Verse
Poems by Corbett
Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)
First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.
Most MS texts followed by an anonymous ‘Answer’ beginning ‘The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd’. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, ‘Richard Corbett's “Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628” and the Anonymous Rejoinder, “An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne”: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies’, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.
CoR 1
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Po. Coc.’, following a list of the MPs committed to the Tower by Charles I.
In: A composite volume of state papers. c.1628.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 68-71.
Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle, Volume. XIII, [unnumbered pages].
CoR 1.5
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two ‘Indexes’, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College. c.1634-43.
A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his ‘brother Ed: Weston’, 3 May 1714. The name ‘John Saunders’ inscribed on the final leaf.
CoR 2
Copy, headed ‘Verses supposed to be made by Doctor Corbett Bishop of Oxford against the opposing the Duke in Parliament. 1628’.
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 Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82, 152.
CoR 3
Copy, headed ‘Upon the breach betweene ye King & ye Subiect, at ye dissolution of the Parliament. March. 1628’.
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).
CoR 4
Copy, headed ‘On ye Parliamt. 1627’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, 54 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1640s.
CoR 5
Copy, headed ‘On the Parliament 1628’.
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.
CoR 6
Copy, headed ‘On ye Parleament 1627’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt. Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe MS’: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.
CoR 6.2
Copy of the answer to Corbet's poem, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Answere to ye Doctr. Corbetts verses’ and here beginning “The warlicke kinge did wonder when he spide”, on one side of a single folio leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and prose, i n various hands and paper sizes, 25 leaves, in modern half red calf.
CoR 6.5
Copy, headed ‘An episcopall libell againste the lougher howse, the Bbp of Oxforde is thoughte to bee the author of them’, c.17 March-12 May 1628/9.
On f. 30v is ‘An answere to the verses pag: 49’ (‘The warlike Kinge did wonder when hee spide’), the page headed ‘Maye 12th 1629’.
In: Autograph diary of the lawyer Walter Yonge, MP, of Colyton, Devon, in his secretary hand, 90 folio leaves, with (ff. 84r-90r) a ‘Table’ of contents, in modern half red morocco. 1627-42.
Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘This manuscript was founde by me one the 22th day of April, 1644, in the studie of Walter Younge, Esq., in his house of Studcombe [i.e. Stedeombe in Axminster] in Devon, witnes my haunde the day & yeare first aboue-written. E. Fortescue’: i.e. probably by Sir Edmund Fortescue, the Royalist defender of Salcombe. Phillipps MS 20757. Sotheby's, 5-10 June 1899 (Phillipps sale), lot 340.
Edited from this MS in Pearl, pp. 36-8.
CoR 6.6
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio ‘book of parliament speeches’ in 1627/8-1629, in a professional secretary hand, on thirteen pages, in a folio composite volume of state papers and printed tracts. c.1630s.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 253/3, f. [7r].
CoR 6.8
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, following (f. 67r) ‘The Warlike kinge did wonder when he spide’, on the third page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1629-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state, literary and family papers and speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 93 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco. Papers principally of the Boteler family, of Biddenham, Bedfordshire, and of the family of John Hampden, MP (1595-1643), politician, of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire.
Volume DLXXXIII of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.
CoR 7
Copy in the hand of Sir Edward Nicholas, appended to a copy of Charles I's speech on 10 March 1628/9, on one of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers belonging to Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State. c.1630.
CoR 8
Copy, headed ‘Verses made of the Lower house of Parlement 1628. supposed by Dr. Corbett bishop of Oxford at yt time’.
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.
CoR 9
Copy, untitled, following ‘The kinges speech 10 March 1628[/9]’. c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian and parliamentary tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 245 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco in cloth boards gilt.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Sum Edw Umfrevile Juneis. Interioris Templi Studentis 1725. 10o Aprilis’: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.
CoR 10
Copy, headed ‘Verses supposed to bee made by Dr Corbet Bp of Oxford against the opposing the Duke in Parliament 1628’. c.1630.
In: A quarto composite volume of state papers and speeches, in several hands, ff. 153r-97r in a single professional hand, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards. c.1630s.
Once owned by John Hart and John Ashton.
Edited from this MS in Percy Society volume (1850); in Bennett & Trevor-Roper; and in online Early Stuart Libels.
CoR 10.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo notebook, in Latin and English, entitled ‘Sales, Facetiæ & Collectiones promiscuæ’, in several hands, written from both ends, 56 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt. Including numerous medical prescriptions by Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne (1573-1654/5), royal physician. c.1658.
CoR 11
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of ‘Sales, Facetiæ, & Collectiones promiscuæ’, including academic letters, speeches, etc., in English and Latin, in several hands, 56 leaves (plus blanks), the texts dating c.1623-1658, in red crushed morocco gilt. Compiled at least in part by a Cambridge University man. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 152.
CoR 12
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, with a poem about Corbett, on a single folio leaf. c.1630.
In: A collection of unbound verse, in various hands. Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.
CoR 12.3
Copy, headed ‘A Libell found at the Court and presented to the King by the Bp of London Dr Lawde, 8 March 1628’, dated 14 March 1628[/9].
In: A small quarto miscellany, c.360 pages. Compiled by William Whiteway, Jr (1599-1635). 1623-34.
CoR 12.5
Copy, headed ‘Certaine verses inveighing agt ye howse of Comons made vpon their said Disorder’.
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.
CoR 12.8
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, with a side-note ‘Ecles: 10’, endorsed ‘Vpon dissolucon of the Parliamte. Ao quinto Re Caroli’, on a single folio leaf.
In: A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders. c.1628.
Donated in 1921 by Dr J. R. Tanner.
CoR 13
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1628.
Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.
This MS recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 414.
CoR 14
Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled but headed ‘Docter Corbett’, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1620s.
In: A bundle of unbound poems and songs, in various hands and paper sizes.
Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, Box 1 and DD/SF 4516.
CoR 15
Copy, headed ‘I had these verses deliuered me’ and subscried ‘Doctr Kerbie B: Ox’, dated 6 August 1629.
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).
Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), pp. 42-3. This publication recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82, 152.
A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).
CoR 16
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index. Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Elizabeth Lane hir booke’ and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, ‘Johannes Finch’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Elizabeth Lane MS’: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).
CoR 17
Copy, subscribed ‘R: C.’
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.
CoR 18
Copy, headed ‘The Entertainmt. of his Matye at Cambridge, to the Tune of Bonny Nell’.
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt. Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v. c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. ‘Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt’. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Harley MS’: CoR Δ 5.
CoR 19
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett against Cambridge’.
In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).
CoR 19.5
Copy by Stanhope of lines 3-6, here beginning ‘& vented hath a studdyed toy’.
In: A printed exemplum of the 1634 edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's Historie of the World copiously annotated by Charles, second Baron Stanhope of Harrington (1593-1675). c.1640s.
Discussed in G.P.V. Akrigg, ‘The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope’, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 785-801.
Quoted in Akrigg, p. 796.
CoR 20
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves. c.1620-40s.
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Morley MS’: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the ‘Killigrew MS’ (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).
Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.
CoR 21
Copy, headed ‘On K: James his entertainment in Cambridge’ and subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.
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.
CoR 22
Copy, in double columns, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves of verse. c.1630s.
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
CoR 23
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Of the ks enterteynmt. at Cambridge’.
In: A large folio miscellany of English and Welsh poems, in occasionally alternating black and red ink, 61 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by Richard Roberts, Justice of the Peace. c.1628.
Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.
CoR 24
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
CoR 25
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
The name ‘George Brown’ inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone’.
CoR 25.5
Copy, transcribed from CoR 40.
In: A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt. 19th century.
Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
CoR 26
Copy of the first five stanzas, incomplete.
In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 80 leaves, in contemporary calf. Entitled (f. 1r) Liber de sententijs epistolarum Mearum, quas feci vel postea facicam deo iuuante Finis, and compiled by Joseph Meddus (b.1602/3) of Exeter College, Oxford c.1619.
Scribbling on f. 1b including the name ‘Hen Heardson’.
CoR 28
Copy, untitled, on two quarto leaves; imperfect, lacking the ending.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
CoR 29
Copy, subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.
CoR 30
Copy, heaed ‘A Certaine graue poeme...’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 49 leaves; in contemporary calf gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r. c.1630s[-75].
Inscribed on f. 29v ‘John Peverell Booke 1674’ and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 ‘by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham’. Other names inside the front cover including ‘John Peves’ and ‘Railphe Hogwood’ and, inside the back cover, ‘James Portington’, ‘William Steadman 1675’, ‘Thomas Meeres’, ‘William Diton’ and ‘Ramond Swift’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Peverell MS’: CwT Δ 9.
CoR 31
Copy, headed ‘The Oxfd-Ballad: by Dr Corbet’.
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).
CoR 32
Copy in: A miscellany, ii + 182 leaves (ff. 39-130 blank). Compiled by a Cambridge man, probably James Monson (d.1683), ninth son of Sir John Monson, second Baronet. Late 17th century.
CoR 33
Copy on a single folio leaf. c.1630.
In: A composite volume of printed works and MSS.
Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
CoR 34
Copy, transcribed from ‘Mr: Martin's MS’: i.e. from a MS owned by Cole's ‘Friend’ Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single neat hand, 247 leaves, in half-morocco. In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XX of the Cole Collection). c.1747-52.
See CoR 41.
CoR 35
Copy, headed ‘A graue Parod as it was presented in Latin by certaine Diuines by way of Interlude before his Maiestie in Cambridge...’.
In: A tall folio volume of state papers, in probably a single professional rounded hand, 84 leaves, in modern half-calf on marbled boards. Mid-17th century.
Purchased from Messrs Waller, 7 July 1858.
CoR 36
Copy, headed ‘A graue Poeme...’ [&c.].
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather. Probably compiled by one ‘H.S.’, a Cambridge man. c.1640s-50s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription ‘1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol’. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
CoR 37
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, entitled ‘Songs & Sonnetts’, in various hands, 84 leaves, in half morocco gilt. Among the collections of Randle Holme, probably the third of that name (1627-1700), herald.
CoR 38
Copy, in a secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves; c.1630.
In: the MS described under CoR 12.
CoR 39
Copy, headed ‘After ye Kinges first entertainment att Cambridge, this Oxford ballad was comon, thus intitled A graue poem...[&c.]’. c.1620s.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in two hands, partly associated with the University of Cambridge.
CoR 40
Copy in: A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf. Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man. c.1630s.
Once owned by F. W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, ‘Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138’, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.
An additional stanza in this MS edited in Pebworth and Summers. pp. 160-1.
CoR 41
Copy, headed ‘A Libill made by Oxford Men upon Cambridge mens enterteyning the king’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 68 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.
Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8053 in his sale, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8011.
CoR 41.5
Copy, in a possibly professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various chiefly professional hands, ii + 235 leaves, in reversed calf. Compiled, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-8), Oxford antiquary.
Third volume of the miscellaneous collections of Richard Davis of Sandford.
CoR 42
Copy in: A folio volume of tracts and letters, many relating to Cambridge affairs, partly compiled by I. Wickstede, mayor of Cambridge. Early 17th century.
Downing College, Cambridge, Bowtell Collection, MS ‘Wickstede Thesaurus’, Part II, ff. 46r-7r.
CoR 43
Copy, headed ‘March. 7. anno Dni. 1625. A Graue Poem as it was praesented by diuers sheepesheads before his Maiesty in Cambridge’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Stephen Wellden’ and ‘Abraham Bassano’ and (f. 98r) ‘Elizabeth Weldon’. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Welden MS’: DnJ Δ 49.
A copy of ‘An answere’ to this poem is on ff. 70r-1v.
CoR 44
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘R. C.’
In: A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King. c.1630s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Halliwell MS’: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).
CoR 45
Copy in: An octavo miscellany, comprising ‘Instructions for Justices of the Peace’ in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf. c.1623-30s.
Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed ‘A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly’).
Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.
CoR 46
Copy, headed ‘Oxford Sonnet / A poeme as it was prsented before his Matie in Cambridge...[etc.]’, imperfect, lacking the ending.
In: An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco. c.1630s.
Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) ‘Edward Lewis his Book 1753’, ‘John Parker’, ‘P H Warburton’, and ‘John Aden’, and (Part II, p. 33) ‘Thomas Lloyd Esq’. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H. C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 265-6.
CoR 47
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, beginning at line 43, here ‘Next rode his Lorshipp on a nag’, probably transcribed from CoR 48, on both sides of a single folio leaf, imperfect, lacking a title and the beginning. c.1620.
Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.
CoR 48
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, in double columns, on the first of two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620.
Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.
CoR 49
Copy, in a small secretary hand, in double columns, on the first two pages (the third containing Latin verses) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.
CoR 50
Copy, headed in the margin ‘The K: entertainmt in Cam:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page ‘Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Bishop MS’: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].
CoR 50.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum. Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court. c.1630.
Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.
CoR 51
Copy, headed ‘The Oxford ballad’.
In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum. Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632. c.1630s.
Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including ‘Cuthbert Sewell Esq’, ‘Jos. Nicholson’, ‘Wm Richardson’, and ‘Somers’. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS U. 26 (James 548), pp. 72-80.
CoR 52
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, in double columns, headed ‘A Grave poem...[etc.]’, unascribed, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under CoR 14.
CoR 53
Copy in: MS. 17th century.
Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 508. A set of microfilms of the Verney Papers is in the British Library (M/636/1-60).
Sir Ralph Verney, Bt., Claydon House, [no shelfmark], [unspecified item].
CoR 54
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound. Inscribed four times on a flyleaf ‘Tobias Alston his booke’: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end. c.1639 [-c.1728].
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Alston MS’: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.
Certain true Woords spoken concerning one Benet Corbett after her death. she dyed October the Second Anno 1634 (‘Here, or not many feet from hence’)
First published in Gilchrist (1807), pp. 154-5. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 92.
CoR 56
A secretarial copy.
