Verse
(1) Poems by Davies
Charles his Waine (‘Brittaine doth under those bright starres remaine’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 467. Krueger, pp. 231-2.
DaJ 1
Copy in: A folio volume of poems, in several secretary hands, one neat cursive hand predominating, 43 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped brown calf. Compiled by or for Lucy Hastings (née Davies, 1613-79), Countess of Huntingdon, daughter of Sir John Davies (1569-1626), her name appearing on f. 28v and that of one of her servants, Thomas Bakewell, on f. 31r. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
A Contention between a Wife, a Widowe and a Maide for Precedence at an Offringe
See DaJ 286-8.
Elegies of Love (‘Like as the divers fretchled Butter flye’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 462-3, 453-7. Krueger, pp. 192-7.
DaJ 2
Copy of four elegies in an irregular sequence, in two hands, incomplete.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS inGrosart and in Krueger.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 444, ff. 35r, 32r-3v.
—— 3 (‘Unto that sparkling wit, that spirit of fire’)
Krueger, pp. 194-5.
DaJ 3
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 50 poems by Donne, in a single neat secretary hand except for ff. 70r-2r, which are in another secretary hand. Comprising folios 57r-137v in a quarto composite volume of MSS, in various hands, 173 leaves, in 19th-century leather gilt. c.1620s.
Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Among the collections of William Petty (1737-1805), first Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Shelburne.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Lansdowne MS’: DnJ Δ 8). Recorded as item 133 among ‘Manuscripts in Quarto’ in the list at the end of Thoresby's Ducatus Leodensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 85.
This MS collated in Krueger.
DaJ 3.5
Copy, untitled.
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.
DaJ 3.8
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany comprising 56 poems, including 29 by Donne, in several hands (two predominating), 34 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern cloth. Much of the volume (including 24 poems by Donne on ff. 15r-31v) evidently transcribed from the Dalhousie MS I (Texas Tech University, PR 1171 D14) and the text of some poems (including ff. 9r-11r) corrected from that MS. c.1622-9.
Inscribed (f. 1r) with the date 28 September 1622 and, in possibly a child's hand (f. 1v), ‘Andrew Ramsey’. 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 (GD45/26/95/2). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 491, and 12 December1982, lot 49.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Dalhousie MS II’: DnJ Δ 12. 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 in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), 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. 10v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, and of ff. 20v and 26r in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 320-1. Complete microfilms of the MS are in the National Archives of Scotland and in the Brirish Library, RP 2441.
Epigrammes
58 Epigrammes first published in ‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?], [1595-6?]. Krueger, pp. 127-51. Fourteen additional Epigrammes printed from MSS in Krueger, pp. 153-9.
DaJ 4
Copy of 44 epigrams (Nos. 1-11, 13-44), headed ‘Epigramata Jo: Dauisij’ and here beginning ‘Loue not yet Loue yt is a child and blynde’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, 64 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Leweston Fitzjames (1574-1638), of Leweston, Dorset, and the Middle Temple. c.1595-early 17th century.
This MS collated in Krueger. Described in Krueger, pp. 378-9, 442, and in his ‘Sir John Davies: Orchestra Complete, Epigrams, Unpublished Poems’, RES, NS 13 (1962), 17-29, 113-24 (p. 120).
DaJ 5
Copy of 46 epigrams (Nos. 1-4, 6-7, 10-11, 13, 15-19, 21-3, 25-7, 29-43, 49-59), headed ‘English Epigrammes much like Buckminsters Almanacke, servinge for all England, but especially for ye Meridian of ye honorable cittye of London calculated by John Davis of Grayes Inne gentleman An o 1594 in November’.
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.
Epigrammes 50-2, 54-9 first pub. (from this MS) in Percy Simpson, ‘Unprinted Epigrams of Sir John Davies’, RES, NS 3 (1952); 49-50; Epigrammes 49 and 53 first pub. (from this MS) in R.F. Kennedy, ‘Unprinted Epigrams by Davies’, TLS (7 August 1959), p. 459. This MS collated and Epigrammes 49-50 printed from it in Krueger; described in Krueger, pp. 337, 443, and in RES, NS 13 (1962), 118.
DaJ 6
Copy of 42 epigrams (Nos. 1-7, 9-11, 13, 15-19, 21-44, 60, 62), plus a second copy of No. 36, headed ‘Epigrama in Musam Like Buckminsters Allmanacks servinge generallie for all England but especiallie for the meridian of this famous Cittie of London’ and here beginning ‘ffly merrie newes vnto yt merrie Towne’.
In: A quarto volume of epigrams, in a single secretary hand, 25 leaves, in modern half black morocco. c.1630s.
Inscriptions (f. 1r) including ‘Ex spolijs Richardi wharfe’ and ‘Ex spolijs R: W:’.
Bookplate of John Hollis (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.
This MS collated and Epigramme 60 printed from it in Krueger; described in Krueger, pp. 377-8, 440, and in RES, NS 13 (1962), 118 et seq.
DaJ 7
Copy of 43 epigrams (Nos. 1-7, 9-19, 21-7, 29-44, 49, 61), in a professional italic hand, chiefly in double columns. Late 16th-early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 240 leaves (plus blanks), now in four volumes, in modern quarter-calf.
This MS collated and Epigramme 61 Edited from it in Krueger; described in Krueger, pp. 378, 436, and in R.F. Kennedy, ‘Another Davies Manuscript’, RES, NS 15 (1964), 180.
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 1. 3 , I, Item 1, ff. 13r-16r.
DaJ 8
Copy of 26 epigrams (Nos. 1-4, 6, 8, 10, 12-14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 26-8, 31, 35-7, 39, 41-2, 61-2), here beginning ‘Flee merrie Muse vnto yt merrie towne’.
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.
This MS collated in Krueger and described, pp. 378, 439.
DaJ 8.5
Copy of 33 epigrams (Nos 1-7, 10-13, 15 [18], 16 [19]-35, and 36 lines 1-33 incomplete), in a secretary hand, in a small quarto booklet. Late 16th or very early 17th century.
Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park, and probably owned by Sir Thomas Jervoise (1588-1654).
DaJ 9
Copy of 47 epigrams (Nos. 1-19, 21-35, 37-46, 49, 61-2).
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.
Epigrams 61 and 62 first published (from this MS) in James L. Sanderson, ‘Unpublished Epigrams of Sir John Davies’, RES, NS 12 (1961), 281-2. This MS collated in Krueger and described, pp. 378, 443-4, and in RES, NS 13 (1962), 120.
—— 8. In Katam (‘Kate being pleasde, wisht that her pleasure coulde’)
Krueger, p. 132.
DaJ 10
Copy, headed ‘On Kate’.
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.
DaJ 11
Copy, headed ‘On Cate’.
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.
DaJ 12
Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, largely in one hand, iv + 544 pages (including numerous blanks), in vellum boards. Inscribed, and evidently compiled, by Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70), of Barham, Kent. c.1642-70.
Inscribed ‘Lee Warly. Canterbury. 1764’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
DaJ 13
Copy, headed ‘On Kate’.
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).
DaJ 14
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco. c.1620.
Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.
Cited by editors as the Todd MS.
This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 80r.
—— 9. In Librum (‘Liber doth vaunt how chastely he hath livde’)
Krueger, p. 133.
DaJ 15
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaJ 14. c.1620.
This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 80r.
—— 14. In Leucam (‘Leuca in presence once a fart did let’)
Krueger, pp. 134-5.
DaJ 16
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 114 leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of Thomas Watson's <GREEK> or Passionate Centurie of Love (London, [1581?]). Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599). c.1590s.
This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).
This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 423.
DaJ 17
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaJ 14. c.1620.
This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 80r.
—— 29 (‘Haywood which did in Epigrams excell’)
Krueger, p. 141.
—— 35. In Septimum (‘Septimus lives, and is like Garlicke seene’)
Krueger, p. 143.
DaJ 19
Copy 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].
Krueger, p. 143.
—— 36. Of Tobacco (‘Homer of Moly, and Nepenthe sings’)
Krueger, pp. 144-5.
DaJ 20
Copy of lines 1-12, in a secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
This MS collated in Krueger.
—— 47. Meditations of a Gull (‘See yonder melancholie gentleman’)
Krueger, p. 150.
DaJ 21
Copy. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked). Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.
Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
This MS collated in Krueger.
—— 62. In Claium (‘Goe to the warrs, yonge gallant Claius, goe’)
Krueger, pp. 158-9.
Epitaph on his Son (‘Qui iacet hic fuit ille aliquid, fuit et nihil ille’)
First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 157. Krueger, p. 299.
DaJ 23
Copy, subscribed ‘Mr Dauies’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound. Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court. c.1600-1620s.
Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.
The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
Epithalamion for the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Vere and William Stanley, Earl of Derby (‘Love not that Love that is a child and blynde’)
First published in Robert Krueger, ‘Sir John Davies: Orchestra Complete, Epigrams, Unpublished Poems’, RES, NS 13 (1962), 113-24 (pp. 114-18).
DaJ 24
Copy of a series of ten sonnets.
In: the MS described under DaJ 4. c.1595-early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
Gullinge Sonnets (‘The Lover under burthen of his Mistress love’)
First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), I, 76-81. Krueger, pp. 161-7.
DaJ 25
Copy of a sequence of nine sonnets, with a dedicatory sonnet To his good freinde Sr Anth: Cooke (‘Here my camelian Muse her selfe doth chaunge’) which is subscribed ‘J D’, the series of ‘Gullinge Sonnets’ subscribed ‘Mr. Dauyes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 23. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Krueger. Facsimile of p. 69 in DLB, vol. 172, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Fourth Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), p. 54.
DaJ 25.5
Copy, headed ‘Of my Lord of Northampton’.
In: A quarto volume of transcripts of correspondence of John Holles (1587-1637), first Earl of Clare, and his son John (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare, with other tracts and verse, almost entirely in a single predominantly italic hand, 228 leaves (paginated 1-3, 14-238), in modern boards. Mid-17th century.
