University. c.1636-8.
In: A folio composite volume of MSS, on vellum and paper, 135 leaves.
This MS collated in Evans.
CaW 87
Copy, in a neat roman hand, with a few corrections in a different ink, with a title-page ‘The Royall Slaue A Tragicomedy / Scene Sardes / Acted before the King at Oxford’, including the Prologue to the King and Queen (here beginning ‘From my Devotions younder am I come’) and Epilogue to them (here beginning ‘Those solemn Triumphs of the Persian Court’), lacking the opening of Act V, scene vii.c.1636-8.
In: A folio composite volume, comprising three independent MSS, in different hands, i + 55 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.
Book-stamp on cover of Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the ‘Wizard Earl’). Formerly Leconfield MS 69 at Petworth House, Sussex. Sotheby's, 23 April 1928 (Leconsfield sale), lot 28.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 307.
This MS collated in Evans.
CaW 88
Copy, in a neat mixed hand, with scene and stage directions added in a secretary hand (on ff. 2r, 3r, 7v, 18v, 20r, 23v, 24r, and 25r), on 26 folio leaves (cropped at the top), in modern calf. With a title-page (f. 1r) ‘The Royall Slaue A Trage-Comedy’, and including prologues and epilogues to the King and Queen and University. c.1636.
Item 65 in an unidentified American (?Rosenbach) sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 7044.
This MS collated in Evans, with a facsimile of f. 25r opposite p. 168.
CaW 89
A printed exemplum of the third edition (London, 1651) with twelve missing pages supplied in MS, the quarto pages all in window mounts, in later half black morocco. Pages 101-2, 105-12, and 115-16 supplied in the small neat hand of George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, who has also annotated the volume throughout with references to the Bedford MS and a MS of the play lent him by Dobell.
CaW 90
Copy, in a professional hand, on 40 folio pages, imperfect, used as wrapping papers. c.1636.
CaW 91
Copy of the play, including a list of the actors for the first performance. c.1636?
Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.
Cited in Evans, p. 167, as ‘Heber MS. 1043’.
The Royal Slave, Act I, scene i, lines 14-19. Song (‘A pox on our Gaolor, and on his fat Jowle’)
Evans, p. 200.
CaW 92
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CaW 5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 67r.
CaW 93
Copy, headed ‘The slaves song in ye dungeon; out of sight, ye Gayler hearkening ye while’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1650.
Scribbling on the first page including the words ‘Peyton Chester…’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Osborn MS I’: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.
The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song (‘Come from a Dungeon to the Throne’)
Henry Lawes's musical setting of the forst six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.
CaW 94
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: A folio composite music book, comprising (A) three printed works by Henry Lawes and others (1655-9), with MS additions, together with (B) 32 MS leaves of vocal music (plus stubs of eight excised leaves), in a single hand, bound together in brown leather. Owned by, and the MS pages in the hand of, the Rev. John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist. c.1660s.
Bookplate of Charles Barlow (fl.1720s-30s), of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Leo Liepmannssohn's sale catalogue 183 (1913), item 183 (possibly from MSS purchased in 1907 by James E. Matthew). Library stamp of the Königliche Bibliothek (now Preussische Staatsbibliothek), Berlin. Moved to Kraków in 1946.
Discussed, with various facsimile examples, in H. Diack Johnstone, ‘Ayres and Arias: A Hitherto Unknown Seventeenth-Century English Songbook’, Early Music History, 16 (1997), 167-201, and in Richard Charteris, ‘A Newly Discovered Songbook in Poland with Works by Henry Lawes and his Contemporaries’, EMS, 8 (2000), 225-79.
Edited from this MS in Charteris, p. 273.
Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Kraków, Poland, Mus. ant. pract. P 970, B. pp. 40-1.
CaW 95
Copy of the song, in a musical setting.
