Verse
(1) Poems by Cleveland
The Antiplatonick (‘For shame, thou everlasting Woer’)
First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.
ClJ 1
Copy, headed ‘Against Platonick Loue -- or LDD Desire’.
In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards. Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.
Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.
Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.
ClJ 2
Copy, headed ‘The Platonique Louer’, subscribed ‘Cleveland.’
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.
ClJ 3
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, entitled ‘The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts’, in a single hand, 189 leaves. Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources. Early 18th century.
A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): ‘John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley’. A note on f. 1: ‘Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves’. Date at the end of the volume: ‘1718’, and some notes on a flyleaf dated ‘1724’.
The ‘Mr. Corbet’ from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dunton MS’: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.
For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).
ClJ 4
Copy, headed ‘The Antiplatonick’.
In: A quarto miscellany of Latin academic exercises and verses relating principally to Oxford University, in several hands, ii + 136 leaves, imperfect, in later half-calf. Compiled principally by George Stradling (d.1688), Dean of Christ Church. c.1650-4.
Acquired from John A. Murphy, bookseller, Aberystwyth, 1885.
ClJ 5
Copy, subscribed ‘J: Cleue’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, including eight poems by Randolph (one twice), 102 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693). c.1650-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Janu. 6. 1738/9’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.
ClJ 6
Copy, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various professional hands, 138 leaves, in red mottled leather gilt.
Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.
ClJ 7
Copy in: A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps. Including 12 poems by Carew. c.1650s.
Inscribed ‘Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650’; ‘Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657’; ‘to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657’; ‘Tho: Wise’; ‘John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury’; and ‘Edward Watt’. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Archard MS’: CwT Δ 24.
ClJ 8
Copy, on three pages in a ten-page section headed ‘Verses on severall occurrenses 1649’ in the middle of the volume.
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’,
ClJ 9
Copy, in an italic hand.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in possibly several hands, written from both ends, paginated 1-205, then from the reverse end 206-58 (plus blanks to 271), in old reversed calf (rebacked). Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Lucy Hutchinson's nephew Julius Hutchinson (1678-1738).
This MS is described in the online Perdita Project.
The Authours Mock-Song to Marke Anthony (‘When as the Night-raven sung Pluto's Mattins’)
First published in Character, the edition with additional material (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 42-3.
ClJ 10
Copy, headed ‘Mark Antony’.
In: A pocket-book-size octavo volume of verse and prose works by John Cleveland, densely written in a small non-professional hand, 105 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1650s.
Inscribed (p. 202 rev.) ‘May Bowling... 1783’. Hodgson'S, 20 November 1959, lot 521, to Dobell.
This MS recorded in Morris.
The Authour to his Hermophrodite, made after M. Randolphs death, yet inserted into his Poems (‘Probleme of Sexes; must thou likewise bee’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 12-13.
ClJ 11
Copy, headed ‘Hermaphrodite vindicated by Cleaueland’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.
ClJ 12
Copy, subscribed ‘J. C.’
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.
ClJ 13
Copy, headed ‘Mr Cleaueland on his Hermophrodite printed among Randolphs poems’.
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).
A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
ClJ 15
Copy, headed ‘A Dyalogue of two zealotts’ and here beginning ‘Sr Roger, from a peece of zealous freeze’.
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).
ClJ 16
Copy in: A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped ‘1642’, with remains of clasps. Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper. Mid-late 17th century.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
ClJ 17
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene 2 zelots concerning &c. in the new Oath’, subscribed ‘D. Cleueland Coll: John: Cantabr:’.
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).
ClJ 18
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Cleveland’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.
ClJ 19
Copy in: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS. Mid-late 17th century.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.
ClJ 20
Copy in: A small quarto diary, in a single secretary hand, 89 leaves, bound with a separately acquired continuation or companion MS (ff. 90r-153r, now Add. MS 28640), in modern half-morocco. Compiled by the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, and relating, retrospectively, chiefly to public events and to literary texts in circulation in 1625-42. c.1625-42.
Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 7 June 1859, lot 253. The second MS purchased at Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (library of the bookseller Joseph Lilly).
The first MS edited in full in Diary of John Rous, incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society No. 66 (1856).
Green, pp. 101-3.
ClJ 21
Copy, in a neat mixed hand, headed ‘A Dialogue betwixt two Zelotts Concerning &c. in the new Oath’, on two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary speeches 1640-c.1660, in various hands, 91 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.
ClJ 22
Copy, added in an unidentified secretary hand, headed ‘A Dialogue between two Zelotes ccerning &c. in the Oath’. Mid-17th century.
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.
ClJ 23
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 12. c.1640s.
ClJ 24
Copy, headed ‘A dialogue betweene two Zelots, concerning Acetera in the new oath’, subscribed ‘Finis. Mr Cleaveland’.
In: An octavo miscellany, 47 leaves, the greater part (ff. 1r-26, 42r-5v) in a single small mixed hand, with other hands on ff. 27r-41r, including a ‘Catalogus Librorum’ on ff. 29v-40r, and accounts c.1705 on ff. 46v-7r, in black morocco gilt. Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge. c.1639-43.
