Verse
Poems Generally Attributed to Dorset
The Advice (‘Phyllis, for shame let us improve’)
First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.
DoC 1
Copy, untitled, on the first of two conjugate quarto leaves.
In: A composite volume of papers, mainly verse on separate sheets. Mid-18th century.
Given in 1952 by D. Niichol Smith.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 2
Copy, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf, subscribed ‘Ld Buckhurst’. Late 17th century.
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 Harris.
DoC 3
Copy of the first two stanzas in an annotated exemplum of James Ware, The Writers of Ireland (Dublin, 1746). 18th century.
This MS formerly MS Add. 704.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 4
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘Song by Earl of Dorset’ on one side of a single folio leaf. Early 18th century.
In: A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of De la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F24, [unnumbered].
DoC 5
Copy, headed ‘Song - by ye E. of Dorset’ [‘upon Ms Waldegrave by whom he had a Daughter that was Lady Shannon’added in another hand], with other poems, on two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 185 leaves.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. XVII, f. 2r.
DoC 5.5
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Buckhurst’, on a single leaf. Late 17th century.
In: Miscellaneous literary papers, unbound, assembled by Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales. Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A9.
DoC 6
Copy, headed ‘Song by ye Ld Dorset’, interlineated with a shorthand version.
In: A single octavo leaf of verse. c.1700.
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
DoC 7
Copy, headed ‘A song by [‘Ld. Dorset’ deleted]’ (‘Sr: Charles Hanbury Williams’added in another hand), on a single quarto leaf. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 7.5
Copy, headed ‘Song on Phyllis’. Late 17th century.
In: An unbound collection of unbound manuscripts of verse and other writings, in various hands and paper sizes, upwards of 100 items. Belonging to the family and descendants of Sir William Temple, Bt (1628-99), diplomat and author.
Sotheby's, 13 December 1994, lot 43, to Figgis Rare Books.
Advice to Lovers (‘Damon, if thou wilt believe me’)
First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song ‘Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her’.
DoC 8
Copy, headed ‘Answer. By L. Dorset’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single professional hand (up to f. 372r), with later additions on ff. 372r-203r(c.1738-45), 203 leaves, in contemporary speckled calf (rebacked). c.1700 [-1745].
Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 9
Copy, headed ‘Advise to Lovers. or, Faint Heart ne're won fair Lady. by Sr. Ch: Sedley’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, entitled ‘The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts’, in a single hand, 189 leaves. Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources. Early 18th century.
A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): ‘John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley’. A note on f. 1: ‘Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves’. Date at the end of the volume: ‘1718’, and some notes on a flyleaf dated ‘1724’.
The ‘Mr. Corbet’ from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dunton MS’: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.
For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 10
Copy, headed ‘Answer By Lord Dors-t’.
In: A tall folio formal miscellany of poems and prose on affairs of state, in several rounded hands, with (ff. ivr-vr) a ‘Catalogue’ of titles, 186 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf within modern half-morocco. c.1700s.
Bookplate of Basil Feilding (1668-1717), fourth Earl of Denbigh, dated 1703. Sold in 1834 by Thomas Thorpe. Owned by the Rev. Dr Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854), scholar, President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Sotheby's, 5 July 1855 (Routh sale), lot 178.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 11
Copy, headed ‘Answer’, following (pp. 85-6) ‘Song. By E. Dorset’ [i.e. John Howe] beginning ‘Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of the best Poems, Lampoons, Songs & Satyrs from the Revolucon 1688. to 1692, in at least two professional hands, on 237 pages (plus numerous blanks) and with a two-page table of contents, in blind-stamped calf. c.late 1690s.
Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 12
Copy, headed ‘Answer By Ld. Dors-t’.
In: A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in several hands, one professional hand predominating, with (ff. 1r-2r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 200 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1695.
Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 13
Copy, headed ‘Answer. By L: Dorset’.
In: A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Songs and Satyrs from the beginning of the Revolucon in 1688 to 1695, in a single professional hand, with (ff. 2r-4r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 183 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.late 1690s.
Bookplates of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt (d.1752), of Lanwade and Maddingley Hall, Cambridgeshire, and of ‘Philia Cotton’.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 14
Copy, headed ‘By my Ld Dorsett’, deleted.
In: A quarto verse miscellany. Compiled by Lady Henrietta Harley. Mid-18th century.
This MS (or DoC 15) collated in Harris.
DoC 15
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Damon if you will believe me’.
In: the MS described under DoC 14. Mid-18th century.
DoC 16
Copy (words only).
In: Folio MS songbook. Late 17th century.
DoC 17
Copy, headed ‘The Answer by Ld Dorset’ [i.e. to ‘A Song by Mr Wolsly’ on pp. 81-2].
In: A quarto verse miscellany in English, Latin and French, in two or more hands, 154 pages (plus blanks), in a vellum deed. Early 18th century.
Formerly ‘Box 12, No. 13’.
This MS collated in Harris.
Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege (‘If I can guess the Devil choke me’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 40-2. Harris, pp. 112-14.
For other poems in this series see DoC 110-13, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.
DoC 18
Copy, headed ‘Second Letter from the Lord Dorsett’.
In: A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt. A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary. c.1680s-1700s.
Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 113-14. Collated in Harris.
DoC 19
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked). In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in). c.1690s.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.
DoC 20
Copy, headed ‘Lo: Buckhurst to Mr Etherege’ and here beginning ‘I cannot guesse the Devill choake mee’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Incept. March. 23. 1652/3.’, 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.
Purchased c.1798.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.
DoC 21
Copy, headed ‘second Letter’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items. c.1680s.
Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.
Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.
DoC 22
Copy, headed ‘Second Letter’.
In: A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco. c.1680.
Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).
This MS collated in Harris.
‘At noon in a sunshiny day’
First published in Poems on Affairs of State...Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 72-3.
DoC 22.2
Copy, in a probably professional rounded hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Att noon, and in a Sumers day’, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter, addressed (f. 110v) ‘For Sr. William Trumbull at his house in Gesard Street’, and endorsed ‘Ld Dorsetts verses / The disappointed maid’. Late 17th century.
In: An unbound folder of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves. Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.
Sotheby's sale catalogue, The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), part of lot 39.
A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea (‘To all you ladies now at land’)
First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.
DoC 23
Copy, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves of verse. Mid-late 18th century.
In: A guardbook of miscellaneous separate papers, chiefly folio, 218 leaves. Early 18th century.
Chiefly collected by W.H. Black. Subsequently bought from Miss N.T. Harrison, 1947.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 23.5
Copy, in an accomplished professional hand, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1700.
In: A large folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 160 leaves, mounted on guards. Volume XXXIIIA (Series III) of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, and his family.
Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.
DoC 23.8
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one rounded hand, with later additions in other hands, 169 pages, in a marbled wrapper. c.1710-30s.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U951 Z24, pp. 115-16.
DoC 24
Copy, headed ‘A Ballad written at Sea in ye first Dutch war the Night before ye Engagement’, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 1-23). c.1730s.
In: A large folio guardbook of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, ii + 104 leaves. Papers owned by John Randolph (1749-1813), Bishop of Oxford, Bangor and London, and by his son Thomas, rector of Much Hadham.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 25
Copy of a variant version, headed ‘A Ballad Made by the Late Earl of Dorset in the Dutch Warrs revived and Adapted to the present Time’, subscribed ‘March: 1710/11’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in a single cursive rounded hand, i + 88 leaves, in modern half black morocco. c.1701-12.
Anonymous note of purchase in London (f. i) on 17 November 1701. Presented by Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bt, 7 May 1921.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 25.5
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of lyrics of chiefly naval songs, compiled by Richard Blechynden (d.1822), Surveyor to of the East India Company, Calcutta, 60 leaves. 1781.
DoC 26
Copy, headed ‘Shackley Hayes’ [? referring to the preceding poem].
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.
Edited from this MS in Harris.
DoC 27
Copy, headed ‘Lord Dorset at Sea in the Dutch War An old Song, not Edited’.
In: A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.1730.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 28
Copy, in a stylish professional hand, headed ‘Lord Dorset[s Ballad added in a second hand] at Sea [in ye Dutch War added in second hand] An Old Song [deleted] not Printed’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 18th century.
In: the MS described under DoC 5.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. XVII, ff. 21r-2r.
DoC 29
Copy, in a neat hand, headed ‘Song’, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite guardbook of miscellaneous verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, v + 107 leaves, mounted on guards. Compiled in part by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 29.5
Copy, in a rounded hand, untitled, the first poem (on three pages) in a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th-early 18th century.
In: A large double-folio-size guardbook of miscellaneous verse, in various hands and paper sizes, 186 leaves.
From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.
National Library of Wales, Brogyntyn MS II. 57 Vol. I, f. 128r-9r.
DoC 29.8
Copy, headed ‘Second Letter from the Lord Dorset’.
In: A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index. Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6. c.1705.
DoC 30
Copy, headed ‘A Song’, subscribed ‘Charles Sidley’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems and plays by Corbet Owen (1645/6-71) and others, a ‘Catalogus Librorum’ at the reverse end, in probably several cursive predominantly italic hands, possibly associated with Oxford University, 166 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1671.
Owned in 1671 by one ‘J. H.’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1253. Purchased from Dobell in 1935.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 31
This is not Dorset's poem but one based on it, ‘to the tune of To all you Ladies’ and beginnng ‘To all you Tories far from Court’.
Deleted entry, Worcester College, Oxford, MS TC. 20. 11, item [32].
DoC 32
Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf. c.1700.
From the papers of the Malet family of Somerset.
Catch (‘When rebels first push'd at the Crown’)
First published in Harris (1979), p. 49.
DoC 33
Copy, headed ‘Catch by Ld. Buckhurst’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in six chiefly professional hands, 124 leaves (plus numerous blanks) and including, ff. 123r-4r, two tipped-in octavo leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1710.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 34
Copy, headed ‘Catch’, here beginning ‘When first Rebellion struck at ye Crowne’ and ascribed to Rochester.
In: the MS described under DoC 19. c.1690s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 35
Copy in: A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index). c.1690s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, ‘Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien’, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.
This MS collated in Harris.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 128r.
DoC 36
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal item, spp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination). This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090. c.1690s-1700.
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 ‘was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes’.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.
Edited from this MS in Harris.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), p. 241.
Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
DoC 37
Copy, headed ‘A Satyre’.
In: A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather. Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66). c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as ‘a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:’. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).
Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.
The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, ‘The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8’, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.
Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 38
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’.
In: A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped ‘1642’, with remains of clasps. Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper. Mid-late 17th century.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 39
Copy, headed ‘A Satyre’, on quarto leaves.
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 collated in Harris.
Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 152, ff. 52r-v, 54r-v, 56r-v, 58.
DoC 40
Copy, the poem dated ‘1679’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, 79 leaves (plus an index), in modern black leather gilt. Including eleven poems in the Marvell canon (plus further apocryphal poems). c.1680.
Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 9 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 389. Purchased from Boone, 9 June 1860.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the ‘Turner MS’: MaA Δ 4. The Marvell poems recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 41
Copy, headed ‘A Satyre’, with annotations in another hand, on two conjugate long ledger leaves.
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 POAS and in Harris.
DoC 41.5
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco. Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents ‘This Book is written by Brown’. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.
DoC 42
Copy, as ‘by Lord Buckhurst’, dated in another hand ‘1679’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 222 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary red panelled morocco gilt. c.late 1680s.
Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 43
Copy, headed ‘On the Dutchess of Portsmouth's place expos'd to Sale’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Satyrs & Lampoons, in a single neat hand, i + 130 leaves, subscribed (f. 130v) ‘Finis. 25, March 1691-2.’, in modern black morocco gilt. c.1692.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 44
Copy of lines 1-36, headed ‘A Satyr’, incomplete, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
In: A large folio guard-book of miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands and sizes of paper, 214 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Collected by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 45
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’, deleted in pencil.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Poems & Satires in the Time of Charles the 2d. &c. Collected & written by Oliver Le Neve Esqr.’, in a single rounded hand, 80 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf. Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary. c.1690.
Bookplate 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. Formerly Chetham's MS 8013.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 350.
DoC 46
Copy, headed ‘Colon A Satyr’.
In: the MS described under DoC 18. c.1680s-1700s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 47
Copy, in double columns, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
In: A collection of unbound separate verse manuscripts.