In: Portion of a folio songbook compiled by John Playford (1623-86?). c.1660.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Département de la Musique, MS Conservatoire Rés. 2489, ff. 254r-5r.
CaW 96
Copy, headed ‘In Mr Cartwrights Comedie The Preists Songe when ye slaue was invested on the Royall Robes’, on a folio leaf. c.1636.
In: the MS described under CaW 33.
CaW 97
Copy of the song, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1646-9.
CaW 98
Copy of the first stanza, headed ‘Corus posterior’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS recorded in Evans, p. 589.
CaW 99
Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, almost entirely in a single rounded italic hand, with (ff. 3r-7v) a table of contents, 113 leaves, in 19th-century half dark red morocco. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v). c.1654-70s.
Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS recorded in Evans, p. 594.
CaW 100
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled, subscribed ‘this songe was sunge in A playe cald ye Royall Slaue, written by mr william Cartwright, present by the Scollers of Christchurch in Oxford before their Majestys. 1636’.
In: the MS described under CaW 3. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Evans.
CaW 101
Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves. c.1640s.
Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 112, ff. 89v-92v.
CaW 103
Copy of the song, untitled.
In: the MS described under CaW 5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, p. 9.
CaW 104
Copy of the song, untitled and here beginning ‘Come from the Dung hill to ye. throne’.
In: the MS described under CaW 5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 68r.
CaW 105
Copy, headed ‘The Preists song, while ye Royall Slave was putting on ye robes’.
In: the MS described under CaW 93. c.1650.
The Royal Slave. Act 2, scene iii. Song (‘Come my sweet, whiles every strayne’)
Evans, pp. 212-13.
CaW 106
Copy of the first two stanzas, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CaW 3. Mid-17th century.
Lawes's version first published in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1651), Part I, p. 30. This MS recorded in Evans, p. 595.
CaW 107
Copy, headed ‘A treacherous song by ye Persian Nobles conspiracy sung vnto Cratander ye Royall Slave to betray him fro his good resolutions vnto lust, they prsenting vnto him two beautifull whores’.
In: the MS described under CaW 93. c.1650.
The Royal Slave, Act 3, scene i. Song (‘Now, now, the Sunne is fled’)
Evans, p. 223.
CaW 108
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a ‘Cattalogue’ of contents, 229 leaves. Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering. c.1630s-50s.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, ‘John Gamble's Commonplace Book’, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.
This MS recorded in Evans, pp. 598-9.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, [unspecified number].
CaW 109
Copy, headed ‘A song ye Slaves calld for being merrily drinking together, themselves singing ye Close wth ye ffidlers’.
In: the MS described under CaW 93. c.1650.
The Royal Slave. The Epilogve to the King & Qveene (‘Those glorious Triumphs of the Persian Court’)
Evans, p. 251.
CaW 110
Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue to ye K. & Q.’ and here beginning ‘The solemn triumphs...’, in a cursive hand, on the first page of two conjugate small quarto leaves. c. 1636.
In: the MS described under CaW 33.
CaW 111
Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue spoke by the slave’ and here beginning ‘Those solemn triumphs...’.
In: the MS described under CaW 98. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Evans.
CaW 112
Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue to ye king, & Queene spoken by Cratander, ye Royall’ Slave, here beginning ‘These solemne Triumphs of ye Persian Court’, subscribed ‘Will: Cartwright’.
In: the MS described under CaW 93. c.1650.
The Royal Slave. The Epilogve to the Vniversity (‘Thus cited to a second night, wee've here’)
Evans, p. 252.
CaW 113
Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue to ye Vty’, in a cursive hand, on the third page of two conjugate small quarto leaves.
In: the MS described under CaW 33.
CaW 114
Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue to the Vniversity’.
In: the MS described under CaW 98. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Evans.
CaW 115
Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue to ye Vniversity, spoken by Arsamnes ye Persian King’, subscribed ‘Will: Cartwright’.
In: the MS described under CaW 93. c.1650.