In: A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers principally relating to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich, 90 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Fols 4r-15r are in the professional secretary hand of Richard Corbett's personal secretary at Norwich.
Later owned by William Hopkins (1647-1700), Prebendary of Worcester, and afterwards by George Hickes (1642-1715), Dean of Worcester.
Edited from this MS in Gilchrist and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
CoR 57
Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 58.
In: The second of two octavo volumes of historical collections, 375 leaves altogether. Compiled and written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 160.
CoR 58
Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.
In: A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later). A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett (2), Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards. c.1620s-43.
Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Corpus MS’: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, ‘William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode’, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 160.
The Distracted Puritane (‘Am I madd, o noble Festus’)
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.
CoR 60
Copy in: A small octavo miscellany of verse and prose, written from both ends, i + 155 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man. Early 17th century.
CoR 61
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.
CoR 62
Copy, here beginning ‘O noble ffestus’.
In: A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.
This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, ‘The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry’, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.
Hales &Furnivall, III, 272-4. Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 133.
CoR 63
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf. Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription ‘R. Dorset’ is added in the hand of King himself. c.1625-46.
Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) ‘Ann Littleton’. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Thomas Manne MS’: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
CoR 64
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 65
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.
CoR 66
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford. c.1633.
Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ‘ffrancis Baskeruile’: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) ‘Elizabeth White’; (f. 54v) ‘William Walrond his booke 1663’; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) ‘John Wallrond’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Baskerville MS’: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.
CoR 67
Copy, described as ‘to the tune of Tho: of Bedlam’.
In: the MS described under CoR 40. c.1630s.
CoR 67.5
Copy, headed ‘The distracted puritan to ye tune of Joviall tinker’, partly in double columns.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Joseph Hall’ (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.
CoR 68
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of both bawdy and religious verse and some prose, in several hands, 94 leaves (including a number of blanks), in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed ‘Charles Shuttleworth His Booke Anno 1691’. Peter Murray Hill, London, sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33.
CoR 70
Copy; imperfect, lacking pp. 37-8.
In: the MS described under CoR 46. c.1630s.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 31-9.
An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 (‘I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue’)
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.
CoR 71
Copy, the date in the title rendered as ‘20 December 1615’, subscribed ‘R. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 72
Copy, in a mixed hand, on a single folio leaf. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 115.
CoR 72.5
Copy, in a professopnal secretary hand, headed ‘An Eleagie on the death of E Howard Baron of Ethingham’, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1629-30s.
In: the MS described under CoR 6.8.
CoR 73
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of the Lord: Effingham 1615’, ascribed in the margin to ‘R: Cor.’
In: A folio volume of 143 poems by Donne, plus his Paradoxes and Problems, in a single neat hand, 270 pages (plus a three-page index), in contemporary calf. Transcribed from Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, [Part I], pp. 13r-161v (‘Dublin MS I’: DnJ Δ 14) before the extraction from that MS of pages containing two poems by Donne but before the addition of the Hamilton elegy of 1625. c.1623-5.
Acquired in 1895 from Bernard Quaritch by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4503.
Recorded in IELM as the Norton MS: DnJ Δ 9. Briefly discussed in C.E. Norton, ‘The Text of Donne's Poems’, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 11-13). Cited as N by most modern editors and as H4 in Variorum.
This MS recorded (as ‘N1’) in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 114.
CoR 74
Copy, headed ‘An Elegye on the late Lo: Willm Howard Baron Efingham who dyed Decem: 10. 1615. Dr Corbet’.
In: A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt. c.late 1620s.
Inscriptions including (f. 6r) ‘Hannah Lewis Junr’; ‘Thomas Turner his Book’ (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated ‘1750’, ‘58’ and ‘1760’); (f. 12r) ‘Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons’; (ff. 20r, 59v) ‘John Jones’; (f. 40r) ‘Jon: Pryse 1729’; (f. 59v) ‘Robt. Was’[?]; and (f. 79r) ‘Edmund Baxter 1729’. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to ‘Lelly’. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Utterson MS’: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, ‘Edward Vernon Utterson’, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).
This MS probably that recorded (as ‘N2’) in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 114.
CoR 75
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘An elegie on the death of the late Lo: Howard Baron of Effingham deceased the .10. of Decemb:’, on the first two pages of two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1615-20s.
CoR 76
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers. The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). c.1620-5.
Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the ‘Dalhousie MS I’: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in ‘Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I’, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in ‘“And, having done that, Thou hast done”: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts’, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.
Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.
Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely ‘conduit’ to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.
CoR 77
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of the Lo: Effingham’, inscribed in the margin ‘R: Cor’.
In: A folio collection of verse containing 143 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a single predominantly italic hand (except for two poems on f. 104r-v, added afterwards by two other italic and secretary hands), the main scribe also probably responsible for the ‘Puckering MS’ (DnJ Δ 13); this collection constituting ff. 13r-161v of a single folio volume containing also Part II, with an index on ff. 2r-11v (covering both Parts) in another hand, ii + 279 leaves in all, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1623-5.
Old pressmark MS G. 2. 21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (Part I): DnJ Δ 14.
CoR 78
Copy, subscribed ‘Fran: Beaumont’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.
CoR 78.5
Copy of the first six lines, headed ‘An Elegie made by Dr Corbet on the late lord Sr William Howard baron of Effingham’; imperfect, lacking the rest.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves). Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Griffith MS’: StW Δ 26.
An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father (‘Vincent Corbet, farther knowne’)
First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.
CoR 79
Copy, headed ‘On Doctor Corbetts Father: R: C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 80
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Corbets father’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 81
Copy in two hands, headed ‘On Dr Corbets father’, subscribed ‘Dr R: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 82
Copy, headed ‘In Eundem [i.e. on Vincent Corbett]. R:C:’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.
CoR 83
Copy, headed ‘Dr. C: Vpon his Father’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
CoR 84
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Corbets ffather’ and subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 85
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Dr Corbets father’, subscribed ‘Dor Corbett’.
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.
CoR 86
Copy, headed ‘Another vpon the same’ [i.e. on Vincent Corbett].
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.
CoR 87
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Corbets father’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.
Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).
CoR 88
Copy, headed ‘Dr R. Corbet's Elegy on his own Father’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem ‘Upon a Tempest at Sea’ (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning ‘the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe’ (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others. Late 17th century.
Inscriptions (p. 1) ‘Mary Browne’ (who d.1676) and ‘James Dodsley’ and (p. 174) ‘Mar. 11th 1713/4 The gift of Mrs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).
This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], ‘A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne’, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne’, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.
Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8460, pp. 53, 52, 51 rev.
CoR 89
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘R: C:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).
CoR 90
Copy, here beginning ‘Dear Vincent Corbett...’.
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.
CoR 91
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbett on his father’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 52r-3r.
CoR 92
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbetts Epitaph on his Father’.
In: the MS described under CoR 54. c.1639 [-c.1728].
CoR 92.5
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett on his father’.
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.
CoR 93
Copy, the first two words in engrossed and decorated lettering, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbet’, in the left column.
In: Calligraphic funerary placard for Vincent Corbett, on a membrane of vellum, c.58.5 x 54.5cm, with pin holes. Comprising three English and Latin elegies on Vincent Corbett (‘He Dyed the xxvith: of Aprill in the Yeare of our Lord 1619’), by his son Richard Corbett, John Selden, and Ben Jonson, arranged in columns under the engrossed title ‘Sacred to the Memory of Vincent Corbet’, with an unattributed four-line epitaph at the foot To the Reader (‘Reader whose life and name did ere become’), in the form of a memorial tablet, with borders decorated in colours. This is evidently the original funerary placard for Vincent Corbett hung up in St Mary's Church, Twickenham, after 26 April 1619. 1619.
This MS once owned by John Evelyn. Thomas Rodd, ‘Catalogue of a Collection of Manuscripts’ (1838), item 317. Afterwards owned by William Upcott and sold at the Duke of Berwick sale 1843. Christie's 29 May 1986, lot 199 (with facsimile example in the sale catalogue). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1066 (Winter 1986), item 99 (with colour facsimile).
A photograph is in the British Library, RP 3523.
An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.
CoR 94
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.
CoR 95
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Q: Anne: R: Co:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in part in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 66.
CoR 96
Copy, headed ‘On the same’ [i.e. death of Queen Anne], subscribed ‘Dr Rich: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 66, 140.
CoR 97
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on Q: Anns Death’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.
CoR 98
Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of Q. Anne’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 66.
CoR 99
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.
The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
CoR 100
Copy, headed ‘On ye Same [i.e. the death of Queen Anne]’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 101
Copy, headed ‘An Exhortacion to ye vniursitie concerning their printed poetry more especiallie at ye queens death’.
In: the MS described under CoR 24. c.1630s.
CoR 102
Copy, headed ‘On the Queene’.
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).
CoR 103
Copy, headed ‘Elegy on Queene Anne's Death’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.
Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
CoR 104
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on Queene Anne’, subscribed ‘R: C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 66. c.1633.
CoR 105
Copy, headed ‘On the Death of Queene Anne’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, largely in a predominantly secretary hand, another hand on ff. 85r-7v, 95v-6r, xiii pages + 104 leaves (including blanks, but lacking ff. 7-9, 54-5, 95), with a table of contents (pp. 1-6), in modern calf, gilt-edged. Compiled by University or Inns of Court men. c.1630s.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.
Inscribed (f. [104v] ‘Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691’. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
CoR 106
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne. c.1630 [-1677].
Part I inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Smyth his Book 1640’, ‘Charles Smyth 1674’, ‘Hugh Smyth 1676’; (f. 23v) ‘J Smyth 1677 / 1676’. Part II inscribed several times ‘Thomas Smith’, on f. 19r also ‘Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659’, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying ‘this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone’. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 48.
CoR 107.5
Copy. headed ‘Dr: Corbett on the Queenes death’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
CoR 108
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the late Queene Anne’.
In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. ‘Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies’ (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.
An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower (‘Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth’)
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
CoR 110
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Thomas Ouerbury’, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 111
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 112
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Thomas Ouerbury’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152. Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship. c.late 1630s [-1789].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe-Halliwell MS’: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
CoR 113
Copy, headed ‘In obitum Domi Thomae Ouerbury. Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 115
Copy, headed ‘on ye Death of Sr Thomas overburye poysen'd in ye tower’.
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.
CoR 116
Copy, untitled.
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.
CoR 117
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 118
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on Sr Thos Ouerbury poysoned in the Tower 16i4’ and as ‘By Dr Corbet’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.
The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed ‘Margrett Bellasys’, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed ‘The pieces which I have extracted for “The Specimens” are, Page 91, 211, 265’: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.
CoR 119
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco. c.1630s [-1777].
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus’, the date ‘1638’ possibly added in a different hand. The name ‘William Allen’ on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for ‘Mr Thorpe’, ‘I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835’.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Glover MS’: DnJ Δ 42.
CoR 120
Copy, headed ‘Overbury’.
In: A folio volume of state trials, 33 leaves. c.1620.
CoR 121
Copy, headed ‘Of Sr. Tho: Ouerburie’ and subscribed ‘Beamond’.
In: the MS described under CoR 40. c.1630s.
CoR 122
Copy, headed ‘Mr. Dr. Corbets Elegy on Sr. Thomas Ouerburie’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) ‘A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan’: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington. c.1630s.
Also inscribed ‘Mary Helerd’. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2
CoR 123
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Thomas Ouerbury’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
CoR 124
Copy, headed On Sr Thomas Ouerbury.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.
CoR 125
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of Sr. Thomas Overbury Knight. Dr. Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 74. c.late 1620s.
CoR 125.5
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbet upon Ouerbury death’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt. A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) ‘No 4. Henry Feilde 1642’. c.1642.
Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of the Rev. Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Christie's, 2 July 1975, lot 229, to H.P. Kraus. Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1992, lot 95.
Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.
CoR 126
Copy, headed ‘D.C. on Sr Tho: Ouerbury’.
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.
An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
CoR 127
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 128
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Lady Haddington dying of the small Poxe’, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 129
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 130
Copy of the last 42 lines, headed ‘On ye Lady Haddington who died of the small pox’ and here beginning ‘Oh thou deformed vnwomanlike disease’, subscribed ‘Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
CoR 131
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the lady Haddington, dying of the small poxe. R: C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
CoR 131.5
Copy of lines 59-82, headed ‘On a woman deformed wth ye Pocks’, here beginning ‘O thou deformd unwoman like disease’, docketed in the top margin ‘see more of these verses page 88’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 132
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet on the death of ye Lady Hay’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 132.5
Copy of lines 83-100, headed ‘On a woman disfigured wth ye smal pocks’, here beginning ‘Thou shouldst haue wrought on som such Lady mould’, superscribed ‘Part of ye former verses sup pag 6’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 133
Copy, headed ‘A Funerall Elegye on the Lady Haddington who dyed of the Small Pox’, marked ‘L C’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled ‘L.C.’ [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637. c.1637.
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names ‘Edw Denny’ [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], ‘Charles Cocks’, ‘Edward Randolphe’ and (on p. 162) ‘Thomas Cassy’. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Haslewood Kingsborough MS (I)’: DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).
CoR 134
Copy of the last 42 lines, headed ‘On the smallpox’.
In: the MS described under CoR 99 (CoR Δ 12). c.1634.
CoR 135
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on the Lady Hayes death by Dr Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 99 (CoR Δ 12). c.1634.
CoR 136
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 137
Copy, headed ‘Dor Corbett on the Lady Haddington who dyed on the Smalpox’.
In: the MS described under CoR 115. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 138
Copy 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.
CoR 140
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbet one my Lady Haddington who dyed of the small pox’.
In: the MS described under CoR 116. Mid-17th century.
CoR 141
Copy, headed ‘Vpon my Lady Harringtons death who dyed of the small poxe by Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 118. c.1630.
CoR 142
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on ye Lady Haddington’, subscribed ‘Ric Corbett’, transcribed from CoR 143.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
CoR 143
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on ye Lady Haddington’, subscribed ‘Ric: Corbett’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
CoR 144
Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, headed ‘An Elegie Upon the Lady Haddington’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1630s.
