Verse
An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)
A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to ‘the Countesse of Faukland’ in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
CaE 1
Copy of both six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy (here with two extra lines) as separate but sequential poems.
In: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf. Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to ‘I Nicholas Burgh’ occurring on ff. 165r, with the date ‘3d of June 1638’, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands. c.1638.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Burghe MS’: CwT Δ 1.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 2
Copy of a version headed ‘Upon the Duke of Buckingham’ and beginning ‘Reader, beneath this ground interred I am’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
CaE 3
Copy of the six-line epitaph.
In: the MS described under CaE 2. 1647.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 4
Copy of both six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy as separate but sequential poems.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 101v) ‘Henry Lawson’ (or just possibly ‘Lamson’). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Lawson MS’: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 5
Copy of the six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy as separate but sequential poems, subscribed ‘Docter Juxon (some say) Nondum constat’.
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.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 6
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. iiir) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, ‘Bought at the sale of Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone’.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 7
Copy of the six-line epitaph.
In: the MS described under CaE 6. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
CaE 8
Copy of a 50-line version, in two hands, ascribed to Richard Weston, Earl of Portland.
In: A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ‘ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...’, ‘ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]’, ‘ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge’; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one ‘Recd 22 July 1669’, subscribed ‘John Cooke’ and including, on f. vir, ‘ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...’. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 9
Copy of the six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy as separate but sequential poems.
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.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 10
Copy of a 50-line version.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous historical and genealogical papers and verses, in several hands, x + 158 leaves.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 11
Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed ‘Vppon a monument of George Duke of Buckingham att Porsmouth’.
In: An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt. Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House. c.1662.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.
For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.
This MS recorded in Ackerman.
CaE 12
Copy of a 50-line version.
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 recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 13
Copy of a 50-line version, headed ‘Another’.
In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 14
Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed ‘Epitaph of the duke of Buckingham’.
In: A small folio volume of motets, with some later political verses, in various hands, c.220 leaves. Mid-16th to mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 15
Copy of the six-line epitaph.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) ‘Anthony Scattergood His booke’: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers. c.1632-40.
Also inscribed (f. 130v) ‘Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 16
Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed ‘Another’.
In: A folio volume of of tracts and papers chiefly on state matters, largely in one hand, 72 leaves (plus blanks). c.1635.
Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 17
Copy of the six-line epitaph, as ‘by the Countesse of Faukland’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Akkerman, p. 197. Recorded in Wolfe, p. 494.
CaE 18
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’.
In: the MS described under CaE 17. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 19
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, occupying ff. 25r-79v, the second of three independent MSS in different hands (including extracts from Hayward's Henry IV and from Sir Edwin Sandys, and parliamentary proceedings 1623/4), in a composite volume, 141 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt. The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 20
Copy of the 44-line elegy, here beginning ‘Yet were Bidentalls sacred, and the place’, headed in another hand ‘An answere to ye Verses of Mr [Zouche] Tounley to his friend Mr Felton’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, much of it on current events, largely in a single rugged italic hand, 190 leaves, in 18th-century half red morocco gilt. c.1630.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Dr Benfield of Cor; Xpi his Notes. / The gift of his Executor to Mr B: G. / -30’.
CaE 21
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 22
Copy of a six-line version of the epitaph beginning ‘Lo, in this marble I entombed am’.
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.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 23
Copy, headed ‘Written On the Duke of Buckingham's statut’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in two or more predominantly secretary hands, 86 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1660.
A facsimile of f. 85r is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2008), p. 33.
CaE 24
Copy of the six-line epitaph. c.1630.
In: Collection of papers relating to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 25
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed ‘To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent’: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall. c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Mexborough MS’: CwT Δ 29.
CaE 26
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’.
In: An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet. c.1630[-1700s].
Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.
This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, ‘Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham’, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 9/2796, [unspecified page numbers].
CaE 27
Copy of the six-line epitaph, here ascribed to Richard Corbett.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician. Early-mid 17th century.
Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
CaE 28
Headed ‘An Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham made by Dr Corbet. B. of Oxford’.
In: the MS described under CaE 27. Early-mid 17th century.
CaE 29
Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed ‘Epitaph on Buckingham by ye La: Faukland’.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in Latin and English, largely in one hand, with additions in other hands, written from both ends, dates ranging from 1633 to 1649, 43 unfoliated leaves, in paper wrappers. Principally composed and copied by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer. c.1640s-50s.