The Royal Slave. The Epologue to their Majesties at Hampton-Court (‘The unfil'd Author, though he be assur'd’)
Evans, p. 253.
The Royal Slave. The Prologve to The King and Qveene (‘From my Devotions yonder am I come’)
Evans, p. 195.
CaW 118
Copy, headed ‘Ye Eplogue to ye K. & Q.’, in a cursive hand, on the second page of two conjugate small quarto leaves.
In: the MS described under CaW 33.
CaW 119
Copy, headed ‘The Prologue to the Royall Slaue prsented to his Matie at Xts Church at Oxford’.
In: the MS described under CaW 98. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Evans.
CaW 120
Copy, headed ‘The Prologue to ye king, & Queens Maty on Cartwrights Royall Slave presented vnto them at Xt Church ye 30 of August 1636’.
In: the MS described under CaW 93. c.1650.
The Royal Slave. The Prologve to the Vniversity (‘After our Rites done to the King, we doe’)
Evans, p. 196.
The Royal Slave. The Prologue to their Majesties at Hampton-Court (‘The rites and Worship are both old, but you’)
Evans, p. 198.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Cartwright
Extracts
CaW 125
Extracts, subscribed ‘W. Cartwright’.
In: A folio commonplace book of tracts and verses, in several hands, begun 1 October 1639, written from both ends, 35 leaves from the front, 241 pages (plus numerous blanks) at the reverse end, in old calf gilt. Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1639.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 25, pp. 2-3 rev.
CaW 126
Extracts, inscribed ‘Cartwright's poems’.
In: A folio miscellany of extracts, in a single cursive hand, 351 leaves, in modern half brown morocco on marbled boards. c.1685-1700s.
Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.
CaW 127
Extracts, headed ‘Cartwrights poems.’
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ‘ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644’. c.1644-76.
Inscribed also inside the lower cover ‘Will: Bright Novemb 12th pretiu 8d 1645’.
Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 6160, ff. 132r-130r rev.
CaW 128
Extract, headed ‘A good wish to a new born Child out of Cartwrite’ and beginning ‘I wish Religion timely be’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem ‘Upon a Tempest at Sea’ (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning ‘the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe’ (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others. Late 17th century.
Inscriptions (p. 1) ‘Mary Browne’ (who d.1676) and ‘James Dodsley’ and (p. 174) ‘Mar. 11th 1713/4 The gift of Mrs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).
This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], ‘A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne’, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne’, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.
CaW 129
A brief extract ‘Out of Cartwrights Poems’, beginning He yt repeats stolne verse, & for fame looks.
In: A small (?sextodecimo) pocket notebook, in probably a single small cursive mixed hand, 134 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled by Richard Brathwaite (1587/8-1673), poet, writer and Justice of Peace for Westmoreland. c.1652-7.
Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.
CaW 130
Extract from Cartwight.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts illustrating specified topics, largely in a single cursive hand, entitled Miscellanea Tragica Theatrical Index of Sentimts. & Descriptions Vol. 7, 244 pages (including blanks, plus a seven-page index and further blanks), in quarter crushed morocco on marbled boards. Inscribed ‘W. Harte 1726’: i.e. by Walter Harte (1709-41), compiler of the MS, which also has his bookplate. c.1726.
CaW 131
Extracts from plays.
In: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).
Documents
Document(s)
CaW 132
Cartwright's signatures, 21 July 1635, 28 October 1635, 4 July 1636, and 10 May 1636.
In: Caution Book, 1625-41.
CaW 133
Cartwright's signature. 1642.
In: Caution book for 1638-48.
CaW 134
Cartwright's signature (‘William Cartwright’), under 24 February 1631/2. 1632.
In: Oxford Subscription Register. 1615-38.
Facsimile of this signature in Evans, frontispiece.
Oxford University Archives, S.P. 39, Register Ac, [unspecified page number].