In: the MS described under CoR 72.
CoR 145
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 63. c.1625-46.
CoR 146
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the Lady Haddington’, subscribed ‘A R C’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt. Probably compiled by university or inns of court men. c.1620s-30s.
CoR 147
Copy, headed ‘On the death of the La: Haddington’, subscribed ‘R: C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 66. c.1633.
CoR 148
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637. Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew. c.1637.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as ‘Stowe MS II’: DnJ Δ 44 and ‘Stowe MS’: CwT Δ 22.
CoR 149
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
CoR 150
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the Lady Hayes her Death by Dr: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 105. c.1630s.
CoR 151
Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Harrington who dyed of the Small Pox. by Dr: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 105. c.1630s.
CoR 152
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Lady Haddington, who dyed of the small Pox’.
In: the MS described under CoR 86. c.1637-51.
CoR 154
Copy on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Sr Arthur Terringham An Elegy upon lady Haddington’. c.1630.
Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.
CoR 155
Copy, headed ‘An Elogie on the Ladie Hayes her death by Doctor Corbett’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in alternating secretary and italic scripts, probably in a single hand; foliated in ink 1-32 and paginated in pencil 33-96, 32 leaves (lacking final leaf). Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Huntington MS’: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).
CoR 156
Copy of the last 42 lines, headed ‘On the pox in the Face’.
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.
CoR 157
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the Lady’.
In: the MS described under CoR 89. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
CoR 158
Copy, headed ‘On ye Lady Haddington who dyed of ye small poxe’, inscribed at the side ‘DC’.
In: the MS described under CoR 126. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
CoR 159
Copy, with the last 42 lines sub-headed ‘Aliter’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, 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 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
CoR 160
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the death of the La: Haddington; Dr: Corbett’.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, 368 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). Folios 357r-68v comprising a portion of a quarto verse miscellany, in a neat italic hand, probably associated with the Inns of Court, c.1620s-30s.
Old pressmark F. 4. 20.
CoR 161
Copy of the last 42 lines, headed ‘On ye Lady Harrington diing on ye smale pox’ and here beginning ‘O ye deformed vnwomanlike disease’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.
CoR 162
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Lady Haddington’ and subscribed ‘Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 54. c.1639 [-c.1728].
An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.
CoR 164
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Ravis Bpp of London’, docketed in the margin ‘Dr Corbett’.
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.
CoR 165
Copy, headed ‘on Byshop Rains. R: C.’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 166
Copy, headed ‘On Doctor Rauis Bpp of london’, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 167
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 168
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Rauis Bp of London’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
CoR 169
Copy, headed ‘On Dr. Ravis Bishpp of London. R:C.’, imperfect, lacking the ending on excised pp. 87-8.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
CoR 171
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Cor: An Ellegy of Doctor Rauis bishop of london’, marked ‘L C’.
In: the MS described under CoR 133 (CoR Δ 10). c.1637.
CoR 172
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbett. / On Dr Ravis Bishop of London’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
CoR 173
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 174
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Ravis, Bpp of London’ and subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 176
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Docter Rauis Bishop of London’.
In: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 177
Copy of the last four lines, headed ‘Dr: Corbett, in his last 4 vses on Dr: Rauis Bp: of London, speaking of his want of a monument, sayth’ and here beginning ‘Nor neede the Chauncellour boast, whose Pyramis’.
In: A quarto miscellany and memorandum book, in three or more cursive mixed hands, 113 leaves, in modern binding. Compiled, perhaps largely, by ‘Justinian Paget Es[q.] a Lawyer’, whose name is so inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 1*r), a number of the contents relating to the Paget family and also with references (ff. 34v-5v) to ‘my sister Ann Maydwell’. c.1633-1645.
The contents suggest an Inns of Court and possible Christ Church, Oxford, connection.
CoR 178
Copy, headed ‘On Dr King Bishopp of London’, subscribed ‘R: C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 66. c.1633.
CoR 179
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Ravis Bishop of London’ and ascribed at the side to ‘Dr Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 106. c.1630 [-1677].
CoR 180
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on Dr. Rauis by Dr. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 122. c.1630s.
CoR 182
Copy, headed ‘On Doctor Ravis Bishop of London’, ‘by Dr Corbet’ added in another hand.
In: the MS described under CoR 124. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 183
Copy, headed ‘Dr: C: Elegy on Bp. Rauis of London who dyed 1607’.
In: the MS described under CoR 89. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
CoR 184
Copy, headed ‘On Doctor Raines Bish: of London’.
In: the MS described under CoR 91. c.1630s-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), f. 58r-v.
CoR 185
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Dauis Bishop of London’.
In: A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps. Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Osborn MS II’: StW Δ 30.
An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
CoR 186
Copy. headed ‘On Doctor Donne an epitaph. R: C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 188
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Donne a Epitapht by R: Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 189
Copy, headed ‘His Epitaph’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
CoR 191
Copy 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.
CoR 195
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett upon the death of Dr Donne. Print.’
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.
CoR 196
Copy, headed ‘Corbett Bishop of Oxfords verses on Dr. Donne late Deane of Powles’.
In: the MS described under CoR 8. Mid-17th century.
CoR 197
Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.
In: the MS described under CoR 58. c.1620s-43.
CoR 198
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 149. c.late 1630s.
CoR 199
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph made by Dr Corbett Bishop of Oxford; on Dr Dun Deane of Paules’, here beginning ‘Hee that will write an Epitaph on thee’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
CoR 199.5
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Donnes Epitaph’.
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. 37-8.
CoR 200
Copy. headed ‘An Epitaphe made uppon Doctor Donne Deane of Paules by Doctor Corbet Bishoppe of Oxforde’.
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.
CoR 200.5
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Deane of Paules: D.D.’ and subscribed ‘R. Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 107.5. c.1630s.
CoR 201
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 46. c.1630s.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 133-4.
CoR 202
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.
The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 21v-2r.
An Epitaph on Tho. Jonce (‘Here for the nonce’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
CoR 203
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph: on Tho: Jone's Clarke’.
In: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 145.
CoR 204
Copy, headed ‘Epi: vpon Tho: Jones Clarke of St Giles Parish’.
In: the MS described under CoR 118. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 145.
An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… (‘The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on’)
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note ‘None of Dr Corbets’ and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
CoR 206
Copy, headed ‘To Mr John Hammond parson of Bewdly for the beating down of the maypole...’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 207
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Hamond of Bewdley For meating downe ye May=pole’, subscribed ‘Geo: Morleye’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 208
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 209
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Hammon parson of Bewdly for pulling down the maypole’, subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
CoR 210
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Hammond, Parson of Bewdly: for the beating down of the Maypole’.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 130.
CoR 210.5
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 199.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 249-53.
CoR 212
Copy, headed ‘A godly Exhortation...’.
In: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 213
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Hammond of Bewdly for beating downe ye Maypole’ and subscribed ‘John Harris’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 214
Copy, headed ‘An ehortacon to mr John Hamond at Bewdley for the battring downe the Maypole’.
In: the MS described under CoR 138. 1647.
CoR 215
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Hammond Parson of Beaudly for ye beating downe of ye May-pole’ and subscribed ‘Dr Corb:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 1.5. c.1634-43.
CoR 216
Copy of an abridged 38-line version, headed ‘To Mr Hamon of Beaudly. Dr Corbet’ and beginning at line 5 (here ‘My verse is gone, I haue all rimes defied’).
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’.
CoR 217
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r. c.1630s.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Michell MS’: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem ‘Shall I die?’ attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.
CoR 219
Copy, headed ‘a godly exhortation...’ and here ascribed to ‘John Harris of Christchurch’.
In: the MS described under CoR 63. c.1625-46.
CoR 219.5
Copy, in a mixed hand, on the first three pages (two following leaves unopened) of a quarto booklet. c.1620s-30s.
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.
CoR 220
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Hamond Parson for the beating downe of the Maypole’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index). Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dobell MS II’: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.
CoR 221
Copy, headed ‘A Godly Exhortation to Mr John Haymond in the parish of Beudly for the battering downe of the Vanities of the Gentiles; which are comprehended in a maypole, written by a zealous Brother from the Black-ffrires’, subscribed ‘John Harris of Christ-Church’.
In: the MS described under CoR 44. c.1630s.
CoR 221.5
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 107.5. c.1630s.
CoR 222
Copy, headed ‘A goodly exhortation...’.
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, ff. 13v-15r.
CoR 223
Copy, headed ‘To mr. John Hammond Parson of Beudly for the beating doune of the Maypole’.
In: the MS described under CoR 91. c.1630s-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 46r-8r.
CoR 224
Copy, headed ‘A godly exhortation to Mr. John Hammond minister of the word of God in the parish of Beawdly for the battering downe of uanities of the Gentiles wch are comprehended in a May-poole by a zealous brother from ye Black ffriars’, imperfect, lacking the last eighteen lines.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf. c.1630s.
Inscriptions inside the covers including the name ‘Phil. Mu’ (or ‘Mer.’). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Sparrow MS’: StW Δ 31.
For Trinity Sunday, an Anthymne (‘Blessed forever may he bee’)
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 93.
CoR 225
Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 226.
In: the MS described under CoR 57. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 161.
CoR 226
Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.
In: the MS described under CoR 58. c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
For related poems see CoR 247-78.
CoR 227
Copy, headed ‘An Answear to Dctr. Price his reply’.
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 228
Copy, headed ‘To Dr. Preice’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 229
Copy, headed ‘The answere to Dr. Price’, subscribed ‘R: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 11.
CoR 230
Copy, headed ‘An answer to Dr Price’.
In: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 231
Copy, headed ‘R: C: againe, to Dr Price’.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
CoR 234
Copy, headed ‘Ad Poetam exauctoratum et emeritum’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
CoR 235
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 236
Copy, headed ‘The aunswere to Dr Price’ and subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 238
Copy, headed ‘A replie to the defence’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin. c.1630.
Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).
CoR 240
Copy, headed ‘Ad Poetam exeustoratum et emeritum’.
In: the MS described under CoR 106. c.1630 [-1677].
CoR 241
Copy, headed ‘In Authorum Exauctoratum et Emeritum’, subscribed ‘R: C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 44. c.1630s.
CoR 243
Copy, headed ‘An answere to Price’.
In: the MS described under CoR 222. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 13r-v.
CoR 244
Copy of lines 17-30, headed ‘The Replye’ and here beginning ‘But for a Cobler to goe burne his Cappe’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph. c.1635.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Mostyn MS’: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].
CoR 245
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbetts Answeare’.
In: the MS described under CoR 202. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 43v-4r.
In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.
CoR 247
Copy, headed ‘Against Price his Anniversary upon Prince Henry: R:C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 248
Copy, headed ‘Song, on Dr Pricees annivers. R:C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 249
Copy, headed ‘An Antianniversary’, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 250
Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbet against Prices aniuersary on Prince Henery’.
In: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 251
Copy, headed ‘Against Dr Prices Anniuersaries vpon Prince Henrie’, subscribed ‘Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
CoR 252
Copy, headed ‘R:C: on Dr. Price his Aniversary on Prince Henry’.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 107.
CoR 253
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet agt Dr Price Aniversaryes on Prince Henry’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 253.5
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘R: C:’.
In: A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks). Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem ‘Vpon Mr Donn's Satires’ subscribed ‘Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620’. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family. c.1620-5.
Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘John Cave MS’, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167), f. [22r-v].
CoR 254
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet Against Dr Price’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
CoR 255
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corb. against Prices Anniversary vpon Prince Henry’.
In: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 256
Copy, headed ‘An Antianiversary’ and subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 257
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett: agt. one Price an idle writer as beneth’, dated at the end 23 June 1628.
In: the MS described under CoR 23. c.1628.
CoR 259
Copy, headed ‘Ad Autorem de anniversarijs eiusdem In Henricum Principem’.
In: the MS described under CoR 25. c.1620s-30s.
CoR 260
Copy, headed ‘On Dr P: Price his 3 Anniversary vpon ye death of prince Henry’.
In: the MS described under CoR 30. c.1630s[-75].
CoR 261
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett against Doctor Prince his Anniversary upon this princes death’.
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.
sy
CoR 262
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett against Dr Brice's annyversaries on P: Henrie’.
In: the MS described under CoR 238. c.1630.
CoR 264
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Dr Price his Anniursary’, subscribed ‘Dr Corbett’.
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.
CoR 265
Copy, headed ‘On the Anauersy of Mr Price who writt on the death of Prince Henery D:C.’.
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.
CoR 265.5
Copy, in a rounded italic hand, headed ‘Ad Authorem...’, on the first two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under CoR 219.5.
CoR 266
Copy, headed ‘Ad authorem de anniuersarijs eisdem siue anmadversarijs, siue adversarijs In Henricum principem’.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.
CoR 267
Copy, headed ‘Ad Authorem...’, subscribed ‘Dr: C:’.
In: A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Mid-17th century.
CoR 268
Copy, probably in the secretary hand of Thomas Carre (d.1641), rector of Himsworth and vicar of Aycliffe, Co. Durham, headed ‘Vpon Dr Price his Anniversary for noble prince Henrie’, subscribed ‘Dr. Corbit’. c.1630s.
In: A tall folio composite volume of largely ecclesiastical verse and prose documents, in English and Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, with dates from 1613 to 1669, 238 leaves, in reversed calf.
Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.
This MS recorded in P.G. Stanwood, ‘Poetry Manuscripts of the Seventeenth Century in the Durham Cathedral Library’, DUJ, 62 (1969-70), 81-90 (p. 84).
CoR 269
Copy, headed ‘Ad Authorem de Anniversarijs ejusdem, sive adiversarijs in Henricum Prin:’.
‘’.
In: the MS described under CoR 106. c.1630 [-1677].
CoR 271
Copy, headed ‘Ad Authorem de Anniversarijs ejusdem in Henricu Principem’.