DoC 48
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under DoC 19. c.1690s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 48.5
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Sent as a letter in 1676 to Lord Ferrers in Great Haywood, Staffordshire. 1676.
Among the archives of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.
DoC 49
Copy, headed ‘Colon; a Satyr’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled ‘A Booke of Paragrafts’, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco. In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63. c.1680s-90s.
Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) ‘matt Calihan’, ‘To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street’, ‘For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross’. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.
Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain ‘Eloass’ mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, ‘The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds’, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.
This MS collated in part in Hammond, pp. 298-9.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 29-36.
DoC 49.5
Copy, headed ‘Satyre’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, predominantly in one probably professional cursive hand, with additions by others, 77 leaves (plus blanks), in brown morocco gilt. c.1680s.
Later owned by Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sold in 1979 by Henry Sotheran, bookseller, to Michael Phillips.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 87, ff. 27v-30r.
DoC 50
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Satyr’, with annotations, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A disbound collection of chiefly verse MSS, in several hands, largely folio.
Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 11, No. 30.
DoC 51
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on Women about Towne’, imperfect at the end.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a neat italic hand, with additions by others, iii + 232 pages (some pages excised), in contemporary vellum. c.1688.
Inscribed ‘John Brownlowe His Booke’: i.e. (? Sir John Brownlow, third Baronet, 1659-97). Among the muniments of the Earl of Ancaster.
DoC 52
Copy, headed ‘Colon, a Satyr on the Court Ladies 1679’, here beginning ‘As Colon was driving his Sheep along’, subscribed ‘Buck. & Dorset’.
In: A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth. Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7). c.1680s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 19.1.12, ff. 98r-100r.
DoC 53
Copy in two hands, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Suplement to some of my Lord Rochesters Poems, in two neat rounded hands, 47 pages, in modern quarter-morocco. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 54
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, including (pp. 269-71) an ‘Index’, iv + 271 pages (including blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. c.1690s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 56
Copy, headed ‘Satir on Severall Women’.
In: the MS described under DoC 35. c.1690s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 158r-60v.
DoC 57
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1680s-90s.
Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.
A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.
This MS colated (as ‘No. 1’) in Harris.
DoC 58.5
Copy in: A quarto volume of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 136 pages (lacking pp. 49-50), in paper wrappers. c.1680s.
Among the archives of the Bridgeman family, Earls of Bradford.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 1287/19/6, [uncatalogued volume], pp. 51-5.
DoC 59
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on severall Women. 1679’.
In: the MS described under DoC 36. c.1690s-1700.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 297-302.
DoC 60
Copy, headed ‘A Satyre 1679’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf. In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677. c.1681.
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 61
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised). Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTCO1 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand. c.1680.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Hansen’: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.
Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and ‘The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680’, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, ‘Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105’, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 62
Copy, headed ‘A Bathe Lampoon’ and dated ‘1698’, on two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of poems on affairs of state, 319 pages, disbound. Late 17th century.
This MS owned in 1682 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Later Phillipps MS 8301 and ‘Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 52’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 63
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’.
In: A guard book of separate copies of poems, 72 pages, various sizes. Chiefly late 17th century.
Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly ‘Osborn Box 89. No. 7’.
a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 63.5
Copy, on five pages of four disbound quarto leaves. Headed ‘A Satyr’ and here beginning ‘As Colen drove his hogs along’. Late 17th century.
DoC 63.8
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 29.8. c.1705.
DoC 64
Copy, on five quarto pages. Late 17th century.
P.J. Dobell, sale catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1273.
The Duel (‘Of Clineas' and Dametas' sharper fight’)
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.
DoC 65
Copy, headed ‘The Quarell’ and here beginning ‘Of Chineas & Dorinda’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, originally entitled Astrea's Booke of Songs & Satyr's 1686, in probably seven hands, vi + 332 pages (including 23 blanks), in half-calf. Predominantly in two alternating semi-professional hands, the second of which (on altogether 117 pages) is probably that of the author Aphra Behn (1640?-89); poems on pp. 307-8 added by a later hand in 1736-8. c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].
Bookplate of ‘William Busby’. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS volume discussed, and the second hand identified as Aphra Behn's, in Mary Ann O'Donnell, ‘A Verse Miscellany of Aphra Behn: Bodleian Library MS Firth c. 16’, EMS, 2 (1990), 189-218, with facsimile examples of the ‘title-page’, and of pp. 50, 119, 180, 226, 238, 261, 307. Also discussed by her in ‘Private jottings, public utterances: Aphra Behn's published writings and her commonplace book’, in Aphra Behn Studies, ed. Janet Todd (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 285-309.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 66
Copy, here beginning ‘Of Chineas & Dametis’.
In: the MS described under DoC 10. c.1700s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 67
Copy, here beginning ‘Of Chineas & Dametas’, on two conjugate quarto leaves possibly extracted from a miscellany. End of 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 68
Copy, here beginning ‘Of Chineas & Dameta's sharper Fight’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 463 pages plus a twelve-page index, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1705.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 69
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 35. c.1690s.
This MS collated in Harris.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 375r-6r.
DoC 70
Copy, here beginning ‘Of Chineas & Dametas’.
In: the MS described under DoC 36. c.1690s-1700.
This MS collated in Harris.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 708-10.
DoC 71
Copy, headed ‘The Quarrell’.
In: A quarto miscellany of familiar epistles and poems on affairs of state, in a professional hand, 36 pages, in light brown wrappers. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 51.
This MS collated in Harris.
The Duel of the Crabs (‘In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple’)
First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.
DoC 72
Copy, in a probably professionalcursive hand, headed ‘A Duell betwixt two Crablice vpon my Lady Bennetts - concludinge wth the change of the governmt. from Monarchicall to democraticall’, subscribed ‘from the Rose in Cursitors Alley August 5. 68::’, on two conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter.
In: An unbound collection of verse MSS, in various hands, 145 generally folio leaves. Volume CCXXXVII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly in Berkshire Record Office, in Trumbull Add 17 and 18.
Once owned by Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), lawyer and government official. Sotheby's, The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, part of lot 39.
DoC 72.5
Copy in: A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves). Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest. c.1698-1700s.
Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Badminton MS’: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, ‘The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse’, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.
DoC 73
Copy, headed ‘A Duel between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their Change of Governmt. from Monarchical to Democraticall. By Hen Savile. Esqr.’
In: the MS described under DoC 8. c.1700 [-1745].
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 74
Copy, headed ‘A Duell Between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their change of Government from Monarchical to Democraticall’ [‘By Ld. Dorset & H. Savile’added in pencil].
In: the MS described under DoC 42. c.late 1680s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 75
Copy, headed ‘The duell of the Crablice’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 151 pages (plus 128 blank pages), with a table of contents (f. 1*r), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. End of 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 76
Copy, headed ‘The Duell of the Crablice’.
In: the MS described under DoC 18. c.1680s-1700s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 77
Copy, subscribed ‘Ld Buckhorst’.
In: the MS described under DoC 52. c.1680s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 77.5
Copy, headed ‘The Duell of the Crab Lice in Imitation of the Duel of the Staggs: by H. Savill Esqr: 4 Miscell. Pag: 293’.
In: An unbound collection of poems chiefly of a bawdy nature or on affairs of state (including a number in the Rochester and apocryphal Rochester canon), in a non-professional hand, possibly derived at least in part from printed sources, 29 folio leaves. c.1700.
Among the papers of the Turner family of Kirkleatham.
North Yorkshire Record Office, ZK MIC 1275/9785, ff. [16v-17r].
DoC 78
Copy, headed ‘A Duell between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with change of Governmt: from Monarchicall to Democraticall’.
In: the MS described under DoC 53. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 79
Copy, headed ‘A Duell between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their change of Government from Monarchicall to Democraticall. The Duell’, ‘By Mr. Hen: Savile’ added in different ink.
In: the MS described under DoC 12. c.1695.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 80
Copy, headed ‘A Duell, between two Monstrs on My Lady Bennets C-t. &c’.
In: the MS described under DoC 35. c.1690s.
This MS collated in Harris.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 68v-70v.
DoC 81
Copy, headed ‘A Duell betwixt 2 Monsters upon my Lady Bettys Cunt wth ye Chainge of Government from Monarchical to Democratical’.
In: the MS described under DoC 57. c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Harris (as ‘No. 1’).
DoC 82
Copy, headed ‘A Duell Between Two Monsters upon my Lady Be-ts C-t’.
In: the MS described under DoC 22. c.1680.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 82.5
Copy, headed ‘A Duell Betweene two Monsters upon my Lady Bets C--t with their Change of Government from Monarchicall to Democraticall’.
In: the MS described under DoC 58.5. c.1680s.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 1287/19/6, [uncatalogued volume], pp. 75-8.
DoC 82.8
Copy, as ‘By Lord Buckhurst, after Earl of Dorset’.
In: A quarto formal verse anthology entitled The Whimsical Medley or A Miscellaneous Collection of severall Pieces in Prose & Verse [etc.], in a single stylish italic hand, with a tipped-in six-leaf table of contents, bound in three volumes, also incorporating printed pamphlets, 217 + 232 + 216 leaves (plus blanks), each volume in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by Theophilus Butler (1669-1723), first Baron Newtown of Newtown-Butler, book collector. c.1720.
Old pressmark I. 5. 1-3.
DoC 83
Copy, headed ‘A Duell between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their Change of Government from Monarchical to Democratical The Duell’ and here ascribed to ‘Dorset & H Savile’.
In: the MS described under DoC 36. c.1690s-1700.
This MS collated in Harris.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 124-8.
Epilogue to ‘Every Man in his Humour’ (‘Entreaty shall not serve, nor violence’)
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon Several Occasions, by Several Persons (London, 1672). Harris, pp. 10-12.
DoC 84
Copy 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.
This MS collated in Harris.
Epilogue to ‘Tartuffe’ (‘Many have been the vain attempts of wit’)
First published in Molière's Tartuffe, translated by Matthew Medbourne (London, 1670). Harris pp. 13-14.
Epit: on H: Savile (‘Under this stone’)
A six-line satirical epitaph on Henry Savile (1642-87), courtier and diplomat. Unpublished.
DoC 85.5
Copy, headed ‘Epit: on H: Savile by the Lord Buckhurst, over a bottle upon Savils bragging of his mighty performances with the ladies’.
In: A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands over a period, much in a small cursive hand, 50 leaves, in quarter-morocco gilt. Probably compiled in part by Edmund Killingworth (of Winchester College and New College, Oxford). Late 17th-early 18th century.
Discussed in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Dryden Attributions and Texts from Harley MS. 6054’, BLJ, 25.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-22, with facsimiles of ff. 20r and 27r on pp. 4 and 10.
Epitaph on Mrs. Lundy (‘Here lies little Lundy a yard deep or more’)
First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971), II, 777-8 (among ‘Works of Doubtful Authenticity’). Harris pp. 93-4.
DoC 86
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph by the Earl of Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 33. c.1710.
Edited from this MS in Harris; collated in Wright & Spears.
DoC 87
Copy, in Prior's hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves.
In: A tall folio guardbook of papers of Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet and diplomat, largely in his hand, partly in that of his secretary Adrian Drift, iii + 193 leaves of various sizes, in modern black morocco gilt. c.1700s.
Volume CCCLXVIII of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland. Formerly Loan MS 29/336.
Edited from this MS in Wright & Spears. Collated in Harris.
DoC 88
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes little Patty, a yard deep & more’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) ‘Poems on Severall Occasions’, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1735.
This MS collated in Harris. Recorded in Wright & Spears.
DoC 89
Copy, untitled, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A composite volume of separate verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 142 pages, disbound.
Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8302. Sotheby's, 25 June 1935, lot 342, to Maggs. Formerly ‘Chest II, 2’.
This MS collated in Harris.
A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies (‘Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes’)
First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.
DoC 90
Copy, the poem here dated 1687.
In: the MS described under DoC 8. c.1700 [-1745].
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 91
Copy, the poem dated 1686.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Choice Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Satyrs &ca, xx + 412 pages (339-411 blank). c.1700.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 92
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 65. c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 93
Copy, the poem here dated 1687.
In: A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled Collection of Choice Poemes, in a single neat hand, with a ‘Catalogue’ of contents (ff. 382v-6v), 387 leaves, in half brown morocco gilt. c.1703.
Note of purchase (f. 1r) ‘pd - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 94
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 475 pages (plus a six-page index and a number of blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the ‘Index’). c.1690.
Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.