This MS recorded in Gerald W. Morton, ‘Two Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Westmorland Collection’, ELN, 26 (1988), 13-17 (pp. 13-14).
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Box 6 Parcel VI, No. 1, f. [11r].
CaE 30
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’, here ascribed to Richard Weston, Earl of Portland.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf. In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677. c.1681.
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
CaE 31
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’, headed ‘In laude eiusdem’ [on Buckingham].
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.
CaE 32
Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’.
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.
CaE 33
Copy of a version beginning ‘Reader here underneath this place I am’.
In: the MS described under CaE 32. c.late 1630s.
CaE 34
Copy of the 50-line version, headed ‘On the Duke of Buckingham’.
In: Small group of poems on two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Donald W. Foster, ‘Resurrecting the Author: Elizabeth Tanfield Cary’, in Privileging Gender in Early Modern England, ed. Jean R. Brink (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal, 1993), 141-73, and in Akermann, pp. 195-6. Recorded in Wolfe, p. 494.
To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie (‘'Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece’)
See CaE 38-42.
Prose
The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II
First published in two editions in London, 1680: one, in folio, as The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II...Written by E.F. in the year 1627; the other, in octavo, as The History of the Most Unfortunate Prince King Edward II...(supposed to be) Writ by the Right Honourable Henry Viscount Faulkland. See also Jesse G. Swan, ‘Towards a Texual History of the 1680 Folio The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 177-90.
CaE 35
A formal copy of a longer version, in a neat predominantly italic hand (the same as CaE 36), with a title-page ‘The Raigne and deathe off Edwarde the Seconde. The highe and ffall of his too greate ffavorites Gaveston, and Spencer. Fe: 2o. 1627. By E. F.’, in contemporary brown morocco. 1627/8.
Discussed, with facsimiles of the title-page and address ‘To the Reader’, in Margaret Reeves, ‘From Manuscript to Printed Text: Telling and Retelling the History of Edward II’, in The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, ed. Heather Wolfe (New York & Basingstoke, 2007), pp. 125-44.
CaE 36
A formal copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand (the same as CaE 35), with a title-page ‘Edwarde The Seconde. His Rainge, and deathe. wth the ffall, of those too, his greate ffavorites. Gauestone and Spencer. Januy: 7o. 1626.’, x + 195 quarto pages, in contemporary vellum gilt. 1626/7.
Among papers of the Hatton family, notably collections of Christopher Hatton, FRS (1605-70), first Baron Hatton, politician, formerly of Holdenby House and Kirby Hall, and the Finch family, Earls of Winchilsea and Nottingham.
Discussed, with facsimiles of the title-page and address ‘To the Reader’, in Margaret Reeves, ‘From Manuscript to Printed Text: Telling and Retelling the History of Edward II’, in The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, ed. Heather Wolfe (New York & Basingstoke, 2007), pp. 125-44.
The Mirror of the World translated out of French into Englishe
A translation of the Mirroir du Monde of Abraham Ortelius and dedicated to her uncle Sir Henry Lee.
*CaE 37
Autograph MS, iv + 88 leaves (ff. 54-88 blank). Early 17th century.
Later owned by H.A. Lee-Dillon, seventeenth Viscount Dillon, who gave it to Burford parish in 1925, whence it was deposited in the Bodleian in 1991.
The Reply of the most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the most Excellent King of Great Britaine
Lady Falkland's translation of a controversial tract by Jacques Davy (1556-1618), Cardinal of Perron. First published in Douai, 1630. Most exempla coming into England were destroyed by command of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. Most surviving presentation exempla include an autograph poem ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie’ (‘'Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece’), which is edited in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 59-60.
*CaE 38
An exemplum of the printed edition (Douai, 1630), with numerous interlinear MS additions and some deletions in a neat print-hand, notably on sigs B1v and Ir and pp. 130, 151, 260, 424, 455, and 459, imperfect, lacking the once present engraved portrait of du Perron with her autograph verses and the page with her dedicatory sonnet to Queen Henrietta Maria, a tall folio in old calf, stamped in gilt on both covers ‘IHS’. c.1630.
Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12.