Among papers of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, incorporating papers of the related Holles, Harley and Cavendish families, and purchases made by J.A.C.J. Cavendish-Bentinck (1857-1943), sixth Duke of Portland.
In Curionem (‘The great archpapist learned Curio’)
First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.
DaJ 27
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Henry Howard Earle of Northampton. 1603’.
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 collated in Krueger.
DaJ 28
Copy, headed ‘In Hen Com. North’.
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.
This MS collated in Krueger.
DaJ 29
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Joseph Hall’ (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.
DaJ 31
Copy, headed ‘In Curione’.
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).
DaJ 32
Copy, headed ‘Lo. H. Howard’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 9. c.1630.
This MS collated in Krueger.
DaJ 33
Copy, untitled.
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.
DaJ 33.5
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.
DaJ 33.8
Copy, headed ‘Religion ensnared by Preferment’.
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.
In Cynnam (‘Cynna is pleasd to render up againe’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 183.
In Milonem (‘Since Milo travelled, his groundes surcease’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 183.
The Kinges Welcome (‘O nowe or never gentle muse, be gaye’)
First published in Grosart, I, (1869), 463-6. Krueger, pp. 228-30.
DaJ 36
Copy of an early, 60-line version, headed ‘To the kinge. Vpon his Maties first coming into England’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Krueger.
DaJ 37
Copy of a revised version, with three additional stanzas, subscribed ‘John Dauies’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under DaJ 21.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
A Lady with Two Suitors (‘A Lady faire two suiters had’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 181.
DaJ 38
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘A Lady faire two Suters had’, subscribed ‘J D’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 9. c.1630.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
DaJ 39
Copy of a 28-line version, headed ‘A proper old and new Ballad’.
In: A quarto composite volume of four verse MSS, in different hands, ii + 152 leaves.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
DaJ 40
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘On A Lady’.
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.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Love's All (‘I love thee not for sacred chastitie’)
First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 179.
DaJ 41
Copy, headed ‘Epigram: Sr Jo: Dauijs’.
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.
Krueger, p. 179.
DaJ 42
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaJ 14. c.1620.
Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 174. Collated in Krueger.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 57r.
A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)
First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.
DaJ 43
Copy, headed ‘A wooer’ and here beginning ‘ffaire wench I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’.
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.
DaJ 44
Copy, headed ‘The Rustick Gallant's wooing’ and here beginning ‘ffaire wench, I cannot court your spritlike Eyes’.
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.
DaJ 45
Copy, headed ‘A country gentlemans manner of wooing’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 10. c.1638.
DaJ 46
Copy, headed ‘A Rustick Gallants wooing’ and here beginning ‘Fair wench I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’.
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.
DaJ 47
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’ and here beginning ‘ffaire sweet I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’.
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.
DaJ 48
Copy, headed ‘Wooing stuffe’ and here beginning ‘ffaire wench I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’.
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.
DaJ 49
Copy, headed ‘On a Rustick Gallant wooing’ and here beginning ‘ffayre wench I cannot court thy spirit like eyes’.
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.
DaJ 50
Copy, headed ‘The Rustick Gallants wooing’ and here beginning ‘Faire wench, I cannot court thy sp'rit like eyes’.
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.
DaJ 51
Copy, headed ‘A rustick gallantes wooing’ and here beginning ‘ffaire wench I cannot court thy spiritt like eyes’.
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.
DaJ 52
Copy, headed ‘A Country suter to his loue’ and here beginning ‘fayre wench I can not court thye sprightly eyes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 11. c.1630s.
DaJ 53
Copy, headed ‘The Country gentleman to his courtly Mistris’ and here beginning ‘Faire sweat, I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index). c.1643-50s.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 25v.
DaJ 54
Copy, headed ‘The rusticke gallants wooinge’ and here beginning ‘ffare wench I cannot court thy spritelike eyes’; c. 1634.
In: the MS described under DaJ 13. c.1634.
DaJ 55
Copy, headed ‘A Rustick Gallants wooing’ and here beginning ‘Faire wench, I cannot court thy sprightlike eye’.
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].
DaJ 56
Copy, headed ‘To a Mistresse, from a Captaine’ and here beginning ‘Faire Sweete, I cannot coorte thy sprightly eyes’.
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.
This MS partly collated in Krueger.
DaJ 57
Copy, headed ‘A wooer’ and here beginning ‘ffayre wench I can not court thy sprightly eyes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 19. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
DaJ 58
Copy, headed ‘The Rustick Gallants woinge’ and here beginning ‘faire Wench I cannot court thy sprightly Eyes’.
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).
This MS recorded in Krueger.
DaJ 59
Copy, headed ‘The Rusticke gallants wooinge’ and here beginning ‘(ffaire wench) I cannot Court thy sprightly eyes’.
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. 3v-4r.
DaJ 61
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Fayth wench I cannot courte thy piercing eyes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 14. c.1620.
Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 175. Collated in Krueger.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 57r-v.
DaJ 62
Copy, headed ‘A Rustick Gallants wooing’ and here beginning ‘Faire Wench I cannott court thy sprit-like eyes’.
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], p. 51.
DaJ 62.5
Copy, headed ‘A rustick Gallant's wooing’ and here beginning ‘ffayre wench, I cannot court thy Sp'rit-like eyes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 33.8. c.1650.
DaJ 62.8
Copy, headed ‘The Rustique gallants wooing’.
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.
A Maids Hymne in Praise of Virginity (‘Sacred virginity, unconquered Queene’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 449-50. Krueger, p. 240.
DaJ 63
Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
Mira Loquor Sol Occubuit Nox Nulla Secuta Est (‘By that Eclipse which darned our Apollo’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 467. Krueger, p. 231.
No Muskie Courtier (‘Sweet wench I love thee, yet I wil not sue’)
First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, pp. 180-1.
DaJ 65
Copy, headed ‘On a downright suitor’ and here beginning ‘Faith wench I loue thee, but I cannot sue’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 13. c.1634.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
DaJ 66
Copy, headed ‘A Liftennant to his Mistresse’ and here beginning ‘In faith I loue thee, but I cannot sue’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 56. c.1634.
This MS collated in Krueger.
DaJ 67
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [Rustick Gallants woinge] and here beginning ‘faire wence I loue thee but I cannot sue’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 58. c.1638-42.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
DaJ 69
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaJ 14. c.1620.
This MS collated in Krueger.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 57v.
Nosce Teipsum (‘Why did my parents send me to the schooles’)
A philosophical poem, with dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning ‘To that clear Majesty, which in the North’. First published in London, 1599. Krueger, pp. 1-67.
*DaJ 70
Copy, with a dedication to Queen Elizabeth (beginning ‘To that cleare Majestie, which in the North’), in the hand of an amanuensis, with Davies's autograph dedication to Northumberland (beginning ‘The strongest and the noblest argument’). [1598-9].
This MS recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 114-15. Collated, and the dedication to Northumberland edited, in Krueger and described, p. 436. A microfilm is in the Library of Congress.
*DaJ 71
Copy, with the dedication to Queen Elizabeth, in the hand of an amanuensis, the formal MS presented to Edward Coke, Attorney-General, with Davies's autograph dedication to him (beginning ‘Great Procurator of your Princes state’). [1598-9].
Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
This MS recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 375. Collated and the dedication to Coke edited in Krueger and described, p. 440. Microfilms are in the Bodleian and at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 479).
DaJ 72
Copy of an early text, in an accomplished secretary hand, with a formal title-page, complete with the dedication to Queen Elizabeth, on 51 quarto leaves, in modern morocco gilt. c.1598-9.
This MS collated in Krueger and described, p. 440.
DaJ 73
Copy, complete with the dedication to Queen Elizabeth dated 11 July 1592 and Introduction, the main text entitled ‘Of the Originall, Nature, and Immortallity of the Soul’.
In: Transcript principally of Sir John Davies's Nosce Teipsum, in a single hand, 44 quarto leaves, in modern leather gilt. Mid-17th century.
Among the papers of Lord Robert Montagu, MP, and probably descended from Oliver St John (1598?-1673). Purchased 27 June 1863.
This MS recorded in G.A. Wilkes, ‘The Poetry of Sir John Davies’, HLQ, 25 (1961-2), 283-98 (p. 291). Described in Krueger, p. 322, as an 18th century transcript of Nahum Tate's edition (first published 1697), but see J.R. Brink's review in RES, NS 28 (1977), 337-40 (p. 339).
DaJ 74
Copy of the dedication, headed ‘A copy of an Epistle dedicatory to Queene Elizabeth, written by Mr. Davies in his Booke called Nosce Teipsum’.
In: A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound). Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed ‘Finis quoth G. W.’ c.1620s.
Of Faith the First Theologicall Vertue (‘Faith is a sunbeame of th' Aeternall light’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 447. Krueger, p. 238.
DaJ 75
Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.
Of the Name of Charolus, Being the Diminative of Charus (‘The name of Charles, darlinge signifies’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 468. Krueger, p. 232.
On Ben Jonson (‘Put off thy Buskins, Sophocles the great’)
First published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi: Or springes for woodcocks (London, 1613), No. 163. Krueger, p. 181.
DaJ 77
Copy, headed ‘Of one yt had stolne much out of Seneca’, subscribed ‘J: H’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 23. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), I, 84, and in Osborn, pp. 299-300. Collated in Krueger.
DaJ 78
Copy, headed ‘Of on that makinge a play stole much out of Seneca his Tragedies’, subscribed ‘I D’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 9. c.1630.
Edied from this MS in Krueger. Recorded in Osborn, p. 300.
On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke (‘Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.
DaJ 79
Copy of a series of eleven poems, headed (f. 272v) in a later hand ‘Song. A Lawyer made a Cuckold’ and (f. 262v) ‘On a Widow & a Cook’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under DaJ 21.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
DaJ 80
Copy of poems 1-6, in a predominantly italic hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and drama MSS, in various hands, 155 leaves, in 19th-century 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 collated in Krueger.
DaJ 81
Copy of poems 1-6, in two secretary hands, the first that of Edward Bannister, untitled, the leaf torn.