A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 95
Copy, the poem here dated ‘March 1676/7’.
In: the MS described under DoC 52. c.1680s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 96
Copy, the poem dated in the margin ‘1687’.
In: A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 43 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 461 pages plus an eight-page ‘Table’ of contents, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1705.
This MS colated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 97
Copy, the poem dated ‘1687’.
In: the MS described under DoC 12. c.1695.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 98
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled ‘A Choyce Collection of Poems. &c.’, 325 pages, the verse on pp. 324-5 added c.1762. c.1700.
Owned in 1712 by Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739), Baron Raby and third Earl of Strafford.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
Ohio State University, English Department Library, Spec. MS Eng. 15, pp. 243-64.
DoC 99
Copy, the poem here dated ‘1686/7’.
In: the MS described under DoC 35. c.1690s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 395v-405v.
DoC 100
Copy, the poem here dated ‘1686/7’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, entitled ‘A Collection of Choyce Poems, Lampoons, and Satyrs from 1673 to 1689. Never Extant in Print’, 335 pages (plus a Table of contents and blanks), in modern red morocco. c.1690s.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 2.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 101
Copy, the poem here dated ‘1686/7’.
In: the MS described under DoC 36. c.1690s-1700.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 748-66.
DoC 102
Copy, including corrections and notes in a second hand supplying calculations and markings for copyists and evidently used as a scriptorium master copy or exemplar from which further transcripts were made, on two folio leaves.
In: the MS described under DoC 62. Late 17th century.
Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris. Facsimile of first page in POAS, IV, after p. 190, and discussed pp. 351-2.
DoC 103
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on The Most Eminent Court Ninnys’, on fifteen folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of separate copies of poems, in various hands and paper sizes, c.257 pages, now disbound. Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 14 March 1961, lot 573. Formerly at Yale ‘Box 89, No. 3’.
Microfilm in the British Library, M/608.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
The Fire of Love (‘The fire of love in youthful blood’)
First published in Thomas Shadwell, The Amorous Bigot (London, 1690). Harris, p. 86.
DoC 104
Copy, headed ‘Songs’.
In: A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves. Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by ‘mr. W. Turner’. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 105
Second copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DoC 104. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
The Innocent Conjugates or The Maiden Bridegroom and Virgin Bride (‘Inflam'd by love and led by blind desires’)
First published in Harris (1979), p. 176.
DoC 106
Copy, headed ‘The Maiden Conjugates...Englishd by Ld. Dorsett’.
In: A quarto miscellany, principally of poems on affairs of state, xvi + 130 leaves. Entitled ‘Horæ subsecivæ, or Misselanies in Prose & Verse’ and arranged in four ‘books’. Early 18th century.
Given by J. Cater in 1756 to the Rev. William Cole (1714-82). In the Dalrymple sale. Afterwards owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary. Haslewood sale (16 December 1833), lot 1386. Evans, 1834. Owned in 1836 by Reginald Peacock (his bookplate). Bought from George A. Johnston, Edinburgh bookseller, 18 March 1885.
Edited from this MS in Harris.
DoC 107
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 65. c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 108
Copy, in the same hand as DoC 106, following Latin verses beginning ‘Captuo amore cæcaq Cupidine ductus’ and then headed ‘English'd by ye Earle of Dorsett’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on ‘ye Governmt. of ye Passions’, in six ‘books’, 373 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked). In a non-professional hand with amateur engrossing and decoration, compiled by someone with a daughter named Cater. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 109
Copy, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Harris.
A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege (‘Dreaming last night on Mrs. Farley’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 35-7. Harris, pp. 105-8.
For other poems in this series see DoC 18-22, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.
DoC 110
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 18. c.1680s-1700s.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.
DoC 111
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 19. c.1690s.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.
DoC 112
Copy, under the general heading ‘ffamiliar Lettrs’.
In: the MS described under DoC 21. c.1680s.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.
DoC 113
Copy, under the general heading ‘Familliar Letters’.
In: the MS described under DoC 22. c.1680.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 113.5
Copy, headed ‘Letter from ye Lord Dorset to Sir George Etheridge’.
In: the MS described under DoC 29.8. c.1705.
Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French (‘In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms’)
First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.
DoC 114
Copy, headed ‘On the Fr. King & Madam Maintenon. By Ld Dorset. 1692.’.
In: the MS described under DoC 8. c.1700 [-1745].
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 115
Copy, headed ‘A Catch on the French King, out of French. by Mr. Dryden’.
In: the MS described under DoC 9. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 116
Copy, headed ‘On the French K- by Lord Dorsett (1692)’.
In: the MS described under DoC 10. c.1700s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 117
Copy, in a neat hand, headed ‘Song’ [‘upon the French Kings returne out of flanders into France’added in another cursive hand], on two long folio leaves, endorsed ‘Translations out of french. 1693’.
In: A large folio guardbook of chiefly verse MSS, in Latin, English and Greek, in various hands, at least some relating to Cambridge University, 408 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 118
Copy, headed ‘The hasty returne’.
In: A folio partly composite miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single closely written hand (up to f. 294v) but for a second hand on ff. 220v-31v, a third hand on ff. 315r, 316r-25. 325 leaves (plus blanks), in quarter-vellum. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 118.5
Copy, headed ‘A Paraphrase on the French: La Jeane Iris aux &cc: 3 Mis: 419’.
In: the MS described under DoC 77.5. c.1700.
DoC 119
Copy, headed ‘On the French K. By Ld. Dorset 1692’.
In: the MS described under DoC 12. c.1695.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 120
Copy, headed ‘On the French King. by E. Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 13. c.late 1690s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 121
Copy, in a rounded hand, headed ‘Song / Translated out of French / Upon the French Kings returne out of Flandres to France’, on one side of a single folio leaf of verse, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 122
Copy, headed ‘A paraphrase on ye French’.
In: An octavo miscellany, principally in two hands, written from both ends, 177 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Samuel Estwick (c.1657-1739), minor canon at St Paul's and sacrist and rector of St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London. Inscribed on p. 101 ‘Rob: Fysher Decemb: 30th 1713’. c.1700-1714.
This MS collated in Harris.
My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.
DoC 123
Copy, headed ‘My Opinion: Or the nine pins’.
In: the MS described under DoC 38. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 124
Copy, here beginning ‘After fourteen days thinking of whigg and of Tory’, on a single quarto-size leaf.
In: the MS described under DoC 39. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 125
Copy, headed ‘The Opinion’ and here ascribed to ‘Dk B’ [Duke of Buckingham].
In: the MS described under DoC 65. c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 126
Copy, headed ‘ye E-l of Dors-ts opinion of ye Tories 1716’.
In: A folio volume of chiefly poems and prose on affairs of state, in several hands, one predominating, 165 leaves, in old reversed calf. Compiled by John Greene, of King's Lynn, Norfolk (probably the John Greene who was Mayor there in 1709). c.1720.
Sotheby's, 23 December 1958, lot 224.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 128
Copy, the poem dated 1682.
In: the MS described under DoC 93. c.1703.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 129
Copy, headed (at a later date) ‘BucKinghams Thoughts’, subscribed ‘Buckingham’.
In: the MS described under DoC 45. c.1690.
DoC 130
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 18. c.1680s-1700s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 132
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 51. c.1688.
DoC 133
Copy, the poem here dated 1682.
In: the MS described under DoC 52. c.1680s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 134
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in a single rounded hand, 140 pages (including blanks), in old half-calf on marbled boards. Late 17th century.
Later used by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, with his loosely inserted index. Sold in April 1934 by Dobell.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 135.5
Copy in: A quarto volume of Poems upon Affairs of State, 170 pages (plus 80 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. Predominantly in a single professional hand, with a table of contents at the end, the volume produced under the auspices of the manuscript purveyor ‘Captain’ Robert Julian (fl. c.1650-90), ‘Secretary of the Muses’, with a few additions in two other professional hands and by subsequent owners. c.1680s.
Inscribed by William Stanley (c.1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby, ‘I bought this booke of Julian not so much for my own use as to prevent others reading of it’. Inscribed later by his brother James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby, ‘When Knowsley House was puled doune (for else it would soon haue faln of it self) this Book was found hid in one of ye Chimneys, to be sure by my Brother Derby’.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 20-30.
DoC 136
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 82 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards. c.1680s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 137
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 35. c.1690s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 305v-6r.
DoC 137.5
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in one small neat hand, with additions (pp. 71-5 plus 20 pages at the reverse end) in later hands c.1709, 95 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt. c.1680-1700s.
A label: ‘Sold by Robert Paske Stationer in the Piatza on ye North side of the Royal Exchange London’.
This volume is probably that sold at Sotheby's, 1 March 1871 (Sir John Simeon sale, 7th day), lot 1675, to Quaritch, and probably item 1279 in Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918). In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Restoration poetry MS 4.
DoC 138
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 36. c.1690s-1700.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 575-6.
DoC 139
Copy, headed ‘My Opinion on ye nine pinn's’, on a sikngle quarto leaf.
In: the MS described under DoC 63. Chiefly late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 140.5
Copy, headed ‘My opinion’, with inserted sub-title or comment ‘Agt york & Monmouth’.
In: the MS described under DoC 29.8. c.1705.
On King William's Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination (‘The youth whose fortune the vast globe obey'd’)
First published in Harris (1979), pp 61-2.
DoC 141
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf, folded as a letter. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under DoC 72.
DoC 142
Copy, headed On K: Wm: By E. of Dorset.
In: the MS described under DoC 91. c.1700.
Edited from this MS in Harris.
DoC 142.5
Copy, headed ‘On the intended Assassination of Kg Wm’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A collection of unbound verse MSS. Assembled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire.
Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 164, to Quaritch.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 52, f. 74r.
DoC 143
Copy, the poem here dated 1696.
In: the MS described under DoC 98. c.1700.
This MS collated in Harris.
Ohio State University, English Department Library, Spec. MS Eng. 15, p. 323.
DoC 144
Copy, headed ‘On K. William. By Ld Dorset. occasion'd by his deliverance from the Barbarous Assassinacon’.
In: the MS described under DoC 100. c.1690s.
This MS collated in Harris.
On Love (‘Love is a dreame of mighty treasure’)
Unpublished?
DoC 144.5
Copy, subscribed ‘By ye Earle of Dorcet’.
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.
On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.
DoC 145
Copy, headed ‘Upon the same’ [i.e. Edward Howard].
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 11 + 109 leaves. Early-mid-18th century.
Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 146
Copy, headed ‘On the same Author upon his New Vt-’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth. In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714. c.1680s.
Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.
DoC 147
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Edward Howards New Utopia’, subscribed ‘Charles L. Buckhurst’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, iv + 248 pages, imperfect at the end, in contemporary calf. Compiled by an Oxford University man. End of 17th century.
Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 148
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on Mr Edward Howard. by the E of Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 9. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 149
Copy, headed ‘On Mr. Edward Howard’.
In: the MS described under DoC 18. c.1680s-1700s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 149.5
Copy, headed ‘Upon Mr Edward Howards Vtopia &c.’, on a single folio leaf.
In: An unbound bundle of verse MSS, in various hands. Late 17th century.
Among archives of the Copped (or Copt) Hall estate, chiefly relating to the Conyers family.
DoC 150
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mr Edward Howards Playes’ and here ascribed to ‘Witherley’.
In: the MS described under DoC 19. c.1690s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 151
Copy, in a rounded hand, headed ‘Vppon Mr Edward Howard's Utopia’, on both sides of a single folio leaf.
In: A folio guardbook of separate verse manuscripts and printed poems, in various hands and paper sizes, in modern red cloth.
Among collections principally of Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).
DoC 152
Copy, headed ‘On the same Author upon his New Ut-’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany. End of 17th century.
Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14, pp. 23-4.
DoC 153
Copy, headed ‘Satyr on Ned. Howard. By the Earl of Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 49. c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in part in Hammond, pp. 297-8.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 25-7.
DoC 153.5
Copy, headed ‘To Ned H--d by ye Ld R-- 4 Miscell: pag: 3’.
In: the MS described under DoC 77.5. c.1700.
North Yorkshire Record Office, ZK MIC 1275/9785, f. [15r-v].
DoC 154
Copy, headed ‘On Mr E: H- upon his New Vt-’.
In: the MS described under DoC 21. c.1680s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 155
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Edw Howards New Vtopia’, subscribed ‘Buckhurst’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse, on affairs of state etc., and prose, including Latin academic exercises, in a single small hand, compiled by an Oxford University man, written from both ends, iii + 87 leaves, in old morocco. c.1670s.