Inscribed (f. 1*v) ‘Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto’.
ClJ 25
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene two Zelots about Et cetera and the Oath:’, subscribed ‘J: Cleueland’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 5. c.1650-9.
ClJ 26
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene two zelotts concerning &c. in the new Oath’. Mid-17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in several hands, 154 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
ClJ 27
Copy, in an italic hand, on five pages of three quarto leaves bound at the end of a composite volume of otherwise printed pamphlets. Mid-17th century.
Among the collection of George Thomason (c.1602-66), bookseller and collector of printed tracts.
ClJ 28
Copy, headed ‘A dialogue between two zelotts concerning Et Cætera in ye new oath’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt. c.late 1640s.
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schleuter and Paul Schleuter.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 67-70.
ClJ 29
Copy, headed ‘A dialogue betweene two Zelots concerning &c. in the new oath’, on both sides of a large folio leaf. Mid-17th century.
In: Unbound verses.
Among papers of the Irwin family, of Temple Newsam. Formerly TN/F7.
ClJ 31
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene two zealotts’, subscribed ‘John Cleveland’.
In: A narrow ledger-size folio composite miscellany chiefly of verse, in English and Welsh, much of it Roman Catholic in character, in several hands, 72 leaves, in a recycled vellum deed within modern quarter-morocco. Compiled in part probably by Richard Williams of Abergavenny, soap boiler. Late 17th century.
ClJ 32
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A Dialogue of two Zealottes concerninge &c in ye oath’, here beginning ‘Sr Roger from a peice of zealous freese’, on both sides of a folio leaf, unbound. c.1640s.
ClJ 33
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue of Zealotts concerning the Oathe’ and here beginning ‘Sr Roger fro in peice of Zealous Freeze’, subscribed ‘Cleveland of St Iohns in Cam sd.’
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf. Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.
ClJ 34
Copy, headed ‘1640 A Dialogue betweene two Zelots concerninge &c. in the New oath of Canons’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1640s.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 86 items, in quarter-calf marbled boards. The letters chiefly to Anne Sadleir, of Standon, some to her husband.
Donated by Anne Sadleir in 1669.
ClJ 35
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, headed ‘A Dialogue’, on pages 1 and 3 of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1640.
Endorsed in a different hand ‘These Verses were given to me by my cosen John Bennett the 1th of Nouember. 1640’.
This MS discussed and collated in Helen Duffy and P.S. Wilson, ‘Two Manuscripts of John Cleveland’, N&Q, 230 (June 1985), 162-6.
ClJ 36
Copy, headed ‘A dialogue betweene two zelotts concerning ye new oath’.
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.
Epitaphium Thomae Spell Coll. Divi Johannis Præsidis (‘Hic jacet Quantillum Quanti’)
First published in Clievelandi Vindiciae, or Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, etc. (1677). Morris & Withington, p. 64.
A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her (‘Stand off, and let me take the aire’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.
ClJ 39
Copy, headed ‘The ffayre Mayde Scorninge The blacke Boye’, subscribed ‘John Cleueland’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps. Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Peeter Daniell’ and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names ‘Thomas Gardinor’, ‘James Leigh’ and ‘Pettrus Romell’. Owned in 1780 by one ‘A. B.’ when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Daniell MS’: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 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. 241).
ClJ 40
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Natley MS’: CwT Δ 6.
ClJ 41
Copy, headed ‘The faire Maide to ye blacke Boy’, subscribed ‘J. C.’
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf. Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to ‘T.R.’), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning ‘Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent’) dedicatingthe collection [‘To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette’: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury. c.1640.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.
ClJ 42
Copy, headed ‘A fayr maid on a Blackemore’.
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.
ClJ 43
Copy, headed ‘On a faire maid & a black a more’.
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.
ClJ 45
Copy, headed ‘On A fayre mayde, and A black Boy’, subscribed ‘J: Cleueland’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 5. c.1650-9.
ClJ 46
Extracts of the poem.
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’.
ClJ 47
Copy, headed ‘The fair wench scorning ye black boy that courts her’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index). c.1643-50s.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 53r.
Fuscara; or the Bee Errant (‘Natures Confectioner, the Bee’)
First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 58-60.
ClJ 49
Copy, headed ‘Fuscara stunge or the Bee Errant’, written lengthways along the outer margin, subscribed ‘Cleveland’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 1.
The Hecatomb to his Mistresse (‘Be dumb ye beggers of the rhiming trade’)
First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 50-3.
ClJ 51
Copy, headed A rapture on his mistris and here beginning ‘Be dum be ye beggars of the riminge trade’, incomplete.
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.
ClJ 53
Copy, headed ‘The Hecatombe’, subscribed ‘J: Cleueland’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 5. c.1650-9.
ClJ 54
Copy, headed ‘Cleauelands Hecatombe to his Mrs:’, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under ClJ 6.
How the Commencement grows new (‘It is no Curranto-news I undertake’)
First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 56-7.