In: A tall folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 195 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco. Compiled chiefly by members of the Caryll family. Early 17th century (Vol. I); Late 17th-early 18th century (Dorset).
Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first Baronet, MP (1810-69).
This MS collated in Krueger.
DaJ 82
Copy of poems 1-6, in double columns, headed ‘A libell upon Mr Edw: Cooke, then Atturney generall and sithence Cheefe Justice of the Comon pleas vpon some disagreemt betweene him & his wife being widow to Sr. Wm Hatton kt. and daughter to the now Earle of Exeter then Sr. Tho: Cecill’.
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.
This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 395, 438.
DaJ 83
Copy of poems 1-6, untitled.
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 Krueger, pp. 395, 443.
DaJ 84
Copy of poems 1-6.
In: the MS described under DaJ 9. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 395, 443-4.
DaJ 85
Copy of poem 1, headed ‘On Sr Edward Cooke his Marriage wth ye Lady Hatton’ and here beginning ‘Coquius the Lawyer hath a Lady wedd’.
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).
On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London (‘The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since’)
First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.
DaJ 86
Copy of a series of five poems, headed ‘Byshope Fletcher & my lady Baker’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 9. c.1630.
Edted from this MS in Tannenbaum and in Krueger.
DaJ 87
Copy of the series of five poems (here written as a single continuous poem).
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.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
DaJ 88
Copy of the series of five poems, with a sixth beginning ‘Marriage is honourable’, in a secretary and italic hand.
Folio 188v, with the first three poems in this sequence, headed ‘In Tarquinum’ and beginning ‘It is a question in heraldry’, is now separated and incorporated in Bodleian, MS Tanner 306*. Early 17th century.
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.
This MS collated in Krueger.
DaJ 89
Copy of the series of five poems, with a sixth beginning ‘Marriage is honourable’, in two secretary hands, untitled, on the rectos of separate folio leaves.
In: the MS described under DaJ 88.
This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 189-90.
DaJ 90
Copy of the series of five poems, with a sixth satire on Bishop Fletcher beginning ‘Mariage, they say, is honorable in all’, transcribed by Cole from a MS cited by him as ‘MS. Crewe’.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian collections, including much verse, in a single neat hand, 238 leaves, in half-morocco. In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XXXI of the Cole Collection). Mid-18th century.
This MS collated in Krueger.
DaJ 91
Copy of poems 2-5, headed in a later hand ‘On ye Bp of London & his wife’ and here beginning ‘The Romaine Tarquine in his folly blinde’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under DaJ 21.
This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 398, 446.
DaJ 92
Copy of poem 2, beginning ‘The Romane Tarquin in his folly blind’.
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’.
Edited from this MS in Tannenbaum.
DaJ 93
Copy of poems 4 and 5, headed ‘In Londinense Episcopu iampride Dominæ & scortæ nuptu’ and beginning ‘It is a question in Heraldry’, dated 20 February 1594/5.
In: the MS described under DaJ 4. c.1595-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 398, 442.
DaJ 94
Copy of poems 4 and 5, headed ‘In Episcopum London’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 5. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 398, 443.
DaJ 95
Copy of poem 5, headed ‘Upon R.F. Bp of London’, and poem 4, headed ‘Upon E.F. his wife’.
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.
DaJ 96
Copy of poems 5 and 4, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Yff any ask why Tarquin ment to Marry’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Early 17th century.
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.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
DaJ 97
Copy of poems 4 and 5, inscribed in the margin ‘Verses upo Bp Fletcher, who maried a Woman of il Fame’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 3. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 442.
DaJ 99
Copy of poems 4 and 5, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaJ 14. c.1620.
This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 439.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 79r.
Orchestra (‘Where lives the man that never yet did heare’)
First published in London, 1596. Krueger, pp. 87-126.
DaJ 100
Copy of an early version in 113 stanzas, headed ‘A Poem of Dauncinge’, with a dedicatory sonnet ‘To his very Friend, Ma. Rich: Martin’ (beginning ‘To whom shall I this dauncing Poeme send’), and eighteen additional stanzas inserted later (probably in 1596).
In: the MS described under DaJ 4. c.1595-early 17th century.
This MS collated in Krueger and described, p. 442, and in his ‘Sir John Davies: Orchestra Complete, Epigrams, Unpublished poems’, RES, NS 13 (1962), 17-29.
Part of an Elegie in Praise of Marriage (‘When the first man from Paradice was driven’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 451-2. Krueger, pp. 241-2.
DaJ 101
Copy, in a rounded secretary hand, incomplete.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.
The Psalmes
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 363-443. Krueger, pp. 245-96.
DaJ 102
Copy of Davies's translation of Psalms 1-50, in a neat cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The Psalmes translated into verse Ano. 1624’, and of Psalms 67, 91, 95, 100, 103 and 150 in another cursive secretary hand, with a few corrections possibly in yet another hand.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Krueger, p. 245-96.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 444, ff. 1r-25v, 29r-30v.
A Songe of Contention betweene Fowre Maids Concerninge that which Addeth Most Perfection to that Sexe (‘Our fairest Garland, made of beautyes flowers’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 448-9. Krueger, pp. 239-40.
DaJ 103
Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.
A Sonnet sent with a Booke (‘In this sweete booke, the treasury of witt’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 460-1. Krueger, p. 234.
DaJ 104
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.
To his Mistress (‘Sweet, what doth he deserve that loves you soe?’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 182.
To my most gracious dread Soveraigne (‘To that cleare Majestie, which in the North’)
See DaJ 70-74.
To Sir Thomas Egerton, on the Death of his Second Wife, in 1599 (‘You that in Judgment passion never show’)
First published in John Payne Collier, A Catalogue, Biographical and Critical, of Early English Literature...at Bridgewater House (London, 1837), pp. 94-5. Krueger, p. 202.
*DaJ 106
Autograph, untitled, on a single folio leaf; the MS sent to Sir Thomas Egerton. [1599].
Edited from this MS in Collier and in Krueger, and described by him, p. 444. Facsimile in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile X (p. 209).
To the Queen (‘What Musicke shall we make to you’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 457-9. Krueger, pp. 242-3.
DaJ 107
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘To the Q:’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.
To the Ladyes of Founthill (‘Ladyes of Founthill, I am come to seeke’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 459. Krueger, p. 233.
DaJ 108
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.
To the Queene at the Same Time (‘If wee in peace had not received the Kings’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 466-7. Krueger, p. 231.
DaJ 109
Copy in: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.
Upon a Coffin by S.I.D. (‘There was a man bespake a thing’)
First published in William Parkes, The Curtaine-Drawer of the World (London, 1612). Krueger, p. 243.
DaJ 110
Copy, headed ‘A Riddle’.
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.
This MS collated in Krueger.
DaJ 111
Copy, headed ‘A Riddle’ and subscribed ‘A Coffin’.
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.
This MS collated in Krueger.
Upon a Paire of Garters (‘Go loveinge woode-bynd, clip with lowly grace’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 460. Krueger, pp. 233-4.
DaJ 112
Copy, in a secretary hand.
In: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.
Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis (‘Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while’)
First published as ‘Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published’ in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.
DaJ 113
Copy of a series of twelve poems, no general heading.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in one or possibly two hands, in varying secretary and italic scripts, 107 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court. c.1605.
Owned in 1845 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), with his inscription ‘of Andrews Bristol 1845 at the enormous Price of 6.6.0’. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 189.
Edited from this MS in Krueger. Collated in Doughtie, pp. 597-601.
DaJ 113.5
Copy of poems 1-3, 6, 9-12 (‘The Courtier’, ‘The Divine’, ‘The Souldier’, ‘The Merchaunt’, ‘The Married Man’, ‘The Wyfe’, ‘The Widowe’, ‘The Mayde’).
In: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
DaJ 114
Copy of the series of twelve poems.
In: A folio volume of tracts and letters, many relating to Cambridge affairs, partly compiled by I. Wickstede, mayor of Cambridge. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Krueger and in Doughtie, pp. 596-601. Described in Krueger, p. 439.
Downing College, Cambridge, Bowtell Collection, MS ‘Wickstede Thesaurus’, Part II, ff. 25v-7r.
DaJ 115
Copy of poems 1-3, 10-12 (‘The Courtier’, ‘The Divine’, ‘The Souldier’, ‘The Marryed’ [i.e.‘The Wyfe’], ‘The Widowe’, and ‘The Mayde’), the poems numbered in the margin 22-24, 31-33, imperfect, lacking pp. 33-4.
In: the MS described under DaJ 33. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 597-601.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS U. 26 (James 548), pp. 32, 35.
DaJ 116
Copy of poems 1-3 and 12 (‘The Courtier’, ‘The Divine’, ‘The Souldier’, and ‘The Mayde’), in a secretary hand, headed ‘Certaine vrses mad by Sr John Davies now his maties Sollister in Irlande, vpon the xij degrees of persons, wch he Caused to be painted [? seidatlie] upon a dozen of trenchers & sent them for a new yeares gift to Sr Thomas Egerton Lo: Chancelir of England 1604’.
In: A quarto composite memorandum book of English, Welsh and latin verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in a contemporary limp vellum wrapper within modern half red morocco. Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth. Early 17th century-1672.
Inscriptions including (f. 3r) ‘Mounta: Lloyd 1671’ and (f. 49r) ‘David Wms. his Book beeing Mrs Anne Lloyds Guift’, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale ‘Catalogue of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.
National Library of Wales, Wynne (Bodewryd) MS 6, ff. 74v-5r.
DaJ 117
Copy of poems 2-4, 12, here ordered ‘The Mayde’, ‘The Lawyer’, ‘The Divine’, and ‘The Souldier’, the first beginnng ‘I marriage would forsweare’.
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.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 597-601; recorded in Krueger, p. 414.
DaJ 118
Copy of poem 2 (‘The Divine’), headed ‘A Parson to his diocese heart’ and beginning ‘My calling is divine’.
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.
DaJ 119
Copy of poem 2 (‘The Divine’), headed ‘A Parson to his mistris’ and here beginning ‘My callinge is divine’, followed by ‘Her Answer’.
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.