Bookplate of Arthur Ashpitel, FSA, and bequeathed by him 1869.
DoC 156
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Mr Hen: Savill’.
In: the MS described under DoC 61. c.1680.
Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 156.5
Copy, headed ‘On Ned Howard upon his late Comedy’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems, and some prose satires, upon affairs of state, in several hands, the predominant one probably professional, c.130 leaves (including 36 blanks), in contemporary mottled calf. c.1680s.
Inscription (on f. 1r) ‘JH [or 14] Conduit St’. Bonham's, 13 March 2002, lot 918 (with facsimile of an opening in the sale catalogue).
On Mrs. Anne Roche when she Lost Sir John Daws (‘Like a true Irish merlin that has lost her flight’)
First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among ‘Works of Doubtful Authenticity’). Harris, pp. 101-2.
DoC 157
Copy, headed ‘A Prophecy by the E of Dorset found amongst his papers upon Mrs Roch having been contracted in Ireland and the Match after broke off’.
In: the MS described under DoC 25. c.1701-12.
This MS collated in Wright & Spears and in Harris.
DoC 157.5
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘On Mrs Harry Roche missing a Match with one Capt. John Daw. made by the Earle of Dorset & found in his Owne hand on ye backside of an Inventory of his Plate -- write in 1691’, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper. Early 18th century.
In: An unbound collection of verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes, 212 leaves. Volume CCCLV of the Evelyn Papers.
DoC 158
Copy, headed ‘Mrs Anne Roche, when she Lost Sr John Daws by E: of Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 33. c.1710.
Edited from this MS in Ebsworth and in Harris; collated in Wright & Spears.
DoC 159
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs: Roche by My Ld: Dorset found among his Papers after his Death’.
In: the MS described under DoC 27. c.1730.
This MS collated in Wright & Spears and in Harris.
DoC 160
Copy, headed ‘These by Lord Dorsett’ and subscribed ‘These made by Ld. Dors: on his last wife before Married to her...[&c]’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, one cursive hand predominating, entitled at one end Poems Collected at several Times from the year 1670 and at the other end Collections of several things out of History. begun about the year 1670, written over a period, 336 largely unnumbered pages (plus blanks), 205 pages from one end and 131 pages from the reverse end, in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled chiefly by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), possibly in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. Including (pp. [91-116]) 26 poems by Sir Charles Sedley as a single group (and copies of a poem of doubtful authorship on pp. [165] and [179]). c.1670-1705.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Cowper MS: SeC Δ 2. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, ‘Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers’, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), pp. 47-76, esp. pp. 62-5, and in Harold Love, ‘Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse’, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.
DoC 161
Copy, in the neat italic hand of Matthew Prior's secretary, Adrian Drift, headed ‘Epigram’. c.1700s.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS and papers, in various hands, 147 leaves. Among the papers of Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet and diplomat.
This MS collated in Wright & Spears and in Harris.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Prior Papers, Vol. XXIX, f. 47r.
DoC 162
Copy, in an unidentified hand, untitled, docketed at the top ‘Transcribed D’, on a single oblong-octavo leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1700s.
In: the MS described under DoC 161.
Edited from this MS in Wright & Spears. Collated in Harris.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Prior Papers, Vol. XXIX, f. 57r.
DoC 162.5
Copy. Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘like a true Irish Merlin that mist of her flight’, on a small octavo-size slip of paper, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th-early 18th century.
Among the archives of the Mansell family of Margam and Penrice.
DoC 162.8
Copy, headed ‘My Lord Dorsset on Ms Ann Roch’ and here beginning ‘Like a true Irish Merlin yt Misses her flyht’.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, p. [xx].
On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (‘Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair’)
First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.
DoC 163
Copy, headed ‘A Madame, Madame, B, Beaute Sexagenaire (Ldy Manchester) By Ld Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 8. c.1700 [-1745].
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 164
Copy, headed ‘Upon an affected Court Lady. By Mr. Fleetwood shepherd’.
In: the MS described under DoC 9. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 165
Copy, headed ‘A Madam, Madam B Beaute Sexagenaire, Lady Manchaster By Lord Dorset. 1693’.
In: the MS described under DoC 10. c.1700s.
Edited from this MS in Harris. Collated in POAS.
DoC 166
Copy, headed ‘My Lord Dorsets Verses on Lady N’.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in several (possibly female) rounded hands, 79 leaves, in 19th-cntury half-morocco. c.1730.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 166.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A small narrow folio miscellany of verse and some prose, in several hands, 136 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled probably over a period by members of the Stringer family of Sharlston. Early 18th century.
Among archives of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.
DoC 167
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Courage dear Dol, and drive away despair’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled ‘A Collection Of the choicest Poems, Satyrs, and Lampoons from the beginning of the late Revolution in 1688 to 1698’, x + 336 pages plus index. c.1700.
Probably once owned by the Heveningham family. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 168
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye Countess of Manchester suppos'd to be written by her Husband. Mr. Montagu. 94 - To Mrs D-P.’ and here beginning ‘Courage Dr. Doll & drive away despair’.
In: the MS described under DoC 30. c.1671.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 169
Copy, headed ‘A Madame Madame. B. Beaute Sexagenaire. Lady Manchester. By Lord Dorset. 1693’.
In: the MS described under DoC 12. c.1695.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 170
Copy, headed ‘A Madame Madame Ld Beaute Sexagenair. (by Ld Dorset) La: Manch-tr.’
In: the MS described under DoC 13. c.late 1690s.
Edited from this MS in POAS. Collated in Harris.
DoC 171
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘A Madame, Madame Black-stair sexagenaire’ and here beginning ‘Courage Dear Doll, & drive away Dispaire’, on one page of the unbound remains of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 172
Copy, headed ‘On ye Countess of Mack- by ye E. of Dor:’.
In: the MS described under DoC 57. c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in POAS and (as ‘No. 1’) in Harris.
On the Countess of Dorchester (II) (‘Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes’)
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.
DoC 173
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr: Or, Dorsett on Dorchester’.
In: the MS described under DoC 106. Early 18th century.
Edited from this MS in Harris. Collated in POAS.
DoC 174
Copy, headed ‘Dorsett on Dorchester’. This MS in the same hand as DoC 173.
In: the MS described under DoC 108. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 175
Copy, headed ‘On the Countess of’ [‘Dorchester 1694 by E: Dorset’added in another hand].
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. In two parts: Part I on ff. 1r-149r (followed by blanks and then an index on ff. 150-1); Part II, on ff. 152-302 (with an addition in another hand on f. 303), entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701 Collected by a Person of Quality. c.1703.
A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Harley MS’: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 176
Copy, headed ‘On the Countesse of Dorchester. 1694 By E: Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 27. c.1730.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 177
Copy, untitled but subscribed ‘verces by the Earle of D-s vpon the Countess of D-’, signed and probably in the hand of ‘C Port’ [i.e. probably the daughter of John Port of Ilam, Staffordshire].
In: A folio volume of 124 poems by Charles Cotton (with second copies of three poems), including a few poems by others, 258 pages. Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one ‘Posthumus’, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (‘…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…’). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (‘Posthumus’) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature ‘WF’ and date ‘1660’ appearing on p. 216 and the signature ‘WF’, the inscription ‘Vivat Poeta’ and date ‘Jan. 14 1666’ on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 ‘C. Port’ (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4). c.1651-66 [with later additions].
The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.
Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature ‘Charles Cotton’ written twice and the inscriptions ‘Elizabeth Fitzherbert’; ‘Madam Barterenia’; ‘madam ursenia’; ‘Cathrine Cotton’ (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); ‘Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]’; ‘Frances Fitz:Herbert may ye 23 (8i),’; ‘Mercia Fitzherbert. March ye: 3d: 3d: 1687’; ‘M.B. 1688’; ‘I Port his Booke’; ‘C: Port’; ‘Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660’; ‘Aug 12 [66’; and ‘Mr. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff’. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (‘WF’).
The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his ‘dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton’. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by ‘Mr. Pickering’ at ten guineas.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Derby MS’. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in ‘Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains’, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerised exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).
The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, ‘Cotton's Poems’, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, ‘Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve’, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, ‘The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and “Contentation” Re-Considered’, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.
Edited from this MS and discussed in J.A.V. Chapple, ‘Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve’, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; collated in Harris.
DoC 178
Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Dorchester. By E. Dorset 1694’.
In: A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt. In three sections each with its own title-page. Early 1700s.
First section: ‘A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Printed’.
Second section (f. 102r): ‘A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed’.
Third section (f. 146r): ‘A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 179
Copy, headed ‘On the Countesse of Dorchester. 1694’.
In: the MS described under DoC 167. c.1700.
Edited from this MS in POAS. Collated in Harris.
DoC 180
Copy, headed ‘On the Countess of Dorc-r. 1694’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, entitled ‘A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &ca. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701. Collected by a person of Quality’, 298 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Early 18th century.
From the library of the Cowper family of Panshanger, Hertfordshire, and possibly once belonging to Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, and her husband Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 38, p. 159.
DoC 181
Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Dorchester. By the Earl of Dorset’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 43), 444 pages (plus blanks and an eleven-page index), in contemporary calf. c.1705.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 183
Copy, headed ‘On the Countesse of Dorch-tr 1694’.
In: A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in probably a single professional rounded hand, with (ff. 3r-5r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 152 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. c.early 1700s.
Bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt (1826-98), of Ledeclune and Morar.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 184
Copy, headed ‘On a Lady who fancy'd her self a beauty by Tho: Brown’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf. c.1705.
DoC 184.5
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr or Dorset on Dorchester’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, principally on affairs of state, 320 pages (plus blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary vellum. c.1701.
The name Edward H. Finch-Hatton inscribed on a flyleaf. Bookplate of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), autograph manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, May 1919 (Morrison sale Part IV), lot 2942, sold to George D. Smith for Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), financier and book collector.
DoC 185
Copy, untitled, on a single oblong octavo leaf, endorsed ‘Ld Dorset on my Lady Dorchester. 94/5’. c.1700.
From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.
Microfilm of this MS in the British Library, M/690.
On the Countess of Dorchester (III) (‘Proud with the spoils of royal cully’)
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).
DoC 187
Copy, in the same hand as DoC 186, untitled and following on directly from DoC 174 (as if stanzas 3-5 of a single poem).
In: the MS described under DoC 108. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 187.5
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Dorcester Countess of (Sidley)’.
In: A folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, partly under headings, labelled on the spine ‘Adversaria’, in at least three hands, one predominating, with (ff. 178r-86v) an index, 186 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled by John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont, politician. Volume CCIX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1730.
DoC 188
Copy, untitled, as stanzas 3 and 4 of DoC 175.
In: the MS described under DoC 175. c.1703.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 190
Copy of the third stanza, beginning ‘Her Bed is like the Marriage Feast’, in the hand of Alexander Pope.
In: Printed octavo exemplum of A New Collection of Poems relating to State Affairs, from Oliver Cromwel to this present Time (London, 1705), annotated, and the lacunae supplied in MS throughout, by the poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), in old speckled leather (rebacked). Early 18th century.
Inscribed (f. [iir]) Ex libris Alexandri Pope and (f. [ir]) ‘J. Mitford, 1849’.
Described and the annotations edited in Maynard Mack, ‘A Finding List of Books Surviving from Pope's Library with a Few That May Not Have Survived’, Collected in Himself: Essays Critical, Biographical, and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of His Contemporaries (Newark, Delaware, 1982), 394-460 [434-437].
DoC 191
Copy, headed ‘On ye. Countess of D--r’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end ‘Finis August ye. 6th 1717’. 1715-17.
This MS collated in POAS.
DoC 192
Copy, untitled, run on directly from ‘Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes’ (DoC 178).
In: the MS described under DoC 178. Early 1700s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 194
Copy, untitled, run on directly from DoC 181.
In: the MS described under DoC 181. c.1705.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 195
Copy, untitled, run on directly from DoC 182.
In: the MS described under DoC 13. c.late 1690s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 196
Copy, untitled, run on directly as stanzas 3 and 4 of DoC 183.
In: the MS described under DoC 183. c.early 1700s.
This MS collated in Harris.
On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.