CaE 39
Exemplum of the edition of 1630, with additions. c.1630.
Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12.
*CaE 40
Exemplum of the edition of 1630, with corrections possibly in Lady Falkland's hand. c.1630.
Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12.
*CaE 41
Exemplum of the edition of 1630, with Lady Falkland's autograph corrections, her autograph verses under the engraved portrait of du Perron, and her autograph dedicatory sonnet to Queen Henrietta Maria, in contemporary green vellum. c.1630.
Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12.
*CaE 42
Exemplum of the edition of 1630, with Lady Falkland's autograph verses under the engraved portrait of du Perron, her autograph sonnet to Queen Henrietta Maria, and her autograph corrections and additions in the printed text. c.1630.
Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12. The autograph poem ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie’ (‘'Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece’) edited from this MS in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 59-60.
Letters
Letter(s)
*CaE 43
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Conway, [c.October-December 1625]. Wolfe, pp. 249-50. 1625.
*CaE 44
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Conway, [c.October-December 1625]. 1625.
Wolfe, pp. 251-2.
*CaE 45
Autograph letter signed, to Lady Denbigh, [c.December 1626]. 1626.
Wolfe, pp. 266-7. Facsimile and transcription also in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 212-13.
CaE 46
Copy of a letter by Lady Falkland to Lord Falkland, in his hand, inscribed ‘Abstracte of pte of a lre from the ViscCountess of Falkland without date. Recd att Dublyn 25 Dec 1626’, [c.19] December 1626. 1626.
Wolfe, pp. 272-3
CaE 47
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Conway, [24 March 1627]. 1627.
Wolfe, pp. 273-5.
*CaE 48
Autograph letter signed, to King Charles I, 18 May 1627. 1627.
Wolfe, pp. 282-7, with a facsimile of both pages on pp. 243-4.
*CaE 49
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Conway, [18 May 1627]. 1627.
*CaE 50
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Conway, [c.26-30] June 1627. 1627.
Wolfe, pp. 291-2.
*CaE 51
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Conway, [13] August 1627. 1627.
Wolfe, pp. 297-9.
*CaE 52
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Conway, [c.27-31] August 1627. 1627.
Wolfe, p. 300, with facsimiles of two pages on pp. 245-6.
*CaE 53
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Conway, [c.21-30] September 1627. 1627.
*CaE 54
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Conway, [c.23-30] June 1628. 1628.
Wolfe, pp. 317-18.
*CaE 55
Autograph letter signed, to Lord Dorchester, [c.17-30] April 1629. 1629.
Wolfe, pp. 328-30.
*CaE 56
A formal petition to the Privy Council, signed by Lady Falkland, [April] 1630. 1630.
*CaE 57
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Francis Windebank, [c.22-30 June 1632]. 1632.
*CaE 58
Autograph letter signed, to Walter, Lord Aston, 19 December 1635. 1635.
Wolfe, pp. 392-4.
*CaE 59
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Edward Nicholas, 4 February 1635/6. 1636.
Wolfe, pp. 394-5.
*CaE 60
A formal petition signed by Lady Falkland, to King Charles I, [October 1638 - March 1638/9]. 1638/9.
Wolfe, pp. 408-9.
Miscellaneous
The Lady Falkland: Her Life
Written (anonymously), after Lady Falkland's death, by one or more of her four daughters, Anne, Elizabeth, Lucy, and Mary, all Benedictine nuns at Cambrai. First published as The Lady Falkland: Her Life. From a MS. in the Imperial Archives at Lille, ed. Richard Simpson (London, 1861). Life and Letters / Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, ed. Heather Wolfe (Tempe, AZ, 2001), pp. 101-222.
CaE 61
Copy, predominantly in the hand of Lady Falkland's daughter Lucy, with emendations and additions in at least three other hands, including her daughters Mary and Anne and her son Patrick, 48 quarto leaves, in contemorary pasteboard. c.1645-49.
Originally in the library of the English Benedictine monastery Our Lady of Consolation, Cambrai, France, before state appropriation in 1793 during the French Revolution.
Edited from this MS by all editors. Discussed, with facsimiles of five pages, in Heather Wolfe, ‘The Scribal Hands and Dating of Lady Falkland: Her Life’, EMS, 9 (2000), 187-217. Facsimile of f. 14r, with transcription, also in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 262-3.