ClJ 56
Copy, headed ‘On ye New Comencemt’ and here beginning ‘No Coranto newes I undertake’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 2. c.1640s-60s.
ClJ 57
Copy, headed ‘The new Comencement by Mr Cleueland St John.’ Coll. and here beginning ‘Noe curranto newes I vndertake’, deleted.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf. Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand. c.1640s [and later].
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning ‘Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed…’.
Cited in IELM as the ‘Sancroft MS’: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
ClJ 59
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Mr Cleuelandes verses wc were sung at Sidney colledg at comencemt night 4 July 1630 wch he retracted 1o Augusti in the consistory’. c.1630s.
In: A collection of unbound verse, in various hands. Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.
ClJ 60
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Commencement’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 10. c.1650s.
This MS recorded in Morris.
The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbyter (‘With Hair in Characters, and Lugs in text’)
First published as a separate, 1649. Morris & Withington, pp. 45-7.
ClJ 61
Copy, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under ClJ 6.
ClJ 62
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose generally on affairs of state, in several hands, one neat hand predominating, vii + 701 pages, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with metal clasps. c.1690s.
Inscribed (f [ir]) ‘Tho: Mercer’. Later bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldorny and Wardhouse. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 21.
ClJ 64
Copy in: A miscellany. Compiled by Robert Bolles, second Baronet, of Scampton, and of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. c.1635-46.
T. Coxeter et al. sale catalogue, Osborn, 1748, item 15.
The Kings Disguise (‘And why so coffin'd in this vile disguise’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 6-9.
ClJ 65
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The kinges disguise’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of chiefly letters, in various hands. 1640s.
Microfilm in the British Library, M/286 (2nd item).
The Mixt Assembly (‘Fleabitten Synod: an Assembly brew'd’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 26-8.
ClJ 68
Copy, headed ‘On the Synod’ and subscribed ‘J. Cleveland’, deleted.
In: the MS described under ClJ 57. c.1640s [and later].
ClJ 72
Copy in: A duodecimo miscellany of verse, on affairs of state etc., and prose, including Latin academic exercises, in a single small hand, compiled by an Oxford University man, written from both ends, iii + 87 leaves, in old morocco. c.1670s.
Bookplate of Arthur Ashpitel, FSA, and bequeathed by him 1869.
On Princess Elizabeth born the Night before New-Years Day (‘Astrologers say Venus, the same starr’)
First published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. With Additions never before Printed (1658). Morris & Withington, p. 62.
ClJ 74
Copy, headed ‘On Princesse Elizabeth borne The night before new yearesdaye’.
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.
ClJ 75
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 74. Mid-late 17th century.
ClJ 76
Copy, ascribed to ‘C. L:’, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under ClJ 6.
On the Archbishop of Canterbury (‘I need no Muse to give my passion vent’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 38-9.
ClJ 79
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on DrLawd Arch-Bishopp of Canterbury’.
In: A quarto miscellany of principally religious verse, in several hands, 213 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. i) ‘Anthony Search his most excellent booke Janry 6th Anno Dom: 1695’.
Parting with a Freind upon the Rode (‘I'me rent in 'twayne, your horses turning thus’)
Morris & Withington, p. 63.
ClJ 81
Copy, headed ‘On ye Parting with a Freinde on the way’, here beginning ‘The Horse at their sudden turning’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 74. Mid-late 17th century.
Recorded in Morris
ClJ 82
Copy, headed ‘Parting wth a friend on ye Way, C. L.’, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under ClJ 6.
The Rebell Scot (‘How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.
ClJ 86
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 43. Mid-17th century.
ClJ 87
Extract, lines 63-4, followed by Latin translations ‘Translated by Mr Redman several wayes’.
In: A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands over a period, much in a small cursive hand, 50 leaves, in quarter-morocco gilt. Probably compiled in part by Edmund Killingworth (of Winchester College and New College, Oxford). Late 17th-early 18th century.
Discussed in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Dryden Attributions and Texts from Harley MS. 6054’, BLJ, 25.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-22, with facsimiles of ff. 20r and 27r on pp. 4 and 10.
ClJ 88
Copy, headed ‘The Rebellious Scott’, subscribed ‘J: C:’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 5. c.1650-9.
ClJ 89
Extracts, beginning at line 13 (here ‘But yt there is charm in verse’).
In: the MS described under ClJ 46. c.1644-76.
Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 6160, ff. 133r-132v rev.
ClJ 90
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 62. c.1690s.
ClJ 91
Copy, subscribed ‘P Iohn Cleueland Advocat G[?] Newack[?]’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 33. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
ClJ 92
Copy, in a mixed hand, on all four sides of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1640s-50s.
This MS discussed and collated with other MSS, with a stemma, in Helen Duffy and P.S. Wilson, ‘Two Manuscripts of John Cleveland’, N&Q, 230 (June 1985), 162-6.
ClJ 94
Copy, in a probably professional hand, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/18.
Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines (‘Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.