DoC 197
Copy, headed ‘On the Countess of - Mistress to K. J. 2. 1680. by E. of Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 9. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 198
Copy, headed ‘On the Countess of Dorchester. 1696 by E: Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 10. c.1700s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 198.5
Copy, headed in the margin ‘On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to k. James the 2. by the E. of Dorset 1680’.
In: the MS described under DoC 187.5. c.1730.
DoC 199
Copy, headed ‘Epigram by ye late E. of Dorset on Lady Dorchester’.
In: the MS described under DoC 33. c.1710.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 200
Copy, headed ‘Another on the same Lady’, inscribed afterwards ‘By E Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 175. c.1703.
Edited from this MS in Harris; collated in POAS.
DoC 201
Copy, headed ‘On ye Countess of Dorchester’.
In: the MS described under DoC 93. c.1703.
Edited from this MS in POAS; collated in Harris.
DoC 202
Copy, headed ‘Another on the same Lady By E. Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 27. c.1730.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 203
Copy, in Prior's hand, untitled, on the second page of two conjugate quarto leaves.
In: the MS described under DoC 87. c.1700s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 204
Copy, headed ‘Another By the same Hand’.
In: the MS described under DoC 178. Early 1700s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 204.5
Copy, headed ‘To the Lady Dorchester’.
In: An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, relating to angling, 284 pages (lacking pp. 161-84), in quarter-calf marbled boards. In several neat, small, chiefly italic hands, one on pp. 1-203 that of Nathaniel Bridges, of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose inscription on f. [iiir] is dated ‘1694’. c.1691-early 18th century.
Bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Broomwell House. A flyleaf is inscribed by him, November 1834, ‘The Book belonged to the late Dr. Nathl. Bridges Lecturer of St Mary Radcliffe & St Nicholas in the City of Bristol & purchased out of a private sale of his library at his decease.’ Other names inscribed after p. 212 including ‘William Trumbu[ll]’, ‘Joseph Brampton 1691’, and ‘Hen Sacheverell / Coll. Magd.’. A later bookplate inside the lower cover: ‘Gift of Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, 1915’.
DoC 205
Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Dorchester. 1696’.
In: the MS described under DoC 167. c.1700.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 206
Copy, headed ‘Another on the same Lady By E. D-t’.
In: the MS described under DoC 180. Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 38, p. 160.
DoC 206.5
Copy, headed ‘Dorset on Dorshester’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, almost entirely in a single hand, compiled by a university man, 134 leaves, in modern vellum. End of 17th century-1700s.
In a family library at Bath before 1924. Sotheby's, 23 July 1987, lot 11, to Quaritch.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 79, ff. 133v-4r.
DoC 207
Copy, headed ‘Another By the same hand’, the poem dated in the margin ‘1694’.
In: the MS described under DoC 181. c.1705.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 208
Copy, headed ‘Another on the same Lady. by E. Dors-t’.
In: the MS described under DoC 183. c.early 1700s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 209
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio letterbook of Sir Richard Bulstrode (1610-1711) chiefly when he was British envoy at Brussels, in several hands, 226 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1678-82 [and later additions].
On the Statue in the Privy Garden (‘When Israel first provoked the living Lord’)
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.
*DoC 210
Autograph draft of the complete ten-line poem, on one page of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed by Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), publisher, ‘Dorset on Tyburn’. [1686].
Edited from this MS in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 58.
*DoC 211
Autograph draft of a six-line version, headed ‘Vnder the statue in the Privy Garden’, on a single oblong quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, imperfect. [1686].
This MS collated in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 59.
DoC 212
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on a single oblong octavo-size leaf, endorsed ‘Tenisons prayer’. Early 18th century.
In: A double-folio guardbook of political and miscellaneous letters and other papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, 150 leaves, in 18th-century quarter-calf on marbled boards. Early 18th century.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Ex Bibliotheca dom. Catharinæ Bridgeman anno 1742’.
DoC 213
Copy, headed ‘The Second Saul’ and here beginning ‘When Israel disobey'd their sovereign Lord’.
In: A quarto volume of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of loyal Poems Satyrs and Lampoons In the Reign of Taurus [i.e. ? George I], vol. 1, viii + 256 pages. c.1712-20.
DoC 214
Copy, untitled, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper, endorsed ‘On the succession’. c.1700.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 201 leaves, in old calf gilt.
Purchased from Joseph Lilly, 20 February 1844.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 215
Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.
In: A double-folio-size album of separate mounted letters, in various hands, 239 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Volume V of the letters belonging to Henrietta Hobart (1681-1767), Countess of Suffolk.
Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 216
Copy, headed ‘An Allusion’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, with a title-page (f. 2r) A Collection of Loyal Poems. Made in the Years 1714 1715 and 1716, almost entirely in a single neat hand, 157 leaves, with (ff. 3r-6v) a table of contents, in modern half-green morocco. c.1720.
Inscribed (f. 1*v) ‘Elizabeth Susannah Hall July 22th 1778’. Purchased from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer, 5 April 1876.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 217
Copy, headed ‘The Allusion’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat rounded hand, including (ff. 126r-9v) a list of contents, 129 leaves, in half brown morocco. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘The following Collection has been the Employment of some leisure Hours; several of the Pieces have since appear'd in Print...’. c.1730s.
Presented by Edward Gilbertson, 9 May 1885.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 217.5
Copy, headed in the margin ‘On James the Second’.
In: the MS described under DoC 187.5. c.1730.
On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)
First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
DoC 218.5
Copy in: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves. Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.
Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.
DoC 219
Copy, headed ‘On our Ministers of State’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in at least three professional hands, ii + 124 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1680s.
Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 220
Copy, headed ‘A short poeme upon ye Chitts’.
In: the MS described under DoC 37. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 221
Copy, headed ‘The Game at Chess’ and the text here preceded by three stanzas beginning ‘My Muse and I are drunk tonight’.
In: the MS described under DoC 38. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 222
Copy, headed ‘The Game at Chesse’ and preceded by three stanzas beginning ‘My muse & I are drunke to Night’, on a single folio leaf. End of 17th century.
In: A large double-folio composite volume of literary, political and miscellaneous papers, on paper and parchment, in various hands and sizes, 339 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among papers of the North family, Barons North and Earls of Guilford, seated principally at Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire.
Edited in part from this MS in Harris.
DoC 223
Copy, headed ‘The 3 Chitts in Story’.
In: the MS described under DoC 84. c.1682-91.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 224
Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, ii + 117 leaves, in half-calf.
Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 225
Copy of lines 26-30, headed ‘1715’ and here beginning ‘Protect us Mighty Providence’.
In: the MS described under DoC 126. c.1720.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 226
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DoC 40. c.1680.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 227
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Ministers’ and here beginning ‘Clarendon had some pedantick sence’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, ff. 4r-153v in a single neat predominantly italic hand, ff. 154r-63 in another hand dated 1687, with (ff. 2r-3v, 165r-6r) a table of contents, 166 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco. Including eight poems in the Marvell canon and his mock-speech by the King (plus apocryphal poems). c.1680s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Samll. Danvers. 1664’; and (f. 164v) ‘F Danvers’, ‘Samuel Danvers his book’, and ‘W D'anvers’: i.e. probably the family of Sir Samuel Danvers, Bt. (d.1683) of Culworth, Northamptonshire (though not in his hand).
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Danvers MS: MaA Δ 5. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
This MS collated in POAS and (? mistakenly cited as Add. MS 22640) in Harris.
DoC 228
Copy of lines 1-10, in a non-professional hand, untitled, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of MS poems presented to, or owned by, James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, c.120 pages, of various sizes, in 19th-century calf. Some items docketed by Ormonde or by his private secretary Sir George Lane. Mid-late 17th century.
Formerly British Library Loan MS 37/6. The greater part of the collection sold at Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 276, to C.R. Johnson Rare Books. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 6829.
Recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix VII, Ormonde I (1895), pp. 105-18.
DoC 229
Copy, untitled, on a small oblong quarto leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of poems, chiefly on affairs of state, in various hands, 67 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 229.5
Copy, headed ‘The game at Chesse, or A Character of our Statesmen’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands, written from both ends, 360 pages (the majority blank), in old calf. Inscribed (p. [41 rev.]) ‘J. Tyrell’ and compiled at least in part by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer and friend of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), a poem by whom (ff. [16v-17r]) he dockets as ‘By my dear Friend Mr J. Lock’. c.1670s-80s.
Later in the library of Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and his son Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.
DoC 230
Copy of lines 26-30, untitled, beginning ‘Protect us, mighty Providence’, dated ‘Tuesday June 29. 1714.’
In: A quarto commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, with additions up to 1751, ii + 662 pages (some erratically numbered), in contemporary calf. c.1672-1715 [plus later additions].
Ownership inscriptions (pp. [i] and [662]), dated 1672, by John Digby, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Other inscribed names including (p. 662) ‘Thomas Digby’, ‘Edward Digby’, ‘Robert Debnam’, and (p. [640]) ‘Josh: Churchill 1694’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 231
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Clarendon had witt & sence’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several cursive hands, viii + 136 pages, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Ownership inscription (p. [iv]) by Edward Dowden (1843-1913), of Trinity College, Dublin. Colbeck Radford & Co., undated sale catalogue, item 207. Item 117 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 232
Copy, headed ‘On our young Statesmen’.
In: the MS described under DoC 49. c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in part in Hammond, p. 303.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 85.
DoC 232.5
Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 6, untitled.
In: the MS described under DoC 49.5. c.1680s.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 87, f. 60r.
DoC 233
Copy, the poem here dated ‘1680’, subscribed ‘Dryden’.
In: the MS described under DoC 52. c.1680s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 233.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DoC 166.5. Early 18th century.
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Misc Vol 20, ff. 88v-9r.
DoC 234
Copy, headed ‘The Chess’.
In: the MS described under DoC 134. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 235
Copy, in a cursive hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Clarendon had some Lawe & sense’, in a single column, with other verse on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 236
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under DoC 35. c.1690s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 24v.
DoC 237
Copy, headed ‘A Lampoon on ye Court’.
In: the MS described under DoC 57. c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated (as ‘No. 1’) in Harris.
DoC 239
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under DoC 36. c.1690s-1700.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 34-5.
DoC 239.5
Copy, headed ‘The Game att Chesse’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th-early 18th century.
In: A collection of songs and poems, unbound, in folders. Among papers of the Clarke family, of Littlecote.
Worcester College, Oxford, MS 267/II, Fasc. 2, Doc. No. 31 [f. 58r].
DoC 240
Copy, untitled, followed by the note ‘Dr Stillingfleet his Sermon of ye Mischeif of Separation - 2 May. 1680.’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, French, Latin and Greek, written from both ends in various hands, with a list of contents, 117 leaves, in half-calf. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Chest II, No. 13.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 240.5
Copy, headed ‘The Game att Chess’ and here beginning ‘My Muse and I are drunk to night’.
In: the MS described under DoC 135.5. c.1680s.
Pindaric Petition to the Lords in Council (‘Humbly Sheweth / Should you order Tom Brown’)
First published in Flying Post (23-25 November 1697). Harris, pp. 99-100.
*DoC 241
Autograph, headed ‘To the Lords in Councill asembled the Pindarique Petition of Thomas Browne’, on a single folio leaf, endorsed by Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), publisher, ‘This is the handwriting of Charles, Earle of Dorset. Ja: Tonson’. c.1700.
Edited from this MS in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 98.
DoC 242
Copy, headed ‘To the Lds Justices in Councel assembled The Petition of Thom. Bro[wn]’, on one side of a single folio leaf.
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 Harris.
DoC 243
Copy, headed ‘To the Lords assembled...The Petition of Tho Brown’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. c.1700.
In: the MS described under DoC 214.
This MS collated in Harris.
A Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress (‘Seek not to know a woman, for she's worse’)
Harris, pp. 177-8.
See JnB 425-30.
A Song (‘May the ambitious ever find’)
First published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, [1684]). Harris, pp. 79-80.
DoC 244
Copy, in a musical setting by James Hart, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, in several hands, one italic hand predominating, with (f. 1v) a list of contents, 46 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Charles Campelman his book June ye 9. 1681’ (‘God give him grace 1682’ added in another hand). c.1681 -1700s.
Sotheby's, 20 January 1854, lot 1138.
Edited from this MS in Harris.
DoC 246
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DoC 14. Mid-18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
A Song (‘Phyllis, the fairest of love's foes’)
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.
DoC 247
Copy, headed ‘Catch by Ld. Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 9. Early 18th century.
This MS collated in in Harris.