DaJ 120
Copy of lines 1-2 of poem 10 (‘The Wyfe’), headed ‘A new married Bride’ and beginning ‘The first of all our Sex came from the side of man’.
In: A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Late 17th century.
Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 597.
DaJ 121
Copy of lines 1-2 of poem 10, headed ‘A new married Bride’.
In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 597.
DaJ 122
Copy of lines 1-2 of poem 10.
In: the MS described under DaJ 29. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 597.
Verses Sent to the Kinge with Figges By Sir John Davis (‘To add unto the first mans happiness’)
First published in Grosart, I (1869), 468-9. Krueger, pp. 232-3.
DaJ 123
Copy in: the MS described under DaJ 1. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.
Yet other 12. Wonders of the World
See DaJ 113-122.
(2) Poems of Uncertain Authorship
The Complaint of the Five Satyres against the Nymphes (‘Tell me, O Nymphes, why do you’)
See DaJ 298-300.
Davis beinge committed to prison for a quarrell betweene him and Martin, wrote as ensueth (‘Now Davis for a birde is in’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 303.
An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)
A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.
*DaJ 125
Autograph, headed ‘The epitaph of the bellowes maker is in every mans mouth’ and here beginning ‘Heers lies old Craker a Maker of Bellowes’, written along the length of a margin, quoted in DaJ 243). [1600].
In: A folio composite volume of original papers of the Society of Antiquaries, in various hands, 221 leaves, in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt.
DaJ 126
Copy, ascribed to ‘I: D’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 16. c.1590s.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
DaJ 127
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a bellow=maker’ and here beginning ‘Heare lyes Sim Symcock a maker of bellowes’.
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).
DaJ 128
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a bellows maker’ and here beginning ‘Here lies Bounce A maker of bellowes’.
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.
DaJ 129
Copy, headed ‘Uppon a bellowes-maker’ and here beginning ‘Browne lies here ye maker of bellowes’.
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.
DaJ 130
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Bellowes maker’ and also beginning ‘Browne lyes heere ye maker of Bellowes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 129. c.1630s.
DaJ 131
Copy, headed ‘On John Cooker’ and here beginning ‘Here lies John Cooker maker of bellowes’, deleted.
In: the MS described under DaJ 43. c.1630s.
DaJ 132
Copy, headed ‘On Jo: Broker a Bellowes maker of Oxon’ and here beginning ‘Here lies Jo: Broker a maker of Bellowes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 43. c.1630s.
DaJ 132.5
Copy, headed ‘185 an Epitaph writ several years since by Mr John Hoskins on a Bellowes Maker at Oxford’ and here beginning ‘Here lyeth John Cruker a Maker of Bellowes’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the ‘4th Vol’. of his compilations. c.1748-50s.
Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.
DaJ 133
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a bellowes maker’ and here beginning ‘Here lies John Crucker a maker of bellows’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 10. c.1638.
DaJ 134
Copy, headed ‘Of ye bellows-maker of Oxford, by J: Hoskins’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes John CrukerA maker of bellowes’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 127 leaves, in contemporary vellum, heavily soiled. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
DaJ 135
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heare lieth old Croker the mender of bellowes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 110.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
DaJ 136
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Here lyeth old Coker a maker of Bellowes’.
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.
DaJ 137
Copy, headed ‘On a Bellowes maker’ and here beginning ‘Here lieth John Ellowes the King of good Fellowes’.
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.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
DaJ 138
Copy, headed ‘Song vppon a bellowes mender’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes Tom short ye king of good fellowes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 49. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
DaJ 139
Copy, in a secretary hand, here beginning ‘Heer lyeth John Croker a maker of bellowes’.
In: A folio composite volume of genealogical, historical and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various hands, 323 leaves, in modern half crushed calf on cloth boards gilt. Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.
Names inscribed (f. 207r) ‘Bryan Tukerson’ and ‘George Wiseman’.
DaJ 140
Copy of a version headed ‘Epit on a Bellowes maker’ and beginning ‘Here lyes John Goddard a maker of Bellowes’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
DaJ 140.5
Copy of a version headed ‘On a Bellows Mender. Epi:’ and beginning ‘Here lies John Cucker. Mender of Bellows’.
In: A collection of epitaphs, principally from churches in and about London, at least up to f. 193 in a single large rounded hand, an epitaph on f. 309 dated 1760, 244 folio leaves. Late 18th century.
Owned in 1785 by Mary Windsor of Tottenham High Cross, Owned in 1821 by one John Marris [i.e. Morris?]. Bookplate of James Walsh, FSA, FRAS. Purchased from J. R. Smith 9 December 1848.
DaJ 141
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. Epitaph], here beginning ‘Here lyeth John Croker maker of Belhouse’.
In: A folio volume of heraldic papers, in several hands, 92 leaves, in panelled mottled calf (rebacked). Compiled by, or for, William Penson (d.1637), claimant Chester Herald and Lancaster Herald. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
DaJ 142
Copy, headed An epitaph vpon a bellowe maker, here beginning ‘Here lyes Jo: Potterell, a maker of bellowes’, subscribed in a different ink ‘B: J:’. October 1602.
In: A duodecimo diary and notebook of extracts, in a single small secretary hand, 133 leaves, dated from January 1601/2 to April 1603, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Compiled by John Manningham (c.1575-1622), lawyer, of the Middle Temple.
The Diary edited by John Bruce, Camden Society 99 (London, 1868). The Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple 1602-1603, ed. R.P. Sorlien (Hanover, NH, 1976). Facsimiles of f. 12r in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 318, and of f. 29v in The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historic Documents, ed. Elizabeth Hallam and Andrew Prescott (London, 1999), p. 44.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
DaJ 143
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a bellows maker’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes Sim Simcocks a maker of bellowes’.
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.
DaJ 144
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Heere lyeth Thom: Spooner ye maker of bellowes’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 35 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 30 leaves (plus stubs of ten extracted leaves), damp-stained, in modern boards. The text related to the ‘Skipwith MS’ (DnJ Δ 21). c.1620-33.
Inscribed name (f. 8r) of ‘Edward Smyth’ and (along margin of f. 11v) ‘in Mr Templers’. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Edward Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 45.
DaJ 145
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaphe on a Bellowesmaker’, here beginning ‘Here lyes John Goddard,maker of bellowes’, and subscribed ‘Mr Hoskynes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 23. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 182. Recorded in Osborn.
DaJ 146
Copy, headed ‘A Bellows mender’ and here beginning ‘Here lies John Wills, a mender of bellow’.
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).
DaJ 146.5
Copy, headed ‘A Epitaph on a bellowes maker’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes will: Crooker maker of bellowes’.
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.
DaJ 147
Copy, headed ‘Epit: on a Bellowesmaker’, here beginning ‘Here lyes John Goddard a maker of bellowes’.
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.
DaJ 148
Copy, headed ‘C. R. / On John Croker a Bellows maker of Oxford’, here beginning ‘Here lieth John Croker a maker of Bellows’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 85. c.1630s.
DaJ 149
Copy, headed ‘On a Bellowes-maker’ and here beginning ‘Browne lyes here the maker of bellowes’.
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.
DaJ 150
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a bellowes maker’, here beginning ‘Here lies Iohn Godderd maker of bellowes’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 9. c.1630.
DaJ 151
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph vpon Iohn Craker’ and here beginning ‘Heere lies the bones of gentle Iohn Craker’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 9. c.1630.
DaJ 152
Copy, headed ‘A bellowsmaker’ and here beginning ‘Heere lies John Crinker a maker of bellows’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 19. c.1630.
DaJ 152.3
Copy of a version, headed ‘Epitaph ye 20th upon a Bellows Maker of Oxford’ and beginning ‘Here lies John Crucker a maker of Bellows’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, ix + 484 pages, in contemporary vellum. Entitled (p. iv) ‘A Miscellany of various things Being A Collection of rarities / In two Books / the First Book is cheifly Composed of Ænigma's Dialogue Epigrams Epitaphs Fragments of Dr. Latimers Sermons Poems Satyra, songs, Love verces & other accations &c...Collected from ye year 1697 to ye year 1728 per: Jer: Cliff Apoth; at Tenterden In Kent’. c.1728.
Inscribed (p. 484) ‘Sarah Cliff Her Book July ye 18 1741 Given her By her father’.
DaJ 152.5
Copy, headed ‘On a Bellows maker’ and here beginning ‘Here lies John Cruker a maker of Bellows’.
In: A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages. c.1695.
In Hircum (‘Hircus incountring with hott Mistres Franke’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 304.
In Macerum (‘Macer doth hould that all our womenkind’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 304.
In Marcum (‘Marcus, a student at the lawe’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 305.
In Meieam (‘Meiea being angry that I would not stay’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 305.
DaJ 156
Copy, headed ‘Celia being angry’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 9. c.1630.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
In Neream (‘Sweet Mistress Nerea, let it not thee greive’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 305.
On his Love (‘My Love doth flye with winges of feare’)
First published in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 437-8. Krueger, pp. 306-7.
DaJ 158
Copy, headed in a later hand ‘On one Loveinge his Mrs’ and subscribed ‘R. S.’
In: the MS described under DaJ 21.
Lines 1-20 edited from this MS in Krueger.
DaJ 159
Copy, headed ‘Of the last Queene by the Earle of Clanricard’; c.1620s.
In: the MS described under DaJ 82. c.1628.
DaJ 160
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.
Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Burley MS’: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.
A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.
Edited from this MS in Grierson. Collated (from Grierson's edition) in Krueger.
On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
DaJ 161
Copy, headed ‘On a Child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers to theyr bedd doe laye’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 127. c.1630s.
DaJ 161.5
Copy in: the MS described under DaJ 132.5. c.1748-50s.
DaJ 162
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph vpon a Child’, here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers vse their babes to lay’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in at least three professional hands, 39 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Late 17th century.
Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
DaJ 163
Copy, headed ‘on the vntymely death of a Child’ and here beginning ‘As Carefull Nurses to their bedd do lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 128. c.1638.
DaJ 164
Copy, headed ‘Another of the same’ [on a child] and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses downe to sleepe doe lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 128. c.1638.