ClJ 96
Copy, headed ‘On Smectymnius, or the Clubb Divine’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse in Latin and English, some relating to Oxford, in various hands, 215 leaves, in contemporary quarter-calf gilt vellum boards. Early-mid-18th century.
ClJ 97
Copy, with prose preamble.
In: A folio volume of state documents, speeches and verse, 284 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn. 1674.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 298.
ClJ 98
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 19. Mid-late 17th century.
ClJ 100
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 43. Mid-17th century.
ClJ 101
Copy, in an italic hand. c.1640s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, parliamentary speeches, and verse, in various hands, with an alphabetical Index (ff. 1r-6v), 144 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.
ClJ 105
Copy in: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription ‘by my brother Sr Hugh Cholmley’ (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent. c.1624-41.
Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Cholmley MS’: CwT Δ 27.
A Song of Marke Anthony (‘When as the Nightingall chanted her Vesper’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 40-1.
ClJ 107
Copy, headed ‘A sonnet’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. c.1630s-40s.
This MS probably recorded in Morris & Withington (erroneously as MS Ashmole 38).
ClJ 111
Copy 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.
Square-Cap (‘Come hither Apollo's bouncing Girle’)
First published in The Character of a London-Diurnall, with severall select Poems by the same Author (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 43-5.
To Julia to expedite her promise (‘Since 'tis my Doom, Love's under-Shreive’)
First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions never before Printed (1653). Morris & Withington, pp. 60-2.
ClJ 116
Copy, headed ‘To Julia to expedite Hir promise’ and here beginning ‘Sure Tis my doome Loues Vndershreive’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 74. Mid-late 17th century.
To Mrs. K. T. who askt him why hee was dumb (‘Stay, should I answer (Lady) then’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 20-1.
ClJ 118
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, written from both ends, ii + 91 leaves, in 19th-century dark red morocco (rebacked). c.1660.
Bookplate of F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale, in lot 294. Bookplate of S.G. Hamilton. Bought in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
ClJ 119
Copy, here beginning ‘Stay Lady, should I answere, then’ and subscribed ‘J. C.’
In: the MS described under ClJ 12. c.1640s.
ClJ 120
Copy, headed ‘To his fayre Lady that askt him why he was dumbe’ and here beginning ‘Stay Lady, Shoulde I answere then’, subscribed ‘J: C:’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 5. c.1650-9.
ClJ 121
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 10. c.1650s.
This MS discussed in Helen Duffy and Paul S. Wilson, ‘A Note on John Cleveland's “To Mistress K.T.”’, N&Q, 220 (December 1975), 546-8.
To P. Rupert (‘O that I could but vote my selfe a Poet!’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 33-8.
ClJ 123
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 43. Mid-17th century.
ClJ 124
Copy, headed ‘To Prince Rupert’, subscribed ‘J: C:’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 5. c.1650-9.
To the State of Love, or, The Senses Festival (‘I saw a Vision yesternight’)
First published in Poems, by J. C. With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 47-9.
ClJ 126
Copy, headed ‘The Scale of Love, or the Senses Festivall’ and here beginning ‘I had a Vision yesternight’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively. Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.
ClJ 127
Copy, headed ‘The Scale of Loue or The Loues festiuall’, subscribed ‘J. C.’
In: the MS described under ClJ 5. c.1650-9.
ClJ 128
Copy, untitled, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under ClJ 6.
ClJ 129
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in English and Latin, in various hands, 136 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1660.
Inscribed at front and back with the name ‘Edw: Rawstorne’.
Upon a Miser that made a great Feast, and the next day dyed for griefe (‘Nor 'scapes he so: our dinner was so good’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 15-18.
ClJ 131
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Miser who dyed for griefe presently after he had made a feast’, subscribed ‘J: C:’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 5. c.1650-9.
ClJ 132
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 47. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 58r-60r.
Upon an Hermophrodite (‘Sir, or Madame, chuse you whether’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.
ClJ 136
Copy, headed ‘Vpon an Hermaphrodite By John Cleaueland’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
ClJ 138
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed ‘A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis’, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped ‘V/I F 1667’. References to ‘Westminster Drollerie’ (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242. c.1667-8.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Frendraught Legi’: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
ClJ 139
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 47. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 43r-4r.
Upon Phillis walking in a morning before Sun-rising (‘The sluggish morne, as yet undrest’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 14-15.
ClJ 142
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 12. c.1640s.
ClJ 143
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman walking betymes in ye morning’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 47. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 49v-50v.
Upon Sir Thomas Martin, Who subscribed a Warrant thus... (‘Hang out a flag, and gather pence! A piece’)
First published in Poems, by J. C. With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 53-4.
ClJ 145
Copy, headed ‘Upon Sr. Sr. Sr, Tho: Knights’, subscribed ‘J: C:’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 5. c.1650-9.
Upon the death of M. King drowned in the Irish Seas (‘I like not tears in tune; nor will I prise’)
First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 1-2.
ClJ 146
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye death of Mr King drownd in ye Irish Seas’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 11. c.1630s-40s.