In: the MS described under CoR 199. c.1630s.
CoR 272
Copy, headed ‘Against Dr Price his Aniuersarys vppon Prince Henry 1613: 1614’ and subscribed ‘R. C’.
In: the MS described under CoR 200. c.1630s.
CoR 273
Copy, headed ‘Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora Muros’.
In: the MS described under CoR 46. c.1630s.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part I, pp. 12-13.
CoR 274
In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem. This entry in IELM, II.i, is a typographically garbled repetition of CoR 272.
CoR 275
Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbet against Prices Universary upon Prince Henry’.
In: the MS described under CoR 222. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 12r.
CoR 276
Copy, headed ‘Dr: Corbett to Dr: Pryce touchinge his Anniversaryes’.
In: the MS described under CoR 244. c.1635.
CoR 277
Copy, headed ‘Against Dr Prices Anniversaries of P Henry’.
In: the MS described under CoR 202. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 42v-3r.
CoR 278
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbett against Dr. Price's Anniversarys on Prince Henery’.
In: the MS described under CoR 160.
Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
CoR 281
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 283
Copy, with corrections in another hand.
In: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 284
Copy, headed ‘A iourney into the North’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
CoR 285
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbets Iter Boreale’.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
CoR 286
Copy in double columns, headed ‘The Itinnary in ye North, 10mo: Aug: 1618’.
In: the MS described under CoR 133 (CoR Δ 10). c.1637.
CoR 287
Copy of lines 1-46, headed ‘Dr Corbett. / The description of a Northerne Journey’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
CoR 288
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 99 (CoR Δ 12). c.1634.
CoR 289
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 290
Copy, in two hands, headed ‘Iter Boreale by Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 115. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 291
Copy headed ‘Docter Corbets Journey’.
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).
CoR 292
Copy, in a professional hand, docketed ‘Dr Corbett Iter Boreale’, on sixteen quarto leaves. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
CoR 293
Copy, headed ‘A iourney into the North by Ri. Corbet’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf. Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford. c.1630s.
Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 44.
CoR 294
Copy, untitled, on eight quarto leaves, with a note on a preliminary leaf (f. 71v) by Wood identifying it as ‘Iter boreale by Rich. Corbet, D.D., afterwards Bp of Norwich’ and recording ‘I remember I had this out of Dr Barten Holydayes studie after his death’ [i.e. Barten Holyday (1593-1661), poet and cleric]. c.1630s.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, ii + 117 leaves, in half-calf.
Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. xxi-xxii.
CoR 295
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 296
Copy of lines 1-474, in a mixed hand, on eight folio leaves, inscribed at the top of the first leaf ‘Ralph Thoresby’, imperfect, lacking lines 475 onwards. Mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 231 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco. Including items once owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.
Presumably from item 47 among the folio MSS recorded in Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 77.
CoR 297
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, in double columns, headed ‘Secundum Iter Boreale’, on a single folio leaf. c.1630s-40s.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 126 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half green morocco.
Volume II of the papers of Peter Alfred Taylor, MP (fl.1875).
CoR 298
Copy, headed ‘Dor. Corbett's Northerne Journey’.
In: the MS described under CoR 63. c.1625-46.
CoR 299
Copy, headed ‘Doctour Corbetts iter boreale to Newarke’.
In: the MS described under CoR 195. c.1640s.
CoR 300
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbets Iter Boreale’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 62r) ‘Nathaniel Heighmore’: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; ‘John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen’; and ‘John Sacheverell the Author of this...’.
CoR 301
Copy, subscribed ‘R: C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 66. c.1633.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 47.
CoR 301.5
Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Rich. Corbet’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks). c.1630s-40s.
Inscriptions include ‘Edwardus Hyde’ (at the end) and (f. [ir]) ‘Edward Hyde is a knave’: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the ‘E. H.’ responsible for a poem ‘To his Wife’ (f. 34r) and the ‘Ned Hide’ who is subject of an ‘Epitaph’ (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed ‘Robertus Walker’ and ‘Elizabeth Walker’. Early 18th- century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘A Footnote to Donne’, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's ‘signature’ (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.
CoR 302
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘Secundum iter Boreale’, inscribed at the side ‘Per Dre. Corbet’. c.1620s.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse and dramatic works, in various hands, 200 leaves, each of the fifteen items now bound separately in modern boards.
Sotheby's, 19 March 1930, lot 450.
CoR 303
Copy, headed ‘The Northeirne voyadge’, subscribed ‘R.C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 122. c.1630s.
CoR 304
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett his relation of his iourney Northward from Oxford’.
In: the MS described under CoR 253.5. c.1620-5.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167), ff. [4r-14v rev.].
CoR 305
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index). Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford. c.1638.
Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 54-67.
CoR 306
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 222. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 1r-8r.
CoR 307
Copy, headed ‘Dr: Corbet's Iter Boreale’.
In: the MS described under CoR 89. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
CoR 308
Copy, beginning at line 23 (here ‘Ther had wee venison such as Virgill slew’).
In: the MS described under CoR 126. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
CoR 309
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 244. c.1635.
CoR 311
Copy, headed ‘Iter Boriale. D. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 91. c.1630s-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 4r-14v.
CoR 312
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and sermons, in different hands, possibly associated with Lancelot Andrewes, 98 leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards. Inscribed on the last page (f. 98v) by Andrewes's secretary ‘samMVel. WrIght of LonDon 1616’.
This MS discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 36r, 40v and 44v, in P.J. Klemp, ‘“Betwixt the Hammer and the Anvill”: Lancelot Andrewes's Revision Techniques in the Manuscript of His 1620 Easter Sermon’, PBSA, 89/2 (June 1995), 149-82.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B. 14. 22 (James 307), ff. 62r-71r.
CoR 313
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett his relation of his iourney Northwarde from Oxforde’, transcribed from CoR 304.
In: A quarto volume of 72 poems by Donne, together with a poem by John Cave on Donne's satires and four poems by Richard Corbett, in two alternating styles of hand, 84 leaves (including 41 blank pages). Chiefly in the hand of John Nedham, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and probably transcribed from the ‘John Cave MS’ (DnJ Δ 27), the title-page dated 31 March 1625. c.1625.
Also owned or used by Millicent Nedham and by one William Edmunde. Possibly the quarto MS of ‘Poems by Dr. Donne and Dr. Corbet’ in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 600, and in his catalogue of MSS, 1846, p. 29. Later owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Nedham MS’: DnJ Δ 28. Some poems edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802).
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 18 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.17), ff. 65r-71v.
CoR 314
Copy, headed ‘Secundum Iter horale [sic] DCor’.
In: A group of poems by Corbett, in a single hand, in a folio booklet of fifteen leaves presumably once part of a larger collection, foliated in pencil 49-63, numbered ‘22’, disbound. c.1620s-30s.
CoR 314.5
Copy, headed ‘Corbetts Iter Boreale’. with a side note ‘Dr Hutton and dr Corbett’, imperfect, part of pp. 62-3 torn away.
In: the MS described under CoR 92.5. c.late 1630s.
CoR 315
Copy, described as ‘The itinerarij in to the North, 10. Aug. 1618. by Richard Corbett. En Vers. & quantités d'autres Poëmes, sur toute sorte de sujets par les Meilleurs Auteurs Anglois; à sçavoir par Edward Lapworth, John Squijer, Tomkis, Sr. Henry Godyer, John Donne, & autres; tous en Anglois.’ ‘Ex Bibliotheca Constantini Hugenii’: i.e. the Dutch diplomatist and poet Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687). Janus Albinus, Catalogus...librorum (Dordrecht, 1696), p. 325, as item 41 in the section ‘Libri Manuscripti in Folio’. 17th century.
The Ladyes Answer (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’)
Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 91.
See GrJ 14-37.
A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.
CoR 316
Copy, headed ‘To Sr. Thomas Aylesbury: R: C’.
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 317
Copy, headed ‘A letter of Dr Corbet to mr Alisbury’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 318
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to Mr Aylsbury’.
In: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 319
Copy, headed ‘A Letter of Dr. Corbett's, to Mr. Alisbury’.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 65.
CoR 320
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to Mr Alesbury on ye Comet ibid’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 321
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett to Mr: Alsburye upon ye Comett Noue: 1628’, marked ‘L C’.
In: the MS described under CoR 133 (CoR Δ 10). c.1637.
CoR 322
Copy, as by ‘Dr Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 65.
CoR 323
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 99 (CoR Δ 12). c.1634.
CoR 324
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 325
Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, in an interleaved printed exemplum of Lilly's Englands Propheticall Merline (1644). Mid-17th century.
In: A composite collection of quarto tracts published by William Lilly (1602-81), astrologer.
CoR 326
Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘Decem '90 from Mr Corbett to Mr Alesburie’, on both sides of a single folio leaf of verse.
In: A folio composite volume of discourses, notes, of verses, and letters by Camden, mainly autograph, viii + 226 pages, different sizes, in early 18th-century half-calf. Including papers on barons in connection with the case of Lord Roos, 27 April 1616, on the judicial proceedings in 1616 after the death of Sir Thomas Overbury (1613), on the punishment of peers, on Rathlin Island, and an anonymous tract on Geoffrey of Monmouth (pp. 133-8). c.1615-20s.
Owned or used by Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms; by Francis Sandford, Lancaster Herald; and by Mr Howell (herald painter). Acquired by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor, at Christmas 1703. Inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), on 2 March 1710/11, as having been bequeathed by Smith to him.
Extracts from this MS (concerning the trial of the Earl of Somerset) printed in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), pp. 213-16.
CoR 327
Copy, on a long ledger leaf, headed ‘A letter written from a Gentleman in Oxford to a Mithemati: his friend being at Sion’ and docketed ‘Dr. Corbet’.
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.
CoR 328
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the blasing starr by Doctor Corbett to Mr Alesbane’.
In: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 329
Copy, headed ‘To my Lord Admirall Mr Alisbury vppon ye Comett R Corbett’, transcribed from CoR 331.
In: the MS described under CoR 142. c.1620s-30s.
CoR 331
Copy, headed ‘To my Lorde Admiralls Mr Alisbury vppon the Comett. R. Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 143. c.1620s.
CoR 333
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 63. c.1625-46.
CoR 334
Copy, in an uneven italic hand, headed ‘To my Lord Admiralls mr Alesbury vppon the Comet R Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 146. c.1620s-30s.
CoR 335
Copy, headed ‘A Letter from Doctor Corbett: to a freind’.
In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf. c.1630s.
CoR 336
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 253.5. c.1620-5.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167), ff. [3r-4r rev.].
CoR 337
Copy, headed ‘A Letter from Dr. C: to a friend’.
In: the MS described under CoR 89. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
CoR 338
Copy, headed ‘ffrom Doctor Corbett to Mr Alesburye on ye Comett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 126. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
CoR 339
Copy, transcribed from CoR 336.
In: the MS described under CoR 313. c.1625.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 18 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.17), f. 72r-v.
CoR 340
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Hilsbury at London from Dor Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 314. c.1620s-30s.
CoR 341
Copy, in a secretary hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf.
Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/3.
A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
CoR 342
Copy, headed ‘To ye Marquis on his iourney into spaine: R: C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 343
Copy, headed ‘To ye Marquesse on his iourney into Spaine’, subscribed ‘Dr Rich: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 344
Copy, headed ‘By Mr Doctor Corbet’ [‘To the Marquis vpon his iourney into Spain’added in different ink].
In: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 345
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet of ye Princes iorney into Spaine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 346
Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbets Letter to the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 133 (CoR Δ 10). c.1637.
CoR 347
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett. / To the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
CoR 350
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to Marques Buckingham 1618’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 351
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to the marriage in spaine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 115. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 352
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbett to the Duke of Buckingham’.
In: the MS described under CoR 25. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 146.
CoR 353
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbets verses: Spayne’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1625.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 146.
CoR 354
Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbett to the Duke of Buckingham may 1mo 1623°’.
In: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 355
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbets lr to ye D. of Buck: beinge in Spaine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 36. c.1640s-50s.
Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
CoR 356
Copy, headed ‘A Letter of Doctor Corbettes to ye duke then wth ye Prince in Spayne’.
In: the MS described under CoR 103. c.1636.
CoR 356.5
Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Verses. Dr. Corbet’. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under CoR 219.5.
CoR 357
Copy, headed ‘To the Duke of Buckingham’, subscribed ‘Dr Rich: Corbett’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum. Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents. c.1640s.
Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.
CoR 359
Copy, headed ‘Dr: Corbett: on the Princes & Duke of Buckingham goinge into Spayne’.
In: the MS described under CoR 43. Mid-17th century.
CoR 360
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbet to the Duke of Buckingham being in Spayne’.
In: the MS described under CoR 86. c.1637-51.
CoR 361
Copy, headed ‘On the Spanish Match Dr Corbet to the Duke of Buckingame’.
In: the MS described under CoR 199. c.1630s.
CoR 362
Copy, headed ‘To the Lord Marquess Buckingha, vpon his Journey into Spayn Richard Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 253.5. c.1620-5.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167), f. [2r-v rev.].
CoR 363
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Dr Corbet To ye Duke of Buckingham’. c.1630s.
In: A quarto composite volume of plays, poems and tracts, in various hands.
Owned in 1702 by John Newdegate, of the Inner Temple. Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventry, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
Warwickshire County Record Office, microfilm M1 351/3 & /5, No. 20.
CoR 364
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine: 1623’.
In: the MS described under CoR 89. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
CoR 365
Copy, headed ‘D.C. his verses to the Duke of Buckingham being in Spaine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 126. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
CoR 365.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘I have heard of Ilands flotinge and remoud’, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves of verse relating to Corbett, endorsed ‘Dor. Corbetts verses’.
In: the MS described under CoR 12.8. c.1628.
CoR 366
Copy, headed ‘To the Marques of Buck on his iourney to Spaine R Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 202. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 38v-9v.