DoC 248
Copy, untitled and with the second stanza appearing first (here beginning ‘Compell'd thrô Want this Wretched maid’) on one side of a single octavo leaf. Early 18th century.
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 Harris.
DoC 249
Copy, headed ‘Philis by Lord Dorset’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single neat hand, with later hands at the end, 114 leaves (some leaves excised), wth an index (f. 114r-v), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1700.
Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
This MS collated in Harris.
A Song on Black Bess (‘Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long’)
First published in Methinks the Poor Town (London, 1673). Choice Songs and Ayres…The First Book (London, 1673). Harris, pp. 90-2.
See also Introduction.
DoC 251
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto notebook of verse and prose, including Ball family letters and accounts, the greater part in one hand, written from both ends, 44 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Late 17th century.
The name Will Ball inscribed twice on f. 5r and a copy of his father's will dated 17 November 1647 on ff. 11v-12r
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 251.5
Copy of a Latin verse translation, in a rugged hand, added to a letter by Sir Peter Pett to Sir William Petty, introduced by Pett: ‘I haue here enclosed for you a latine translacon of My Lord Buckursts song of his bonny black Besse’, subscribed Ld Buckhursts Song in Leonine, 29 January 1673[/4]. 1674.
In: A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence of Sir William Petty, in various hands, iv + 310 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt.
Formerly Petty Papers, Vol. 6, 1st and 2nd series.
DoC 251.8
Copy, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘My thinks ye poor towne hath been troubled too long’, following RoJ 33.5 at the end of the fourth page of two conjugate folio leaves, in a folder of unbound verse (at the top of the box). Late 17th century.
In: A box of papers and commonplace books of the Cary family, including the Rev. Francis Henry Cary (1642-1712), rector of Brinkworth, Wiltshire.
A Song to Chloris, from the blind Archer (‘Ah! Chloris, 'tis time to disarm your bright eyes’)
First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, p. 76.
*DoC 252
Autograph, headed ‘Another new song to Cloris from the blind archer’, on a single quarto leaf, endorsed ‘For Mr Tho: Youngman’ and docketed in the hand of Alexander Pope: ‘Earl of Dorsett. Original - A. Pope’. c.1700.
Later in the autograph collection of James Fraser Gluck (1852-97), New York State lawyer and library curator.
Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XIV.
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Gluck Collection, [no shelfmark].
DoC 253
Copy, headed ‘A Song to Cloris from ye: blind Archer, by my Ld: Buckhurst’.
In: the MS described under DoC 184. c.1705.
To Mr. Bays (‘Thou mercenary renegade, thou slave’)
First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.
DoC 254
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Bays by ye E: of Dorsett 1685’, in a small quarto verse miscellany.
In: the MS described under DoC 39. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 255
Copy, headed ‘A Sater to Mr Bayes’.
In: the MS described under DoC 65. c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 256
Second copy.
In: the MS described under DoC 65. c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 257
Copy, quoted in full in a letter from J. Newton, of the Inner Temple, to Arthur Charlett, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves addressed and sent as letter. 20 April 1686.
In: the MS described under DoC 242.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 258
Extracts.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, nine leaves. Compiled by the botanist James Petiver (1663-1718). End of 17th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 259
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single accomplished professional hand, ii + 222 pages, with an ‘Index’, in contemporary calf. c.early 1700s.
Inscribed on the front pastedown ‘to be left at Inbourg's Muff-shop / Pall-Mall’ and ‘St hovr Singleton’. Formerly Folger MS 473.1.
Edited from this MS in POAS; collated in Harris.
DoC 260
Copy, following (pp. 35-43) ‘A copy of a letter to mr Dryden occasion'd by the Kings Papers’ dated ‘Jan [16]85[/6]’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, 376 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled almost entirely by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), and inscribed by her inside the front cover ‘Sarah Cowper 1673’. Possibly compiled in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. c.1673-1700s.
Discussed in Harold Love, ‘Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse’, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.
DoC 261
Copy, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: Unbound verses.
Among papers of the Irwin family, of Temple Newsam. Formerly TN/F7.
DoC 262
Copy, in a largely italic hand, headed ‘On Mr. Bayes. supposd by the E of Middx’, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Harris.
To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
DoC 263
Copy, headed ‘To a Person of Honour: upon his Incomprehensible Poems’.
In: the MS described under DoC 145. Early-mid-18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 264
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Edward Howards poeme, the Ld. Buckhurst ye supposed Authour’.
In: the MS described under DoC 37. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 265
Copy, headed ‘A Prologue to Edward Howards Utopia, made by ye Lord Buckerst’.
In: A miscellany of academic orations, verse, satires, etc., in Latin and English, iv + 111 leaves, in limp vellum. Compiled by William Doble (1649/50-75), of Trinity College, Oxford. c.1669-74.
R.C. Hatchwell, sale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.
DoC 266
Copy, headed ‘Upon Mr. Howards Brittish Princes’.
In: the MS described under DoC 38. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 267
Copy, headed ‘my Ld Buckhursts last coppy’, with two other satires on Edward Howard, in the hand of one William Ball, on a single leaf sent as a letter to Parry, docketed by the recipient ‘London June 21. 1669 ffrom Mr Ball Recd Augt 9...’. 1669. 1669.
In: A composite volume of correspondence of Francis Parry, Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Portugal, in various hands.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3005.
DoC 269
Copy, headed ‘To Mr edward Howard on his British Princes’, subscribed ‘Charles B. Buckhurst now E. Dorsett’.
In: the MS described under DoC 147. End of 17th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 270
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr upon Ed: Howard's Poem made by Ld Buckhurst’, in a small octavo booklet of verse in English and Latin chiefly in one hand (ff. 23r-42v) probably associated with Cambridge University.
In: An octavo composite miscellany, with extracts in verse and prose, in various hands, 213 leaves, in quarter-vellum boards. Late 17th century.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘Tho: Hearne. Sept. 1o. M: DCC: IX:’i.e. Collected by 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 271
Copy, headed ‘A Prologue to Edw: Howards Eutopia made by Mr Buckherst’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in modern half morocco. Compiled in 1672 by John Bennet of Hart Hall, Oxford, and later used by the Rev. John King (1652-1732), of Exeter College, Oxford. c.1672-1718.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 272
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr upon Ed: Howards Poem, made by Ld. Buckhurst’ and subscribed ‘Comunicat à Dre Sim: Patrick Sept. 6°. 1669’.
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and some prose, largely in one mixed hand, 123 leaves, with (ff. 2r-4r) an index, in calf gilt. Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk. c.1667-73.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex dono Drs Barb: Rhodes ...Mri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667’; ‘Janawary ye 2 day 1726’; ‘Wm faildham London to ye Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca’. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 273
Copy, headed ‘Lord Buckhursts verses to Ned Howard who had put out a peice of poetry poorly done’.
In: A small (?sextodecimo) miscellany, in English and Latin, connected with Oxford, written from both ends in different hands, 91 leaves, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Inscribed ‘John Patrickes Booke may 21 1650’. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
DoC 274
Copy of the last 16 lines incorporated in a poem headed ‘A Satyr’ beginning ‘Among ye care of Englands modern peers’ and subscribed ‘By the Ld. Dorsett’.
In: the MS described under DoC 18. c.1680s-1700s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 274.5
Copy, headed ‘On the Same’ [i.e. Edward Howard].
In: the MS described under DoC 229.5. c.1670s-80s.
DoC 275
Copy, headed ‘L.B. on Mr Howards Poem’.
In: the MS described under DoC 231. Late 17th century.
DoC 276
Copy, headed ‘Verses on the same subject’ [i.e. Edward Howard's play].
In: the MS described under DoC 19. c.1690s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 277
Copy, headed ‘On Mr E- H- upon his B- P-’.
In: the MS described under DoC 152. End of 17th century.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14, pp. 21-2.
DoC 278
Copy, headed ‘Another, by the same hand’.
In: the MS described under DoC 49. c.1680s-90s.
Lines 21-34 edited from this MS in Hammond, p. 298.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 27-9.
DoC 279
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr Char: Sidley’.
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an ‘Index’, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf. Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. c.1680s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.
DoC 279.5
Copy, headed ‘Hillaria Lib: 3. to Ned Howard by ye L--d R--r: 4 Miscellany: pag: 298’.
In: the MS described under DoC 77.5. c.1700.
DoC 280
Copy, headed ‘On Mr E- H- upon his B- P-’.
In: the MS described under DoC 21. c.1680s.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 281
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Edward Howard on his Brittish Princes’, subscribed ‘Buckhurst’.
In: the MS described under DoC 155. c.1670s.
DoC 282
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Edw: Howard upon his Brittish Princesse By ye Ld B:’.
In: the MS described under DoC 61. c.1680.
Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 282.5
Copy, headed ‘on mr Edward Howard’, here beginning ‘Raile on ye crittiques find one fault who dare’, and subscribed ‘By ye Ld Dorsett’.
In: the MS described under DoC 29.8. c.1705.
To Phyllis (‘Phyllis, though your powerful charms’)
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Harris, pp. 69-71. Authorship of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, suggested in Arthur Mizener, ‘“Though, Phyllis, Your Prevailing Charms”’, MLN, 56 (1941), 529-30. Not, however, included in Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, ed. Robert D. Hume and Harold Love, 2 vols (Oxford, 2007).
DoC 283
Copy, untitled, with other verse in a different hand, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 284
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Though Philis youer preuailinge Charmes’, subscribed ‘Made by the Duke of Buckinham one the 20 of Julij 1665 Addrest to his Mistris’, on a single folio leaf, with a note at the top in the hand of Anthony Wood (1632-95) ‘This I found written in a spare leafe before a Romance called Eliana. - Lond. 1661. fol.’.
In: A composite volume of pamphlets and MSS. Late 17th century.
Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 285
Copy, headed ‘To ye Witches tune in Mackbeth’.
In: the MS described under DoC 26. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 286
Copy, headed ‘My Ld Buckhurst's’ and here beginning ‘Though Phyllis yr prevailing charmes’, with other poems on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
In: A guardbook of verse and other manuscripts.
Formerly ‘Box No. 8’.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 287
Copy, headed ‘A Copy of Verses supposd to be made by ye Ld. Buckorth’ and here beginning ‘Phillis Though Phillis your preuailing charms’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, written with the volume turned sideways as oblong, with (f. 86v) an index in another hand, 86 leaves (including blanks) in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). This volume is a companion volume to British Library Egerton MS 669, which is signed by ‘D: Frown[?]’ and was once owned by Charles Trumbull, D.D. (1646-1724) and Ralph Trumbull (c.1640-1708), brothers of Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), lawyer and government official. c.1667.
Inscribed on the first page ‘Mr: Mathews, Bbinder, D. Mar. 16. --67/o.o.o.6.’ [i.e. ? the bookseller Thomas Mathews (fl.1650s-60s)]. Bookplate of Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Purchased from Quaritch, October 1989.
A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)
First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.
DoC 288
Copy, headed ‘An Excellent New Ballad Giveing...’.
In: the MS described under DoC 8. c.1700 [-1745].
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 289
Copy, headed ‘Monmouth’.
In: the MS described under DoC 249. c.1700.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 290
Copy, headed ‘An Account of a Poem called Female Nine 1670’.
In: the MS described under DoC 33. c.1710.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 291
Copy, with corrections in another hand, headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad giving a True Account of the Birth & Conception of a Late famous Poem call'd The Female Nine To the Tune of Packingtons Pound’, inscribed afterwards ‘By E. Dorset. 1690’.
In: the MS described under DoC 175. c.1703.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 292
Copy, headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad giving a true Accot [&c.]...by E Dorset’, following (on ff. 107r-8v) ‘The Female Nine. 1693 By E. of Monmouth’.
In: the MS described under DoC 27. c.1730.
Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 293
Copy in: A folio composite miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, in probably several hands, entitled ‘A Collection of all the Secret Poems & Lampoons wrote during the Reigne of the late King William’, 72 pages, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. c.1700.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 294
Copy, headed ‘A Ballad giuing a true account of the Birth of the Poem Call'd the female Nine’ (that poem appearing on pp. [132-7]).
In: the MS described under DoC 160. c.1670-1705.
DoC 295
Copy, headed ‘An Excellent New Ballad Giving...’.
In: the MS described under DoC 167. c.1700.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 296
Copy, following (on pp. 143-50) ‘The Female Nine’ and headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad Giveing a true Account of the Birth & Conception of a late famous Poem - Call'd the Female Nine. To the Tune of Packington's Pount’.