ClJ 149
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye Death of Mr King’, docketed ‘not entrd’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 10. c.1650s.
Upon the Kings return from Scotland (‘Return'd? I'le ne'r believe't; First prove him hence’)
First published in Irenodia Cantabrigiensis (1641). Morris & Withington, pp. 2-3.
ClJ 151
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 43. Mid-17th century.
A young Man to an old Woman Courting him (‘Peace Beldam Eve: surcease thy suit’)
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 18-20.
ClJ 155
Copy, headed ‘On a young man Courted by an old deformed crone’ and here beginning ‘Hence Beldam Eue surcease thy Suite’, subscribed ‘J: Cleueland’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 13. c.1641-9.
ClJ 156
Copy, headed ‘The answer of a young man to an old woman courting him. ij.’
In: the MS described under ClJ 138. c.1667-8.
ClJ 157
Copy, headed ‘A yong man to an old woman courting him’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 47. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 57r-8r.
(2) Poems probably by Cleveland
<Greek> -- Anacreon (‘The fruitfull earth carouses, and’)
Morris & Withington, p. 74.
Elegy on Edward King (‘Whiles Phebus shines within our Hemisphere’)
First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 65-6.
ClJ 161
Copy of a Latin rendition by Francis Turner (dedicatee of Clievelandi Vindicæ, 1677), headed ‘Carmina Dni Joannis Cleavland in obitum Dni Edwardi King (in mari Hiberniæ suffocati) Latine reddita’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, 208 leaves.
ClJ 162
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Edward King drowned in the Irish Seas’, under a general heading ‘Cleuelands Poems’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 74. Mid-late 17th century.
Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)
See ClJ 172-211.
The General Eclipse (‘Ladies that guild the glittering Noon’)
First published in Clievelandi Vindiciae, or Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, etc. (1677). Morris & Withington, pp. 69-70.
ClJ 163
Copy, headed ‘The Antiparade’.
In: A folio miscellany of tracts, letters and verse, written over a period, 210 leaves. Compiled by one Philip Kynder (b.1597). c.1620s-50s.
Mr Cleauelands reply from Belvoir to the 3 Newarke Poets (‘All haile to the Poeticke Gleeke’)
First published in Berdan (1903). Morris & Withington, p. 70.
ClJ 164
Copy, subscribed ‘J. Cleauland’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 12. c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.
News news News (‘News news News is come from the North’)
Morris & Withington, pp. 74-5.
ClJ 165
Copy, headed ‘Juvenilia not entrd’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 10. c.1650s.
This MS recorded in Morris.
‘No Hubbub surnamd Hue & cry’
Morris & Withington, pp. 75-6.
On an Alderman who married a very young wife (‘Let's charme some Poet from his grave’)
Morris & Withington, pp. 77-8.
On the Pouder Plot (‘I neede not call thee from thy miterd Hill’)
Morris & Withington, pp. 72-4.
ClJ 168
Copy, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under ClJ 6.
Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.
To his Mistress (‘Fetch me an Occulist for the Sunne’)
Morris & Withington, pp. 71-2.
ClJ 169
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: Cleveland’.
In: A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf. c.1650s-60s.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) ‘Mr John Oldhams Booke’ [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) ‘James Bateman’ [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and ‘Robert Pierrepont’ [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond, ‘A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.
A Translation of Lovelace's ‘Song’ (‘Perjurum caput me appellas’)
Morris & Withington, p. 71.
ClJ 170
Copy, headed ‘The same done into Latine’ [i.e. LoR 13], subscribed ‘J Cleveland’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 2. c.1640s-60s.
Vpon Lee & Owens Fencing, a Dr Roan & a Jeffray (‘The Tables spread & they begin’)
Morris & Withington, p. 78.
Poems Doubtfully Attributed to Cleveland
Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
ClJ 172
Copy, headed ‘Cleavelands Epitaph upon the death of ye Earle of Strafford’.
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.
ClJ 174
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.
ClJ 176
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on yt sacrifice for the people Tho: Earle of Straford’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single stylish cursive hand, ii + 176 pages, in contemporary calf gilt bearing a V within a lozenge. c.1640s.
ClJ 177
Copy in: A duodecimo volume of debates and proceedings in the House of Commons from 22 May to 8 August 1641, 191 leaves. c.1641.
ClJ 178
Copy in: the MS described under ClJ 16. Mid-late 17th century.
ClJ 180
Copy, headed ‘An epitaph vpon the Earle of Strafford’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 19. Mid-late 17th century.
ClJ 181
Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Strafford. 1641’.
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.
ClJ 183
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the Earle of Strafford’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r. c.1653-60.
Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.
ClJ 184
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Here rests wise & valiant dust’, on a fragment of a leaf, imperfect, the ending torn away.
In: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves. Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.
Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.
ClJ 185
Copy, headed ‘An epitaph on my Lo: Staford beheaded on tower hill ye 12: of may. 1641’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of ‘Fra: Norreys’ (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and ‘Hen. Balle’. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
ClJ 186
Copy of a version headed ‘An Epitaph upon the Earle of Strafford’ and beginning ‘Here lyes wisdome, Courage, witt’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 12. c.1640s.