CoR 367
Copy, headed ‘A Coppy of Dr Corbetts Letter to the Duke of Buckingham’, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.
In: A bundle of unbound verse and prose MSS, in various hands and paper sizes.
Among the papers of the Wentworth family, Earls of Strafford.
CoR 368
Copy, headed in the margin ‘D C verses, on wch the former were made’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards. Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called ‘Herrick hand’ responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350. c.1612-24.
Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including ‘Georgius Cantuarien’, ‘Thomas Hobson’ [?the Cambridge Carrier], ‘Benjamin Broadeface’, ‘To my very long friend mr John Bond’, ‘To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace’, ‘Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…’, ‘To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale’, ‘Williamson’ and ‘Phillip de Maceden’. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.
Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.
The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in ‘Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in ‘To the Editor’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's ‘A Reply to Mr P. Croft’, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas ‘Herrick’ Manuscript.
CoR 369
Copy, untitled, in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by Donne.
In: the MS described under CoR 78. c.1630s.
CoR 369.5
Copy, headed ‘To the Marquesse of Buckingham on his returne from Spaine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 78.5. Mid-17th century.
CoR 370
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbetts letter to the Duke of Buckingham being in Spaine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 54. c.1639 [-c.1728].
CoR 371
Copy, headed ‘D:C: To D of B’.
In: A quarto commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, largely in one small hand, with a few additions in three other hands, 257 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.
Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.
Some texts followed by an answer beginning ‘Little booke, when I am gone’.
CoR 372
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Cor: To his Mris: Lute’.
In: the MS described under CoR 164 (CoR Δ 2). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 107.
CoR 372.5
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs Lute’ and here beginning ‘Pretty lute when I am gone’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30th of May. 1638’. c.1638.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.
CoR 373
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Curtesants lute’ and here beginning ‘Pretty lute when I am gone’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 374
Copy, headed ‘To a Curtezan’ and here beginning ‘My pretty lute when I am gone’.
In: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 375
Copy, headed ‘Verses written on a lute she yt. owed it being absent’ and here beginning ‘Pretty lute when I am gon’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 376
Copy, headed ‘To a courtesan’ and here beginning ‘My prety lute when I am gon’.
In: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 377
Copy, headed ‘These written upon a lute the gentlewoman being absent who was the owner’ and here beginning ‘I pray thee lute when I am gone’.
In: the MS described under CoR 138. 1647.
CoR 378
Copy, headed ‘Verses inscript upon a Lute’ and here beginning ‘Pretty Lute when I am gone’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco. Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1630s.
Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richard Sutclif’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
CoR 379
Copy, headed ‘Upon one comminge to visit his Mrs and shee being absent hee wrote upon her lute thus’, deleted.
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.
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
CoR 380
Copy of the first stanza, headed ‘A Gentle woman on a Lute or Little Book of a Gentleman whom she entirely loved’, inscribed in the book.
In: Printed exemplum of Poëtica Stromata (1648). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 106-7.
CoR 381
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I prithee lute when I am gone’; mid-late 17th century.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including fourteen poems by Donne, almost entirely in a single hand, 33 leaves (plus six blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1630.
Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Fulman MS’: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.
CoR 382
Copy, headed ‘One wrote in his loues absence on her lute’.
In: the MS described under CoR 43. Mid-17th century.
CoR 383
Copy, headed ‘Vpon A Lute’ and here beginning ‘Pretty lute when I am gone’.
In: the MS described under CoR 86. c.1637-51.
CoR 384
Copy, headed ‘One finding a Lute instead of his mistresse’.
In: the MS described under CoR 123. c.1640.
CoR 385
Copy, headed ‘One wrot this in his loves asence on her lute’.
In: the MS described under CoR 199. c.1630s.
CoR 387.5
Copy of a two-line version, headed ‘verses uerste on his Mrs lecke’ and beginning ‘Pretty lute when I am gon tell thy Mrs there was one’.
In: the MS described under CoR 78.5. Mid-17th century.
CoR 388
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet on his Mris Lute’ and here beginning ‘I prethee Lute when I am gone’.
In: the MS described under CoR 161. c.1640.
CoR 388.5
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Lute’ and here beginning ‘I prethee Lute when I am gone’, followed by ‘Her Answer’ (with same first line).
In: the MS described under CoR 92.5. c.late 1630s.
A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.
CoR 389
Copy, headed ‘To ye Duke of Buckingham: R: C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 390
Copy, headed ‘Dr: Corbett to ye Marquess of Bucking: on a New-yeares Day’.
In: the MS described under CoR 164 (CoR Δ 2). c.1630s.
CoR 391
Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbett. To the Duke of Buckingham’.
In: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 392
Copy, headed ‘To the Duke of Buckingame by R C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 393
Copy, headed ‘To ye Duke of Buckingham’, subscribed ‘Dr Rich: Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 394
Copy, headed ‘To the Duke of Buckingham’.
In: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 395
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet. A Newyeares gift to ye Duke of Buckingham 1621’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 396
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Doctor Corbet to ye Lo: Marques Buckingham Christchurch this present new Years Day 1624’, marked ‘L C’.
In: the MS described under CoR 133 (CoR Δ 10). c.1637.
CoR 398
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to ye Duke of Buckingham’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 399
Copy, headed ‘To the Duke of Buckingam Dr. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 115. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 400
Copy, headed (in margin) ‘To the Duke of Buckingham. Ld. George Villiers Rich: Corbet Christes-Church, this present New-yeares day 1621’.
In: the MS described under CoR 3.
CoR 403
Copy, headed ‘A New Yeares guifte to the marquess of Buckingham by Doctor Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 403.5
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on one side of a single quarto leaf, folded as a letter. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under CoR 219.5.
CoR 404
Copy, headed ‘The Deane of Christs Church to marques Buckingham’ and subscribed ‘Christs church this present newyeares day 1621’.
In: the MS described under CoR 266.
This MS recorded (and erroneously described as ‘a holograph’) in J.E.V. Crofts, ‘A Life of Bishop Corbett 1582-1635’, E&S, 10 (1924), 61-96 (p. 81); recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 143.
CoR 405
Copy, headed ‘The Deane of Christs-Church to Marquesse of Buckingham’ and subscribed ‘Christs-church this present newyeares day 1621 Rich: Corbett.’.
In: the MS described under CoR 267. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72, 143.
CoR 406
Copy, headed ‘To the Duke of Buckingham’, subscribed ‘R. C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 44. c.1630s.
CoR 407
Copy, headed ‘D.C. to ye M:B:1622:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 89. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
On Christ-Church Play at Woodstock (‘If wee, at Woodstock, haue not pleased those’)
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 70.
CoR 409
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 140.
CoR 410
Copy, headed ‘In ye Person of Ch. Ch.’.
In: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
On Francis Beaumont's death (‘He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit’)
First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.
CoR 412
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Fran Beaumont’.
In: the MS described under CoR 164 (CoR Δ 2). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.
CoR 415
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Beaumont's death’, here beginning ‘He that hath such greatness & such wit’.
In: the MS described under CoR 142. c.1620s-30s.
CoR 415.5
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Beaumonts death’ and here beginning ‘Hee that hath such acutenesse & such witt’.
In: the MS described under CoR 143. c.1620s.
CoR 416
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on ffrancis Beaumont’ and here beginning ‘He that hath such Acutenesse & such witt’.
In: the MS described under CoR 103. c.1636.
CoR 417
Copy, headed ‘On Mr. ffr: Beaumonts Death’.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand ‘Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650’, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ‘ffinis W Browne’. c.1637-50.
This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.
Inscribed (f. 280v) ‘Philip Butler his book’.
CoR 417.5
Copy, headed ‘On Mr: Francis Beaumonts death’, ‘by Dr Corbet’ added in another hand.
In: the MS described under CoR 124. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 418
Copy, here beginning ‘He yt hath such acuteness, & such wit’.
In: A verse miscellany. c.1674.
Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13, f. [30r].
CoR 419
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Francis Beaumonts death’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf. Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts’ (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in 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 188.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).
CoR 420
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Fras: Beamont’ and here beginning ‘He yt hath such acutenes & such witt’.
In: the MS described under CoR 159. c.1638-42.
On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)
First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing ‘(from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent’).
CoR 422
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 164 (CoR Δ 2). c.1630s.
CoR 423
Copy, headed ‘On younge Tom of ch: ch: by Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 424
Copy, headed ‘On the casting of Greate Tom of ch: ch:’, subscribed ‘Jeram: Terrent’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 425
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 426
Copy, headed ‘On the Casting of great Tom of ch; ch:’, subscribed ‘Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.
CoR 427
Copy, headed ‘On Tom of Christchurch. J: Warm. &c.’
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.
CoR 428
Copy, headed ‘Do: Corbet on Tom ye great bell of C:C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 429
Copy, headed ‘vpon Tom of Chri: chu: new cast’.
In: the MS described under CoR 133 (CoR Δ 10). c.1637.
CoR 430
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 99 (CoR Δ 12). c.1634.
CoR 431
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 432
Copy, headed ‘On ye casting of great Tom of xt Church’ and subscribed ‘Jer: Jerrent’ [i.e. Jeramiel Terrant].
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 433
Copy, headed ‘To Yonge Tom’, on two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1630s.
In: the MS described under CoR 22.
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149; printed in H.T. Ellacombe, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 2 (20 December 1862), 493-5.
CoR 434
Copy of lines 1-20.
In: the MS described under CoR 24. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.
CoR 437
Copy, headed ‘On young Tom of Christ Church by Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 372.5. c.1638.
CoR 438
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Jer: Terrent’, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man. c.1630.
In: A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf. Copy, headed ‘An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme’.
CoR 439
Copy, on two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves of verse. After 1660.
In: A composite quarto verse miscellany, 199 leaves, in calf. Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.
CoR 440
Copy, headed ‘On Tom the great Bell of Christ Church Oxford’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS. c.1670.
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, pp. 295-6.
CoR 442
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet on the second castinge of the great bell at Christchurch caled great Tom’.
In: the MS described under CoR 265. c.1646-9.
CoR 443
Copy, headed ‘Tom: christchurch great bell new fownded: To young Tom’.
In: the MS described under CoR 379. Mid-17th century.
CoR 445
Copy, headed ‘On Young Tom of Ch: Ch:’, inscribed in the margin by Fulman ‘Corb.’
In: the MS described under CoR 357. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80 et seq.
CoR 446
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 149. c.late 1630s.
CoR 447
Copy, headed ‘On greate Tom’, subscribed ‘R. W.’
In: the MS described under CoR 122. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80.
CoR 448
Copy, headed ‘Tom of Christchurch newly cast’.
In: the MS described under CoR 43. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80.
CoR 449
Copy, headed ‘On great Tom’, subscribed ‘Jer Wermistrie’.
In: the MS described under CoR 220. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.
CoR 450
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Tom of Christchurch, the greate Bell newly cast’.
In: the MS described under CoR 86. c.1637-51.
CoR 451
Copy, headed ‘On ye great Bell of Ch: Church. D.C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 87. c.late 1630s.
CoR 452
Copy, headed ‘On Tom of Christ-Church the great Bell newly cast’.
In: the MS described under CoR 200. c.1630s.
CoR 453
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 202. c.1636-40s.
CoR 454.5
Copy, headed ‘On Tom by of Chr: Chur:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 78.5. Mid-17th century.
On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
CoR 457
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Henry Boling’, docketed in the margin ‘Dr Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 164 (CoR Δ 2). c.1630s.
CoR 458
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 459
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 460
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett / On Mr Henry Boling his Death’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
CoR 461
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 462
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Henrie Boling his death by Dr Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 24. c.1630s.
CoR 465
Copy, headed ‘Vppon Mr Henery Bowlinge an Epitaph by R C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 143. c.1620s.
CoR 466
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 146. c.1620s-30s.
CoR 467
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Henry Boling his death’, ascribed at the side to ‘Dr Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 106. c.1630 [-1677].
CoR 470
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 159. c.1638-42.
CoR 471
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 202. c.1636-40s.
CoR 471.5
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett vpon Henry Boline’.
In: the MS described under CoR 92.5. c.late 1630s.
On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)
First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.
CoR 472
Copy, headed ‘On John Dawson ye Butlers Death. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 473
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 164 (CoR Δ 2). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.
CoR 474
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 475
Copy, headed ‘On John Dawson ye buttlers deth’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
CoR 476
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
CoR 477
Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.
CoR 479
Copy, headed ‘Mr Strowd / On John Dawson the Butler his death’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
CoR 480
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 99 (CoR Δ 12). c.1634.
CoR 481
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 483
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 24. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, 144.
CoR 485
Copy, headed ‘On the death of John Dawson Butler of Christ Church’, subscribed ‘W. S’.
In: the MS described under CoR 372.5. c.1638.
CoR 486
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 379. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72, 144.
CoR 487
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 66. c.1633.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.
CoR 488
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 149. c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.
CoR 489
Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘Mr Strowde’.
In: the MS described under CoR 106. c.1630 [-1677].
CoR 491
Copy, headed ‘Vpon John Dawson Butler of Christchurch’.
In: the MS described under CoR 86. c.1637-51.
CoR 493
Copy, with other poems on a single folio leaf.
In: Miscellaneous literary papers, unbound, assembled by Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales. Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A1.
CoR 494
Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of John Dawson Butler of Christ=church’.
In: the MS described under CoR 305. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 23.
CoR 495
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Butler of Ch:Ch: In Oxon: John’.
In: the MS described under CoR 89. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
CoR 497
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 50. c.1630.
On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford (‘Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.
CoR 499
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 501
Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
CoR 502
Copy, headed ‘On Mr. Rice Manciple of Ch: Ch:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
CoR 503
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Mr Rice, Manciple of Ch: Ch:’ and subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 506
Copy, subscribed ‘R: Corbet:’.
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).
CoR 508
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mr. Rice Manciple’, subscribed ‘R.C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 122. c.1630s.
CoR 510
Copy, headed ‘on the death of Rice manciple of Ch: Church. R. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 91. c.1630s-40s.