In: the MS described under DoC 11. c.late 1690s.
Edited from this MS in POAS; collated in Harris.
DoC 297
Copy, headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad, giving a true Accot. of the Birth and Conception of a Late famous Poem call'd The Female Nine. To the tune of Packingtons Pound.’, following a copy of ‘The Female Nine 1693’ on pp. 87-93.
In: the MS described under DoC 180. Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 38, pp. 93-5.
DoC 298
Copy, headed ‘An Excellent New Ballad Giving a True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem Call'd The Female Nine’, following (on pp. 21-7) a copy of that poem.
In: the MS described under DoC 181. c.1705.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 299
Copy, headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad Giveing a true account of the Birth and Conception of a late Famous Poem call'd the Female Nine’.
In: the MS described under DoC 12. c.1695.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris. Transcript by G. Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) in Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 49, pp. 78-80.
DoC 300
Copy, headed ‘An Excellent New Ballad Giveing. a true Account of the Birth and Conception of a late Famous Poem Call'd The Female Nine’, following (on pp. 56v-9r) a copy of that poem which is dated ‘1690’.
In: the MS described under DoC 13. c.late 1690s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 301
Copy, headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad Giving a true Account of the Birth and Conception of a late famous Poem Call'd The Female Nine’, following (on ff 49r-51v) a copy of that poem.
In: the MS described under DoC 183. c.early 1700s.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 302
Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed ‘An excellent New Ballad giveing a true account of the birth & conception of a late famous Poem call'd The Female nine’, with some omitted lines added in a different hand, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th-early 18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
DoC 303
Copy, headed ‘An Account of the Female Nine’.
In: A quarto miscellany of largely Jacobite poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Loyal Poems Satyrs and Lampoons, in one or two small hands, 596 numbered pages (lacking pp. 367-8, plus ‘Alphabeticall Table’ and blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary red morocco gilt stamped with the initial ‘R.’ c.late 1690s.
Once owned by Sir Thomas Strange, brother-in-law of Andrew Lumisden, Secretary to Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
DoC 304
Copy, on two conjugate folio leaves.
In: the MS described under DoC 62. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
Poems of Doubtful Authorship
Actus Primus, Scena Prima (‘For standing tarses we kind nature thank’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Discussed in Harris, p. 185, and in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 437-8.
DoC 305
Copy, headed ‘Tarsander: in imitation of the Ld: Orreryes Poetry’, subscribed ‘Buckhurst’.
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.
This MS recorded in Harris and in Vieth.
DoC 306
Copy of lines 1-7, imperfect, lacking the rest.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1690.
J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.
This MS recorded in Vieth.
DoC 307.5
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue between Tassander Coelia and Suivanthe’.
In: the MS described under DoC 155. c.1670s.
‘As far in Vertues race att Thirty two’
First published in Harris (1940), p. 166.
DoC 308
Copy of a series of untitled verses, the first six lines beginning ‘The Queen so Greatly dies, the King so grieves’ subscribed ‘Lord Dorset’; the next four lines beginning ‘As far in Vertues race att Thirty two’ subscribed ‘Mr Dryden’; followed by three sets of anonymous lines: two beginning ‘Nor shalt thou pass unmourned, not euen by those’, six lines beginning ‘The Queen is dead, and we great Sr suruiue’, and, on the next flyleaf, sixteen lines beginning ‘The Queen reuoluing on ye powers of Fate’.
In: A folio composite volume of printed and MS verse, principally on the death of Queen Mary. c.1695.
Bookplate of Beverly Chew.
Dorset's verses edited from this MS in Harris (1940). Discussed in Harris (1979), p. 181.
The Bashful Lover (‘Phyllis, I pray, why did you say’)
See Harris, pp. 188-9.
Caesar's Ghost (‘'Twas still low ebb of night, when not a star’)
First published in The Muses Farewell to Poetry and Slavery (London, 1690), pp. 200-10. Lines 1-12 published, ascribed to ‘Dors’ [i.e. Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset], in Edward Bysshe, Art of English Poetry, 2nd edition (London, 1705). Published complete, and attributed to Aphra Behn, in John Burrows and Harold Love, ‘Did Aphra Behn write “Cæsar's Ghost”?’, in The Culture of the Book: Essays from Two Hemispheres in honour of Wallace Kirsop, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, occasional publication No. 8 (Melbourne, 1999), pp. 146-72 (poem on pp. 163-9). Also discussed in Harris, pp. 193-4.
DoC 309
Copy, apparently in the hand of Aphra Behn.
In: the MS described under DoC 65. c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].
Edited from this MS in Burrows & Love.
‘Cloe's the wonder of her sex’
See Harris, pp. 181-2. By George Granville, Lord Lansdowne.
The Conditional Recantation or A Dialogue between the Oracle of St. Patrick and King James After his Abdication (‘If both the Indies were my own’)
Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, p. 187.
DoC 310
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of largely Jacobite poems on affairs of state, x + 187 leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1688-91.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 93. Afterwards owned by William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS recorded in Harris.
DoC 311
Copy, in a professional hand, on three quarto leaves, endorsed ‘Conditional Recantation. 1689/90’. c.1690.
In: A quarto composite volume chiefly of poems on affairs of state, largely in professional hands, iii + 242 leaves, in vellum boards.
This MS recorded in Harris.
The Debauchee (‘I rise at eleven, I dine about two’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as ‘Regime d'viver’ among ‘Poems possibly by Rochester’). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.
DoC 314
Copy, headed ‘The Debauch’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
This MS recorded in Vieth, p. 411; collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.
DoC 315
Copy, headed ‘Regine d. vive’.
In: the MS described under DoC 18. c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, p. 411. Collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.
DoC 316
Copy of a six-line version, headed ‘My Lord Buckhurst and Lord Rochester being in company, a suddaine Malancholly possesst him Rochester inquiring the reason hee answered hee was troubled at Rochesters lude way of living, and in thes verses over the leafe expresst it’, and here beginning ‘You rise at Eleaven’.
In: Autograph letter by the London solicitor Godfrey Thacker to his cousin Theophilus Hastings, seventh Earl of Huntingdon, including verses. 20 March 1672/3.
Edited in Lucyle Hook, ‘Something More About Rochester’, MLN, 75 (1960), 478-85.
Edited from this MS in Hook (p. 480); in Vieth (pp. 411-12); and in Walker (p. 222). Recorded in Harris.
DoC 316.5
Copy, headed ‘Malden’.
In: A small pocket notebook (11.5 x 5.5 cm.), largely in one small hand, unpaginated, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (fl.1712-34): his inscription ‘Patricious Senhouse 1722’. c.1720s.
Also inscribed ‘Humphray Senhouse’. Together with another commonplace book probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (‘Patt Senhouse 1720’), an octavo in contemporary limp vellum, also inscribed ‘John Senhouse’.
DoC 316.8
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 49. c.1680s-90s.
Walker, pp. 130-1.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 15-20.
DoC 317
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under DoC 21. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 323.
DoC 318
Copy, headed ‘Regime d'viver’.
In: the MS described under DoC 22. c.1680.
This MS collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.
The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons (‘Religion's a politic law’)
Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.
DoC 319
Copy, headed ‘The Atheist’.
In: the MS described under DoC 65. c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].
This MS recorded in Harris.
DoC 320
Copy, headed ‘The Priest Moderator’.
In: the MS described under DoC 249. c.1700.
This MS recorded in Harris.
DoC 321
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on the Parsons’, inscribed in a different ink ‘By the Ld. Dorset: or Cha: Blount’.
In: the MS described under DoC 175. c.1703.
This MS recorded in Harris.
DoC 322.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Tho Religions an Pollitick Law’.
In: the MS described under DoC 49.5. c.1680s.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 87, ff. 67r-8r.
DoC 323
Copy, headed ‘The Deist’.
In: the MS described under DoC 181. c.1705.
This MS recorded in Harris.
DoC 324
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on the Parsons’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including twelve poems in the Marvell canon (plus prose and apocryphal poems), in probably a single professional hand with variations of style (but for another hand on pp. 189-92), 192 pages (plus over 90 blank leaves and an Index), in modern red morocco. The predominant hand in the MS is the same as that in Yale Osborn MS b 105. c.1680s.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 1.
Marvell items recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.
This MS collated (as ‘No. 2’) in Harris.
DoC 325
Copy, headed ‘A Ballet’ and here beginning ‘Tho: Religeon's a Pollertick law’.
In: the MS described under DoC 57. c.1680s-90s.
This MS recorded (as ‘No. 1’) in Harris.
DoC 326
Copy, headed ‘The Deist’, on five pages of two conjugate pairs of folio leaves.
In: the MS described under DoC 62. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Harris.
The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral in former war’)
Discussed in Harris, p. 181.
See RoJ 46-67.
Distich (‘This was ye house yt was built by Harris’)
Unpublished? Dorset's burlesue of one of the many Latin elegiac distichs which were composed in 1671 in response to a competition instituted by Colbert.
DoC 326.1
Copy of the couplet, at the end of a sequence beginning with a distich beginning ‘Par domus haec urbi est, urbs urbi, neutra triumphis’ and its English translation (‘The Louvre to Paris, that to ye world compare’) followed by the heading ‘Burlesqued by my Ld Buckhurst’.
In: An oblong quarto miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, including ten in the Marvell canon and other works attributed to him, largely in a single hand, with later additions in other hands, written along the length of the page with the spine upwards, i + 92 leaves, in contemporary calf. Used from the reverse end, for a 79-page catalogue of c.1400 books dating from 1519 to the mid-18th century, in two hands, headed ‘Catalogue of Mr. Okeover's Library taken Septr: 1760’ with a supplement headed ‘Found in London in Feby 1764 by Mr. Walhouse — after Mr. Leeke Okeover's death in Mr. Okeover's house in John Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London’. c.late 1670s [-1764].
Inscribed (f. ir) ‘tho may’. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 541.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the ‘Okeover MS’: MaA Δ 7.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 55, f. 36r.
DoC 326.2
Copy of the second verse of the couplet (beginning ‘A Fart for the Louvre, a T--d for Paris’), at the end of a sequence beginning with a distich (‘Non Orbis Gentem, Non Urbem Gens habet ulla’) and its English translation (‘No Earth such Realm, No Realms such Town afford’) followed by ‘Thus Ironically by Ld. Buckhurst’ (‘Fraudibus, ac fastu, Levitate, Libidinis aestu’).
In: the MS described under DoC 82.8. c.1720.
Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence (‘Dorset no gentle Nimph can find’)
Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as ‘obviously not by Dorset’.
DoC 326.3
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 65. c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].
DoC 326.4
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 42. c.late 1680s.
DoC 326.5
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 33. c.1710.
DoC 326.7
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 18. c.1680s-1700s.
DoC 326.9
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 51. c.1688.
DoC 326.91
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 52. c.1680s.
DoC 326.92
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 35. c.1690s.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 305r-v.
DoC 326.93
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 29.8. c.1705.
DoC 326.94
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 68. c.1705.
DoC 326.95
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 136. c.1680s.
DoC 326.96
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 36. c.1690s-1700.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), p. 575.
A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret (‘Fair Amoret has gone astray’)
See Harris, pp. 182-3. See CgW 11-21.
Lilliburlero (‘Ho, Brother Teague, dost hear de decree’)
See Harris, p. 186. By Thomas, Marquess of Wharton.
A Mock Song (‘I swive as well as others do’)
See Harris, p. 186. See RoJ 187-190.
On the Day of Judgment (‘The day of wrath that dreadful day’)
Unpublished?
DoC 326.97
Copy, as ‘per Buckhurst’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled (p. 1, in engrossed lettering) ‘Thos. Walker Book of Miscellanies 1712’, 252 pages (jumping from p. 56 to 61), in modern half dark green morocco. Compiled by Thomas Walker (b.1682), of Mosley, near Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester, including (pp. 105-6, 203) verses by him to his parents etc., dated 1720/1-27). c.1712-27.
Later owned by Sir Charles Bradbury (his sale December 1864, lot 2819, to Haywood, thence bought by Sir Thomas Baker. Bernard Halliday, bookseller of Leicester, February 1930.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 521, pp. 54-6.
On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore’)
First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.