ClJ 187
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, i + 68 leaves. Constituting Volume XLIII of the Leeds Papers, chiefly collected by Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds (1632-1712), politician
ClJ 188
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts and papers. Constituting Volume LX of the Leeds Papers, chiefly collected by Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and first Duke of Leeds (1632-1712), politician.
ClJ 189
Copy in: An oblong duodecimo volume, comprising a a journal by John More of proceedings in the House of Commons up to 1641, in a cursive secretary hand, in modern binding.
ClJ 191
Copy, in a small italic hand, headed ‘Verses vpon Straffords death by Cleueland’. c.1640s.
In: the MS described under ClJ 101.
ClJ 193
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Earle of Stratford’.
In: An octavo commonplace book of miscellaneous verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, in several hands, one mixed hand predominating, written from both ends, lvi + 302 pages, in a recycled medieval vellum document within contemporary vellum. Possibly compiled in part by Elias Smyth, minor canon of Durham (whose epitaph on his son Richard appears on p. 134). c.1644-67.
Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.
ClJ 194
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Earle of Strafords Epitaph’.
In: A folio volume of political and miscellaneous verse and prose, in several secretary verse, written from both ends, comprising ‘Book I’ (viii + 254 pages one way and pp. 255-309 inverted) and ‘Book II’ (282 pages inverted), including a table of contents, in half reversed calf. Compiled partly by Sir Thomas Swinburne (c.1589-1645), of Edlingham and Nafferton, Sheriff of Northumberland in 1628-9. c.1640s.
Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.
Durham University Library, Mickleton & Spearman MS 9, Book II, p. 214.
ClJ 195
Copy, in a small cursive secretary hand, headed in the margin ‘Thomas Wentworth Lord deputi of Ireland beheaded maj 12 1641’.
In: A folio miscellany of historical verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several secretary hands, one cursive hand predominating, i + 183 leaves, in half reversed calf. c.1648.
Booklabel (f. iv) ‘Lib: G: Spearman Dunelm Ao 1700/1’. Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.
Durham University Library, Mickleton & Spearman MS 62, f. 182v.
ClJ 196
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on ye Earle of Strafford’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, including parliamentary speeches, in several largely secretary hands, 165 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, stamped with the monogram ‘TSB’, within modern half-calf on marbled boards. Inscribed (inside the front cover) ‘Thomas Bowdler his booke wrytten wth his owne bloode 1634’ and, in engrossed and decorated lettering, ‘Thomas Bowdler his booke Ao Do: 1635’, his name occurring several times elsewhere: the MS probably compiled in part by him. c.1634-43.
ClJ 197
Copy, headed ‘On the E. of Strafford’.
In: A folio volume comprising a collection of epitaphs, in a single neat italic hand, entitled ‘Delectus Epitaphiorum Anglo-Latinorum Tam Veterum quam Recentiu’, 74 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1664-1705.
Pencil inscription on front pastedown: ‘Charles A. Cole[?] June 26 '64’. The rear cover stamped ‘R. S. 1705’.
ClJ 198
Copy, under a heading ‘Other verses then made of the same subject’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 105. c.1624-41.
ClJ 199
Copy, ascribed to Clement Paman.
In: A quarto volume of poems and other works by Clement Paman (1612-63) ‘left behind him’, in a neat hand, 225 leaves, in leather gilt. 1667.
Later owned by Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860) and Edward Herbert Bunbury (1811-95).
Edited from this MS in Davidson, No. 275 (p. 363).
ClJ 200
Copy, in a cursive hand, on one side of a single folio leaf. Untitled, here beginning ‘Here rests wise & valiant dust’, endorsed in three different hands and inks ‘Epitaphe upon the E. of Strafford Angl:’, ‘Upon the Earle of Strafforde’, and ‘Vpon the E. of Strafforde’. Mid-17th century.
ClJ 201
Copy, headed ‘Verses upon the Earle of Strafford’ and here beginning ‘Here rest wise & valiant dust’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 28. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 245-6.
ClJ 202
Copy, in a rough cursive hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Here rests wise & valiant Dust’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. Mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under ClJ 29.
ClJ 203
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, predominantly in a single small hand, 42 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by a twenty-year-old Oxford University graduate. 1670.
Sotheby's, 28 November 1972, lot 302.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 38, f. 28v.
ClJ 204
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a single quarto-size leaf, foliated in pencil 56, docketed later in pencil ‘12 May 1641’. c.1641.
In: A folio guard-book of independent Caroline state papers, stamped foliation 1-246.
Edited from this MS in CSPD 1640-1 (1882), p. 574. Recorded in Morris & Withington.
ClJ 205
Copy, headed ‘Ane Epitaph on The E: of Strafford’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 62. c.1690s.
ClJ 206
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper, unbound. Mid-17th century.