DaJ 165
Copy, headed ‘On an infant diseased’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers in their beds doe lay’.
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.
DaJ 166
Copy, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers to their beds doe lay’.
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.
DaJ 167
Copy, headed ‘de susante immatura morte perempto’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers to ye beads doe lay’.
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).
DaJ 168
Copy, headed ‘On a young man’ and here beginning ‘As carefull nurses in yeir bedds do lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 43. c.1630s.
DaJ 170
Copy, headed ‘On the Death of a Childe’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 117. Mid-late 17th century.
DaJ 171
Copy, headed ‘one of twelue yeares old of him selfe’ and here beginning ‘As carfull mothers that to sleeping lay’.
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.
DaJ 172
Copy, ascribed to ‘Sr Joh Davis’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
DaJ 173
Copy, headed ‘On an Infant’ and here beginning ‘As Carefull Mothers to their Bedds do laye’.
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.
DaJ 174
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. epitaph] and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses on yr Beds do lay’.
In: An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf. c.1682-91.
DaJ 175
Copy, headed ‘On an infants death’ and here beginning ‘As nurses strive their babes in bed to lay’.
In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, iv + 302 pages. Mid-late 17th century.
DaJ 176
Copy, headed ‘On the death of an infant’ and here beginning ‘As Nurses strive their babes in bedd to lay’.
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).
DaJ 177
Copy, headed ‘De Infante imatura morte perempto’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers to their beddes doe lay’.
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.
DaJ 179
Copy, headed ‘On one that died young’.
In: An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco. Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v). c.1668-1713.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing)’; (f. 36r) ‘Finis Manuscript, H. K.’; (f. 1r and elsewhere) ‘H Packwood Anno 1668’ and ‘George Gaynor, 1681’. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
DaJ 180
Copy, headed ‘On a child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers to there beds doe lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 49. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
DaJ 181
Copy, headed ‘An other of ye same’ [i.e. an Infant being dead].
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.
DaJ 182
Copy, headed ‘On a Child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their bed's doe lay’.
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).
DaJ 183
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on a child dying very younge’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 140. c.1630s-40s.
DaJ 183.5
Copy of a version headed ‘On a Monument this Inscription’ and beginning ‘As Nurses strive their Babes in Bed to lie’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 140.5. Late 18th century.
DaJ 184
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph: on a younge man’ and here beginning ‘As carefull nurses doe their infants laye’.
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.
DaJ 185
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph upon the Death of a Child’.
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.
DaJ 186
Copy, headed ‘In Juvenem abortiua morte peremptu’ and here beginning ‘As carefull nurses in theire beds doe lay’.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.
DaJ 187
Copy, headed ‘In Juvenem abortiva morte peremptu’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their bedds doe lay’.
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.
DaJ 187.5
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on an infant’ and here beginning ‘As carefull nurses to their beds doe lay’.
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’.
DaJ 187.8
Copy, headed ‘In Juvenem abortiva morte peremptum’, here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their beds do Lay’.
In: A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt. c.1730.
DaJ 188
Copy, headed ‘Vpon an vntimely Death’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers in their beds doe laye’.
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’.
DaJ 190
Copy, headed ‘A Childs Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers do to sleepinge lay’.
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.
DaJ 190.5
Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘on a young childs death’, on the verso of a tipped-in folio leaf.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Welsh, in several hands, 161 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled, at least in part, by Philip Powell of Brecon (‘Phillip Powell his booke’ on p. 2), referring (p. 63) to his being committed to Newgate prison for three years on or by 1 March ‘1633’ (his wife not having come to see him ‘once’) and with a reference (p. 45) to ‘My ffather Thomas Powell’, a distant cousin of Edward Games, the first recorder of Brecknock. Other names inscribed including Thomas and Richard Powell, and with a note dated 1812 (p. 4) by ‘Thomas Lawrence’, who purchased the MS at the sale of the library of Theophilus Jones (1759-1812), Brecknockshire county historian. c.1632-48.
DaJ 191
Copy, headed ‘On a child dying soone after's birth’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers vnto sleepe will lay’.
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.
DaJ 192
Copy, headed ‘in infantem’.
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.
DaJ 192.5
Copy, headed ‘On a child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers vnto sleepe will lay’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in two or more predominantly secretary hands, 86 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1660.
A facsimile of f. 85r is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2008), p. 33.
DaJ 193
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Prideax his childe’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers to their beds doe lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 146. c.late 1630s [-1789].
DaJ 194
Copy, headed ‘On a younge man’ and here beginning ‘As carefull nurses in theire beds doe lay’.
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.
DaJ 195
Copy, headed ‘On A faire child that dyed suddenly’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their beds doe lay’.
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
DaJ 196
Copy, headed ‘one a child yt died as soone as it was borne’ and here beginning ‘As carefull nurses doe their infants lay’.
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.
DaJ 197
Copy, headed ‘On a Child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers will to bedde soone lay’.
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).
DaJ 198
Copy, headed ‘On the death of an Infant’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers will to bedd soone lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 51. c.1630s.
DaJ 199
Copy, headed ‘On the death of an Infant’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers will to bed soone lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 146.5. c.1637-51.
DaJ 199.5
Copy, headed ‘On a Child’ and here beginning ‘As careful Nurses on their beds doe lay’.
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.
DaJ 200
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses downe to sleepe do lay’.
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.
DaJ 201
Copy, headed ‘In iuuenem morte pemptu’ and here beginning ‘As careful nurses in their beds do lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 11. c.1630s.
DaJ 202
Copy, headed ‘On an vntimely death’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers in theire bedes doe lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 119. c.1630s.
DaJ 203
Copy, headed ‘An other’ [i.e. Epitaph] and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers use there children lay’.
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.
DaJ 203.5
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on a child dying very younge’ and here beginning ‘As Carefull Mothers their babes to lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 147. c.1630s.
DaJ 204
Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed ‘On the death of an Infant’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers will to bed soone lay’, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-17th century.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/3/5.
DaJ 205
Copy, headed ‘On a yong man’, and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their beds do lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 85. c.1630s.
DaJ 205.5
Copy, headed ‘On a Child’ and here beginning ‘As careful Nurses on their Beds do lay’.
In: A composite verse miscellany. Early 18th century.
DaJ 206
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers to their beds do laye’.
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).
DaJ 207
Copy, headed ‘On a Child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses on their beds do lay’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.
DaJ 208
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a young man’ and here beginning ‘As Carefull nurses in their beds doe lay’.
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.
DaJ 209
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses to their bedds do lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 149. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
DaJ 210
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on a young child] and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers in there beds doe lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 13. c.1634.
DaJ 211
Copy, headed ‘On an infant’ and here beginning ‘As caefull mothers in their beds doe lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 19. c.1630.
DaJ 212
Copy, headed ‘On a young man’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their bedds doe lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 58. c.1638-42.
DaJ 213
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘As Carefull Nurses to theire bede doe lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 59. c.1636-40s.
DaJ 214
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a child’ and here begininng ‘As carefull Nurses downe to sleepe do lay’.
In: A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed ‘J. D.’) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Grey MS’: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, p. 77.
DaJ 215
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers to their beds do lay’.
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.
DaJ 216
Copy, headed ‘on the death of a child’ and here beginning ‘as carefull mothers in their beds doe laye’.
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.
DaJ 217
Copy, headed ‘On the Death of an Infant’ and here beginning ‘As carefull nurses doe to bedd soone lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 40. c.1640.
DaJ 218
Copy, headed ‘On ye Lady Marys daughter to King James’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses to their beds doe lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 33.8. c.1650.
DaJ 219
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of an infant’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers will to bed soone lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 62.8. c.1630s.
DaJ 220
Second copy, headed ‘De infanta imaturâ morte perempta’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers to their beds do lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 62.8. c.1630s.
DaJ 221
Copy, headed ‘On ye untimely death of a Child’ and here beginning ‘As Carefull Nurses to their Bed do lay’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 152.5. c.1695.
DaJ 221.5
Copy, headed ‘On an Infant’.
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.
An other Epitaph: of one who died with the Maple Buttons (‘Heere lieth Dick Dobson iwrapped in molde’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 412. Krueger, p. 304.
DaJ 222
Copy, headed ‘vppon on that was balde’ and here beginning ‘Here lies John Baker Inrolled In mould’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 128. c.1638.
DaJ 223
Copy, headed ‘On John Hobson’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes John Hobson enraped in mould’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 43. c.1630s.
DaJ 224
Second copy, also headed ‘On John Hobson’ and beginning ‘Here lyes John Hobson enraped in moulde’, deleted.
In: the MS described under DaJ 43. c.1630s.
DaJ 225
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere lies old Dobson, yea cladd in molde’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 92. c.1620s-30s.
DaJ 226
Copy, ascribed to D[avies].
In: the MS described under DaJ 16. c.1590s.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
DaJ 227
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, headed ‘An other on the Cooke of Christchurch Oxon’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes Dic Dobson delued in Moulde’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 141. c.1620s.
DaJ 227.5
Copy, headed ‘On one yt was Bald’ and here beginning ‘Here lies John Baker inrolled in Mould’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 152.5. c.1695.
To a woman fallen from Horseback (‘Madam, what needs this care to make it knowne’)
First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 305-6.
DaJ 228
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaJ 14. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 56v.
Verses of the Queene (‘A virgin once a glorious starre did beare’)
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 307.
Prose
Antiquarian Essays
Grosart, III, 283-306.
See DaJ 242-255.
Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]
Charge beginning ‘You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you...’. First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.
DaJ 229.5
Copy, on 42 folio leaves. In a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Effecte Off the Charge giuen to the Grand Jury att yorcke by Sir John Dauis Knight. his Mates first Seriant att Lawe. being one of the Justices of Assize for the Northerne Circute’.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer and book collector, inscribed probably by him ‘To be half bound in Vellum / To be lettered’.
DaJ 230
Copy in: A folio composite volume of tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 224 leaves, in modern hald crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
This MS recorded in Grosart.
DaJ 231
Copy, in a small probably professional secretary hand.
In: A quarto volume of letters and tracts, largely in two secretary hand, 77 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Grosart.
DaJ 232
Copy, on 16 leaves, imperfect, lacking the last part, inscribed ‘The articles of the charge 1639’. c.1639.
In: A composite volume of twenty tracts, in 19th-century half-calf.
Not available for examination for conservation reasons.
DaJ 233
Copy, in two secretary hands.
In: A folio legal notebook by a Justice of the Peace, in several hands, 216 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked) with fleur de lys on both covers, remains of silk ties. c.1620s.
Cambridge University Library, MS Dd. 14. 3, ff. 204r-7v, 4r-13r.
DaJ 234
Copy, in a professional cursive hand, the Charge here dated 1620.
In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, in five professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), 268 leaves (including blanks), in later calf.
Phillipps MS 10463. Bookplate of Alfred Wynne Corrie. Given to the library by William Appleton Coolidge in 1958.
DaJ 234.4
References and quotations.
In: A draft by William Petyt on a treatise concerning ‘the Parliaments and Governments of England after the Reign of King John’, 296 folio leaves.
DaJ 234.5
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, 47 leaves. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts, in various professional hands, pages unnumbered, in contemporary reversed calf (rebacked).
Formerly MS 1052.
Baker
Harvard Law School Library, HLS MS 1037 (Hollis No. 003701760), Item 2.
DaJ 235
Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘Serjt Davis's Charge at York as Judge of Assize’, 43 folio pages, in a paper wrapper. c.1740s.
In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts and reports, in several hands, disbound.
DaJ 236
Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘Serjt Davis's Charge at York as Judge of Assize’, incomplete, 14 folio pages (plus six blank leaves), in a paper wrapper. c.1740s.
In: the MS described under DaJ 235.
DaJ 236.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘by Sr. John Davies knt. his Maties first Seriant att lawe...1620’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts, in several probably professional hands, 75 leaves (plus loose inserts), in stiff paper wrappers. c.1640.
DaJ 237
Copy, in two professional secretary hands, headed ‘The Effects Off the Charge given to the Grand Jurie att yorcke by Sr John Dauis Knight...1620’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts dating up to 1641, in various professional hands, 381 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf. c.1625-41.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4. 13.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 226-7 (No. 23).
DaJ 238.1
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, 333 leaves.
Among the Irish collections of Sir George Carew (c.1556-1612), administrator and diplomat. Afterwards among collections of William Laud (1573-1645), Archbishop of Canterbury.
A Discourse of Law and Lawyers: with Appendix of Cases
A compilation, beginning with ‘Trin. 2. Iacobi en Leeschecquer. Le Case de Praxiet’, the main part an epistlolary tract by Davies to Lord Ellesmere. First published as Le Primer Report des Cases en Matters en Ley (Dublin, 1615). Grosart, II, 243-357.
DaJ 238.2
Copy of the prefatory epistle to Lord Ellesmere, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘Jo Davis’.
In: A large folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and parliamentary speeches, in various hands, 452 leaves, in 19th-century half morocco gilt.
Humphrey Wanley's inscription (f. 1r) on his date of accession ‘26 August 1724’.
DaJ 238.3
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous transcripts and extracts, 247 leaves.
Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 512, Vol. E, ff. 166-70 passim, 180r et seq.
DaJ 238.5
Extracts or refererences.
In: A folio volume of transcripts and extracts largely from state papers, 184 leaves.
Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 533, Vol. 38, ff. 16r-23 passim.
DaJ 238.6
Extracts.
In: An octavo pocket notebook, largely in Latin, in a formal cursive hand, written from both ends, unfoliated, in a contemporary vellum wallet binding. Mid-17th century.
DaJ 238.8
Copy, headed ‘La abridgmt del primer report des cases et matters en Ley resolue et ajudge en Ireland per Sr. John Dauys chyualer Atturnie generall dell Roy, en cest realme’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in a single mixed hand, 105 pages, in 17th-century calf. Mid-17th century.
A Discovery of the State of Ireland
A treatise, dedicated to James I, beginning ‘During the time of my service in Ireland (which began in the first yeare of his Majesties raigne) I haue visited all the Prouinces...’. First published as A Discoverie of the Trve Cavses why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued...vntill...his Maiesties happie Raigne ([London], 1612). Grosart, II, 1-168.
DaJ 239
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, as ‘By his Maties Attorney Generall of Ireland’, 91 quarto leaves, bound with another tract (Royal MS 17 C XXXI), in modern half-morocco. Possibly a MS presented by Davies to the dedicatee, King James I. c.1612.
A 19th-century transcript of this MS is in the British Library, Add. MS 33496.
DaJ 239.8
Extensive extracts, headed ‘Notes taken out of a Booke intitled: A Discoverye of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirelye subdued...’.
In: A duodecimo volume of extracts from printed books, in a single mixed hand, 80 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco. Mid-17th century.
DaJ 241
Copy. c.1612?
Yelverton MS 18 was formerly among the MSS belonging to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family (now in the british Library), but has been missing since 1775. See a list of ‘MS volumes Wanting 1755’ on a loose leaf inserted in Yelverton MS 29 (British Library, Add. MS 480255).
Earl Marshal of England, Of the Antiquity and Offices of the
See DaJ 242.
Epitaphs, Of the Antiquity and selected Variety of
See DaJ 243.
High Steward of England, Of the Antiquity, Authority and Successio of the
See DaJ 244.
Lawful Combats in England, Of the Antiquity, use, and Ceremony of
See DaJ 245-55.
Le Primer Report des Cases en Matters en Ley
See DaJ 238.2.
Of the Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshal of England
Essay beginning ‘I do not hold this office in England to be more ancient than the Conquest...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 108-11. Grosart, III, 288-92.
*DaJ 242
Autograph draft, with revisions, on two trimmed folio leaves; the paper delivered on an unspecified date to the Society of Antiquaries. c.1600.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts and documents, including original papers of the Society of Antiquaries, in various hands, 485 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
On the Antiquity and selected Variety of Epitaphs in England
Essay beginning ‘An Epitaph is a monument of the dead...’. First published, as an anonymous work, in Hearne (1771), I, 238-45.
See also DaJ 125.
*DaJ 243
Autograph draft, untitled, quoting several epitaphs, on four folio leaves; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries on 3 November 1600.
In: the MS described under DaJ 125.
This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. xli-xlii(n).
Of the Antiquity, Authority and Succession of the High Steward of England
Essay beginning ‘I think the office to be ancient...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 35-7. Grosart, III, 283-8.
*DaJ 244
Autograph draft, with revisions, inscribed at the top ‘Mr. Dauys’, on both sides of a single folio leaf; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries (? on 4 June 1603).
In: the MS described under DaJ 242.
DaJ 244.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, run on directly from DaJ 000. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 234 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary boards.
Of the Antiquity, Use, and Ceremony of Lawful Combats in England
Paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, beginning ‘Our Question is of the antiquity and manner of lawful combats...’, dated 22 May 1601. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 180-7. Grosart, III, 293-302.
DaJ 245
Draft, in a professional secretary hand, with extensive autograph additions in another cursive secretary hand (? Davies's), the inscription ‘Mr Davis’ cropped at the top of the first page, and inscribed at the top left ‘Pascæ 1601’; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries (? on 22 May 1601).
In: the MS described under DaJ 242.
DaJ 246
Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘Ex MS: in bibl Hatton’: i.e. copied from a manuscript in the library of Christopher Hatton. c.1630s.
In: A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts relating to the Earl Marshal and court of chivalry, in probably professional predominantly secretary hands, iv + 445 pages (plus fifteen blank pages), in contemporary calf. Volume I of twelve volumes of collections made by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
DaJ 247
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in two or three professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 266 leaves. c.1630s.
Once owned by Sir Robert Oxenbridge, MP (1595-1638) of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire; later by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Bishop of St Asaph, ecclesiastical historian, scholar and book collector. It was once bought from John Jackson of Tottenham High Cross.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 258-9 (No. 96).
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 258 (No. 96.2).
DaJ 248
Copy in: A large quarto volume of political, ecclesiastical and antiquarian tracts, in a single accomplished professional hand, 268 leaves. c.1630.
DaJ 249
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio volume of tracts and papers relating principally to the Earl Marshall of England and the protocols of duelling, in two or more professional secretary hands, 318 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1630s.
Acquired from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.
DaJ 250
Copy in: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in several professional hands, 208 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1*r) by Wanley with date of accession into the Harley Library ‘4 May 1721’. An affixed slip inscribed ‘Ane baryngton’, ‘Robarts’, and ‘The Lady Robarts’, all in the same hand.
DaJ 251
Copy, unascribed.
In: A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 316 leaves, in modern mottled leather. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
[Of the Antiquity, Use and Ceremony of Lawful Combats in England] Of the Same
Essay beginning ‘I supposed, and so it falleth forth amongst this learned assembly...’, dated 22 May 1601. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 187-90. Grosart, III, 303-6.
DaJ 252
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, docketed in a small italic hand at the top left ‘Mr Dauis Combatts’, imperfect at the end; the paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries (? on 22 May 1601).
In: the MS described under DaJ 242.
DaJ 253
Copy, untitled, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 247. c.1630s.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 258 (No. 96.3).
DaJ 254
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and run on directly after DaJ 249.
In: the MS described under DaJ 249. c.1630s.
DaJ 255
Not present. This entry, in IELM, I.i, was apparently confused with DaJ 251.
The Question concerning Impositions
A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning ‘The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...’. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
DaJ 255.5
Extracts.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts from state and legal writings, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.Mid-1630s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
University College London, MS Ogden 7/11, ff. [13r-16r rev.].
DaJ 255.8
Extracts, headed ‘Notes taken out of a booke of Sir John Davies in defence of the kings prerogative’, with a reference to ‘Stratton’ (from whom Drake borrowed books).
In: the MS described under DaJ 255.5. c.Mid-1630s.
University College London, MS Ogden 7/11, ff. 106v-103v rev.
DaJ 256
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 90 folio leaves, imperfect at the beginning, lacking a title and opening of the dedicatory epistle to James I, in modern cloth. c.1620s.
Owned by Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 3.
DaJ 257
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, with some emendations in a later hand (of c.1649), ii + 87 quarto leaves (plus eight blanks partly used for later notes), in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1620s.
DaJ 258
Copy of the dedication and Chapter 1 to the beginning of Chapter 10, in a professional hand, imperfect, lacking a title-page and the ending.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 306 leaves, in half-calf.
DaJ 259
Copy, in a professional, predominantly secretary hand, with a title-page, 68 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1620s.
DaJ 260
Copy, untitled, with the Dedication to the King, f. 122v inscribed in another hand ‘Whether ye King can impose taxes’. c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and estate papers, in English and Latin, in various largely professional hands, i + 527 leaves, in modern calf.
Among the collections of Browne Willis, MP, FSA (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.
DaJ 261
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘By his Maties: Attorney Generall. of Ireland’, 94 folio leaves, in old calf gilt. c.1620s-30s.
Presented by the Governors of the Welsh School, 1844.
DaJ 262
Copy, with a title-page: ‘Sr John Dauies Serieant at Lawe vnto his Matie: vppon Imposicons’.
In: A folio volume comprising two treatises on impositions (the second by Sir James Whitelocke), in a single professional secretary hand, 176 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1630s.
Volume DCCXXXIV of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.
DaJ 262.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘by Sr John Dauies knight’.
In: A composite folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 612 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties. c.1620s-30s.
Yelverton MS 31, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.
DaJ 263
Copy, with a formal title-page, ‘An Argument vppon The Question of Impositions, digested and divided into sundrie Chapters Written by Sr John Davis Knt one of his Maties: Councell learned in Ireland, & by him dedicated to Kinge James’.
In: A folio volume of state and legal tracts, in various professional hands, 498 leaves. c.1620-50.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Some scribbling under the table of contents on f. 1v refers to ‘Le Neve Yorke’ [i.e. Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary].
DaJ 263.5
Copy of the opening of the treatise only, in a professional secretary and italic hand, incomplete. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 207 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. In professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary, and the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Once owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 239 (No. 52).
DaJ 263.8
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘An Argument vpon the question of Impositions...by his Mats Attorney generall of Ireland’, imperfect at the end. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 229 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
DaJ 264
Copy, in a professional small secretary hand, entitled ‘Impositions’, the dedication to the King subscribed ‘John Davis’. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 427 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
Inscribed in pencil (f. [ir]) ‘bought of Mrs. Whitlock’.
DaJ 265
Copy, headed An argument vppon the question of imposicons...by Sr John Davies knighte one of his Maties learned Counsell in Ireland, 95 folio leaves, in modern mottled calf gilt. In a professional secretary hand up to f. 94v, the last page (f. 95r) in another secretary hand, perhaps a replacement for a lost leaf. c.1620s-30s.
DaJ 265.8
Copy of only a title-page and list of contents in a roman hand and Davies's dedicatory epistle to King James I in a stylish secretary hand, lacking any further text. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts relating to the dispute about Impositions, in several hands, 175 leaves, in modern crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1638.
DaJ 266
Copy. c.1625-40.
In: A folio volume of three state tracts, 146 leaves.
DaJ 267
Copy in: A folio volume of state and legal tracts, in three professional secretary hands (one predominating ff. 2r-142r), 228 leaves (plus some blanks), in modern mottled leather. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
DaJ 268
Copy, headed An Argument vppon the question of Imposicons divided into sundry chapters by Sr John Davies Kt one of his Mats learned Councell in Ireland with an answer to it. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, in professional hands, 182 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern half-calf on marbled boards.
Inscribed (f. ir) ‘Nathaniell Snape 1640’.
DaJ 269
Copy, on 99 quarto leaves, in calf gilt (rebacked). In a secretary hand, headed ‘An Argument vppon Imposicons Digested and divided into sundry Chapters By his maties Atturney generall in Ireland’. c.1637/8.
Inscribed (f. ir) ‘Ri: Mason D.M.’ [probably the MD (d.1668), Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1638-44]. Subscribed (f. 99r) ‘P [or R cropped]. 10 Januar. 1637[/8]’.On two leaves at the end are lists of furniture brought into Dover House.
DaJ 270
Copy, headed ‘An Argument vpon the Question of impositions digested and deuided into sundry Chapters by Serieant Davis one of his maties learned Councell in Ireland’.
In: A folio volume comprising a tract by Davies and (ff. 76v-8r) material relating to ship-money in 1636, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, 86 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf on marbled boards. c.1636.
DaJ 271
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 70 tall folio pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.
DaJ 272
Copy, with a title-page in italic majuscules, as ‘By his Maties Attvrney Generall of Ireland’, the dedicatory epistle subscribed ‘Jo: Dauis’.
In: A folio volume comprising two works, the second a speech by Justice Crooke, in a single professional secretary hand, 60 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum (now detached) within 19th-century boards.
Sotheby's, 1871 (Lilly sale). Phillipps MS 26061.
DaJ 272.2
Copy in: A folio volume comprising two tracts relating to impositions, in a single professional hand, 165 leaves + vii pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-30s.
Free Library of Philadelphia, MS LC 14: 52, pp. vi-vii and ff. 1r-92v.
DaJ 272.3
c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts.
DaJ 272.4
Copy in: A folio volume of tracts on impositions, in a single professional hand. c.1630s.
DaJ 272.5
Copy, in several professional secretary hands, headed ‘Sr John Davies Serieant at law to his Matie Vppon Imposicons’, 83 small quarto leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1620s.
From the library of the William Watkins Wynn family of Wynnstay.
DaJ 272.6
Copy, in two professional secretary hands, 105 folio leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. The title-page (f. 1r), table of chapters (2r-4v), dedicatory epistle to James I (ff. 6r-7r), and ff. 7v-20v, 53v-71v, and a line inserted on f. 104r, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. Fols 31r to the top of f. 53v and ff. 72r-105r otherwise in another professional secretary hand. c.1630.
From the library of the William Watkins Wynn family of Wynnstay.
Briefly described in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 214 (No. 2).
DaJ 272.8
Copy, in a professional hand, on 64 folio pages. c.1620s-30s.
Among the papers of the Hare family, Baronets, of Stow Bardolph.
DaJ 273
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, as ‘by Seriant Dauis one of his Maties Learned Councell in Ireland...Ano Dni 1624’, 101 folio leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards with green ties. c.1624.
This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 32.
DaJ 274
Copy, in probably two professional secretary hands, with a title-page, on 63 folio leaves (plus blanks), ff. 67v-65r at the reverse end occupied by a tract on ecclesiastical law in another hand, in old blind-stamped calf. c.1620s-30s.
Old pressmark P. 4. 8.
DaJ 275
Copy, in a single predominantly secretary hand, the first page heavily stained. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under DaJ 41.
DaJ 276
Copy, ff. 285r-385v in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’ but for a correction on f. 294r; the title-page (f. 284r) and two-line heading on f. 285r in yet another professional cursive secretary hand.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 385 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.
Once owned by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4.10.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 223 (No. 18).
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 223 (No. 18.2).
DaJ 277
Copy, in two professional secretary hands, principally that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’ (ff. 2r-39v, 64r-5v, 97r-112v), the title-page in flourished italic possibly in yet another hand, 112 leaves (plus two blanks). c.1625-30s.
In: A folio volume comprising two MSS of tracts and state letters, in secretary hands, 96 pages and 112 leaves respectively, in contemporary vellum boards.
The second item from the library formed principally by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, scholar. Old pressmark F. 3. 20.
Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 225 (No. 21).
DaJ 278
Copy, as by ‘Sr John Davies Kt’, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio volume of state treatises, chiefly in two professional secretary hands, 210 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. c.1620s-30s.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
DaJ 278.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with (ff. [ir-ivr]) a ‘Tabula’ of chapters and (ff. 1r-2r) the dedicatory epistle to the King subscribed ‘Sir John Dauyes’, vi + 95 folio leaves, in vellum boards. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of William Grant (1700/1-1764), Lord Prestongrange, Scottish politician and judge. Inscribed by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller. In the library of Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer.
DaJ 279
Copy, in a professional hand, with a table of contents, on 144 folio leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. With a title-page (f. [ir]), ‘Whether the Kinge of England by his Prerogative may sett Impositions, loanes or Privy Seales without Assent of Parliament’, the main text headed (f. 5r) ‘An Argument vpon the question of Impositions, devided into sundry Chapters, By Sir John Davies Knight one of his Mats; learned Councell in Ireland’. c.1620s.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘E Milton / 26. dec. 1723’. Sotheby's, 9 December 1971, lot 101.
DaJ 280
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 112 folio leaves, lacking title, disbound. c.1620s-30s.
Sotheby's, 24 March 1970, lot 438.
DaJ 280.5
Substantial extracts, headed ‘Davies Treatise on Impositions’.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts chiefly from historical works, in Latin and English, in a single small mixed hand, compiled by one Thomas Gybbons, armiger, 237 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Mid-late 17th century.
Speeches in Ireland (21 May 1613)
Two speeches, one in the Irish House of Commons, the other in the Irish House of Lords, beginning respectively ‘Most honble. Lord & Rt. Worthy Deputy of Our most Invincible Renowned & Gracious Sovereign, I am here presented to your Lordp...’. and ‘Most honble. & Right Noble Lord. Since your high Wisdom (unto which I humbly made my Appeal) has not thought fit to repeal...’. The second speech first published in Davies, Historical Tracts (Dublin, 1787). The two speeches first published together in Grosart, III (1876), 215-21, 222-41.
DaJ 281
Copy of Davies's two speeches when he was appointed Speaker in the Irish House of Commons, in a professional secretary hand. c.1613.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, one predominating, 190 folio and quarto leaves, in half red morocco. Compiled largely by Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian.
Subsequently owned by Henry Hyde (1638-1709), second Earl of Clarendon, politician (constituting Clarendon MSS Vol. 46). Bookplate of Jeremiah Milles (1714-84), Dean of Exeter, antiquary (Milles Collection Vol. XL).
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
DaJ 282
Copy of the two speeches, in a professional rounded hand, with (f. 88r) a later title-page. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), 425 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.
Volume CCCCXC of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 228 (No. 32).
DaJ 283
Copy of the two speeches, subscribed (f. 36r-v) ‘Examined and Compared with a Manuscript in the possession of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire this Ninth day of January One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty four. (signed) Robt Wilmot.’.
In: A small quarto volume of speeches etc. relating to Irish parliamentary matters, in a single neat hand, 38 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. 9 January 1754.
DaJ 284
Copy, in a neat professional hand, with a title-page ‘Two Speeches made by Sir John Davis Knight...1613’, on eighteen folio pages. Early-mid 18th century.
In: A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts and letters, in various hands and paper sizes, eight items unfoliated. Early-mid 18th century.
Once owned by Sir Thomas Clarke, MP, FRS (1703-64), Master of the Rolls, and by Richard Pepper Arden (1744-1804), first Baron Alvanley, Attorney General. Inscribed by Charles Purton Cooper (1793-1873), lawyer and antiquary, while at Wadham College, Oxford.
Dramatic Works
A Contention betwen a Wife, a Widowe and a Maide for Precedence at an Offringe (‘Widow well met, whether goe you to daye?’)
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Krueger, pp. 216-24.
DaJ 285
Copy of an early version, irregularly arranged, headed ‘A Dialogue betwene the Mayde, the Wife, & the Widow for the defence of their Estates’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 113. c.1605.
This MS collated in Krueger.
DaJ 286
Copy of a revised version. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under DaJ 21.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
DaJ 287
Copy, beginning at line 25 (here ‘If to be borne a Maide, be such a grace’).
In: A small verse miscellany. Mid-17th century.
A Dialogue between a Gentleman-Usher and a Post
First published in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, III (London, 1823), 76-8. Grosart, I, 15-20.
DaJ 288
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A conference betwene a Gent Huisher and a Post, before the Quene at Mr Secretaryes house’, docketed in another hand ‘by John Dauies’, on two probably once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘I. D.’c.1600.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 326 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
DaJ 289
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on three quarto pages (the second leaf laid-down). c.1600.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 237 leaves, in 17th-century calf (rebacked).
Printed from this MS in Grosart.
An Entertainment at Harefield
The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that ‘Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment’ in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.
DaJ 290
Copy of portions of the entertainment, comprising prose dialogues between ‘a Baylife’ and a ‘Dayrie-Maide’ and between Place and Time, ‘The humble Petition of a guiltlesse Lady deliuered in writing...presented to the Q: by the La: Walsingham’ (beginning ‘Beauties rose and vertues booke’), and a farewell speech of Place, in a secretary hand, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves and on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘Entertainment of Q. Eliz. at Harefield by the Countesse of Derby’ and ‘Sr R’. c.1602.
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
This MS edited in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, III (London, 1823), 586-95, from a transcript (with some misreadings) made in 1803 by Rev. Ralph Churton (see Bond I, 534). Reprinted from Nichols's edition in Bond, I, 491-8. See also DaJ 298-300. A transcript of Churton's 1803 transcript made in 1819 by Sophia Palmer is in the London Metropolitan Archives, Acc. 1085/FP.1.
DaJ 290.5
Copy of a text of the entertainment, sent by John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, 19 November 1602. 1602.
Facsimile example in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments from George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson, p. 111.
DaJ 290.8
Copy of a text of the entertainment, in a secretary hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, sent, probably by a member of the Harefield household, to Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, August 1602. 1602.
Edited from this MS in Correspondence of Dr Matthew Hutton, ed. J. Raine, Surtees Society, 17 (1843), pp. 282-5. Recorded in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments from George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson (Oxford, 2010), pp. 108-9.
DaJ 291
Copy, in a secretary hand, of ‘The devyses [to] entertayne hir Mty att Harfielde, the house of Sr Thomas Egerton Lo. Keeper and his Wife the Countess of Darbye. In hir Mats progresse. 1602’, comprising ‘The humble Peticon of a guiltles Lady’, headed ‘The humble peticion of a giltles sainte, wherwth ye gowne of rainebowes was prsented to hir maty, in hir progresse 1602’ and here beginning ‘Beawtyes rose & vertues booke’; the ‘2 mariners song’ (beginning ‘Cynthia queene of seas & landes’); and a short speech, and 34 lots. c.1602.
In: Three unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves containing miscellaneous English and Latin texts, in verse and prose. c.1602.
From the ‘Conway Papers’, descended from Edward Conway (c.1564-1631), first Viscount Conway, politician, and his son Edward (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway, politician and book collector.
Edited from this MS in Peter Cunningham, ‘The Device to entertayne hir Maty att Harfields…1602’, The Shakespeare Society's Papers, II (London, 1845), 65-75, and in Krueger, pp. 207-16. Described (erroneously cited as ‘MS. V.a.172’) in Krueger, pp. 437-8.
Facsimiles of f. 5r in Elizabeth I Then and Now, ed. Georgianna Ziegler (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2003), p. 49, and in in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments from George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson (Oxford, 2010), p. 113.
DaJ 292
Copy of 38 lots, headed ‘A lottery proposed before supper at ye Lo: Chief Justice his house in ye First Entrance: to hir Matie, Ladies, Gentlewomen & Straugers’, dated in the margin ‘1602’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 113. c.1605.
Edited from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, ‘Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the time of James I’, Percy Society (London, 1845), (pp. 5-10). Collated and lots 35-9 edited in Krueger, pp. 207-14.
DaJ 293
Copy of 16 lots and an extract from the prose ‘dialogue betwee[n]e the bayly and a dary mayd’, headed ‘Somme of the lotteries wch were the last Sumer at hir Mties, being wth the L. Keeper’. February 1602/3.
In: the MS described under DaJ 142.
This MS (the lots) collated in Krueger, pp. 207-14.
DaJ 294
Copy of the dialogues ‘Between ye Bailiffe and the Dairie maides’ and ‘Betweene Time & Place’, in possibly two somewhat untidy secretary hands.
In: A folio miscellany of state papers, religious verse and prose, and legal material, in several secretary hands, written over a period from both ends, 143 leaves (including a number of blanks), in a vellum wrapper (a recycled rubricated Latin text) within a contemporary leather wallet binding (rebacked), with straps. c.1572-1608.
Inscribed variously ‘James Ware his Book’: i.e. Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian; (‘henry Streite’, ‘william rise’, ‘Bartholomew Roche’, and ‘John Anderson’. Including copies of indentures relating to John Glascock of London, John Ellis of Gray's Inn, and Edward Johnson, goldsmith, of London. Inscribed (f. [2r], ? by Ware) ‘Qre whether this booke did belong to John Thornburgh [1551-1641] sometime Bp of Limrick & deane of York. vid fol: 13.’ Later among the manuscripts of the Carew family at Crowcombe Court, Somerset. Formerly Folger MS 297.3 and MS V.b.75.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372. Briefly discussed by Fr Herbert Thurston in The Month, vol. 86, No. 379 (1896), pp. 33-4.
DaJ 294.5
Copy of the dialogue between Place and Time, headed ‘The Entertainment of the late Queen at the Lord Keepers’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in professional secretary hands, iv + 311 pages, in contemporary vellum gilt. Largely (but not entirely) a duplicate of MS 121. c.1620s-30s.
DaJ 295
Copy of the dialogue between Place and Time.
In: A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, in a secretary hand, i + 41 leaves, in contemporary vellum with remains of ties. c.1610.
Names inscribed on f. [ir]: ‘John Humphreys’ and ‘D [?] Wynn’.
DaJ 296
Copy of the Mariner's song (‘Cynthia queene of seas and landes’), in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt. Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, ‘Giles Earle his booke 1615’ (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) ‘Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626.’, f. 81r subscribed ‘Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis’. c.1615-26.
Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
This song first published, in a musical setting, in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605); Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 210-11. This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 410.
DaJ 297
Copy of the farewell speech of Place, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Place attired in black giues the Queene these at farewell’, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘The Copie of a Speeche deliuered to her Matie at her departure from Haruile the L: Keepers house’, once folded as a letter or packet and sent by Sir George Savile to the Earl of Shrewsbury, August 1602. 1602.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 259 leaves, in later brown morocco gilt. Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury.
Formerly in the College of Arms, MS Talbot K.
Edited from this MS in Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, Biography and Manners, 2nd edition (London, 1838), No. ccciii, pp. 560-1.
Unidentified Entertainment. The Complaint of the Five Satyres against the Nymphes (‘Tell me, O Nymphes, why do you’)
Krueger, pp. 308-9. This ‘complaint’ has sometimes been considered part of the Entertainment at Harefield but belongs to some other entertainment.
DaJ 298
Copy, in a secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed ‘Entertainmt of Q Eliz at Harfeild by Countess of Derby’. c.1602.
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
This leaf, associated with DaJ 290, is edited in Nichols (III, 595), from Churton's transcript, as part of the Entertainment at Harefield, but it is in a different hand and may be an independent work (see also Bond, I, 497(n)). Nichols's text reprinted in Krueger (pp. 308-9, and see p. 425) as a poem possibly by Davies. A transcript of Churton's 1803 transcript made in 1819 by Sophia Palmer is in the London Metropolitan Archives, Acc. 1085/FP.1.
DaJ 299
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘The Satyrs Complaint’, on a single quarto leaf.
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.
DaJ 300
Copy, headed ‘Satires’.
In: the MS described under DaJ 28. c.1620s-30s.
This MS collated in Krueger, pp. 308-9.
Epithalamion for the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Vere and William Stanley, Earl of Derby
See DaJ 24.
A Songe of Contention betweene Fowre Maids Concerninge that which Addeth Most Perfection to that Sexe
See DaJ 103.
Verses given to the Lord Treasurer upon newyeares Day upon a Dozen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis
See DaJ 113-22.