DoC 326.98
Copy in: Copies mainly of verse, transcribed from a MS formerly owned by William, Baron Craven, and (pp. 62-148) from the ‘Fraser MS’, ii + 158 pages. Among papers of George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. c.1923.
The transcript lent to Thorn-Drury by P.J. Dobell, c.1923. Donated by Mrs Thorn-Drury, 1947.
DoC 326.991
Copy, headed ‘On the immature Death of the D of Gloucester’. c.1700s.
In: A large folio guardbook of letters and verse, in Latin, English and French, in various hands and paper sizes, 224 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Late 17th century.
DoC 326.994
Copy, untitled.
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.
Recorded in Harris.
DoC 326.995
Copy in: A folio composite volume of papers, 171 leaves. Assembled by Dr W. Wall. c.1700.
Recorded in Harris.
DoC 326.996
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DoC 118. Early 18th century.
Recorded in Harris.
DoC 326.997
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 180. Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 38, p. 288.
DoC 326.998
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 183. c.early 1700s.
Recorded in Harris.
University of Nottingham, Pw V 48, [unspecified page number].
DoC 326.999
Copy in: A verse miscellany, in a single hand, in calf. c.1700s.
Recorded in Harris.
On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence (‘When Portsmouth did from England fly’)
First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.
DoC 328
Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.
In: the MS described under DoC 39. Late 17th century.
DoC 329
Copy, in a professional hand, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 156-69). Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under DoC 311.
DoC 330
Copy, headed ‘On ye Dutchess of Portsmouth's absence 1682’.
In: the MS described under DoC 93. c.1703.
This MS (incorrectly cited as Harley MS 7315) recorded in Harris.
DoC 331
Copy, headed ‘On the Dutches of Portsmouths Leaving England’, subscribed ‘Mr Shepperd’.
In: the MS described under DoC 45. c.1690.
DoC 333
Copy, headed ‘The Dutchess of Portsmouth 1682’.
In: the MS described under DoC 52. c.1680s.
Edited from this MS (?) in Ebsworth.
DoC 335
Copy, untitled.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, ‘A S’ in a gilt lozenge on each cover. The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II. c.1662[-1730s].
Inside the front cover inscribed ‘E[?] Barrow’, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Clarke MS’: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.
This MS recorded in Harris.
On the Revolution in 1688 (‘Of a splenetic nation I sing’)
Edited in Harris (1940), pp. 152-3. Discussed in Harris (1979), p. 188. Unlikely to be by Dorset.
DoC 335.1
Copy, in Prior's hand, untitled, on the third and fourth pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.
In: the MS described under DoC 87. c.1700s.
DoC 335.3
Copy, headed ‘A satire by Lord Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 33. c.1710.
Recorded in Harris.
DoC 335.5
Copy of lines 1-8.
In: Papers of John Boyle, fifth Earl of Cork and Orrery.
Recorded in Harris.
Phryne (‘Phryne had Talents for Mankind’)
Unpublished.
DoC 335.7
Copy, subscribed ‘Earl of Dorset’.
In: A quarto account book of George Downing relating to legal matters, subsequenty used as a commonplace book by a member of the Willes or Lovell families, 80 pages. 1785-9 [-c.1800].
‘Poor Tom of Lincoln’
A twelve-line poem. Unpublished?
DoC 335.8
Copy, superscribed ‘By ye E. of Dorset at Bugden. Ordinat. at ye. Mitre in 88 -- written wth a coal on ye Wall’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards. Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University. c.late 1690s-1704.
Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.
Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)
First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the Ld Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.
DoC 336
Copy, in a small hand, in double columns, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under DoC 72.
DoC 337
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 37. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
This MS collated in POAS.
DoC 339
Copy, headed ‘The E: of Rochestrs: last Fairewell to ye Cort. 1686’.
In: A miscellany of verse and prose, mainly on affairs of state, 176 pages, in Middle Hill boards. c.1700.
Formerly Phillipps MS 10984. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 995. Then owned by F.W. Cock. Sotheby's, 8 May 1944 (Cock sale), lot 235. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue 97 (1947), item 179.
DoC 343
Copy, headed ‘The Lord Rochesters Farewell’ and here beginning ‘Fill'd with the noisome Folly of the Age’.
In: the MS described under DoC 175. c.1703.
This MS collated in POAS.
DoC 345
Copy, in a professional hand, on four folio leaves.
In: the MS described under DoC 229. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in POAS.
DoC 346
Copy, headed ‘Lord Rochesters Farrewell’.
In: the MS described under DoC 18. c.1680s-1700s.
This MS collated in POAS.
DoC 347
Copy, here beginning ‘Filld with ye noysome follyes of ye age’.
In: the MS described under DoC 231. Late 17th century.
DoC 348
Copy, headed ‘The E. of Rs farewell’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 22 leaves plus numerous blanks, in calf. Late 17th century.
P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue, The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1280. Acquired from Quaritch, 23 July 1959. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester, Commonplace book and 821 R58c.
A microfilm of the MS volume is in the British Library, M/573.
DoC 349
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 49. c.1680s-90s.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 166-75.
DoC 350
Copy, on three folio leaves. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under DoC 50.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 11, No. 1.
DoC 351
Copy in: A formal folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, individual items dated as late as 1697, 286 pages. c.late 1690s.
DoC 351.8
Copy, headed ‘The L Rs farewell’, on six pages of two conjugate folio leaves, in a folder of unbound verse (at the top of the box). Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under DoC 251.8.
DoC 352
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 52. c.1680s.
This MS collated in POAS.
National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 19.1.12, ff. 117v-20r.
DoC 353
Copy, here beginning ‘Fill'd with the noisome folly of the Age’.
In: the MS described under DoC 54. c.1690s.
DoC 353.5
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 166.5. Early 18th century.
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Misc Vol 20, ff. 85r-8v.
DoC 354
Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, untitled, here beginning ‘Filld wth ye noysome ffolly of ye age’, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
DoC 355
Copy, headed ‘The Lord Rochesters farewell’ and here beginning ‘Fill'd wth ye noisome folly of the Age’.
In: the MS described under DoC 324. c.1680s.
This MS (or DoC 356) collated in POAS.
DoC 356
Copy, here beginning ‘Fild wth ye noise & folly of ye Age’.
In: the MS described under DoC 57. c.1680s-90s.
This MS (or DoC 355) collated in POAS.
DoC 356.2
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 22. c.1680.
DoC 356.5
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 58.5. c.1680s.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 1287/19/6, [uncatalogued volume], pp. 56-62.
DoC 356.8
Copy, headed ‘Rochester's Farewell to D. Cantab.’.
In: A small quarto booklet of Restoration verse and prose, in a single non-professional hand, ii + 32 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, inscribed on the front cover ‘State Lampoons &c.’ and on the rear cover ‘begunn March 1668’. c.1668-85.
Among the Leigh papers of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. Inscribed names of William Leigh and of Thomas Leigh (1652-1710), Baron Leigh (‘E. Libris Tho: Leigh 1684/5’).
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, DR 18/26/6 (Part), [quarto-size box, unnumbered item], ff. [15r-18r].
DoC 357
Copy, here beginning ‘Filld wth the noisome folly of the age’, subscribed ‘Ld Dorset’.
In: the MS described under DoC 335. c.1662[-1730s].
DoC 358
Copy, inscribed ‘from Mr Ellesby Minr. of Chiswick. 18th. septbr. 80 /Returnd ye originale to him agen 22th Septbr. by ye boy sealed vp’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, with a list of contents, 108 leaves. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.
Two unspecified Osborn MSS collated in POAS.
DoC 359
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, with some rubrication and decoration, 358 pages (including over 60 blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary black morocco gilt bearing a coronet. c.1680s.
Formerly Phillipps MS 7740 and ‘Osborn MS. Box XXII, Number 3’.
See DoC 358.
DoC 359.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Fild with ye noysome folly of ye Age’.
In: the MS described under DoC 156.5. c.1680s.
DoC 360
Copy, here beginning ‘Filld with the noysome folly of the age’, on three of four folio leaves.
In: the MS described under DoC 63. Chiefly late 17th century.
See DoC 358.
DoC 361
Copy, in a neat italic hand, here beginning ‘Fill'd with the noysome folly of the age’, on six quarto pages. c.1700.
In: A quarto composite volume of largely printed tracts, in old calf. Late 17th century.
Inscribed on the first page ‘Cuthbert Constable’.
A Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress (‘Seek not to know a woman, for she's worse’)
See Harris, pp. 177-8.
See JnB 425-430.
Royal Resolutions (‘When plate was at pawn and fob was at ebb’)
See Harris, p. 194.
See MaA 171-190.
Signior Dildo (‘You ladies all of merry England’)
See Harris, p. 195.
See RoJ 359-367.
Song. Old Rowley the King (‘This making of bastards great’)
See Harris, p. 190. Not by Dorset.
To Celia (‘Not, Celia that I juster am’)
See SeC 39-42.
The Town Life (‘Once how I doted on this jilting town’)
First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, ‘An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset’, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.
DoC 361.2
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 39. Late 17th century.
DoC 361.4
Copy, once folded as a letter or packet.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
This MS collated in POAS.
DoC 361.7
Copy, with a side note referring to ‘Copt Hall’.
In: the MS described under DoC 49. c.1680s-90s.
This MS discussed in Pickering.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 321-8.
DoC 361.8
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 52. c.1680s.
This MS collated in POAS.
National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 19.1.12, [unspecified page numbers].
DoC 361.9
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 35. c.1690s.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 389v et seq.
DoC 361.95
Copy in: the MS described under DoC 36. c.1690s-1700.
This MS collated in POAS.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), p. 736 et seq.
Under the King's Picture (‘First Heaven resolv'd William should reign, and then’)
First published in J. J. Alexander, ‘An Otterton Notebook’, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 50 (1918), 493-502 (p. 495). Edited in Harris (1940), p. 118. Discussed in Harris (1979), pp. 183-4.
DoC 362
Copy, headed ‘On King Wm ye. 3d's Comming over & settled’ and here beginning ‘Heaven first ordain'd William should Reign & then’.
In: An octavo miscellany chiefly of verse, in several hands, with two tables of contents, 207 leaves (lacking ff. 1-4), in calf. c.1725.
Inscribed (f. 207v) ‘James Dyson’ and ‘James Thompson’.
This MS recorded in Harris.
DoC 364
Copy in: An octavo miscellany compiled by Richard Duke (1652-1733), of Otterton, Devon.
Owned in 1918 by A. de Castro Glubb, of Pendean, Liskeard, Cornwall.
Discussed in J.J. Alexander, ‘An Otterton Notebook’, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 50 (1918), 493-502.
Edited from this MS in Alexander.
The Vision in King James's Reign (‘Twas at an hour when busy nature lay’)
First published in Collection of the Newest …Poems…against Popery (London, 1689). Discussed in Harris, pp. 192-3. Lines 1-5 in Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (London, 1702).
DoC 366
Copy, in a probably professional hand, headed ‘The Vision’, on three pages of two conjugate long ledger leaves. c.1700.
In: the MS described under DoC 361.4.
This MS recorded in Harris (who erroneously records two copies present).
DoC 367
Copy of lines 1-5, subscribed ‘Dors[et]’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf. Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, ‘Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703’. c.1703-9.
Also inscribed (f.[iir]) ‘Mrs Frances Wright 1708’. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: ‘Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These’.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.
This MS recorded in Harris.
‘Whilst wth such various bounty you are able’
DoC 368
Copy, headed My Lord Buckhursts first Coppy, with two other satires on Edward Howard, in the hand of one William Ball, on a single leaf sent as a letter to Parry, docketed by the recipient ‘London June 21. 1669 ffrom Mr Ball Recd Augt 9...’. 1669.
In: the MS described under DoC 267.
Documents
Will
DoC 369
An abstract of Dorset's last will and restament, made c.1678. c.1678.
*DoC 370
Dorset's last will and restament, signed by him, 1704. 1705.
*DoC 371
Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1679. 1679.
*DoC 372
Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1680, with a codicil added 1681. 1680-1.
*DoC 373
Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1688, together with a draft and copy of it. 1688.
*DoC 374
Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1690. 1690.
DoC 375
Dorset's last will and testament dated 1704. 1704.
*DoC 376
Dorset's last will and restament, signed by him and sealed on every leaf, 1705. 1705.
*DoC 377
The administration of Dorset's last will and testament of 1705, made in 1707. 1707.
DoC 378
A registered copy of of Dorset's last will and testament, proved 21 April 1708. 1708.