ClJ 207
Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Strafford’ and here beginning ‘Here rests wise & valiant dust’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 33. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
ClJ 209
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, among other poems on Strafford. c.1640s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, with a table of contents, 599 leaves. Inscribed (f. 141r) ‘John: Saunders is the trew owner of this booke’, ‘Captaine Christo: Blounte’, and ‘Valentine LLawless’.
Owned by John Madden, MD (1649-1703/4), physician and manuscript collector. Old pressmark F. 1. 20.
ClJ 210
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on ye Earl of Strafford Beheaded on Tower-Hill May. 12. 1641’, here beginning ‘Here rests wise & valiant Dust’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. Mid-late 17th century.
In: A folio guard book of 51 miscellaneous MSS, chiefly verse, in various hands and paper sizes. Late 17th century.
Formerly MSS. 6. 16: shelfmark MSS 5.27.
The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)
Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as ‘probably not genuine’. Rejected ‘as probably not Cleveland's’ by Withington, pp. 321-2.
ClJ 216
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title ‘Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes’, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum. Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem). c.1637-51.
Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor’, and (rear pastedown) ‘R. J. Cotton’. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.
ClJ 217
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of Latin and English verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, 57 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1719-50.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 13, f. 42v.
ClJ 218
Copy in: A collection of unbound verse MSS. Assembled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire.
Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 164, to Quaritch.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 52, f. 8r.
ClJ 219
Copy of a version headed ‘A Protector’ and beginning ‘A Protector whatt that? Tis a stately thinge’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Incept. March. 23. 1652/3.’, 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.
Purchased c.1798.
ClJ 220
Copy, headed ‘Of Oliver Protector’ and here beginning ‘A Protector: what's that? It is a stately thing’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, with a list of contents, 108 leaves. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.
ClJ 221
Copy in: An octavo commonplace book, 209 pages, in 17th-century calf (rebacked). Owned and probably compiled (in part) by one John Hale. c.1650s-1725.
ClJ 222
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, entitled ‘A True coppy of Severall Verses made by John Hobart Esq.; Who Died Anno 1683. Obtayned By ye favour of Madam Astley. August the11th 1683’, written in the hand of Robert Doughty (d.1670). Late 17th century.
Inscribed this for my well beloved friend J. C. When sturdy to his Lo. friend. My very good friend Mr. R. Shixton.
ClJ 223
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones, 4178 pages (but a number excised). Late 17th century.
Front endpaper inscribed ‘Latchington 2 March 1787’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 8303). At Yale formerly Chest II, Number 3.
ClJ 224
Copy in: A folio composite volume of MS poems presented to, or owned by, James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, c.120 pages, of various sizes, in 19th-century calf. Some items docketed by Ormonde or by his private secretary Sir George Lane. Mid-late 17th century.
Formerly British Library Loan MS 37/6. The greater part of the collection sold at Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 276, to C.R. Johnson Rare Books. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 6829.
Recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix VII, Ormonde I (1895), pp. 105-18.
Orations and Essays
Ejusdem Oratio ad Acad. Cantab. Cancellarium, & Legatum Gallicum, publice habita
Oration, beginning ‘Quam Augusta sit vestra præsentia, & quam sacro horrore...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 135-6.
ClJ 226
Copy, as by Cleveland.
In: A duodecimo notebook of extracts, partly under alphabetical letters, and academic orations, written from both ends, 78 leaves, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
ClJ 227
Copy, as by Cleveland.
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.
ClJ 228
Copy, headed ‘Oratio habita cora Academiæ Cant Cancellario et Legato Gallico’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 10. c.1650s.
Ejusdem Oratio in Scholis habita cum Junior Baccalaureus in Tripodem deputaret. Cantab
Oration, beginning ‘Quos nè videre possum citrà Oculorum Hyperbolen...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 139-40. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 173-4.
Ejusdem Oratio in Scholis Publicis habita cum Patris Officio fungeretur. Cantab
Latin oration beginning ‘Quam equivocum sit nomen Patris...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 146-50. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 185-8.
Eiusdem Oratio Salutatoria in adventum Illustrissimi Principis Palatinati. Cantabrig.
Oration, beginning ‘Si Archetypam corporis vestri elegantiam possem transcribere...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 142-4. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 175-7.
ClJ 231
Copy, headed ‘Oratio Magistri Cleveland Coll. Johan: Socij habita Cantabrigiæ’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 226. Late 17th century.
ClJ 232
Copy, headed ‘Oratio Magistri Cleveland Coll. Johan: socij habita Cantabrigiæ Cora serenissimo Carolo Comiti Palatino’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 227.
Oratio coram Rege, & Principe Carolo in Collegio Joannensi Cantab. habita. 1642
Oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Regum, Archetype Caroli, / Quæ nupero dolore obriguit Academia...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 121-3. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 177-9.
ClJ 235
Copy, headed ‘Mr Cleveland before ye K. 14 March 1641’[/2].
In: An octavo volume of university Latin orations compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, xiv + 204 pages (pp. 110-94 blank). Late 17th century.
ClJ 236
Copy, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1640s.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in two hands, partly associated with the University of Cambridge.