On the Birth of Prince Charles (‘What joy that Shunamite did once inherit’)
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 85-6.
CoR 511
Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 512.
In: the MS described under CoR 57. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 154.
CoR 512
Copy in the hand of Corbet's chaplain William Strode, headed (erroneously) ‘On the birth of Prince Henry’.
In: the MS described under CoR 58. c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles (‘When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone’)
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.
CoR 513
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 514
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 515
Copy, headed ‘On the Birth of Prince Charles. R:C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
CoR 516
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 99 (CoR Δ 12). c.1634.
CoR 522
Copy, headed ‘On the same [i.e. the Prince's birth] R: C’.
In: the MS described under CoR 379. Mid-17th century.
CoR 523
Copy, headed ‘Corbett ye Bishop of Oxfords verses of Prince Charles his birth, 1630 endorsed by my Lo. his Foolish & Episcopall verses’.
In: the MS described under CoR 8. Mid-17th century.
CoR 526
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett Bp. of Ox: on ye Prince's birth’.
In: the MS described under CoR 43. Mid-17th century.
CoR 527
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 305. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 103.
CoR 528
Copy, untitled, dated 27 June 1630.
In: the MS described under CoR 15. c.1625-42.
Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), pp. 54-5. Reprinted from this publication in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.
CoR 529
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 164 (CoR Δ 2). c.1630s.
CoR 530
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 531
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 533
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 535
Copy, headed ‘on ye death of ye Lady Arabella’.
In: the MS described under CoR 291. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 537
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 541
Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘Dr Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 106. c.1630 [-1677].
CoR 544
Copy, headed ‘The Lady Arabella’, inscribed in a different hand ‘Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 124. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 545
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Lady Arbella, by Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 200. c.1630s.
CoR 546
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 305. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 109.
CoR 547
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 126. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
CoR 548
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 159. c.1638-42.
CoR 549
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 202. c.1636-40s.
CoR 550
Copy, headed ‘The lady Arrabells Epiyaph’ and subscribed ‘Sr: W Rawleigh’.
In: the MS described under CoR 54. c.1639 [-c.1728].
A Poeme Upon Tom Coriatts Crudities. in Commendation of the Author, and Worke (‘I do not wonder Coryate that thou hast’)
First published in Coryats Crudities (London, 1611). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 4-5.
A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will (‘Farewell, Rewards & Faeries’)
First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.
CoR 552
Copy, headed ‘The ffairies Farewell. or God haue merrye will’.
In: the MS described under CoR 25. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 128.
CoR 553
Copy, in a neat hand in double columns, with corrections in different ink, headed ‘A proper new ballad, intituled the ffaeries farewell or Soe A merry Will: to be sung or whistled to the tune of the Meddowe Browe by the learned, by the vnlearned to the tune of Fortune’, on a single folio leaf. Early-mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown ‘Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709’.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 128.
CoR 554
Copy, beginning at stanza 2 (here ‘Lament, Lament old Abbyes’).
In: the MS described under CoR 440. c.1670.
CoR 554.8
Copy, headed ‘An Old Ballad made in 1647, by Bishop Corbett entitul'd the Fairies Farewel’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) ‘Poems on Severall Occasions’, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1735.
CoR 555
Copy, in a neat rounded hand, in double columns, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Mid-17th century.
Replye to the Answere (‘Yff nought but love-charmes power have’)
First published in Gilchrist (1807), p. 234. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 91-2.
CoR 556
Copy, subscribed ‘finis D D. Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 191. c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Gilchrist and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
A small Remembrance of the great King of Sweden (‘What now! already are those wagers layd’)
First published (‘from MSS (not in a public library)’) in Eu. Hood [i.e. Joseph Haslewood], ‘Bishop Corbet's Poems’, Gentleman's Magazine, 93.i (April 1823), 308-9. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 89-90.
CoR 557
Copy, subscribed ‘R: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 506. c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
CoR 558
Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.
In: the MS described under CoR 58. c.1620s-43.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 90, 158.
CoR 559
Copy, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett Bipp: Norwicen’.
In: the MS described under CoR 220. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & trevor-Roper, p. 158.
To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
CoR 560
Copy, headed ‘R: C. to his sonne Vincent.’
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 560.5
Copy, headed ‘Bishop Corbet to his young Sonne Vincent’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1648-61.
Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name ‘Elizabeth keech’.
CoR 561
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 562
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to his sonne’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 562.5
Copy in: A composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, mainly in the hands of the Rev. Dr Philip Francis (1708-73), writer and translator, and his son Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818), politician and political writer, 477 leaves. Mid-18th century.
CoR 563
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 565
Copy in: A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves. c.1640.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
CoR 565.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, compiled chiefly by Eliza Chapman, 89 leaves. 1788-9 [with additions to 1817].
Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).
CoR 566
Copy in the first column of the recto of a single folio leaf. Early-mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under CoR 553.
CoR 567
Copy, headed ‘To his son Vincent Corbett on his birthday Nov 10 1630, being then 3 yeeres of age’.
In: the MS described under CoR 5. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 568
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett to his sonne Vincent on his birth-day, Nouemb. 10. 1630’.
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.
CoR 570
Copy, headed ‘To my sonn Vincent on his birth-day, being now 3 yeer olde’, subscribed ‘by Richard Corbet Ld B of Oxford’.
In: the MS described under CoR 293. c.1630s.
CoR 571
Copy, headed ‘vpon the birth of my Sonne vincent Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 102. c.1620-50.
CoR 572
Copy, headed ‘To his Son Vincent, on his Birth day’.
In: the MS described under CoR 103. c.1636.
CoR 574
Copy, headed ‘To his Sonne Vincent Corbett on his birth-day, Nou .10. 1630. being then 3 yeeres of age’, subscribed ‘B: Oxon:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 177. c.1633-1645.
CoR 575
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 88. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Geoffrey Keynes, The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919).
CoR 576
Copy, headed ‘To his sonne Vincent on his birth he being .3. yeeres old’, subscribed ‘Dr Corbett Bishopp of Oxford’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘ffran: Wyrley’, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems. c.1636-77.
Also inscribed (f. ii) ‘Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet’. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
CoR 577
Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.
In: the MS described under CoR 58. c.1620s-43.
CoR 578
Copy, headed ‘To my sonne Vincent on his birth day the 10th of November 1630 being then three yeares of age / Doctor Corbet Bishop of Oxon’.
In: the MS described under CoR 220. c.1630s.
CoR 578.5
Copy, headed ‘To his Son Vincent Corbet by the same hand’.
In: the MS described under CoR 554.8. c.1735.
CoR 579
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet on his son Vincents Birthday, ye 10th of December, being then 3. yeares of age’.
In: the MS described under CoR 87. c.late 1630s.
CoR 580
Copy, headed ‘The Bp of Oxon his wishes to his little sonne Vincent’.
In: the MS described under CoR 200. c.1630s.
CoR 581
Copy, headed ‘To my sonne Vincent the 10th of 9ber 1630, being then 3 years of age’.
In: the MS described under CoR 46. c.1630s.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part I, pp. 9-10.
CoR 582
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbett to Vincent on his birthday ye third yeare of his age’.
In: the MS described under CoR 159. c.1638-42.
CoR 583
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbett to his sonne vincent Cor:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 91. c.1630s-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 51v-2r.
CoR 583.5
Copy, in a 19th-century hand.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, predominantly in a single hand, with 19th-century additions (pp. 195 onwards, at least partly from earlier MS sources), 279 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1644 (and later).
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘William Han: 1644’, probably by the academic compiler.
To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome (‘Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.
CoR 584
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 585
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 586
Copy, headed ‘An Invocation of ye Ghost of Robert wisdom’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 587
Copy, headed ‘That Authors Invocation on ye Ghost of Robert Wisdome’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
CoR 588
Copy, headed ‘Inuocation on ye Ghost of Robert Wisdom’.
In: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 589
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Robert Wisedome’, on one side of a half-folio leaf.
In: the MS described under CoR 326. c.1615-20s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.
CoR 591
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 40. c.1630s.
CoR 594
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CoR 253.5. c.1620-5.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167), f. [21r rev.].
To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.
CoR 595
Copy, headed ‘R.C. on the new fashsiond vails and gorgets’.
In: the MS described under CoR 164 (CoR Δ 2). c.1630s.
CoR 596
Copy, headed ‘To the Gentlewomen of the New dresse’.
In: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 597
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett to ye ladyes of ye new dresse’, in a pair of quarto conjugate leaves (ff. 173r-4v).
In: the MS described under CoR 22.
CoR 598
Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbettes verses on the Ladies of the New dress’.
In: the MS described under CoR 191. c.1638.
CoR 599
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet on womens wearing of long white robes’.
In: the MS described under CoR 115. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 600
Copy, headed ‘Ladies yt weare black Cypresse vailes’.
In: the MS described under CoR 291. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 601
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet on weareing longe white vailes’.
In: the MS described under CoR 372.5. c.1638.
CoR 602
Copy, headed ‘On or new-fashion'd Ladyes’ and subscribed ‘Dr Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 1.5. c.1634-43.
CoR 604
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett to the Ladyes of the new dresse Night Rayles’.
In: the MS described under CoR 116. Mid-17th century.
CoR 605
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Ladyes of Honour’, subscribed ‘By my L. of Norwidge’.
In: the MS described under CoR 293. c.1630s.
CoR 607
Copy, headed ‘Bishop Corbet to ye ladies of ye new dresse’.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one ‘G. Broughton’ on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
‘G. Broughton’ is possibly William (‘Gulielmus’) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name ‘Jo: Tweedy’ is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Tweedye MS’: CwT Δ 10.
CoR 608
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbitts uerses on ye Ladyes of [sic]’.
In: the MS described under CoR 6. c.1630s.
CoR 609
Copy, headed ‘On Ladies Veiles’, subscried ‘Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 264. c.1640s.
CoR 610
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet's verses to ye Ladies & Gentlewomen of ye Newdresse’.
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.
CoR 613
Copy, untitled.
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.
CoR 614
Copy, headed ‘To the Ladyes with new dresse’.
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’.
Edited from this MS in Gilchrist, p. 233.
CoR 615
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet...in Lent 1632’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
CoR 616
Copy, headed Bp: Corbetts verses, directed to ye ladies of ye new dresse.
In: the MS described under CoR 12.5. Mid-17th century.
CoR 617
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett to ye Ldies of ye new dresse’.
In: the MS described under CoR 357. c.1640s.
CoR 617.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Ladyes yt haue black Cypresse vails’.
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.
CoR 618
Copy, headed ‘Dr: Corbet to the Ladies of new dress’.
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.
CoR 619
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbet [against the Ladies / gentlewomens new fashion deleted] to the Ladies of the new dresse’.
In: the MS described under CoR 220. c.1630s.
CoR 620
Copy, headed ‘By Corbett to the ladyes of the new dresse’.
In: A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards. Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (‘Gulielmus Jordan’) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring. c.1674-84.
Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.
The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to ‘Evan Thomas’ and ‘Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street’. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.
CoR 621
Copy, headed ‘To you Ladyes & Yor. women that doe black Cyprus vayles’.
In: the MS described under CoR 124. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 623
Copy, headed ‘Agst. Ladies wearing great bands’.
In: the MS described under CoR 90. Mid-17th century.
CoR 624
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 159. c.1638-42.
CoR 625
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 202. c.1636-40s.
CoR 626
Copy, headed ‘Bishop Corbett to the ladies of the new dress that weare gorgets and vailes downe to ther waste’.
In: the MS described under CoR 53. 17th century.
Sir Ralph Verney, Bt., Claydon House, [no shelfmark], [unspecified item].
CoR 627
Copy, headed ‘To or new fashiond Ladyes’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index). Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 ‘Vpon ye great Frost 1634’. c.1635.
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: ‘April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool’. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wolf MS’: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 117-18.
CoR 629
Copy, headed ‘D.C. To the Gentlewomen of the Newe Dresse’, dated 1 April 1633.
In: the MS described under CoR 15. c.1625-42.
Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Ann Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), pp. 71-2. This publication recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 159.
To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
CoR 630
Copy, headed ‘To my Lord Mordant: R: C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 631
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 633
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 634
Copy in double columns, headed ‘To the Lo. Mordant: Doct: Corbett:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 133 (CoR Δ 10). c.1637.
CoR 635
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett. / Verses against the Guard; Or, A Satyricall Relation (by way of Letter to the Lord Mordant) concerning the ill entertainment the Guard gave him at his being att Winsore’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
CoR 636
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbetts verses on the guard to the Lord Mordant’.
In: the MS described under CoR 99 (CoR Δ 12). c.1634.
CoR 637
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet on ye guard dedicated to my Ld. Mordant’.
In: the MS described under CoR 115. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 638
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett to the Lord Mordant’.
In: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 640
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to my Ld. Mordant vpon his returne from Scotland’.
In: the MS described under CoR 118. c.1630.
CoR 641
Copy, headed ‘Dor: Corbet to the honerable Lo: Mordant’.
In: the MS described under CoR 148. c.1637.
CoR 642
Copy, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Doctor Corbett to the Lord Mordant’, here beginning ‘My Lord, I must confess at ye first newes’, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett’, on twelve folio pages, unbound. c.1620s.
Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1602-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.
CoR 643
Copy, headed ‘Dr: C: of Oxford beinge kept out of the Haule on St George his day at Windsor by the Guard, Wrote ths verses vnto the Lord Mordent’.
In: the MS described under CoR 89. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
CoR 644
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbet to the Lord Mordaunt’.
In: the MS described under CoR 126. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
CoR 645
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbet on the Guard to my Lo: Mordant’.
In: the MS described under CoR 50. c.1630.
CoR 646
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbetts encounter wth the Guarde at winsor’ and here beginning at line 111 (‘Here might I end my Lo: and then subscribe’).
In: the MS described under CoR 160.
CoR 647
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to ye lo: Mordaunt’.
In: the MS described under CoR 314. c.1620s-30s.
To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse (‘Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth’)
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.
CoR 649
Copy, headed ‘On ye birth of Pr: Charles May 29, 1630 wn a star appeared next day at noone, w an Eclipse of ye Sun the next day following’.
In: the MS described under CoR 1.5. c.1634-43.
CoR 649.5
Copy, headed ‘To the newe borne Prince Charles Maye 1630 uppon the apparrition of the starre and the following Eclipse of the Sunn and Moon’, subscribed ‘Ralphe Godwyn Secretary to the Earle of Northampton fecit hos versicolos’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639). c.1623-30.
Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
CoR 650
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on the birth of Prince Charles].
In: the MS described under CoR 615. c.1653-60s.
CoR 651
Copy, headed ‘On the Princes birth 29 May 1630 A starre appearing the next day at noone: And an Ecclipse of the Sunn ye next day following’.
In: the MS described under CoR 200. c.1630s.
Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
CoR 652
Copy, headed ‘On Mistris Mallet: R: C.’.
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 654
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs Mallet: R:C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 655
Copy, headed ‘On Mris Mallet’, subscribed Rich: Corbett.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
CoR 657
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs Mallet Bp. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
CoR 658
Copy of the last four lines, here beginning ‘Not Tigresse like, shee feeds vpon a Man:’, under a running head ‘R: C: on Mris. Mallet’, imperfect, lacking the rest.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
CoR 659
Copy, headed ‘In Eandem [i.e. on Mrs Mallet] Dr. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
CoR 660
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett / On Mrs Mallett; an ill-favour'd Creature, yt would needs bee in love with the Author’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
CoR 662
Copy, headed ‘On Mris Mallet’ and subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 665
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs Mallett’ and subscribed ‘Dr Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 1.5. c.1634-43.
CoR 667
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs Mallet’, subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 29. c.1620s-30s.
CoR 668
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mrs m. An invectiue against her’.
In: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 673
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbett. On Mris Malett, an ill favour'd Creature, that would needs bee on love with the Author’.
In: the MS described under CoR 106. c.1630 [-1677].
CoR 674
Copy, headed ‘Verses on Mrs Mallet’, subscribed ‘R. C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 122. c.1630s.
CoR 675
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs Mallett’, subscribed ‘R: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 220. c.1630s.
CoR 679
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mistris Mallet’, subscribed ‘R C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 44. c.1630s.
CoR 680
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mrs Malletts being in loue wth him’.
In: the MS described under CoR 253.5. c.1620-5.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167), f. [15v rev.].
CoR 681
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett to his Mris: Mallett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 305. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 96-7.
CoR 682
Copy, headed ‘Of Mrs Mallet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 222. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 15r-16r.
CoR 683
Copy, headed ‘On Mris Mallett: R:C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 89. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
CoR 685
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett on Mrs Mallett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 202. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 44r-v.
CoR 685.5
Copy of lines 1-10, untitled; imperfect, lacking the rest of the poem.
In: the MS described under CoR 78.5. Mid-17th century.
CoR 686
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett on Mrs Mallett a very deformed Gentlewoman, yt was in love wth him’.
In: the MS described under CoR 627. c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 70-2.
CoR 686.5
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett on mrs Mallett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 92.5. c.late 1630s.
Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.
CoR 687
Copy, headed ‘On Fayrford windowes R: C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 16 (CoR Δ 1). c.1630s.
CoR 688
Copy, headed ‘An other on the same [i.e. Fairford Windows]’.
In: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 689
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 691
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 82 (CoR Δ 6). c.early 1630s.
CoR 692
Copy, headed ‘On Fairefoord Windowes’, subscribed ‘Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
CoR 693
Copy, headed ‘On Farford windowes: Dr. Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
CoR 694
Copy, headed ‘On fayrford windowes’, subscribed ‘D: R: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 133 (CoR Δ 10). c.1637.
CoR 695
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 20 (CoR Δ 13). c.1620-40s.
CoR 696
Copy, headed ‘On Faireford Windowes’ and subscribed ‘R. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
CoR 698
Copy, headed ‘On ye same [i.e. Fairford Windows]’.
In: the MS described under CoR 1.5. c.1634-43.
CoR 700
Copy, headed ‘On the preserueing of Lincolns Inn Chappell windowes in the tyme of the warr’.
In: the MS described under CoR 440. c.1670.
CoR 702
Copy, headed ‘On the same’ [i.e. Fairford Windows].
In: the MS described under CoR 300. c.1630s.
CoR 704
Copy, headed ‘On faireford Windowes’, subscribed ‘D. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 149. c.late 1630s.
CoR 705
Copy, headed ‘On Faireford windowes’, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 220. c.1630s.
CoR 708
Copy, headed ‘On the same [i.e. Fairford Windows] by Ric. Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 244. c.1635.
CoR 709
Copy in: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt. Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship). c.1634.
The initials ‘M W’ stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials ‘M W’; it is inscribed ‘Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634’; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Winchelsea MS’: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.
CoR 710
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 202. c.1636-40s.
CoR 711
Copy, headed ‘On ye same [i.e. Fairford Windows] by another’.
In: the MS described under CoR 627. c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 56-7.
CoR 712
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 185. c.1630s.
A facsimile of f. 54v in Laurence Witten, ‘Contemporary Collectors XXIII: James Marshall Osborn’, The Book Collector, 8 (Winter 1959), 383-96 (facing p. 392).
Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
CoR 713
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Commet, by Dr. Lapworth’ and here beginning ‘A Starre did late arise in Virgoe's traine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 164 (CoR Δ 2). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Benntt & Trevor-Roper, p. 138.
CoR 714
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 715
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 716
Copy, headed ‘On a blazinge Starre’, subscribed ‘Dr R: C:’.
In: the MS described under CoR 18 (CoR Δ 5). c.1635.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 138.
CoR 716.5
Copy, headed ‘On the Commet’ and subscribed ‘D.R.C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 301.5. c.1630s-40s.
CoR 717
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett: on the blazing starre’.
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 138.
CoR 721
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A starre of late appear'd in virgoes traine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 353. c.1625.
CoR 722
Copy, headed ‘The Blazing starre’ and here beginning ‘A starre of Late appear'd in Virgoes Traine’, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man. c.1630.
In: the MS described under CoR 438.
CoR 722.5
Copy of a version beginning ‘The Star that rose in virgo's train’.
In: the MS described under CoR 3.
CoR 722.8
Copy of a version beginning ‘The star that rose in Virgo's train’.
In: the MS described under CoR 3.
CoR 723
Copy, untitled.
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.
CoR 723.5
Copy of a version headed ‘Est natura hominum nouitatis auida 1618’ and beginning ‘The starr that rose from Virgo's trayne’.
In: the MS described under CoR 440. c.1670.
CoR 723.8
Copy, headed ‘These verses were found by k: James 1618 scattered by whome vn certaine, vpon the blasing starr’ and here beginning ‘The starre itt rose in Virgins traine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 61. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 725
Copy, headed ‘A blazing starr’ and here beginning ‘A starre of late appeerd' in Virgos traine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 300. c.1630s.
CoR 725.3
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the comett’ and here beginning ‘A Starre of late was seene in virgoe's trayne’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt. The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination. c.1640.
Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink ‘Matheus Day me suum vvst’: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.
CoR 725.5
Copy, headed ‘On a Blazing starre’, subscribed ‘R. C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 43. Mid-17th century.
CoR 725.8
Copy, headed ‘On the blasinge starre’ and here beginning ‘A starre of late appeared in Virgoes traine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 199. c.1630s.
CoR 726
Copy, headed ‘On the Blazing starr’ and here beginning ‘A starre of late appeared in virgo's traine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 224. c.1630s.
CoR 727
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘The starre yt rose in Virgo's traine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 368. c.1612-24.
CoR 727.5
Copy, headed ‘On a comet which appeared before I: fines death and the prince his goinge to Spaine’.
In: the MS described under CoR 78.5. Mid-17th century.
CoR 728
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘The star that sits in Charles his wayne’.
In: the MS described under CoR 54. c.1639 [-c.1728].
CoR 728.5
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Lapworth's Comett, while Prince Charles was wth ye Span: Lady’ and here beginning ‘A Star of late was seene in Bergoes trayne’.
In: the MS described under CoR 21 (CoR Δ 14). c.1650.
Poems of Uncertain Authorship
Cuffe's Speech at his Execution (‘For plotting of a plot which never was’)
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 94-5.
CoR 729
Copy, following ‘Cuffs speech at his execution thus delivered by himself’ and headed ‘The same speech turned into an Elegia by, R. Corbet’, in a booklet (ff. 53r-77v) of historical ‘Miscellanea’ dating up to 1632. c.1630s.
In: A quarto composite volume of state and religious tracts, 375 leaves.
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
An Epitaph On his most honoured Friend Richard Earl of Dorset (‘Let no profane, ignorable foot tread neer’)
Bennet & Trevor-Roper, pp. 97-8.
See KiH 273-301.
A Non Sequitir (‘Marke how the Lanterns clowd mine eyes!’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 96-7.
Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)
First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.
CoR 731
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to ye silent tone of vnspoke speeches’.
In: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CoR 732
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Like to the fiery touchstone of a Cabage’.
In: the MS described under CoR 22.
Edited from this MS in Gilchrist, pp. 220-1; recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 163.
CoR 733
Copy, headed ‘Dr: Corbets nonsence’, on a single folio leaf. c.1630s.
In: the MS described under CoR 22.
CoR 734
Copy, headed ‘A mock song to, like to the Damaske Rose you see’ and here beginning ‘Like to the melting tone...’.
In: the MS described under CoR 372.5. c.1638.
CoR 735
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone...’.
In: the MS described under CoR 116. Mid-17th century.
CoR 736
Copy, headed ‘Sence’ and here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches’.
In: the MS described under CoR 217. c.1630s.
CoR 737
Copy, headed ‘Non=sence By Dr Corbett’ and here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches’
In: the MS described under CoR 31. c.1640s [and later].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 163.
CoR 738
Copy, headed ‘A mess of non-sence’, and here beginning ‘Like to the tone..’.
In: A composite volume of verse collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Mid-17th century.
CoR 739
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Like to ye silent Tone of unspoke speeches’.
In: the MS described under CoR 610. c.1632-40.
CoR 740
Copy, headed ‘Pure Nonsence’ and here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone of unspoke speeches’.
In: the MS described under CoR 379. Mid-17th century.
CoR 741
Copy, headed ‘Pure noncence’, here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone...’, and subscribed in another hand ‘Fra: Qarles. in print’.
In: the MS described under CoR 195. c.1640s.
CoR 742
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands, 69 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.
CoR 743
Copy, headed (possibly in another hand) ‘Noncense verses’, here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone of unspoke speeches’.
In: the MS described under CoR 613. Mid-17th century.
CoR 744
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Eloquent Nonesence, nonesuch’ and here beginning ‘Like to a silent Tone of vnspoke speeches’.
In: the MS described under CoR 357. c.1640s.
CoR 745
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to ye silent tone of vnspoke speeches’.
In: the MS described under CoR 149. c.late 1630s.
CoR 746
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Richardus Jackson 1623’ and ‘Richard Jackson his booke’, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a ‘Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham’. c.1628-30s.
Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Pecke’. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.
A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.
CoR 746.5
Copy, headed ‘A Messe of Nonsence’ and here beginning “Like to ye graceful tone of inspoke speeches”.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
CoR 746.8
Copy, headed in the margin ‘a messe of nonsense’ and here beginning ‘Like to the tone of unspoke speeches’.
In: the MS described under CoR 67.5. c.1640s.
CoR 747
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to ye silent Tone of unspoke speeches’.
In: the MS described under CoR 87. c.late 1630s.
CoR 748
Copy, headed ‘Nonsence’ and here beginning ‘Like to the silent tones of vnspoke speeches’.
In: A fragment of a quarto verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, seven leaves, the second item in a quarto composite volume also containing (item 1) a MS translation of the Song of Solomon written on nine leaves in 1622 by one Robert Eliot, and (item 3) Greek verse, on thirteen leaves subscribed ‘J: Malet’, in modern cloth. c.1630s.
Formerly MSS 4. 29.
CoR 749
Copy, headed ‘Pure Nonsence Dr Corbet’ and here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone of vnspoke speeches’.
In: the MS described under CoR 161. c.1640.
CoR 750
Copy, headed ‘Sense’ and here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone...’.
In: A miscellany, compiled chiefly by Valentine Cabeck, of Pembroke College, Cambridge. c.1680.
Owned in 1926 by C.W. Brodribb.
Edited from this MS in C.W. Brodribb, ‘Bishop Corbet's “Nonsense”’, N&Q, 150 (6 February 1926), 97-8. Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 162.
[On Henry Bowling] (‘'Tis so hee's dead, and if to speak't again’)
Unpublished? Usually ascribed in MS sources to Brian Duppa.
CoR 750.5
Headed ‘Epitaphiu. Mr. Bowlinge Dr. Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 159. c.1638-42.
On the Proctors Plotts (‘When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift’)
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.
CoR 751
Copy, headed ‘To the intricate Example of policy, even in ye Vniversity; The delight & defendrs of ffactions...[etc.]’.
In: the MS described under CoR 94 (CoR Δ 3). c.1630s-40s.
CoR 752
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 17 (CoR Δ 4). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.
CoR 753
Copy, as by ‘R: C.’
In: the MS described under CoR 83 (CoR Δ 8). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
CoR 754
Copy, headed ‘To the intricate example of policy, euen in this vniversity. ye plot of vnion, ye delighte & defenders of factions, ye freind of ppetual Rage, The reuiuers of Mallavil & macro, The subtil & sublimed corporacon of plot... [etc.]’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.
CoR 755
Copy, headed ‘To the intricate example of plotting...[etc]’.
In: the MS described under CoR 99 (CoR Δ 12). c.1634.
This MS (Rosenbach 189) recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.
CoR 756
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CoR 43. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.
On the same [Dr. Leonard Hutten] (‘Great Child, who gazest on the world new-showne’)
First published, as ‘possibly written by Corbett’, in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 154-5.
CoR 758
Copy in Fulman's hand, headed ‘On the same. For Dr Leonard Hutton (being blind)’, transcribed from CoR 759.
In: the MS described under CoR 57. Mid-late 17th century.
CoR 759
Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode, headed ‘On the same’ and subscribed ‘For Dr Leonard Hutton’.
In: the MS described under CoR 58. c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.
To a Lady whose Husband was jealous of her cares of his Visits (‘When too much zeale doth fire devotion’)
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 97.
CoR 760
Copy, subscribed ‘R Clark’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and medical and household prescriptions, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, written from both ends, 117 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier. Mid-late 17th century.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 97, 164.
To the Bell-Founder of Great Tom of Christ-Church in Oxford (‘Thou that by ruine doest repaire’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 98-100.
CoR 761
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett to Brontes ye Bell-founder’.
In: the MS described under CoR 164 (CoR Δ 2). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 100, 165.
CoR 762
Copy in: the MS described under CoR 112 (CoR Δ 7). c.late 1630s [-1789].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 165.
CoR 763
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett. / On the casting of great Tom. 1621. To Brontes the Bell = Founder’.
In: the MS described under CoR 19 (CoR Δ 11). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 165.
CoR 764
Copy, headed ‘To Brontes &c: Bell-Founder’, subscribed ‘D. Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CoR 264. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 165.
‘When that rich soil of thine (now Sainted) kept’
Edited in online Early Stuart Libels.
CoR 764.2
Copy, headed ‘Antidotum Cæcilianam. Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under CoR 97 (CoR Δ 9). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
Prose
An answere to Certaine propositions, controuerted Atwixt us and the Popistes
Unpublished.
*CoR 764.5
Autograph theological notes and arguments sent to the Marquess of Buckingham, beginning ‘For your other Quaestion wher our church was before Luthers time I answer…’, on four folio leaves, endorsed ‘An answere to Certaine propositions, controuerted Atwixt us and the Popistes: by Dr Corbett etc’. 1621/2 or 1622/3.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts relating to Roman Catholicism in England, in various hands, 179 leaves.
Consecration of Lincoln College Chapel
A ceremony at Lincoln College, Oxford, at which Corbett was the officiating prelate, on 15 September 1631. The ceremony and speeches were first published by Andrew Clark in Collectanea: Fourth Series (Oxford Historical Society, 1905), pp. 136-155 (text on pp. 141-55).
CoR 764.8
Copy in: A folio volume, lettered ‘Miscell: Divin: M: S.’ c.1690.
Later owned by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.
Edited from this MS in Clark.
Oratio Domini Doctoris Corbet, ex Aede Christi, In Funus Henrici Principis
First published in Gilchrist (1807), pp. 249-59.
CoR 765
Copy of Corbett's Latin oration (beginning ‘Quam sit semper vrbis facile, et pronum, justo servire...’).
In: A quarto composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 140 leaves. c.1617.
Edited from this MS in Gilchrist.
Sermon at Court, on 2 Corinthians 4. 8
Unpublished.
CoR 765.5
Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Corbet at court / 2 Corin. 4: 8’ and indexed in the table of headings as by ‘Dr Corbett’.
In: A folio commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, with a table of subject headings, begun 7 March 1624/5, 358 pages of text (plus blanks), Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others. c.1625-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
Sermon at Whitehall, 1621
Unpublished.
CoR 766
Copy or extracts, headed ‘Whithall D: Corbet:: 1621’, here beginning ‘Sorow is the elder brother to prayer...’.
In: A tall folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in a single hand, 139 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1620s-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the ‘Bedford MS’) in Peter Beal, ‘More Donne Manuscripts’, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 26, f. 92r, 93r.
A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of St Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634
Sermon, beginning ‘My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission...’, first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.
CoR 767
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Doctor Corbett the Byshop of Norwich his Speech to the Clergy of ye Dyocesse for their benevolence towards Paules deliuered at a Synod in the Chathedrall of Norwich on the 29 of Aprill. 1634’. c.1634.
In: A folio composite volume of political letters and speeches (up to 1640), in various hands, 259 leaves (ff. 8-20 and 212-59 blank), in contemporary calf.
Assembled by the astrologer and antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.
CoR 768
Copy, headed ‘A Speach deliured at Norwich to the Clergy at a Synod April .29. 1634. By Dr Corbet Bp of Norwich’.
In: A quarto volume chiefly of sermons, in English and Latin, in a single hand, 122 leaves (plus blanks), in 18th-century half-calf over mottled boards. c.1634.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.
CoR 768.5
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett Bp. of Norwich his speech for Paules’ and subscribed ‘Deliuer'd att Norwich to the Clergye at a Synode theie held Apr: i9th. 1634’, on four pages.
In: A quarto miscellany of political material, principally of parliamentary speeches and letters for 1640-1, neatly written in a rounded hand, 310 pages, in 17th-century calf. Mid-17th century.
Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.
CoR 769
Copy, closely written in a small predominantly italic hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1634.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers and Latin verse, including papers of Meric Casaubon (1599-1671), 142 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
CoR 770
Copy of an abridged version, headed ‘D. C. B. of N: to his Clergie’, here beginning ‘One word in ye behalfe of St Paul...’, subscribed ‘D. C. B of N: to his Charge’.
In: A large quarto theological miscellany, in English and Latin, 177 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Volume III of the collections of Dr James Wedderburn (1585-1639), Bishop of Dunblane. c.1634.
Edited from this MS in Malcolm and in Gilchrist. Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.
CoR 771
Copy, untitled, but subscribed ‘diured at Norwich to ye cleagye att a Synode, Aprill ye 29 1634’ and endorsed ‘Bpp Corbetts speech to the cleargy about St Pauls’, on two folio leaves.
In: the MS described under CoR 41.5.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.
CoR 771.5
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett Bishop of Norwich his speeche...Anno: 1634’. c.1635.
In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, letters and speeches, in English and Latin prose and verse, in various hands, 58 items, i + 449 leaves.
Given by William Moore.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, ff. 304r-8r.
CoR 772
Copy. c.1635.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, ii + 317 leaves (plus numerous ruled blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. In various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), one distinctive secretary hand responsible for ff. 1r-141v, 177r-8v, 206r-11r, 230r-5r.
Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed ‘XXI No. 6’) and a label with No. ‘4’ on the spine. Assembled largely from ‘Liber 9’ (= MS 4). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 486, to Hofmann.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 218-19 (No. 12). A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP170.
CoR 773
Copy in four hands on four folio pages. c.1634.
Edited from this MS in Documents illustrating the History of S. Paul's Cathedral, ed. W. Sparrow Simpson, Camden Society, NS 26 (London, 1880), pp. 134-9. Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.
CoR 773.5
Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Deliuered at Norwich to the Cleargye at a Synod Apr: 29. 1634.’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Dr Corbet, Bp of Norwich his speech to his clearge concerning a Beneuolens to Pauls’. c.1634.
CoR 774
Copy in: A quarto academic miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, associated with Oxford, iv + 206 + iv pages, in half-leather marbled boards. Mid-late 17th century.
A doubtful later inscription (p. 23) ‘Common-Place -book by G [altered in pencil to H] Vaughan’. Given to the library in 1877 by Professor J.E.B. Mayor.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS K. 38 (James 347), pp. 146-8.
Letters
Letter(s)
*CoR 775
Autograph letter signed, to George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, enclosing CoR 764.5 (an autograph ‘answere to Certaine propositions, controuerted Atwixt us and the Popistes’), from Christ Church, 2 January [1621/2 or 1622/3]. 1622-23.
In: the MS described under CoR 764.5.
The letter alone edited in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxiv.
*CoR 776
Autograph letter signed, to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, from Christ Church, 26 February [1623/4]. 1624.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, most addressed to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, in various hands, 483 leaves (plus list of contents), in modern half-morocco.
Edited in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 220; in Gilchrist, pp. xx-xxi, and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxvi.
*CoR 777
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, from Cassington, 1 June [1629]. 1629.
Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxx.
*CoR 778
Autograph letter signed, to Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, from Cassington, 29 June 1629. 1629.
Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxx.
*CoR 779
Autograph letter signed, to Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, 20 October 1629. 1629.
Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxx.
*CoR 780
Autograph letter signed by Corbett, as Bishop of Oxford, to William Laud, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, from Cassington, 27 April 1628 or 1630. See also StW 1432. 1628-1630.
In: A letter by Richard Corbett.
Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 532.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxxi. Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VIII after p. xxiv.
Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 420 (St. Paul's Cathedral vol. I, p. 59), The letter as a whole.
CoR 781
Copy of a formal grant by Corbett, in Latin, to Archbishop Abbott, accepting the latter's nominee for the Archdeaconry of Norwich, 15 May 1632. 1632.
In: the MS described under CoR 56.
*CoR 782
Letter, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Corbett, in Latin, to the Council, from Ludham, 1 January 1632/3. 1633.
*CoR 783
Autograph letter signed, to William Sancroft, from Norwich, 27 February [1632/3-1634/5]. 1633-1635.
In: A folio composite volume of letters to William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury and manuscript collector.
*CoR 784
Autograph letter signed, to William Laud, Bishop of London, incorporating a secretarial copy of minutes of a meeting before Corbett by citizens of Yarmouth and others on 19 March 1632/3. 1633.
CoR 785
A secretarial copy of a letter by Corbett to Sir Hamond Le Strange, 31 March 1633. 1633.
In: the MS described under CoR 56.
Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxxvi.
CoR 786
A secretarial copy of a letter by Corbett, in Latin, to [John Parvish], Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, 11 April 1633. 1633.
In: the MS described under CoR 56.
CoR 787
A secretarial copy of a letter by Corbett to Dr Jones (‘A Letter sent from my Lord to Mr Dcon Jones beinge almost 80tie years of age’), 26 July 1633. 1633.
In: the MS described under CoR 56.
*CoR 788
Autograph letter signed, to William Laud, Bishop of London, incorporating a secretarial copy of a letter by Hugh Peters in Rotterdam to Mr Phillips, Minister of Wrentham, dated 23 June 1633, which Corbett says he had ‘intercepted att Yarmouth’), endorsed by Laud as received on 30 August 1633. 1633.
CoR 789
A secretarial copy of a letter by Corbett, to Samuel Ward, from Ludham, 6 October 1633. 1633.
In: the MS described under CoR 56.
Edited in Gilchrist, p. xxxv, and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxxvi.
*CoR 790
A letter, in the hand of an amanuensis, signed by Corbett, to Mr Turfett, from Norwich, 4 October 1634. 1634.
In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to the diocese of Norwich, in various hands, 189 leaves.
CoR 791
A secretarial copy of a letter by Corbett, to the Ministers and Elders of the French Church in Norwich, 26 December 1634. 1634.
In: the MS described under CoR 56.
Edited in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. xxxviii-xxxix.
CoR 792
Copy, in the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, manuscript collector, of a letter by Corbett, in Latin, to Archbishop Ussher, from Cassington, ‘die Julij novisso’ [1 July, no year]. Mid-17th century.
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).
Documents
Document(s)
*CoR 793
Corbett's autograph signature (‘Richard Corrbett’) upon matriculating at Broadgates Hall (Pembroke College), 7 April 1598. 1598.
In: Subscription Register. 1581-1615.
*CoR 794
Autograph signature.
In: Disbursements book for 1619-20. 1619-20.
*CoR 795
Eight signatures by Corbett.
In: Disbursements book for 1620-1. 1620-21.
*CoR 796
Eight signatures by Corbett.
In: Disbursements Book for 1622-3. 1622-3.
*CoR 797
Six signatures by Corbett.
In: Disbursements book for 1623-4. 1623-24.
*CoR 798
Seven signatures by Corbett.
In: Disbursements book for 1624-5. 1624-25.
CoR 799
Several signatures by Corbett.
In: Disbursements Book for 1625-6.
*CoR 800
Six signatures by Corbett.
In: Disbursements book for 1626-7. 1626-27.
*CoR 801
A series of statements on several pages signed by Corbett or on his behalf.
In: Sub-Dean's Book for 1549-1643.
Christ Church, Oxford, MS i. b. 2, pp. 365, 387, 391, 393, 395.
*CoR 802
An ecclesiastical certificate relating to one Richard Neech, signed by Corbett at Ludham, 22 December 1633. Bound in one of Thorn-Drury's books, after p. xxxiii. 1633.
This may, perhaps, be the unspecified document signed by Corbett as Bishop of Norwich sold at Sotheby's, 15 March 1916, lot 82, to Dobell.
CoR 803
‘The Interpretation and Declaration of the Reverend Father in God Richd: Lord Bishop of Norwich made the Ninth day of November Anno Dom. 1632, Upon a Clause in the 25th Chapter of the Local Statutes of the Cathedral Church of Norwich’. Late 17th-early 18th century.
In: A square-shaped folio composite volume of chiefly ecclesiastical papers, in Latin and English, in several neat hands, 25 items on several hundred pages.
Will
*CoR 804
Corbett's last will and testament, signed by him twice, dated 7 July 1635; proved 5 September 1635. 1635.
CoR 805
A registered copy of Corbett's last will and testament, dated 7 July 1635, proved 5 September 1635. 1635.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Corbett
Extracts
CoR 806
Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Docter Corbet at Oxford Parlement’.
In: the MS described under CoR 765.5. c.1625-30s.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 21, pp. 103-4.
CoR 807
Extracts (from a sermon?), in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Docter Corbet’ and beginning ‘That Creture which hase last made service...’.
In: the MS described under CoR 765.5. c.1625-30s.
CoR 808
Brief notes on a sermon by Corbett.
In: A folio volume comprising a collection of apothegms and anecdotes, in a single hand, 90 pages, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Entirely in the hand of William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis, and editor. c.1626-41.
Formerly MS 1034.