ClJ 237
Copy, in Fulman's hand, subscribed ‘Dixi J. C.’ Mid-17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of papers, in various hands, predominantly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, iii + 240 leaves, in half-vellum boards.
Oratio gratulatoria Johannis Clevelandi, Prælectoris Rhetorici, ad Magistros
Oration, beginning ‘Quanta & quam divina, sit vestra benefaciendi Indoles...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 155-64.
ClJ 239
Copy in: A small octavo volume, comprising three Cambridge academic orations, in a single italic hand, 12 leaves (plus numerous blanks), all now on guards. Mid-17th century.
Puttick & Simpson, 9 December 1857, lot 433.
Vinum est Poetarum Equus
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 238-9.
Letters
Ad Doctorem Newall
Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), p. 233.
Ad Magistrum Wandesforth
Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 234-5.
The Answer [to a letter by W. E.]
First published in Poems By J. C. ([London], 1651), pp. 84-5.
The Answer [to another letter by W. E.]
First published in Poems By J. C. ([London], 1651), pp. 88-91.
An Answer to a Pamphlet written against the Lord Digby's Speech concerning the Death of the Earl of Strafford
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 130-42,.
The Answer to the Newark Summons
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 169-72.
Domino Edvardo Littleton, Sigilli Custodi
Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 229-30.
Ejusd. Epistola ad Episcop. Lincolnensem, cum factus essex Archiepiscopus Eboracensis
J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 128-9. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 223-4 (as ‘Ad eundem jam factum Archiepiscopum Eboracensem’).
ClJ 251
Copy, headed ‘Ad Episcopu cu factus erat Archb: Eboracensis’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 10. c.1650s.
Epistola Gratulatoria ad Episcopum Dunelmensem, qui in Bibliothecam Johanuensem sæpius fuit Beneficus
Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 225-6.
A letter to a Friend, disswading him from his attempt to marry a Nunn
Published in Poems By J. C. ([London], 1653). Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 153-60.
ClJ 253
Copy in: A quarto volume of two tracts, in a professional cursive mixed hand, viii + 18 leaves, with three octavo leaves in another hand loosely inserted, in modern half crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959), bibliographer, with his notes dated November 1897 when at Trinity College, Cambridge. Item 288 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
Letter to the Earl of Westmorland
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 149-53.
ClJ 254
Copy in: A duodecimo volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in a single hand, 222 pages, in later black morocco gilt. In the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, the first page (f. [ir] inscribed ‘Z / Sylloge Epistolarum quarundam insignium, aliorumque aliquot Monumentorum, facta manu RRP. Wilhelmi Sancroft. Archiepi Cantuar. Accesserunt Orationes eiusdem nonnulla in Academiâ Cantabrig. habitæ’. Mid-late 17th century.
Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).
ClJ 255
Copy, headed ‘Cleuelands letter to the Earle of Westmorland’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
[Untitled letter]
Untitled letter, beginning ‘Ubi aurita satisst filii pietas...’. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 236-7.
Petition to the Protector
A petition to Cromwell dated [February ‘1656’]. Published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. ([London], 1658). Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 142-6.
ClJ 257
Copy, entitled ‘Clevelands Petition to His Highnesse Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England Scotland & Ireland’, subscribed ‘John Cleaveland’, on pages at the end of a printed exemplum of Poems by J. C. ([London,], 1653), an octavo, in half-calf marbled boards. c.mid-1650s.
The printed title-page inscribed ‘John Varney’.
ClJ 258
Copy, headed ‘Cleuelands petition for liberty being a prisoner / To his Highnesse the Lo: Protector’, incomplete.
In: the MS described under ClJ 255. Mid-17th century.
To Captain Scott
Letter, beginning ‘Sir, though no man's arms can be opened wide to receive you on shore...’.
ClJ 261
Copy, headed ‘Mr [John] Cleueland to Captaine [John] Scott vpon his returne into England from beyond Seas’.
In: the MS described under ClJ 97. 1674.
To the Earl of Arundel
Letter on behalf of the Master and Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge, beginning ‘It equally afflicts us that we must answer your letter...’. Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677).
ClJ 262
Copy, headed ‘Mr Cleveland in ye Name of ye Mr. & Fellows of S. John's Coll. in Cambr. / To the Earle of Arundell’.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 254 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.
To the Earl of Holland
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 148-9.
To the Earl of Newcastle
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 146-7.
To the Lady Bowes
Letter, beginning ‘Madam / We should altogether excuse our presumption in writing...’.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Cleveland
Extracts
ClJ 270
Extracts, headed ‘Taken out of the Works of Mr John Cleveland’.
In: A large quarto miscellany of verse extracts, comprising 182 entries, in a single cursive hand varying in style, 115 unnumbered leaves (plus 26 blanks), in contemporary calf. Entitled (f. [1r]) ‘A Collection of Miscellany Poems from the Greatest Poets, both Ancient and Modern That i have Read, & here place for my own entertainment, to diuert Malincolly Thoughts, & to assist My Memory, That was neuer Good at no Time:’. Late-17th century.
From the library at Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire.